Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-12
Notes.

The crowds at Detroit are falling of.
Galvin's drop ball fools the best of them.
Fred Lewis expects to join the Chicago
team.
They call Stricken the Dunlap of the
South.
Bishop and Quinn are in daily practice
together.
There will be but five weeks more of
base ball.
Farrar leads the League first basemen i'll
fielding.
Terry appears to have regained his ef-
fSctiveness.
Foutz appears to be just the Louisville's
size.
Ed. Swartwood is finding the ball quite
often Of late.
Whitney made a very creditable show
ing in the box.
The Philadelphia club has ten postponed
games.
They call Corkhill of the Cincinnatis,
His H]awthOrnes.
Robinson is now playing a great game
for the st. Louis.
The LOuisvilles have released Reccius,
Ely and Sylvester.
Mullane weakens materially towards the
end OF a game.
If'Tip" O'Neil keeps his lick up, Sir
Guy had better beware.
Detroit is the s~trictest club in the bust
ness in regard to players.
Dancclet Latham and Harry Johnson,
the foot racer, are great friends.
With Miller and Latham in the same
game, it's decidedly enjoyable.
Calvin is about the hardest pitcher in
Association for the champions.
Why don't the Allegheny management
take an intield player for captain?
Eddie Glenn is confined to his home in
Richmond, Va, with malaria fever.
The chestnut, ''Where we will stand
next season, " is now on a starring tour.
1t seems to be a rather easy thing for the
visitors to down that Bradford club.
New York! That's. the club that has
been playing with the Chicagos, isn't it?
RoScman thinks the Nets can defeat the
New Yorks with ease in 4 series of games.
Newark has a higher percentage Of vic
tories than any other club in the coun-
try.
Chicago took the pennant aspirations
out of the GOthamiteS by those four
StraightS.
Bobby Matthews is all right again and
expects to pitch as great ball rs ever next
year.
The Metropolitan players say That Fer
guson can get 4 new club just as soon as
he desires.
Al Pratt umpircd 4 very fair game, and
took the kicking OF the players i'll hearty
good humOr.
On Thursday Latham knocked eight
iOul balls i'll succession and four in the
grand stand.
Mccormick, who was ''weacning' sew
cral weeks ago, isagain pitching a winning
game.
Detroit has released O'Day and Decker
to the Washingtons. Hank" didn't stay
long with the MichiganderS.
Bets are low being freely offered, with
few takers, that the Philadelphias will
beat the New YOrks in the race for Il place.
Table of CIub Averages.
The table of club averages this week
shows no material change over that of last
week, except i'll the fielding column of the
various clubs. In this column Il remarka-
bic showing is made, insomuch as every
club has improved in their field work with
the exception of the ~Alleghenys and the
Nets, and these two remain precisely the
sare as in the last issue. This is the first
time such Il thing has occurred in these
tables this season. st. Louis still wants
everything besides the penant, and leads
Ill clubs at both the bat and in the field.
Judging from the playing the st. Louis
youths have been doing they will continue
to lead. The batting rank of the clubs is:
st. Louis, Louisville, Brooklyn; Allegheny
and Cincinnati tie; Athletic, Nets and Bal
timore. In fielding, st. Louis leads, fol-
lowed by Allegheny. Athletic, Baltimore;
Nets and Cincinnati tie; Louisville and
BTOOElVn in the order named