Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-05
Ball Notes.

The great Norman l.. Baker has
signed with Rochester.
McKinnOn is doing the best work with
the stick for the MaroOns.
Heckcr, in both the games he pitched
here, was poorly supported.
Bob Barr and Hoflord are both pitch
ing for the Rochester nine.
Flynn and Kelly, of the Chicagoes, are
called the Irish battery"
Cyclone Millcr's right leg is shaped
like the outer rim of 4 whirlwind.
Gleason has been released by the Ath-
lctics. Poor batting and fielding.
Guy Heckcr was the first pitcher in the
country To make 100 base hits.
The Nets have played less games han
any other club in the Association.
Carry the news to AtkiSson. Sylvester,
of the L%ouiSvilles, has made n hit.
The BrooklynS have won 1t games and
lost 6 in their series with Baltimore.
The Allegheny begin their last Eastern
trip at Philadelphia next Friday.
Jack Hayes is now gettingto be the util-
ity man for the Washington club.
The Louisvilles went all to pieces in the
eighth inning of Thursdays game.
Jack Kerins' throwing to bases was one
of the features of the Louisville games.
Tom Brown has been playing in hard
luck in the right field for several weeks.
John Richmond has again been released.
This time it was by the OSwegOs.
Tim Kcefe is studying S~tenOgraphy, and
has already become quite an expert.
Pitcher Conway gives a triple clog kick
to his right leg before delivering the ball.
IT'S a secret no longer rs to why the
New IOrk'S played 50 poorly on the pres
ent trip. Three newspaper men accom-
panied them.
Joe HOrnung has played twenty-eight
consecutive games without an error, and
has only made five errors this season, in
Sixty-six games.
HenderSon's "hOodoo' captured him in
Baltimore, and the home club won easily
on Tuesday last. Hardie always said the
town was a Jonah.
CANCEL, released by the Philadelphia
because they had no further use for him,
has a better batting average than any OF
the Philadelphia catchcrS.
James Manning played with the Detroit
Club on Saturday for the first time since
Decoration Day, when he met with an ac-
cident on the field.
Barkley's two-bagger in the fourth in
ming of Thursdays game would have been
good for four bases on almost any other
ball park in the country.
The chances are largely in favor Of
League Sunday games next year, -Four
clubs are already favorable to such move,
with New York wavering.
Farrar, first baseman of the PhillieS, has
not made an error in twelve consecutive
games, and but one in twenty. His aver
age to date Is .979-the best in the League.
Manager Phillips is trying to secure
Getzein. The WAND is anxious to
play in Pittsburg, and the Allegheny play
ers would like to see him with them.
The new st. Louis Association has effect
ed a permanent organization, and it now
looks as if that city would be worthily
represented in the League next year.
If satisfactory arrangements can be per
fected the Alleghenys will play in Wash
ington, Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton after the championship season.
The minor associations will not have
much show after next winter, rs a new na-
tional agreement Will most likely be made,
under which they will not be protected.
Hecker says he has had a fiattering offer
made him by the New York League team.
Well. that's all the good it will do you,
Sir Guy, as long as Louisville wants a ball
club.
1t isn't often that the result of a game
depends on n pitched ball, As happened
in yesterdays game.-ReeOrd. The cham