Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-18
BASEBALL GOSSIP.

Myers, Of the Kansas City's, has made but
one hit i'll twelve games.
The Syracuse Stars have engaged six new
men from the Southern league.
Bobby Matthews arm is all right again and
he wants to pitch against the Cincinnatis.
The New York Mail and Express calls Rad
bourn, of the Bostons, the great twirler."
The Detroits will play at Pittsburg Oh Oct.
L., Hand 10, and Chicago will play there on
Oct. -.
The releasing and engaging of players by
western Association clubs is going on mt u
lively rate.
Tn New York papers have given up all
hope of the New Works securing either first
or second place.
Kansas City denies any connection with
amy new association and desires to stay in the
League next year.
The st. Louis Browns nave the credit of
shutting out more clubs than any other
team III the country.
1t is said that tho Athletics nave secured a
manager for next season, but his name is
withheld for the present.
IL SNSltIll ~ lALlhlilA Il itlNlACS hiO az
the League games was ~inaugurated ut st.
Louis when the Boston club played there.
Charley Bennett, one of the greatest catch
crs in the country, has fully recovered and is
again supporting Baldwin behind the bat.
A league is talked of next season to include
Lyons, Clyde, GeddeS, Canastuta, Oneida,
Rome, Norwich, Little Falls and Ilion, Of
New York.
GlaSScock now say he is perfectly con-
tented to remain where he is, and will play
with the MaroOns as long ~ they remain in
the League.
Ryan, of tho C~hicagOS, is the best of the
Young hitteTS of the League. In his last six
teen gaines he has made twenty-three hits,
with Il total Of forty, an average Of 80 with
the totals of sol.
There is a cry going up for u change of
management in the New Works. This would
IL a wrong move i'll the way of reform, Us
baseball men say that no club has a better
manager than the New York club.-New
York Sun.
A club that expects to hold the lead in the
League must haveat least three good pitchers,
according to calculation based on long cX-
p~erience. 1t i recorded that the average
pitcher breaks down at the end of his fortieth
: game. This seems To lie the case with the
New York team.
Tom johnson, who OWES all of the street
car lines in Indianapolis and the longest line
IN Cleveland, is at the head Of the movement
for an Association team in the latter city. He
is very wealthy, and if admitted would make
one of the longest headed men in the aSSOcia-
ton. His SON Alfred would probably manage
the team.
The recent defeats Of the New York club
f, are aScribed by the papers of that city to the
, inconvenience of travel, loss of proper rest,
the failure o. the manager to present the
strongest team at every game and the in
| effectiveness of the pitchers. The batting
and error columns, according to the scribeS,
can throw no light on the cause of the several
defeats.
1t has been claimed that the recent game in
!, which Hecker, of the LOuiSvillCS, made a
! total of fifteen bases in the seven times ut bat
| was the greatest on record. Arthur Allison,
formerly Of the Forest CityS, however, says
that, in 1871. while playing with the Athletics,
at Cincinnati, Jack Bass, of the former team,
made three nome runs. q triple and Il double,
making a total of seventeen in the five times
mt the hat.