Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
NOTES.

BeheI, of the Nets, is on the sick list
Joe Quest has picked up in his fielding
Sam Barley is picking up in his bat
ting. =. ss,. yis.ss
Charley Smith is playingthe game ofhis
life Wa
Gleason is doing good work for the St
Louis.
Guy Hecker still leads the Association at
the bat.
Lynch is the mainstay of the MetrOpoli-
tan club.
Nichol, of the St. Louis, is doing some
heavy smuggling.
Sylvester, of the Louisvilles, is a great
base runner.
Very few pitchers have escaped a pound
ing this season.
Radbourne, of Boston, has been trying
to bat left handed.
Handiboe will hereafter be played at
least once Il week.
Trafley, of the Baltimores, has a fielding
average Of Oh.
The Climax and Duquesnes play match
game to-day.
Fred. Carroll has dropped the fourth
place in the batting list.
Barnie claims he has secured Smith and
Trott, of New York.
The Athletics expect to do some good
work on the home ground.
The Uticas have not lost a game since
Juice Latham joined them.
Pechiny is pitching as good game as
any man in the Association.
Barkley only had two hits on Thursday,
but they were both three-baggers.
Kirby, of the St Louis MarOons, has not
made base hit this season.
Biddy McPhee continues to play great
second base game for the Cincinnatis.
Manager Chapman has been negotiating
with Becannon, who was recently released
by BinghamptOn, and who formerly play
ed with the Nets.
Morris is great favorite in Pittsburg-
when he pitches winning games.
Robinson is playing a better game at
second base for the st. Louis than former
ly.
Manager Phillips is confident of win
ming three straight games from the Balti
mOreS
Tho Alleghenys are "Only" about 100
per cent behind the st. Louis for first
place.
Coleman should be played in the box of
tener by the Athletics. He is good
pitcher.
II looks rs if Farrell and HouCk are
about to get their release from the Balti-
more club.
Jimmy Calvin now stands twenty-frst
among the batsmen in the American Asso-
citation.
Sullivan, of the Alleghenys, is drifting
from club to club in the Southern League.
Hecker does not expect the LOuisvilles
to win more than half the games on the
Eastern trip.
Lady Baldwin, of the Detroits, is quite
pitcher, but the Chicagos are too many
for her. ..
They say Kilroy only gets 81, 500 for the
season. Is that the reason he is pitching
50 poorly9
Wait till the Cincinnatis tackle the cham
piOns and then watch Won Der Ahe's pets
take tumble.
Charley Jones, of the Cincinnatis, has
the best home run record. He made three
in four days.
There is hurdle racer called after Tom
Brown, of the Alleghenys and he is good
one, too.
Atkisson appears to have regained his old
time form and is pitching winning game
again.
The back number players of the Cincin-
natl club are doing extensive business with
the willow.
The Alleghenys won eight Of the twelve
games played with the BaltimOres, Brook
lyns and Nets.
Almost any pitcher could make brill
liant showing with such field support as
| the st. Louis tielders give.
Orr and Hankinson have both fallen off
in their batting. The former seems to have
lost his grip entirely.
Morris and Carroll and Kilroy and Full
mer will probably be the batteries in the
game at Baltimore to-day.
The BroOklyns only made six hits off
Tony Mullane, Thursday, and three Of
these were secured by Swartwood.
Kennedy will probably be fired by the
Athletics. He will then 60 where he be
| longs-to the Southern League.
1t is said Chicago has signed Tony Suck,
of the Augusta club, to catch Mccormick,
so as to have Kelly in the field.
The Philadelphias have won five games
out of eight with the New Yorks-an
achievement they may well be proud OF.
Henry Boyle, the st. Louis League
pitcher, has a dangerous wound ON his left
hand, caused by the bite of a vicious dog,
Carufhers and Foutz both offer to bet
that the St Louis can beat the Chicagos If
series Of games is arranged at the end Of
the season.
White, ofthe Louisyilles, lisa most reliar