Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-21
SPORTING.

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Vaughn as a good battery for the New
Orleans Southern League club.
KnowltOn is said to be a slow left
hand picher. All the League left-hand
pitchers have the slow delivery.
Alvord will play in the Northwestern
League next summer. He plays with the
Atlas in San Francisco this winter.
/ Pfeffer, of the Chicagos, will shortly
run a 10O-yardS foot race with FoutZ, of
the st. Louis Browns, for n stake of
500.
If Smith does rs good work for Detroit
next season rs he is doing at New Orleans
this winter, that club will be near the top
again.
An unconfirmed rumor is running up
and down the street to the effect that Kid
Baldwin won 81, 900 on the Baldwin
O'Leary fight.
Charley Smith says he thinks the Ale
ghenys would, with the aid of another
tirSt-claSs pitcher, be able to hold their own
in the League.
The Alleghenys players expect to play in
the League next season, although they had
uOI btcu lolNl Why NONllu. ny oSNhi ~
like the change.
The new rule of a batter being credited
with a base hit on a base on balls will be
the means of great many players being
better walters while at the bat.
Quick delivery will be a thing Ofthe
past in the pitching department under the
new rule of resuming position, with ball in
front, and turning to a base.
1t is said that Jim Mutrie is anxious to
figure as a New York politician, and Is
ncglecting the management of the New
York team TO do some ward huStling.
The Oshkosh nine, Northwestern League,
it is said, was the only nine playing under
the national agreement that waSnOt white
washed this season.
Heckcr and Ramsey have settled their
differences, thanks TO John Kelly's mag
netic influence Both these men can and
ought to do great work for Louisville.
Sylvester is negotiating with the Toronto
club. He is the superior in every respect
of twO-thirdS of the s0-callcd young blood
managers are so eager to secure.
There is little doubt but that next win
ter some enterprising manager will take
a team of base ball players to Australia,
the home of old sports.
BartholdI's Statue of Liberty throws
the light of her electric torch on the Nets
grounds at Station Island. Thus, at last,
have Wiman's Indians had their virtues
cOmmemmOrated.
Blonde Purcell, now of the BaltimOrcs,
aud Denny Lyons, of the Athletics, are
tied for the lead rs home Tun gettcrs in
thS ~outhorn League loaL season. Doth
have nine to their credit.
George Gore is in bad order with both
Spalding and Arson, and would like
to get away from Chicago. lie may go to
Boston, aud sam Wise will take his place
in the Windy City team.
Henry Kappcll, the new third baseman
of the Cincinnati team, is n little deaf.
He is Just about rs badly affected rs Paul
Hines, of the WaShingtonS, or Pete Brown
ing of the I.Ouisvillcs.
The Louisville club will open the cham
pionShip season next year with four we'll
equipped battcries-Ramsey and Kerins,
lIcckcr and Cross, Chamberlain and Cook,
Ncach and Lave Cross.
This is the time Of year when ball play
erS kick furiOuSly against the reserve rule.
They have the idea of being traded of to
other clubs without heing consulted, rs
though they were cattle or quantities Of
merchandise,
Very little paper will he used on the
wall next season by the Cincinnati club.
President Stern is n great believer in
newspaper advertising, and will pay more
attention to that class of advertising than
ever before. cincinnati Enquirer.
The average base hall life of 4 base ball
| player is said to he about ten years, after
which he is not in the best condition, al
though Matthews, Sutton, BurdOCk, An
son and many of the best men on the field
have been playing the game for over TWEEN
ty years.
Players averages for hating abilities
next season cannot now be Judged, owing
to the new fair ball rule. What N easy
time pitchers who use head work will have
to keep the ball Just the opposite height to
what players have been calling for in past
seasons,
Dell Darling, who has signed to play
with the Chicagos, began his experience
behind the bat catching for Troy Mullanc
and Erie-both being residents of that
place. Mullane recommended him very
highly over a year ago, before he had any
professional reputation.