Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-01

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McGary, of the Athletics, is not doing
rs was expected.
When Boston wins n game they gener
ally do it with big score.
VIII White seems to have retired from
the diamond in disgust.
Cub Stickler will go to the Baltimore
club, ifthe Atlantas disband.
Both Lynch and Cushman, of the Nets,
are suffering from lame arms.
Handiboe's style of pitching was much
admired by the New Workers.
LEFT on bases"-mOnuments. A GEM
etery is no place for base ball runs.
Mike MuldOon is playing a wonderful
game ut second base for the BaltimOres.
Manager Caylor's style of bulldozing
his men is apt to make them all record play
erS.
Hart has made the best beginning of
any younster TIE Athletics have taken
hold Of
Latham and Robinson this time. A fine,
an apology and everything will 90 on as
before.
1t looks Just n shade as if, after all, Steve
TOOle was going to be the pitcher of the
BrOOklyns.
Lancer, q Cincinnati amateur, is making
great record rs Il catcher in the Western
League.
If McGinnis could instill some of his
GOODNESS into Kilroy, the kid would play
better ball.
What is going to happen? The St. Louis
MarOOns have won game from the New
YOrks.
Frank Lewis is laid up with broken
ankle, and Long john Reilly is looking
after centre field.
Mike Scanlon has secured Farrell's re-
lease from the Philadelphia club. Why
doesn't he play him?
O'COnnell, of the BaltimOreS, was the
only man who secured Il hit off Ramsey i'll
Thursdays game.
A young brother of Clarkson has entered
the base ball profession. He pitches for
the Portland team.
Gid Gardner and Bill Crowley, two old
timers, have been fired by the Charlestons
to reduce expenses.
In Thursdays game Little Miller made
bnt one hit, and yet he secured three runs.
Pretty clever base running.
President Soden, of the Boston club, de
MES emphatically that the Athletics Of
81, 900 for BullingtOn's release.
Big Dan BroutherS has made over 100
base hits this season. Hardy Richardson
lie only few points behind him.
Ted Sullivan is trying hard to get Mil
waukee represented in either the League
or American Association next season.
The Athletic management is still on the
hunt, Mason for pitchers, Simmons for
players and SharSig for the pennant.
Manager Simmons, of the Athletics, is in
Macon, Georgia, for the purpose of signing
"Cyclonen Miller MacOn's pitcher.
Coleman plays u splendid first base. His
particular strength is the ease with which
he scoops badly thrown balls.
1t is very doubtful if Matthews ever
pitches another game. 1t looks rs if the
end to a brilliant career had come at last.
Manager Harry Wright's contract with
the Philadelphia club expires next October.
He had three years engagement.
The CincinnatiS want first class pitcher
very badly They would give big money
for phenomenal Smiths release.
Frank RingO is just recovering from n
protracted spree. 1t is understood that
Manager Phillips will eXpell him on his
return home.
Pitchers may come and Pitchers may
90, but Hecker keeps right on doing bust
ness on the ground floor, and winning
games for his club.
The New Workers pounded young Madi-
gan, WashingtOn's latest pitcher, for TWEEN
ty-twO hits with q total of twenty-eight
bases last Monday.
Hart, the new Athletic pitcher, does not
drink nor use tobacco in any form; and in
the Southern League was spoken OF rs a
model young man.
The Athletics, besides paying bonus
for Cyclone" Miller's release, will furnish
Macon with battery. The battery will
be Hindman and Stitlel.
Jim O'Neil has been near the top of the
list of American Association batterS ever
since he quit pitching. He will make the
leaders hustle again this season.
A female base ballist was fatally injured
in Indiana yester lay. This is a good be
ginning, and it is firmly hoped that it will
keep up. Let the good work 80 on.
Mike Scanlon, of the Washingtons, has
wagered Tom Cunning, of the BoStOns, a
new hat that the st. Louis Browns will win
the first game they play with the Detroits.
The Athletics have sc many new pitch
ers that it is q difficult matter to keep
track of them Brown, the latest acquisi-
ton, appears to be too easy for the West
ern sluggerS.
Nine consecutive victOrs is the best rec
ord made by an Association club this sea-
son. 1t was accomplished by theSt. Louis
Browns. Allegheny and Louisville have
each won seven straight.
Now that the question of put-out records
in left field has been settled, the shortest
game question comes to the front. The
Allegheny and Louisville clubs are gener-
ally supposed to have played the shortest
game, which was finished in 30 minutes,
but now another game bObs up. This one
was played in A. minutes, and was between
the Dayton and IrontOn clubs at Dayton,
o., on September 10, 1884.
Club Averages.
The Nets are still the best fielders in the
Association and the weakest batters. The
BaltimOres rank second as fielders and the
st. Louis third. At the bat the Cincinnatis
excel. with the BrOOklyns second, the st.
\ .,,;, tl,;r5 an.l tho nuiSvillaS fourtb AZ
base runners the BrOOklyns take the lead,
with the st. Louis second, Baltimores third
and the Alleghenys fourth.