Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-31
SPORTING,
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

O'Day has signed With Savannah
McSorley has signed by the s.. Louis
Browns. -,
Kennedy. LET; fielder, has been released
W the MetroPoiiJans.
FarreWs contract with the Philadelphia
club has been approved.
Ferguson signed with the Philadelphia,
and Mathews with the Athletics.
The S.. Louis league club has secured
Myers, late OF the Buffalos. He Is a good
catcher.
s. cretsry Mcknight has approved the
contracts OF Lynch ard Cushman with the
Me,ropolitans.
Kuehue has been reengsged By Pitts
burg. Thomas Quinn has been aiso been
signed b. the same CLUB.
The assessed value Of the property upon
which the California league games are
played ia 81 2j0,O0O.
The Princeton College team has arrang'
ed games WITH the New lOrks on tho poo
grounds Aprial - and 70.
Ex-Cmpire Clshnan Is a. pcs7eat en'
Bloyed as = conductor on . cable car on
Marke, street, PHILADELPHIA.
In a little rore than lg0 months, end
the w~errjors Of the diamond field will r
PORT for du;y I'll along tine line.
SAaH, P.iGc.cn'5 catcher 30 injured his
hands last season that he will nnt appear
On the diamond this year.
The contest for the eighth member OF
the Na'ioaal League appears - have mar
rowet dom to Indianapolis and hapsss
City.
Il Dave Force cen gst bis release, te
will ioiu . sopthern league CLUB. e:ihtr
Atlanta or A9gus,a, s5 he has go2d chAs
Z icom both.
The Athletics ara considering t. pre-
position 70 mako G trdner Al offer, hut the
drawback lies IN the tenr that Re will net
take care OF himself mex! year any moie
than in the past.
When the roster Of The New Euglard
league CLUB is published in full, the strength
of soue of the teams will De surprising.
The championship contest promises TO be
an interesting one.
The provisions OF the national agree
ment forbid o league club being located IN
Cincinnati unless the franchise Of the C'"'
~cinrari ciu5 is purchased aud then trans
farred from the American ASSOCIATION TO
the league.
Biz Jack, Smith has been released by
/ Pi;ts5urg, as that clGo has no use Tor h'c,
having another mAl in ScJtt for first base
/ Smith will probably 90 TO Baltimore or
Louisville, both Of whom have no hr5t
6asaman.
When o committee Of the Kentucky Leg
stature reported u bill t5rbidding Sunds'
base bell playing, q member from C7l'ten-
den county offered an amendment that
base ball playing should be prohibited At
no time or p~lacsiu tho state.
France is now looking into the merits oil
the magazine sps'em trr military rifles.
The bs,tallious Of the chausseurs de pied
have been supplied with q new magazine
attachment which IS applied TO the 'egi-
lar government riha.
Che new Standard Alasrcsn target,
which was adopted BY thu riHemcu O.
America last month is nov IN use upon
most OF the rife ranges Of this county
Is merits are so apparent taat there Is
likely to he a general adoption oi 1t ~
military shooters.
Winthrop ". Merrill, uGgler Ct tho %
brigade s.af, and q well kuoEn military
marks man, ia about ien"iug for the SAND
wich Islaud5 upon a pleasure trip. lie
proposes to-csrry his special military siie
hnoing to find tim. 10 stop over in Csliior
MA.
Thirty members OF the Massachusetts
Bicycle Club have ridden 1000 miles OF
over on their wheels during the past season
and four have ridden an average Of 10000
miles.
There are two members over go years o.
age in the Philadelphia Club One OF them
Mr.. Caleb c Roberts, u retired agent OF
the Adams Express company, rides ont OIL
his bicycle every fine day.
The bicycle was put to q novel use OF
the declaration of the poles at EPsome re
Gently. John Keen. the eN-chanpiOn 81
c~yclis,. had promised Mr.. Cubitt. the sue
cesstul Conservative candidate, n his
supporters at Loag Ditton, that he would
ride over and Convey the news home as
speedily as possible, auh also intimsting
that be would beat te~ieg'spbv. Directly
the numbers were announced. Keen mount
ed his 5O.inch roadster, ard, no'"ithstan2
ing the heavy state CT the roads and The
bad weather, he managed TO announce
the result at the Long D!tton headquarters
10 c large assembly ABOUT o minute bc!ort
the frs; telegram rrivsd.-Cyciins limss