Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-28
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

City couldn't have 1t.
Everybody seems to think Cincinnan
has winner next season.
Comiskey was the first to sign with Won
der Abe for next season.
Nicol's engagement pleases all the
friends OF the Cincinnati club.
The Arbitration Committee will meet
in New York on December IA.
There should be very little dissatisiac-
ton with umpires next season.
Mobile is to take Macon's place in the
Southern League next season.
The Detroits would be great drawing
card in the American Association.
Ned Hanlon, of the Detroits, has OPEN
ed hat store in New York City.
Leadville was expelled from the West
ern League for not paying its players.
Couldn't Kansas City manage 10 have
thrown the State in with the proposition!
Dennis Casey, Newark's heavy hitter
and outfielder, has signed with Kansas
City.
Charley Bennett, Detroit's catcher, with
his wife, is visiting relatives i'll Kansas
City.
The Cincinnati, Brooklyn and New
York grounds are the largest in the
country.
George Strict, formally of the Athletics,
will play third base for the Syracuse
Stars next season.
Nagle, who at one time pitched for the
Alleghenys, has sigded with Oshkosh for
next season.
The pitchers will not dance the highland
fling every time they deliver the ball next
season.
-Four strikes and out" will sound
strange. The old-timers will not know
what it means.
SNYDER, of the Cincinnatis, is wintering
in Washington. So is John Manning, OF
the Baltimores.
Won der Abe is after Collender, the
promising young catcher, of the Little
Rock, Ark, Club.
Jimmy Williams could build up n club
in Cleveland in one season that would
make things lively.
Philadelphia has the two champion
base runners. Andrews leads the League
and Stovey The Association.
There will be twenty-five private boxes
erected on the Cincinnati grounds next
spring above the pavilion.
Striker is wanted by three American
Association clubs, but he refuses TO sign
a contract before next April.
Ferguson and Daily, of the Philadel-
phias Hart and Atkinson. of the Ath-
letics; Foutz, OF the ST. Louis; Calvin Of
Pittsburgh and Henderson, of Brooklyn,
will he among tbs best pitchers under the
new rule.
Jack Boyle, with such n man rs Bush
ong to teach him, ought to make his mark
with the st. Louis team next season.
BushOng, Latham, Wclch and Gleason,
of the Browns, have settled down and will
make st. Louis their winter quarters.
Base ball is in full blast in California
now. The Louisville team is attracting
considerable attention along the coast.
As base stealer Silver Flint, the Chi
cago catcher, broke the record in stealing
a single base in iiity-one games.
There is Il rumor current that Henry
Boyle will he married about Christmas
time. The bride-clect is q Philadelphia
lady.
The indications are that the Southern
League next year will be a great improve
ment over the Southern League of last
year.
Chris. Won der Abe has son who will,
in the near future, succeed him rs 'dcr
boss manager" of the champions of the
earth.
The International League is made OF
the right stuff. Its clubs are gathering
in all the available material for next sea
son.
The multitude of new players and the
many changes in playing rules will make
II study for the average spectator next sea
son.
Fred Dunlap says the Detroit players
will knock most Of the League pitchers
out of the box under the new rules next
season.
Corners must he great catcher. Three
or four clubs were after him, and that
ought to be some indication that he knows
his business.
If suitable arrangements can he made
the Cincinnati team will tour the Southern
League cities before the opening of the
regular season.
Morris, Carroll and Brown, OF the Allie
ghcnys, have signed to play with the
| Pioneers, Of the California League, until
March 6, 1887.
Stcmmycr's terrific speed has its effect
on the weaker batters. In forty one games
last season he averaged six strike-outs per
game.
Mclaughlin, the lcit-hand pitcher,
formerly of Cleveland, and Harding,
catcher OF the st. Joe club, have signed
Kansas City contracts.
The exhibition games prior TO the open
ing of the regular season will give some
adequate idea rs to what rules are and are
not lust the thing"