Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-15
Notes.
Kuehne is batting terrifically.
The BroOklyns are badly crippled.

L lie AllcHncllNS iIc lOM dltCl WV ">'-I
of the LOuisvilles.
AtkissOn may be q great pitcher, but you
have to say it awful quick.
One day the umpire is the finest and the
next the worst i'll the country.
Savannah is endeavOring to sell two OF
her players, hut rs yet has not succeeded
The roosters at the head of the Detroit
papers base ball column has been taken
down.
Jimmy PEBBLES is again playing short
for the Brooklyns, Smith being on the SICK
list.
The Detroits, Chicagos and New Works
are having a very pretty race for the League
pcnnant.
Jimmy Clinton, late of the BaltimOres,
and the "Only" Nolan have Joined the
jersey City team.
Bobby Matthews will pitch no more this
season, and, III fact, may never again
tNIirl the sphere.
Swartwood is the latest player who has
made the longest hit ever made on the
Louisville grounds.
The Cincinnati papers class Mclhce rs
the best second blSeman i'll the ASSocla-
ton. Wonder what's the matter with
Charley Smith?
What does Jim Hart feed to his Louis
willie sluggcrs? They are never satisfied
nowadays with less than fifteen hits.
The Cincinnatis have signed the left
hand twirler; Richmond, who pitched
for the Worcester League team five years
ago.
Brockton's new third baseman bears the
rather peculiar name of Shunz. 1t Is SAID
! of him that nc never shuns the ball.
Shombcrg continues to play graf game
both at the bat and in the field i'll spite OF
the opposition OF some OF thcplaycrs in the
team.
The Louisyillcs are tightening their hold
on second place. Two victories from the
Brooklyn sluggcrs bcttcred their chances 4
/ great deal.
The rumor that the Washington Club is
about to buy the ST. Louis League players
and release nearly all its own is denied by
authority.
The Boston pitchers have done what has
been done by no other League of ASSocla-
. ton trio-cach has disposed Otan opposing
nine for for but one hit.
Gentle Jecms Calvin continucth to slug
muchlv much He hath become Il batter
from Battcrvillc and Standcth almost alone
Among We heavy batting pitchers OF his
/ day and generation.
Hccker continues right along in his art
/ iul Louisville manner, making the ASSocI-
alton batSmcn very weary. When 1t comes
I right down to good clever work i'll the box
7 Sir Guy acquires the coniccti"n.
. The DrtroitS made nineteen with total
of twcnty-thrcc hlScs from of the New
| York pitchers against heavyweight with
a total of iurly-siN made by the New IOrks
I from oil the Detroit twrlrr in the three
games.
/ Every club in the League has lost Il
game to every club except Kansas City to
/ Washington. which is decidedly rough on
Washington, us Kansas City is just the
club she wants to beat rather than any
other team in the League.
''rhc Philadrlphias have not been beaten
/ three straight games 10y any club, - says Il
correspondent in the SpOHiRg LUc. They
were beaten three very straight gaines by
/ the ChicawoS May 81, -, ~; by the DE
troitS May l., 10, 20.
Lucas is said to be practically "hrokr. y
! lie recently sold nearly half Il million dol
lars worth of st. Louis real estate for
$50, 900 to settle pressing liabilities. BE
fore doing 80, however, nc wisely settled
| so, 900 on his wife and child.
! Crane and Knowles, of the WaShingt0nS,
have been fined so each for errors in play.
| These men are hard workers and cUnScicn-
tiuuS players, and the management has
been scathingly criticised for taking such
unfair advantage of them.
"Colly, our clubs gone all TO smash. y
"You don't say 50, Billy! DiSbandcd, ch?
Where's Dorsey "pitching for the Iron
cladS." And Farminghum?" 'Catch-
inu for the EurckaS.' And sam Cum
min.s?" ooh. he was the umpire. -
well, where's Sam Hes still in the
hospital
Citizen Ito small bOyl-"Sonny, do yOu
know how the Nets stand in the AssOcia'
tom" Small boy-"Dry leads the As
sociation." Citizen-''What, in batting
Small boy-"No, in making errors. Dcre
error average is way up
Umpire lIinglc, of the Southern League,
who was mobbed ut Charleston one day
last week, was badly frightened, and, 1t Is
said. begged the crowd for Gods sake not
To kill him. He did not deny having sold
the game, when charged with it by the
director of the base ball club after he was
safe.
1t is rumOrcd that Manager SChmclz, OF
the st. Louis MarOOns, is anxious to Sc
cure Stricken, of the Atlantas, To play
second base instead of Dunlap, whom he
has lust sold to the Detroit club. Atlanta
will retain Stricken for next year, and 1t Is
useless for any club to attempt to pur-
chase his release. -iHdRtG Constitution.
Farrar has the largest pair of hands in
the Philadelphia club. On the recent
Eastern trip of the club while on the road
he hung one of his hands out of n car win
dow. Shortly after he felt some one pull
i'm. and telling of first one finger and then
the other. He stuck his head out the win
dow and saw man who said: Say, mis-
ter, how do You sell bananas apiece? -
Sporting Life.
Bobby Matthews was surprised ut Cy-
clone Millcrs poor showing i'll Louisville.
In practice he showed all the curves with
such terrific speed that Robinson could not
hald him at all, and Colby thought the
Athletics had really at last COTTON hold OF
Il valuable man. And yet, when he went
into a real championship game his heart
seems 10 have failed and his cunning for
Slken him.
Club Averages.
The LOuisvilleS are now the best fielding
team in the Association with the st. Louis
second and the Brooklyns and Alleghenys