Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-12
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

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Radbourn's salary for 1887, it is said,
will he 81, 800.
The Colored League Convention was a
very harmonious affair.
Detroit now wants whack at the cham
pions of the world.
Andrews, of the Philadelphia club, is on
cruise down South with his new yacht.
Walter Brown deserves great credit. 1t
was as fine body Of men as one would wish
to see.
Aha! The Colored League also has Hor-
ace-Horace MCGEE. He is on the Schedule
Committee, too.
The Louisville players who have not yet
signed contracts for next season are Brown
ing, Collins, White and Mack.
Lovett, one of the pitchers of the Bridge
ports, is to receive $4,000 The expenses
Of the team will be 81 800 month.
George Wright is highly pleased with
the new rules, and says that for once the
public pulse has been consulted and
Obeyed.
Oswego will not be represented in the
International League next season. The
vacancy will be filed by the Scranton
pa club.
Manager Barnie's Baltimores announce
that they are willing to play the New
YorkS series of six exhibition games III
April next.
Cleveland is now fun -fedged member
of the American Association. 1t Is
rumored that the city has sweued to twice
its usual size.
White, of the Louisvilles, is giving Cal
ifornia an imitation of coaching, la Lat
ham. 1t is rather liked out there for its
novelty.
The colored brethren at the convention
showed themselves to be well up in the
points of the game.
Boston scorers will soon meet to talk
over their ideas of scoring for the next
season. Much dissatisfaction is expressed
with the new scoring rules.
Talk about hustling. The Big Key
stones, of the Colored league, have already
arranged for ten exhibition games during
the month of April.
Manager Bancroft says that the Ath-
letic club managers have relieved him OF
the irksome duty of signing any men orot
arranging any games Tor the spring
PoOrInan, of the Bostons, who has been
sick, reports that he is fast gaining in
health and strength, and has been spend
ing his time in cunning and hunting.
Mr.. Mulligan, of the Milwaukee Brew
ing Company, has presented Walter Brown
with handsome and costly frame, to con-
tain the pictures OF members of the Big
Keystone.
McKinnon is greatly pleased over his
release from St. Louis. Had he been
Obliged to stay there, it would have been
at q reduced salary. As it is, his salary
has been increased.
The Bostons will not play away from
home during the whole of the month of
next April. Among the clubs that will
probably play them are the Brooklyns,
Jersey Citys, Newarks, BuffalOs and the
Syracuse Stars.
Out in San Francisco they are adver-
Using Conley as the pitcher who won the
National League championship for the
Providence club in 1884, whereas that
credit belongs to RadbOurn alone, he
pitching in II of the III games played that
season. Sweeney pitched in % champions
ship comes.
LAT. COnden. of the Falls City team OF
the Coiored League is one of the wealthiest
men in that organization. lie promises to
bring his team near the front in the race
for the pennant. He has good prospects
Tor doing so. as he can put his team right
on the field; he being the sole owner OF the
clubs elegant grounds at Falls City.
The Southern League clubs are begin
ming to show life, and are slowly perfect
ing arrangements for next seasons cam
paign. 1t is confidently expected that
several of the clubs will secure their full
quota of players within the next thirty
days. Macon and Atlanta. appear to he
the most apathetic towns in the League in
regard to next season. The franchise held
by the former city is no doubt for sale.
So great is the interest in professional
base ball playing that the season is no
sooner ended than enthusiastic admirers
of the sport begin to wag their heads
wisely over the prospects of the next sum
mer. Just now base ball men are amazed
to see the Chicago club parting with some
of its best players, and the prophecy is
made in the East that in lSS7 the contest
will lie between the New York and the
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