Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-08-05
NOTES.
Detroit may lay off Twitchell.
Duffy has made four home runs.

Duffy has made four home runs.
indianapolis is a good deal of a bush
whacker.
Brynan is not proving a bowling success
with st. Louis.
Pfeffer received an i'm ,nse easel OF
\ flowers when he came to tue bat in the
fifth inning Wednesday.
At the opening of the season a Boston
paper made the assertion that the phil
lies' were not in the same class with the
Boston Club, and, when we come to think
it over, it is doubtful if they are. Nine
straight victories should advance Harry
Wright's team to the next higher class.
The Boston Club has lost sixteen games
by one run.
Kilroy arrived in Baltimore yesterday
and was at practice. He claims to have
entirely recovered and anxious To go to
work. lie will be given a chance in one
of the games with Kansas City.
Detroit wants Johnson and Gunson of
the Kansas City Westerns. Mr.. Menges
has been made a liue offer for them.
Latham says, Now, Tom, hit the ball
hard. Let's give 'em a hurricane inning,
We're all feeling lovely to-day"
Detroit is going to give Lady Baldwin
the bounce. League clubs are keeping the
wires hot waving claim to him.
Sterling, the St. Louis Browns new
pitcher, is a blacksmith. He ought to be
able to hammer his way to the front.
The Sporting Life published this week
a splendid counterfeit presentment of
Henry Chadwick, the Father of Base
Ball"
New Orleans new man, Works, so
Walker Ross says, runs like q chicken
whose legs have become entangled in
thread.
story at Detroit was the FIRST
the Hoosiers I've gained over the Wolver-
ines on their own grounds since entering
the League.
Denny has refused an offer of $50 a
month and expenses to 60 to Australia
next winter. Jerry would rather loaf and
he can't stand tho prospect of seeing so
much water between Frisco and Sydney.
Sam. Moffstt was enthusiastically re-
ceiyed by the M~inneapolitans when he
made his debut az an Omahog. They
batted him put of the lot and piled up Is
runs while Samuel's confreres were goose
egged.
When Billy Shsrsig tells the Quakers
now how his club was robbed out of those
three games in Cincinnati, the gentle Phil
a~delphians slope their hats to one side,
wink their left eyes, and murmur: 'Ches-
nuts" They've seen the Reds play.
Disguise it as he will Charlie Byrne's
ruling ambition is to be a National League
magnsta. There are several snsgs in the
way, but Sir Charley is laboriously work
ing to remove them, That's why he is so
Get on winning the Association %pennant.-
Nep York Press.
1t is a cruel campaign libel-that story
that is floating around to the effect that
Fanny Davenport and Arlie Latham are
going to star in divorce" next winter.
Arlie is going on the stage, il is true. He
will take the role Of broadway" in "The
Streets of New York"
Secretary Munson, of the st. Louis
Browns, thinks that either Buffalo or Ro-
chester will be in the American Associa.
ton next year. He includes Rochester for
a bluff, because the Browns play there
next Thursday. Buffalo Courier. Oh,
George! what a slick, slick boy You are.
Frank Hough gets this Off: "Mike Kelly
theirs only one Mike-and John Kelly,
the umpire, are going to open a restaurant
in New York next year. Just imagine
Michael Angelo yelling out: Zone slaugh-
ter house; let de blud follow de plater'
Or the dspper John: "a stack of whites
q chip up, coffee goes"
Funny how great minds often run in the
same channel. When in Kansas City
"Lodestarn Patterson said Darby O'Brien
would make a si~lver-plated, dismond-en,
crusted footpad it was Just after he had
robbed the Cowboys. of a camel. Just as
soon as he got back to New York they col.
Jared "Dsrby" for stealing q dog. But q.
it was his own canine DARBY" is o. K.
How it must have gored the big Straits
City sluggers TO drop three consecutive
games t. the Hoosiers, now occupying
seventh place. What ~aggravates the de.
feat is that il was done on their owl
grounds.
Manager Barnie, of Baltimore, has
offered his men $50 apiece if the club wins
third place, $50 to each if it wins second
place, and $500 10 each if it wins first
place. 1t would have been more to the
pointif he had offered them 500 apiece "a
reach fourth place.
Keefs is generally considered New York's
best pitcher, yet figures do not bear out
this fact. Whether it ia due to better
team work when ''Welch Mickeyn pitches
or not it is difficult to say, but in the
twenty eight games played TO date Keefe
has allowed his opponents to score fifty
earned runs, while his associate in the
"box" is charged with forty-two in the
twentysix games he has pitched. Keefe's
average of earned run at this rate is 1.78,
while the merry-faced citizen of Troy has
an average Of LES.
The only manager in New England this
summer who has NOT lost uonox for HE