Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-02
BASE BALL NOTES.

Boston .........53 AZ .5S0llndianapolisS bO .S'S
BASE BALL NOTES.
The Giants need new bats.
Mickey WEIGH is out Of form.
Detroit has now struck winning gait
Boston's new second basemsn is slug
ger.
Burdock is troubled with lame shout
der.
What a listless game the Brooklyns are
playing.
Short Stop Smith of the BroOklyns needs
a vacation.
Tony Mullane, Cincinnati's pitcher. has
bsen Left at home.
"Is life worth liying?"- Louisville E.
change. According to your club.
IT'S said Arson would like to soc the
PlLtsburgs 20 into the Association.
II is rumored that Elmer Foster will
wear Pittsburg uniform next season.
President Nimick says that fine against
Pitcher Morris will surely be collected.
President Day is on short vacation.
That accounts for the Giants poor showing
AID. Gumbsrt, the Evansville pitcher,
has finally signed with the st. Louis club.
He gets $500 a month.
Auson advocates putting the pitcher in
the center of the diamond, and then de-
claripg q willful bunt out.
Bob Ferguson vs. Pete Mccarthy. Judg.
ment SIS against the defendant. Cause OF
action superlstive freshness.
All the League clubs are now playi NJ
good ball and the balance of the games
should be interesting contests.
Kirby. third baseman of the Lima Club,
broke two cords of his leg while sliding
yesterday. He may be cripple TOR life.
If New York continues losing games,
Chicago will be within mailing distance
while they have indianapolis as opponents
The Pittsburgs seem to have no difficult
ty in batting Krock and Baldwin. Even
Elmer Cleveland made two home runs of
Baldwin, Wednesday.
Manager Phillips, of the Pittsburgs,
claims each League umpire has an idea of
his own in his Interpretation of the rules
different from everybody else.
In Minneapolis recently opposing mines
of newspapers and lawyers played game
as the "Libelers" and the Liars" Score
as printed, Libelers, 81; Liars, SO.
Arson did some great batting on Mon
day. Iu two games be went seven times
to bat, made two singles, two triples and a
home run, and got two bases on balls.
Keefe, who pitched for Washington,
was with the same club last year, and was
subsequently transferred to Troy. He has
plenty of speed and good ont curve.
The Brooklyn Standard Union calls for
Byrne to purchase the Cincinnati team
Let 90 some of the record players in the
Brooklyns and draw on the Cincinnatis.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says a game re-
Gently played by the Chicagos in the bright
sunshine was ragged enough to have been
arrested for indecent exposure and vag-
rancy.
The New York pitchers to date stand
Keefe won 80, lost 8. tied 2; Welch won
81, lost ID, tied 2; Crane won 9, lost d;
Wiedman won l, lost l; Titcomb won 0,
lost Z.
An attempt TO equslizs batting will
probably prove as futile as the effort of the
little country boy who tried to prevent a
horse running away by tieing himself on
the animals back.
Topeka, KAN, August 30.-Samuel
Handbook, prominent merchant of Kin
csid, while serving yesterday as umpire of
a match game of base ball between the
rival towns Of Kincaid and Bayard, was
instantly killed by swiftly thrown ball
which tipped the bat aud struck him on
the jugular vein.
The Giants return home Monday for
three games with the Phillies. September
the Giants open at Indianapolis their
last western trip. They play at Indisnsp-
oils September, 8 and 10; a. Chicago, IL,
IL, Is and ii; at Pittsburg, ID, II, Is and
10; at Detroit, 20, 81 and p; ut Washing
ton, "a, 25, &c aud 27; in all, Is games.
Returning, they will fidsh the season with
twelve games on the home grounds, having
in order for their opponents Detroit, Chi
cago, Pittsburg aud Indianapolis.
"When batsman foul tips out after
having two strikes, why should it not be
scored AZ a strikeout and the pitcher given
an assist? In such case the pitcher is
clearly entitled to an assist, as missing the
third strike, or touching ii 30 lightly as
not to change its course and as to enable
the catcher to hold it is virtually the same
az strikeout, snd the pitcher has to work
ust as hard to get rid of man at the plate
as if he had struck him ont. "-PAilddel-
phid Ledger.
Reedy, in the Star Sayings, says the col
ored nine, tie "Pinchbacks," are the most
original coachers 10 the profession. He
offers this "a a sample: "G'wee der, now,
sab! Git Off Yer got ter git dar ere
secon' bag, See heah, Mr.. Base Runner,
ef You doau p'rloin dat ere bag this-a-time
yo' name am Mud, and Parson Nicholson'll
be'in tskin' OBJ your r'mains. Come off
dere, now, and dun scuts your s'prise par
ty to dat ere catcher. Spread yourself
dare, son. OATS your chance. Gobble up
dat ere secon' bag dere-put third in your
pocket; you heah me, son? Say, boy, you
hain't goin' to git q house and lot BY stand
ing on dat bag. Git of, telly you. Pick
your lrizzles den, Petsy. You, dere, Mis-
tab Jones, you jes bust dat sphes in two.
Git away, ders, man. Git along, dere.
Watch 'er buisness; You'll git thar. Slide
bruddsr, slide, you'ss alri ght."
The Washington players wear Knots Of
crepe on their arms out Of respect to the
memory of Mr.. Hewitt, the president Of
the club, who died early yesterday morn
ing.
The Boston Herald says il will cost the
Philadelphia club 81 200 to secure the re.
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