Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-09
BASE BALL NOTES
Clarkson has signed with Boston.

naCIon League prayer 10 sISdI ~" O'
Ex-Prssident Mcknight, o. the AmeIi-
can Association, is a hotel clerk in Silver
City, n. NJ.
Arson modestly admits that $4,000
will buy the Chicsgo infeld.
Jim Mccormick is looking for place to
start a saloon in New York.
Manager Leadly, of Detroit, is in the
East on q still hunt for players.
Visiting clubs in the Association get 20
per cent of the admission money.
Jim White still declines to sign with
Boston, aud Bennett cannot De lassoed.
Krehue and Morris are doing a rushing
business in their Allegheny billiard par
lors.
Tim Keefe is preparing an article for
magazine. Tim says ne will not sign IN
tiI next June.
Gore sigrei with New York st a IOduc-
ton of salary He will be traded at the
fist opportunity.
President Nimiek denies the allegation
that ne tried to keep Kushne's advance
money from him.
TIE Cuban Giants are still planning fer
a trip to Havana this winter. 3 lily Pcim-
Ios9 says he believes there i3 money IN II.
! Charles Mason, once of the Athletics, is
al St. Leu trying TO g the Sqlbe ball
sdOpted by the AsEo iation in:teEd CT the
Reach ball.
/ Guy Heeker reglr7s the salary limit
I rule as one Of the best moves ever made
| for players, provided it is lived Up to all
around in good faith.
1t is officially given out by New York
! that Boston Ca9not get Wards release for
/ $40, 600. That's ss 1t should bs. Boston
Is already too strong.
The Cleveland club did vary well last
season, all things considered. The books
show q less of s., 500 on the season, but
that amount was spent for p ayers.
With Calvin pitcher and John o Rourke
catcher the Chicago club, Of some years
back, could not-in fact dared rOs-steal a
base, and they had the best runners IN the
land.
Jim Mutrie talks mys' :iously of 3 new
catcher to be signed By New York who is
as good thrower as Ewing. Can it be
Bennett? And jim is in Boston ''On bus
inGss."
A M,dwinter base ball club las been or
ganizad in Chicago. 1t is C imposed of the
Farrsgut. Oakland, Carlton and Douglass
clubs. The season is to close Jan. 23.
Special rules govern the games.
Tommy Poormau, late of the Athletic
Club, is with Ezra Sutton's Milwaukee
-, L
OF the Worcester Cl1h, ard Cleveland, OF
last seasons Nav York and Pittsburg
Clubs.
The Reviewing COMMITTEES Of the Ma
tionsl Trotting Association, in session at
New York, has fined Mr.. Fisher, OF Seneca
Falls, 500 for running a colt under two
different names. He was also ordered to
refund all money that he had won at the
races.
The story from Pittsburg about the
wonderful advantage given the pitcher by
doiug away with the Inns giuary line in the
box Is not worth discussion. The line was
ignore last season and nearly ali pitchers
had the swing for speed Clere!and Plain
Dealer.
Jim Davis, of the Kansss City Club,
will probably 90 to the st. Louis Browns.
/ The two clubs have about come to an
agreement. and Jim will play next season
az shortstop for the BrnWns in place Of
Will White, who dumped the Browns in
the worlds series.
George Gore paid a visit to the Office of
President by yesterday and put his uams
to contract for rext season. George says
he intends to play the game Of his life
next year, and will show the New YOIk
public that he can plly bsli.
The latest rumor from Boston is to the
effect that Manager Mutrie will quit the
. b Sse ball arena at the close Of next season.
/ Mutrie ont of base ball would resemble
fish oat of water. He will quiS the game
/ when he can no longer see across the dia-
mond.
jim Whitney will play in California
during the winter, He has organized thu
KuiCkerbockers to play games with the
local club, and with Van Haltren and
Morris. pitchers; Mack and Brown, catch
erS; Pete Sweeney, Myers and Denny, base
men, he will hSve q splendid nire.
Tim Keefe says that the Nsw Yorks
:
! than he received last, or he viii look for
/ cit in SEINE other quarter. 1t would be a
great relief if some one would mUzzle
Timothy and KEEP him under cover until
spring. His bluffs are extremely tire
some.
! Dir. Litt'ewOod: ['Spsak louder"
I from tie crowd Mr.. Littlewood, on be-
bel PLAY bail there, Kelr Mr.. Little
wo,d You said that before on behalf
of the American .'Wta's de matter Wild
de bSapty?'] If the American public
/ T"Fcul, az OUT the American public
Said dat before tsiCe. ETC., etc, to
IDe end, where lily told the champion
he hoped he would always remember
America when he wore the bait in Eae-
land, 1t only weighs sbont fifty pounds
and is foot wide,-Ncc York SUn
Manager Watkins is credited with say
ing that Jack Rove will continue in his
reiussl to sign with the Pittsburg team.
He says that Rowe has always declared he
would not gDto Pi.tsburg as long as Dun
lap captained or played in tie team, and
that ne would never play base ball with
the great second bssemsn. Exchange.
Somebody IS evidently attempting to
make Fred Dunlap the mrss unpopular
player IN the profession. Rowe and Dun
lap have always bsen good ftiends.
This is what Mike Kelly's Spaech sound
ed like at Madison Square Garden on Sat-
urdey night when he presented ths cham