Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-01
SPORTING POINTS.
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM BASE BALL AMI
PUGTLISTIC CIRCLES.
Preparations for the Coming Season on The Diamond
The Players in Readiness Notes FrOm the
Prizs Rng-Dramaic News.

Prizs Rng-Dramaic News.
Manager Jim Mutrie must feel pretty
cheap at the present writing. It will b.
remembered that gentle James made
grand bluff to the effect that he was very
sorry, but for some reason or other bS
could not get Association teams to play
his Giants. While Jim was pulled up tC
his highest swelling capacity by the
thought of how easily he bad got away
with the bluff, President Won der Abe
came to the front with an acceptance of his
challenge, and the New Yorker collapsed.
Won der Abe wrote on naming three dates
with his team, and received in response q
letter to the effect that the New Yorks
would be unable to arrsge games with
him. This ends the bluff.
There was q time when left-handed pitch,
ers were scarce in the profession. That
day is past, as the following list of south
paw twirlers in the two leading ~organiza-
tons will show: Madden, OF Boston
SpIague and Van Haltren, OF Chicsgoi
Baldwin, of Detroit; George, of New York
Casey. of Philadelphia; Morris, of Pitts.
burg; Blair and J.. weighing, of the Ath,
~letics, Toole, of Brooklyn, j.. Smith and
Kilroy, of Baltimore; f. Smith, Of Cincin'
natl; O~berlander, of Cleveland, Ramsey, OF
Louisville; Devlin and Somers, of st.
Louis; Pagan, of Kansas City. ChicagO's
eft-hander has the most experience,
while Pittsburg's and WashingtOn's have
none.
Jim0'Rourke, the New York player. and
'Skinhint" SodeD, Of the Bostons, have
opened up a mud-slinging match and are
firing liAs and other pet names at each
other in q very promiscuous manner.
O'Rourke says that the Boston Club, with
the aid of ''Skinflint," beat him cut OF
$500 many years ago. At last accounts
the Boston man had the worst of the aTgu,
ment.
The Athletics only have an ever dozen
men on their salary list to do their battery
work, seven pitchers and five catchers.
There are several clubs that don't carry
more than that number of men for the
whole team. About the first salary-day
there will be a lot Of battery talent Oh the
baseball market in the vicinity of the
Athletic grounds. .
McGarr, of the st. Louis Browns, will
pay regularly ut second base, his old
position, while Robinson will 60 to short.
Indianapolis has sold five hundred sea
son tickets already. This looks like the
HoOsier team was all o. X. for the season.
Welch aud Gleason have it in for the
Browns. They will do some good work
for the Athletics against their old team.
With four such great catchers as Bush.
ong, Holbert, Peoples and Clark, the
Brooklyns come pretty a being solid
behind the bat.
Dude EsterbroOk and Paul Hines ought
to make the Indianapolis team strong
enough TO hold its own with the best in
the League.
Shiehack, the young pitcher and iu6eld-
er, who started off with the Cleavelands
last season, will be with the Detroits the
coming year.
The Chicago Club will again give Gold
smith a trial as pitcher. Goldie is now at
Hot Springs with the rest of the Windy
City team.
Doc BushoDg will be gathering a few
shekels this summer on the outside. He
has rented his house in st. Louis to a party
for a term OF years.
Jim White is only forty-one years old.
He has been before the public so long that
il is the popular belief that he is bordering
on his uinetieth year.
Barnie wants another pitcher to help out
Keft. handed Kilroy and Phenomenal
Smith. He is trying hard to induce Byrne,
of the ~BrOoklyns, TO release either Hughes
or Mays.
The umpirs's mslli1uous "Plsy bali"
will soon float on the ambient air at the
Cincinnati Ball Park.
10 three consecutive games with the
birmingham team Gid Gardner, of the
Washiugtons, accepted sixteen chances at
second without al error.
And o Andrews has apologiSed for
abusing al Reach. These little matters
seem to be in order when a player weakeus
after playing ont his little bluff.
Roger Common reported for duty ut New
York Friday. Before leaving for his home
at Waterville he was given a banquet by
MS lIlthuS VI lhO OiN hholA'Oi Iihb az
Waterville.
The DetrOit-St. Louis games this spring
will be exhibition contests.
The Detroit reporters are immensely
pleased with B%roughton aud Satellite.
Gruber OF the Dstroits, claims to have
learned a new kink while practiCiug in the
Yale College base ball cage" ltconsists
of a very sharp outshoot, which cuts the
plate at q sharp angle, and worries the left
handed batters exceedingly.
The Yale teams practice trip commences
to-day. The college will be represented
by the following men: Damn, Stage, Nc
Conkey, Noyes, Hunt, Spencer, Heyworth,
Osborn, Calhoun, Mcbride, Walker, G.
McCliutOck, n. McCiintOck and Dalzal.
The Yaics Open at PottstOwn, Pa, with
the Hill School team.
The rivalry between the.LOuisyilles and
CinciDnatis Is approaching q white heat
and Browning il caressing bis bat and
siueiug "Red legs that never grow weary
while chasing three-bsggers way under the
seats. "-&. Louis Republican.
AL Spalding will take twenty-six ball
~rlayers 10 Australia next fall and intro
duce our National game there. The players
will have to be adopts at football and
cricket.