Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-29
BASE BALL NOTES.

Mutrie receives but few letters from the
cranks nowadays.
When Brooklyn meets st. Louis again
look out for squalls.
Jim O'Rourke will bring suit against a
Philadelphia paper for libel.
A quiet little meeting of the League d.
rectors will be held in Philadelphia next
week.
Mcclure was last night released by the
Detroit Club and SATELLITES release with
drawn.
Out of twenty games played away from
home the Bostons have won four and lost
sixteen.
Ewing has caught twenty-seven games
and Keefe has won thirteen straight.
Poor Chicago. They are gradually fall
ing behind. What's the matter, Arson?
Manager Mutrie says he has eighteen
men under contract. The nineteenth man,
Weidman, has evidently been released.
Three stitches had to he put in
O'Rourke's arm when Glssscock spiked
him.
Harry Wright and Maguate Soden both
have sons who can pitch "a bit"
"Shorty" Fuller is sick and Shock il
playing short stop for Washington.
AL. Spalding will call his Australian
ball club the "All American Team"
Connor's hits over the right field fence Of
the Polo grounds are about as long as any
that have been made.
Tom Ramsey has been jailed in Louis
Vile for a bar debt. He owes $54 80 for
booze and was run in at night.
AL. Spalding pitched for ''charity's
sake'' in Chicago the other day, and the
game Melted 1926 for the Womsn's Hos
pital.
Browning says he will 1.-THE ball hence
forth and remain sober. This is the Booth
time he has made that promise. Louisville
Post.
Arlie Latham ia thinking Of buying out
Won der Ahe's interest in the st. Louis
team. He will try and get Carruthers back,
of course.
Shelter, the Manchester. left fielder who
licked an umpire early in the season, is
now a Cowboy. He joins the team in
Brooklyn.
Jack O'Connor will make great fielder.
He has the right stuff in him. He never
would succeed behind the bat, and doesn't
care to play there.
Captain Arson wants to bet $1,000 that
Cleveland will be elected.-Boston Globe.
FATTY Briody will have a hard time
when he becomes a back number. There
will be no shelf big enough for him." says
the st. Louis Star Sayings.
A feat that was overlooked is being
talked of now. New Orleans w~hitewashed
Memphis three times in succession this
year, 80 that the Phillies do not take all
the cream.
The old gentleman wa tired out, so he
went tn the cellar and turned off the gas.
George, DEAR" said the girl, 81 guess we
will have to call the game on account Of
darkpess.-TIme.
Brooklyn will land in third place in
day or two if she ket IS on tumbliDg, II
looks now very much rs if the big fight
was going to be made between the Browns
and their great red-legged rivals from Cin'
cinnati. -New Orleans States
Brooklyn has offered $4,000 for O'Neil't
release and Chris. will consider ii if Darby
O'Brien is thrown in.-Cincinadti Times
Star. Darby is worth ten Zip" 0'Nei's
and it is not likely that there will be AT
exchange on any such erms.-Brookiyr
Citizen.
Mr.. G. H.. Byrne is arranging for a nict
little surprise party in honor Of Col. Vor
der Abe. He will meet Chris. with a bras:
band and will secure a bridal chamber a.
the Fifth Avenue for Missouri's choice for
the Presidency. How Charley does love
Chris!
Tug Arundel has sworn to whip eFeIy
man IN the Indianapolis team when they
arrive IN Washington. The boys guyed
Tug awfully on his recent appearance in
Indianapolis.
The man whom Detroit expects OBSCURE
is an outsider and q member OF the Landor
club, of the International League. His
name ia Donovan, and Scheibeck and Kins
low, of that club, assert that he is q won,
der. They describe him "a six feet one
inch tall, as hitting the ball like q bat.
teripg ram, q wonderful outieldeF and
daring base runner,
It's remarkable the amount of fine work
Arson, White and Jim O'Rourke are do
ing, considering the length of time they
have been on the diamond. Temperate in
their habits and love for their profession,
they have always been well up in batting,
and have played in nearly every game in
which their clubs have participated.
DetIoit's offer of $500 for L~stccque, sec.
ond basemsn of the Lynn Base Ball Club,
has been accepted, and he will probably
join the Detroits within a few days. A
dispatch was received from Jackson, Mich.
asking the terms for the whole lynn team.
The transfer was voted to be made by the
men for $1,000 and the same salaries they
are now receiving.
Msnager Barnie has signed q new pitch.
er. After an extended search he dropped
on Walker, the tvirler for the Worcester
Club of the New England League. Cantz,
the recent acquisition from the st. Louis
Whites, will be his catcher. A change hA