Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-14
PICKUPS.

Shaw, signed by Toledo, is claimed by
Birmingham.
GAINESVILLE is threatening TO call her club
the 'Giants."
It is said that indianapolis has its eye
on Sam Barley to play second.
Canton still has fifteen shares of stock
ursOld, Hope she may dispose OF them.
Count us in for the proposed change Of
name to the Northern League .-ZanesriNe
Signal.
Garfield and Miller, two swell Oberlin
college young men, is a battery sigued by
Toledo.
The name of the League will probably
Columbus Dispatch
Bruce Gordon, an Allegheny boy, has
received an offer of 500 per mouth and
expenses to pitch for the Mansields.
Wheeling is kicking hard on the percent
age plan adopted at the Columbus meeting,
and it is said that legal stepI will be taken
to overthrow it.-Canton Repository.
A rosewood bat, ornanented with sew
eral silver bands, will be awarded to the
member of the Canton base ball club hav-
ing the best batting average during the
next season.
In the arrangement Of the playing
scbe lule Wheeling wants TO open the sea-
sou with Canton, and then have Canton
open the Wheeling grounds Immediately
after. The thing may probably be ar
ranged. -RpositOry.
Toledo Bee: A Lima writer objects to
the directors of the Liml club on the
grounds that they are not base ball men.
Perhaps later on he may object to the
players OF the ame grounds.
Columbus Journal: SANDY McDermott
seems to be 2 general favorite for a Tri-
State League umpire. Hope he will be
appointed" Same here. Canton RepOsi-
iOry. There are two cities dead set against
Sandy and they are Kalamazoo and Zanes-
vile, although he gave a game to Zanes-
vile from Wheeling, unfairly.
The question is asked if Toledo knoSS
that there is a salary limit rule. We sup
pose she does, and what proof has anyone
that the rule has been broken - Columbus
Journal. Mr.. Journal, don't you know
some of these ball towns which depend on
their big brothers for ~sustenanCe, and still
kick, know everything? The are smart.
President Ketcham, of the Toledo club,
is a millionaire, and divides his spare time
between a stable of fancy horsedesh and
the finest steam yacht on the great lakes,
the Speranza. Mr.. Ketcham is also COM
modore Of the Ohio Yacht Club. The Off
GERS, directors and stockholders are all
heavyweight citizens, and give thu club
prestige at OnCe.
The trouble between the stockholders in
the Columbus Base Ball Club came 10 the
front Monday afternoon by the filing of a
suit for the appointment of a receiver.
The plaintiffs aver that the company is
insolvent, while the majority assert that
the assets exceed the liabilities. The case
was to have been heard yesterday. The
club will not be affected by this suit.
In speaking of their team, among other
things, the Indianapolis Sentinel says: "In
Healy, Boyle and Shreve, indianapolis has
a trio of pitchers hard to excel, while Moi
fit also promises to do great work. AS to
Glasscock, he will certainly CONS with the
rest ofthe team. We are not w~OrryingabOut
him. The statement in the Sporting Life,
that we desired to cut his salary $500, has
no foundation; it is false in every paTticu-
lar. The directors bave been disposed to
treat the men in q liberal manner, and no
man will receive less than he got last sea-
son. Glasscock has written that he likes
Indianapolis and that he intends TO bring
his wife here, and that by April 1st he
will be skipping about the diamond with
the rest of the team. He also stated TO a
friend in Wheeling that be liked the make
up of the team, and expected indianapolis
TO end among the leaders"