The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-23
THE TRl.STATE LEAGUES
Season Opens To-day-wherc Clubs VIII
Play-The Detroit Game-Notes.


Play-The Detroit Game-Notes.
The second championship season o.
the Tri-state League, which has beer
looked forward to with almost as much
If not more interest than the opening o.
the National and. Association series,
opens to-day. sandusky, booked to play
here the first three days, will remain at
home and play exhibition games with
the Bisons, leaving Toledo the first club
Of the League to appear here. Ihe
Toledo men will be here Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. Lima will open with
Canton at the latter place and Sandusky
will follow Lima at Canton the last three
daysof the week. Toledo will open with
GAINESVILLE the first three days and be
followed by Kalamazoo the last three.
Kalamazoo will be at Columbus to open
with that city's team and be followed by
the Jaxon team. The Jax team will
open at Mansfield and be followed by
Lima.
There is likely to be large number OF
surprises this first week and at the end
Of the first six games pennant winners
Will uOG De so NUMEROUS.
THE DETROIT GAME.
The attention Of patrons Of the Ma
tional game is directed to the special ad-
vertisement of the exhibition game to
be played by the Wheeling team with
the big Detroit club at Island Park Wed,
nesday. The Wolverines are the proud
possessors Of the Worlds Championship
and gaeat game is anticipated. Inc
Baltimore 4 Ohio road has arranged ior
excursion rates and if the day is spleas-
ant large crowd will probably BIO pres
ent. Il is necessary to give the Detroits
a large guarantee, but notwithstanding
this the management has decided not to
charge more than the usual quarter ad.
mission. It is pretty definitely settled
that Knauss, Wheelings lett-hander,
will pitch, and If the boys will keep cool
and not get the rattles, they will put up |
strong game,
GENERAL BASE BALL NOTES.
Mansfield has a Nightingale. He
ought to be able to sing sweetty OH the
coach lines.
Canton has set aside all Thursdays as
Ladies' Day. On that day they will be
admitted free.
Capt. Faats, of the Clevelands, has
been arrested in Wheeling for swearing
at the umpire. This is move in the
right direction. Oh, that Anson could
be induced to play in Wheeling!-De-
troa Free Press.
Sandusky defeated Lima by score OF
5 to 8 in six innings at Sandusky Fri
day. Hits-Sandusky 6, Lima 6. Bat
teries-Sandusky, Easton and Dillon;
Lima, Sanders and Ives. Struck out /
by Easton Z, by Sanders Q. Errors
each.
The third game of the Kalamazoo
Chicago Maroon's series, played at Kali
amazoo Saturday, resulted in q shut out
for Kalamazoo. The Maroons made
three runs. Only three square hits
were made off Of Aldrich, who pitched
for Kalamazoo, Flynn lost the game by
making four errors at short-stop.
It is reported that Umpire Valentine
is OF the opinion that Columbus, Zanes-
vile and Canton have stronger teams
than Wheeling. Mr.. Valentines opln-
ion Of balls and strikes from his position
behind the bat is much better than ut
other times. Another thing-opinions
don't win pennants for any club.
In the Cincinnati-Kansas City game
at Kansas City Saturday, sam Barkley,
OF this city, is reported to have knocked
the ball over the fence, making home
run, and to have played beautiful
fielding game. The Cincinnatis won,
however, by reason OF heavy batting |
streak in the fourth inning
At Columbus Friday the BufIalos de-
feated the home team 6 to 5 and Satur-
day they again defeated them, this time
8 to 2. Fridays summary showed the
following. Earned runs-Columbus !,
Buffalo 2. Base on balls-By Bacher 2,
Walsh 2. Struck out-By Bacher s,
Walsh 2. Saturdays summary was as
follows: Base hits-Buftalo 6, Columbus
Z. Errors-Buffalo 2, Columbus Z.
Earned runs-Columbus l. Struck
out-By Handiboe @, Gibbs 8. Batteries
Gibbs and Kappel, Handiboe and
Smith.
The Wheeling team played nine from
Martins Ferry at Island Park Saturday
afternoon and shut them out by a score
Of l3 to 0. About $50 persons, mostly
from Martins Ferry, witnessed the
game. Padden pitched a fair game, for
the Ohio boys. Morrison pitched for
Wheeling. The summary was as follows:
Struck out, WheelingS, Martins FerryS.
Earned runs, Wheeling 8. Errors,
Wheeling 9, Martins Ferry II. Base
hits, Wheeling II, Martins Ferry 5.
Two base hit, Nichol. Base on balls,
Morrison l. Double play, 0tterson,
Delehanty, Lemons. Umpire, Yak.
Zanesyille Piles Up Errors.
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