The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-26
VOLUME xxxv1-NUMBER 289.
A NIGHTS EXPERIENCE
Hunting for Bali PIayer-General Base
Hall News Notes.

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Hall News Notes.
During the past three daysthere has been
considerable correspondence between
President seeley and Manager Bucken-
berger by means Of the telegraph, and a
mistake made in one OF the dispatches
has lead to something of mix-up and
several amusing features. After the loss
OF Delahanty and the further loss Of
those two games at Jackson, which by
the way, the public is slow TO forgive,
Buckenberger felt that something must
be done and telegraphed here asking il
il was within the range Of possibility to
send him Childs, the man Philadelphia
was to have givenin in boot for Delahanty.
Al. Reach was telegraphed concerning
Childs, but that man could not be had.
Buckenberger was still anxious for
another man, and on Thursday Mr..
Seeley, on his own responsibility, tele-
graphed to Buckenberger and asked how
Sol White, the colored player from Bel
laire, who played third for Wheeling last
season, would suit him. Then Mr..
Seeley went and told the directors what
he had done. Some cussed both him
and White and others threw up their
hats and wept forjoy. These latter were
in the majority, so Mr. Seeley felt safe.
Anxiously they waited till evening, when
there came a dispatch from Buckenber-
ger that read Us follows: ave can play
Sol" There was more Joy among the
admirers OF White, and Mr.. W. I. Eng
lish volunteered to. go to Bellaire at once
and pack Sol otto Lima on the midnight
train.
He and Mr.. John Beuter rushed
TO the levee as soon as a blank
contract had been prepared in the hope
OF catching the steamer Bellaire on her
special 1880 o'clock trip, but reaching
Water street they saw her disappearing |
behind the Pewiky depot. Then they |
boarded street ear and rode to the end
OF the line, where their adventures
began. They had to walk from there to
then they had to hunt up a
man to row them across the river. This
benighted Charon landed them on log |
raft and Beuter making a misstep
slight changes in temperature, local
rains, followed by fair weather, light to
went down between two logs in water
up TO his waist. Mr.. English hauled |
him out and then they went in search OF
q pair Of dry pants for poor Beuter.
Sol White was at last found at the May |
Festival; the situation was explained to |
him and he at once signed with Wheel
ing. Hastily packing q grip he was
started ior Lima at midnight, while
English and Beuter, with the proud
OF having done duty well,
walked home by the way OF Bridgeport,
in the mud and darkness, arriving here
about 9 o'clock yesterday morning.
Yesterday 1t was decided TO keep Sol
with the club till it returned home, and
then institute u vigorous inquiry rs to
why Lemons, after doing so well on
could not be kept there perma-
nently, his work having proven him
much more valuable there than in the
box. By last evening every one
was beginning to feel pleased with the
White deal when there fell thunder
bolt in the shape OF dispatch from
Buckenberger asking what the deuce
was meant by sending him White; that
he did not want him and had sent him
back. An investigation was at once had
and the explanation is that Bucken-
berger telegraphed from jackson, 1--WE
play Sol" and the telegraph |
company failed to transmit the mot"
If this be true, the company will be |
called upon to pay expenses.