The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-12
AROUND THE BASES.
Latest Points About the Trl-state League
aud It's Men.

Il AAttGht hbVuN tNt AEI=SNtAAC ASth6hG
and Its Men.
The three-strike rule will cut down
the home,rur record Of many sluggers'
Hill, who played third base for Akron
last season, has signed with GAINESVILLE.
Toledo and Jackson have filed their
guarantee bonds with President McDor-
NTH,
Lemons has been practicing all winter
at Cincinnati. Boyle has been practicing
with him.
Wheeling will have good opportuni-
ty for testing the mcttle OF her players
during the April games,
Every home run this season should
have n ting attached to it containing the
words; Friends will please omit flowers.
Wheeling started off last year with q
record OF seven successive victories.
Columbus wos the first stump the home
team ran against.
Barley says il Wheeling would have
sold hOr franchise some time ago, lie
would have bought the team and played
the boys in Toledo,
Flanagan writes from his home in
Delaware, that he is in iirst-class condi-
ton and will be in good pitching form
when the season opens,
There are six Pittsburghers In the
GAINESVILLE team. 1t appears to be mat
ter OF record that Pittsburgh clubs were
meat Tor the Wheeling team last year.
The Toledo Bee very complacently re-
marks that some OF the Tri-Staie clubs
are liable to be lost in TOlcdo's dust.
Not il the wind is blowing MS it is now.
Morrison, who was little disguised
for awhile because Wheeling would not
sell him, has BECOME satisfied and says
he will pitch for all there Is in him this
season.
Now it is Manager james Curry, OF
Columbus, who thinks his team OF
statesmen will win the pennant. That's
right, boys. Claim everything and CON-
cede nothing.
Walker, the colored catcher Of the old
Toledo club, has written to President
McDcrmith, OF the Iri-State League, pro-
testing against the action Of the Lcdgue
in barring colored players.
The Columbus Journal says that the
coming meeting Of the League ut San
dDsly will be a lively one ii Wheeling
brings up the percentage system and
GAINESVILLE the johnson case.
The Tri-State League ought 10 have
competent umpires this season. Wheel
ing lost more games through inCOmpe-
tent aud crooked umpires last year than
by the superior work Of their opponents.
Benson Coons, the so-called prodigy
Of Patterson, n. j., who will pitch for
GAINESVILLE, has phenomenal batting
record OF G5l in twenty games. He is o
feet q inches tall and weighs 105
pounds.
The Wheeling management contem-
plate making some changes in tho direc-
tors stand. The press-bOx will be loca.
ted at the western end and will be so
arranged us to give the newspaper boys
more elbow rQam,
-Four weeks from to-day and we let
her go, said Hustling Horace Phillips,
the clever, smiling manager OF the Pitts.
bnrAh league club, to a reporter last
Thursday. Continuing he said; "That
is, we play our first game. It will he ut
Wheeling, and | suppose big delegl.
ton Of cranks will go down with lis.
May le there will be a special rate for
them. This will be the opening OF the
great season OF 1885,"
GAINESVILLE has completed her team,
which is composed OF the following men:
Catchers, ]. 9, Lauer, Of Allegheny, Lou
II. Myers, Of Cincinnati, and William
Stanley, Of Guelph, Canada; pitchers,
Ad G, Gumbert, Pittsburgh, Martin
Duck, Columbus, Ed Patterson, N. ].
first base, William J. Fry, Pittsburgh
second base, A. ]. Swift, East Liberty;
third base, 4. r. McShannic, Pittsburgh;
short-stop, Will Humbert, Los Angeles,
Gala lett.fIeld, John AlcCannl z9nes-
Cleveland; right-tleld, L. L. Hutchinson,
Mex arsnOrt Pm