Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03
SPORTS WIDE DOMAIN.
MANAGER HARRY WRIGHTS POINTERS
ON BASE STEALING.
Lawyers Advice. on the R0ws-White Matter.
Fresh Gossip From the Diamond
Theatrical Small Talk.
Manager Harry Wright, of tie PhilIies.

1t is not the fastest runner that steals the
most basee, but the man who gets The hest
start on the pitcher. Every pitcher has
some particular movement which he makes
just before delivering the ball The rase
runner who discovers these peculisrties
and remembers them can get tle rest start.
Some pitchers Use on their toes Just as
they are about to pitch; others lean for
ward little IN order 10 get < eater swing
Bob Mathews popularity was IN expandir 9
his chest, lie probably having found that
he could get rGOre speed with his lunRs
well filed. Any one who watched him
closely could detect this movement every
time. O'Bfisn, of Cleveland, has Shout
der tWitch which gives him away, and
base runners who watch him carefully can
get IA big start. There are o .her pitchers, who
have little pitchiug kinks which give base
runners an lntimation that II is time for
them TO start. There are other pitchers,
like Calvin, for instance, who aye likely 70
fool the base runner by hslf-balk motion,
throwing to fist base with the SINE
motion used in pitching. The only way
to deal with such men is to take only
enough start 10 be able TO easily get back
10 the blse. This will cause the pitcher
TO Ply less attention to the runner. and
the opportunities TO steal will re doubled
ROWE AND WHITES NEW scHBlIE
A Buffalo attorney has advised Rowe and
White TO make a demand on Detroit for
their release. If Detroit refuse he tells
them to lay idle for month and then de.
msDd from the Detroit corporation a full
months salary at last years rate. TIE
claim, ne says, i good and would have 10
be paid and the Detroi. people would have
to come eff The fence in short order. OF
course the Detroit maguates would refer
White and Rowe 10 Pittsburg and Boston
but the aforesaid attorney holds that these
two cities have nothing whatever to say in
the matter. TIE idea that Detroit can
with right sell these men around Ike
slaves is the meTest iGiocy. Detroit slOne
must face the music If the Detroit club.
to all intents and purposes dead to the
League, thinks its reserve on Rowe az I'd
White holds good, it alone lie responsible for
the men g galaries, which is about $500 q
month.
LEAGUE THREATENED BY THE BROTHER
HOOD.
NEW YORK, March , The Bother
hood of Base Ball Players refuse to play
next sp,ing unless the League relcinds its
new salary rule, which cuts down the sal
aries Of number of players, among tfem
Sow ders, of Boston; Whitney, of Washing
ton, and Glssscock and Denny, of Indian
apOlis. Manager Mutrie has promised his
players that if they report On March % he
will give them percentage of the receipts
in the New York-BroOklyn series, ard re-
lease them ten days earlier than usual in
the fail.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
Horace Phillips kindly gives it as his
opinion the GhicsgCs will make a poor
showing during the early weeks Of the sp-
preaching season, assigning as a reason
that they are now living o. the fat Of II e
cffete East aud will be Wined and dined
after their arrival home to an extent that
will unfit them for good ball playing
There may be something in the lcquacious
"Hustler's" opinion, but the scores Of the
games played in Italy do not seem to forti-
fy his view. In fact, the boys seem to be
playing remarkably coed ball over there,
ard it is not probable that they sre per
mitted to dis:ipats TO any alarming extent
under the watchful eyes Of Spalding and
Arson.
There is a view CT the mat er that seems
to have escaped the consideration of Phil
lips and other critics. 1t is quite possible
that instead of being weakened by luxuri-
Gus living, 1t may turn ont that the Chi
Cages, through constant playing practice,
are in 30 much better condition th5n their
rivals that they will be able to forge 10 the
front at once and establish a big lead be-
fore the 1st of June. They are pretty
tough chaps and can probably stand a lOi
of good feeding without serious detrimeDt.
Ga the whole II is quite probable that the
Chicagos will be able to interest theif
rivals this year about as thoroughly as
they have done during the last half-dczen
J eara.- Chicago Times
There will be lively times in base ball
this week, for both of The big organizations
VIII hold their spring tchedule meetings
The Association will meet at Columbus on
Mon iay and tie L.sgue AT Washington on
Tucsday The Association Will have con-
work TO transact before they get
10 the question Of a schedule. TIE most
important eveat Of the meeting viii be the
OF the report. which will De
mede by the committee which is now con
'i6ering the graded system Of the League
and trying to form a better one. There
viii be plenty Of work for the Arbitration
too, fit should meet, which il
quite likely.
Kansas City can boast Of three peculiar
ncnors won lnst year. The Cowboys ehuf
lut the BaltimOres Will ont a hit They
broke Stemmeyer's record, knocking Wey-
hing out Of the box. They also earned
seven runs al Oberlandtr IN the latt inning
1f a game These feats we're accom-
plished By no other c.uI in either Of the
Two older ball. playing bodice
Jerry Denny and Manager Frank Ban
croft have been at the outs for five yens
because the latter, RS manager Of the
Providence Club in 'si, imposed fine OF
500 On the third bateman as a sequel to
one Of JeTy's attacks Of malaria" The
lne was reported and Denny has been
Bancroft's enemy every since.
Welch, Ewing and Conner are the Only
men left of the 1883 team, the first that
New York in the National
League. Tire other players in that team
we're John Clspp, Humphries, Johnnie
Ward, Tip O'Neil, Troy, Hankinson, Cas-
zins, Mike DOrgan and Gille;pie
The Spslding base ballists will play two
II three games in London. One in all
likelihood at the Crystal Palace. Arrange
nents have been made for them TO appear
1t Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Bris-
Ol, Birmingham, Dublin, Belfast and
or Glasgow.
Larry Twitchell thinks Conway is a sec
md Keeie and will be sorCgaIded in a very
hort time, comparatively, the country
'yer. Twitchell played eleven games be-
lind Conway last year, and hadn't a put
'ut and assist. Very few hits came to left
ield