Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-01
In FIELDS OF SPORT.
THB BROTHERHOOD GETTING IT'S MIN IN
LINZ.
Probabilities Of a Combine With the Association
Big Purses for Sullivan and JaoksOn-The
Foot Ball Fsvsr-Turf Topics
and General Sports.

There has been little change in the base
ball situation during the past week. The
Brotherhood is slowly but surely getting
its men in line, and every day seems to
make it more certain that the players
meve will be success. One weak spot
has been the Boston team. That has been
well covered. Mike Kelly, the star of stars,
has been signed, and with him are Daley,
Johnston and Radbourne. Under the tu-
tilsge of Jim Hart, it is not hard to pre-
dict that the whole Boston team will 60
into the Brotherhood fold. Kelly has gone
West to sign these men, and there is every
probability that he will be successful.
The sensation of the week has been the
announcement of probable combine be-
tween the remnants of the American AS
ISOLATION and the Brotherhood. Such a
combine would be practically invincible.
1t would control all the star players in the
country and relegate the present league to
the position of minor league. There are
difficulties in the way of such combine
Won Der Abe would be disturbing inhu-
ence in st. Louis, and the general methods
of the Association are far from those which
the Brotherhood seeks to introduce. The
Association must come to the Brotherhood,
not the Brotherhood to the Association,
aud under the circumstances it is doubt
ful if an arrangement can be made.
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This move would undoubtedly be the
salvation OF what is left of the American
Association Ii is true that the old organ
izatiOn would be relegated to Oblivion by
merging into the new; but it is in a fair
way to meet the same fate without coali-
ton. They have made some. rosy reports
about other cities that want to take the
places of those that have dropped out; but
the gentlemen who remain in the Associa-
ton are well aware that such accessions to
their ranks, while it might keep the or
ganizatiOn alive little longer, would not
pay. 1t would only prolong the death
thToes.
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Glasscock has been acting as commits
siOner for the old League to sign players.
GlasscOck has not been bowling success
in this line. Denny, Buckley and Seery
have been signed in Indianapolis, but
Bassett and MEG sachy repulsed Jack g
oilers, and he has not yet signed any other
players. 1t is an evidence of the enthusi-
asm of the Brotherhood players that the
loss of such player as GlasscOck has not
discouraged them.
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Pugilism has had quite an advance dur
ing the past week. The number of cities
which can raise good purse for the Sulli-
van-Jackson contest is remarkable. AL
ready three Western cities have been heard
from who are willing to give S25, 600 or
| $50, GOO for the glsdistors. Ole thing is
settled; Sullivan can not find a reasonable
excuse for not fighting his cOlored brother.
/ The fact that American grit and agility is
superior to British bluff and bulldog te-
necity was again illustrated by the McCar-
thy-Nolan lightweight fight near New
York. Brain goes q great way in contest
against Drawn and oftentimes wins. Should
the fight come off sgsin, the Englishmsn
will probably adopt different tactics.
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Mike Nolan, who was defeated by Gal
/ Mccarthy in a seven-Tound battle for the
festher-weight championship Of the world,
must have very poor opinion Of Ameri-
can fair play. All reports agree that Nc
| Carthy deliberately fOuled Nolan in the
sixth round, add it was this foul blow that
won the fight, yet NOlan's claim of foul
was disallOWed and Mccarthy won. Nc
Carthy is a game fighter and as good as the
best; yet the fight clearly belonged to the
Englishmsn and it should have been given
\ him.
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Interest in college athletics has been sent
to high pitch by the recent football con-
tests. For the first time in years the col
ors of Yale have been lowered and Prince
ton floats the champion flag. The defeat
OF Yale by Princeton on Thursday was
overwhelming. Yale was outplayed and
the championship fairly won. Eighteen
thousand people witnessed the contest.