Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-27
BASE BALL NOTES.

Washington has asked Boston to set
price on Wise and Morrill,.
Boston denies that it has ever offered
Shortstop Pickett, ofSt. Paul, place and
Pickett has signed 81. Paul Contract.
A New York dispatch Gays: 1T was III
moted here to-day that GlasscOck would De
giyea Wards place with the New YORK
league club. ."
Won der Abe is after Harry DOcms,
pitcher for the Newarks. A bid Of Sl,OOU
hiss already been made. DoOms Is good
pitchsr, but drunkaTd.
Dunlap is doubtful if bis ankle will be
strong enough TO carry him through the
season. A physician tells him ne vii
have trouble with it.
''Is would be a good thing for the game
to have the Whits-RoHe afalc ventilated
in Court, for the League will not shlTS
publicity IA. j. Reach.
Toledo will resign Edward Sales, man
who did not strike cut in 100 games last
ssasos, aud was claimed to be one of the
finest hitters in the TIi-State League.
There is enough weather in Chicago for
games on the ice, and on Saturday last
one vrss played in which Satellite, Caruth-
ers. Daley, Decker and Buckley participa-
ted.
Jack Chapman has filed Ollie Boards
place in the Syracuse team with Barney
Mclaughlin, a great player but an lncorll
gible lusher. he was ried IN 1eo7 By
Philadelphia.
Columbus is said by the Washington
Post 20 hold an option on the release o.
Third BSsemsn DOnnelly at $500. II Co
lumbus holds johnson Donnelly will MOI
be taken.
Cincinnati fears that her new catcher,
Earle, Will be hur. in receiving Ed Crane's
speedy delivery, and will order him to
quit as sOoa as he can be reached. be Is
Low in Iadia.
Canton claims to have signed Charles
Van Haltren, BROTHER CT the Chicago
lsfthsnder, TO play its left field. But Il
also claims Borchers snd Doyle and will
get neither.
Stonewall Bennett put his name to q
Boston contract last Monday, Ex-Presi-
dent Stsarns acting "a the sgant for the
Bostons. Catcher Bennett was the favorlte
of the Det1oiters, and probably the great
est player in the famous Wolverine team
There must be mistake somewhere.
The correspondents with the Australian
teams picture Spalding ss fairly rolling in
wealth Nov comes a dispatch from San
Francisco purporting TO give the views OF
the passengers On thu Alameda, ana they
say the trip is the wOrat kind OF failure
Mike Kelly, Boston's crack player, ssys
that if the captaincy is taken from him aud
given to Morrill, be will refuse to wear the
Boston uniform ard dsvOte his time eXclu-
sivsly to his ''cafs" (ssl0On) on Sixth ave-
nue..
The American teams played cricket at
SydEey, and in one inning the All AmeIl-
cans beat the Chicagos, g. to 80. Ward
made p runs, Hanloa II and Sullivan -
In game between the eighteen Americana
and a picked eleven the game was drawn,
the eleven scoring Ill with six wicketS
down, to 81 for the Americans.
Kansas City has selected lis new uni
forms for mex: season. TIE hOme suits
will be made upOf whit flannel shirts snd
I paulS, Win u4ohu ol1NNAHho civ H@'N -
striped caps, and the travelling suits will
consist of gray flannel pants, shirts and
csps, with blue stcckiDgs, belts and trim
mings.
Back" ETing says he believes the Aus
! tralian games "hippodromes. That is
/ serious chargs-an unwarranted enc II
| fact-aud casts discreiit upon over a score
ofthe best ball players in this United States
Can it be that the noble New York captain
ia Jealous of Ward as well as Anson?-
/ Chicago Herald.
Little Barefoot Bresnahan, the eastern
infe!der, Is very tall man. When IN
Binghamton, y. Y, Joe HOrnung won a
basket of wine from Faatz, now OF the
Clevelands, By betting that he could pro-
duce a taller player than Faalz Joe pro
duced Bresnahan and won the bet, as he
was little over an inch taller than the
other players. Bresnahan was called
Little Barefoot" because in a game on the
Union grounds between the Hayerhills,
with whom he played, ard the Boston
Blues. Bresnahsn, finding the new shoes
he had on to be so eight as to be unendur-
able, took them of, slung them toward the
grand stand, went to bat and made a ire
mendous drive to the Dartmouth street
side that Just about cleared the bases aud
won the game. "Br,sn is feet 81 inches
of the ground