Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-09-20
now FOR BIG BALL.
New York and Pittsburg League Clubs to
Play Here Monday.

You may not believe it ON the start.
but it is a dead sure thing. The New
York National League base ball team,
with all the star performers. including
the inyinciblc GlaSScock. the redoubta-
BILE Russie, and all the other pets of the
diamond, will be here next Monday
afternoon, bag, baggage and backbone.
Their opponents Will be- the Pittsburg
National team, and the game will bee
called at 1880 on the Island grounds.
Manager Mutric, Of the New York
team, arrived in the city yesterday after
noon direct from gay Gotham, and after
a conference with Nate Fiel, the lumin-
Gus exponent of Spheredom, together
with William Mclaughlin, the above
verdict was signed and sealed Ii should
be borne i'm mind by the thousands who
will see the game next Monday after
noon, that 10 will be- one 0f the reguIa-
tiOn League games and will 90 on
record as such. II fact it will
bc game for blood. Remember
there are several Of the old-tlmc Wheel
ing boys in the Gotham galaxy. There's
GlaSscock. II il isn't worth the price
of admission to see Jack spread himself
ON the diamond, then well chew hay.
And what's the matter with Russic?
They've knocked him out OF the box a
few times this season To Dee sure, but
RuSsic is pitcher from Pitcheryille.
and there are days in the year when the
opposing battrrS just simply whang the
air, and 10 is this same RusSic who will be-
here Monday. Burkctt will also be- given
a chance 10 show himself In the box for
portion OF the game. Buckley will
probably handle the leather behind the
bat. The pottery boys about town will
be- out In force 10 see the wiry Mike
Tiernan. the centre fielder OF the New
YorkS. Mike was formerly a potter
here. and a clever one. too. Another
old Wheeling fayoritc. i'm Denny, will be
seen ON .hc grounds. The local man
agemcnt has carved the price OF admis-
sion down to mere quarter OF dollar:
and unless all signs, human and other
wise, fail, there will be- a jam Of people
there Monday.
Manager Mutric, of whom 80 much
has been written. is tall and somewhat
spare In person, with prominent an
mex mustachc, and when warmed up in
conversation has one Of those decisive.
ou-the-trail-Of-thc-yillain movements OF
the eye that pins the spectator. In
with a REGI>TEE reporter. /
he stated among other things thar .
he regarded GIasscOck as the +
king of short stops. There .
Is only one GIasscock. Manager Mutric .
then re.crrcd 10 the recent >iX-SiX game .
in Boston where Jack 40 q critical point .
colarcd % difficult ball between bases,
and so difficult and unexpected that DO .
has never been explained 10 this day. .
Surely. Jack is what the Boston papers .
call him. "thc demon Of the diamond.
Manager Mutrie then went on to state
that be- regarded Buck Ewing "a, The .
best catcher that ever wa, born. Re-
ferring 10 the League as whole. he .
regarded the Ciucinuatis and Brook
lyns as the two best teams, and expressed /
some woudcrmcut at the continued .
backsliding uf the pittsburgs, boo View
OF the fact that they had quite F.
a number OF men who were far F.
from being chumps. lie was at loss 10 .
explain just why it was they lost So .
many games. Manager Muntrie was
not prepared 90 state whether or not
the two National brotherhood leagues
would continue ON next season, but one .
thing was sure. If they did, the salaries
would drop considerably from the stan
dard Of this year. and ball t0ssers would .
have 10 scratch gravel % get big
rocks Base bail ip both league, has
been financial failure this year, and il
is not improbable that new diamond
tactics will Dee rc-orted 10 in the F.
spring