Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-07
DIAMOND DUST.
Items of Interest About Big Stars and
Little Ones.

LULU Ontss
The Pittsburg Players club will rein
state Morris. Pitchers are needed
badly.
thinner missed his first game yester-
day, being called home owing to the i'll
ness of his wife. He caught 100.
Arson has no use for Earle now, and
the big Captain says that lie is a good
Sticker and fine first baSeman.
Al Johnson has made a bet of 500
that kelly'S team will beat Wards men
out in the PlayerS'S League race.
Jim O'Rourke says that if the present
season has proved any one thing more
than another it is that the double UNI
pire system is failure.
Tom Brown stole second in the eighth
Wednesday by drawing a throw from
the pitcher. This is the third one
Brown has made this season in this
way.
The only deal the two organizations
could possibly make would be for the
Players League TO add four American
Association cities to its circuit and
thereby form Il twelve-c'ub league.
This is poSSible.-N Y. World.
The veteran base ball authority,
Henry Chadwick, says that he was told
by a National League manager that 1t
was already settled that Buck Ewing Is
TO be a member of John b. Days team
in 1891.
That the Players Committee should
have offered the Philadelphia franchise
and five players to Whitaker, of the
Athletics, and not notified the Wag-
nerS, the principal stockholders of the
meeting of the Association directors is
considered very singular, to say the
least.
John Ewing thinks that if John
Reilly had a chance at the Brotherhood
ball he would lead the world in home
runs. The way Reilly swings al a ball
would make some of the Players pitches
feel weak in the knees, says the New
York twirler.
Miller has invented a new coaching
gag. Hecker was caught between the
bases at Brooklyn, and while the men
were trying to run him down Miller
stood on the lines and yelled, "Compro-
mise, Heck. COMPROMISED But Heck
couldn't do it, and was put out.
Frazier, of Syracuse, became anxious
about that combine meeting on WedneS-
day. and wired Mr.. Phelps demanding,
on his right as a member of the Ameri-
can Association Board of Directors, TO
know what it was proposed to do at
Philadelphia, but silence was his only
reply.
Ryan was reinStated yesterday. lie
was not permitted TO play several days
this week. He was fatty ordered to the
bench. with the information that he was
To receive no money until he had de-
cided TO play ball as best he could.
Ryan is stubborn man and hard man
to manage. The end of him is not yet
by any means.
Clarkson wanted to pitch Wednesday
and Manager Selec accommodated him.
He tried hard TO win, but he had no
speed whatever, and, pitch Is he would,
he was batted i'm a terrific mannnr. The
climax was reached in the sixth inning,
when he was pounded for six earned
runs. and for the first time this season
was knocked out of the box.
A Players League leader down East
says: Boston can support two clubs,
but il is folly TO suppose that Cincin-
natl, Cleveland or PittSburg can do SO.
The war has proved bad thing for the
game and we must all do what we can
To build it up again. | think that the
Pittsburg league club is dead and
Wards team is as badly off in Brook
lyn."