Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-13
FIELDS OF SPORT.
ONE WEEK MORE AND THE SEASON
OPENS
Situation in the Base Ball Coniest-Peter jackson
Having Fun-McAullfe-Caney Battle
Racers Preparing for the Season.

Five days more and the bell will tap,
the cranks will howl, and the ball sea-
son of 1890 will be fairly inaugurated in
the major leagues. The contest which
will be begun then will be the most eX-
citing in the history of the game. In
all the large cities there will be two
clubs cOnteSting for supremacy and pop
ular favor. Nearly Seventy-tivc clash
ing dates have been made. and the base
ball patronage has been Spondingly
divided. 1t is almost certain that both
leagues cannot make money under these
circumstances, and il is an open ques-
ton whether either of them will.
The factors i'm the fight are well
known. On one side are the old stars of
base ball, the popular favoriteS, with a
few exceptions. On the other are Il
large number of men. new to the public
and as vet untried but backed by al
most unlimited capital. The battle for
q life is a doubtful one, and its bitter
ness will be all the more increased more
over on account of this uncertainty.
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II seems TO have given some of the
League people the nightmare because
some of the Players League clubs play
ed one or two exhibition games on Sun
day. They have been raising a terrible
hullabaloo about it. Let the League
clubs play exhibition games on the same
Sundays and not "a word is said about il.
Oh. consistency. thou art jewel that
doth not sparkle i'm the old League dia-
dcm.-P utSburg C0mmcrcidl-GO1cttc.
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The season of 1890 will open under
more suspicious circumstances as far as
the Wheeling club is concerned than
any previous one. The practice games
WHICH the club have played show that
il is an aggregation of real strength,
and i'm fact il is very doubtful if any
club that ever represented the city was
stronger. The public however, will be
we'll satisfied if 10 puts up a good arti-
Gle of ball. Too often in the past
Wheeling has started out with high
flown boast that she had cinch on the
pcnnant. and when the inevitable tum-
Bile came popular disgust cut down the
attendance to almost nothing.
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The present management has started
out modestly, but has evidently made
strong efforts to get good players. They
have kept within the salary limit,
which was fixed at reasonable figure,
and will not be burdened with pay roll
heavier than their patronage. They
promise good ball only, and the public
is not likely TO be disappointed.
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Canton has refused to give Jimmy
Peoples the eX-Brooklyn catcher, the
price he asked. The Canton manage
mcut is evidently suffering a relapse
into good sense The experiment of
furnishing high priced ball playing i'm a
low priced town has been tried too often
I'm the Tri-Statc League. and the result
has been uniformly disastrous.
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fall reports be true, John /. Sulli-
van is not likely soon TO have chance
20 pulverize Peter Jackson. \ mightier
Slugger than Sullivan has been having
nightly rounds with the colorcd pugiliSt,
and he is now in a bad way. Kentucky
whisky is entirely too much Tor the aN-
erage subject of Her Majesty the Queen,
and Jackson was no exception.
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The following cable was received at
the Police gazette Office: Jenny Car
nev. of Birmingham. the lightweight
champion of England. will fight Jack
McAulifTe with two-ounce gloves in the
California Athletic club for Police Ga
-cttc champion belt, purse of el.0OO and
the lightweight championship of the
world. four or six months from signing
articles: or Carney will fight McAulitte
for 81 600 or K. 600 side, the belt and
championship of the world. and allow
him $50 expenses TO fight in England,
and deposit e1,OOO, which he will for
felt if the American champion does not
receive fair play.