Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-02-22
DIAMOND Dust.


McGeachy may wear an Athletic uni
form.
Columbus is said TO have captured
Deiehanty.
Brouthers, Daley and Nash are report
ed IS having signed Association con-
tracts.
Manager Hanlon laughs at the claim
that the Association has secured Beck
ley. He has Eagle Eye
Fielder Jimmy Fogarty arrived in
Philadelphia Yesterday. and was royalty
entertained by his friends.
The Ineligible list. says Spalding. will
forever contain the names OF men who
jump the national agreement.
Pop Smith says ne has no reason to
believe that Boston will not live up TO
its three-year contract with him.
The Association is said TO have voted
unanimously not to encrOach upon the
Brooklyn reserve list ia their quest for
players.
Buckley. the pitcher signed by Mil
waukee is highly spoken OF by Connie
Mack, who caught him while with the
/ Buffalo club.
C.. W. Wagner says he has notified all
the players of las, seasons Philadelphia
I Players Club that they will be expected
TO give up their contracts.
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have
I been trying for ShOrtStop Smith, Of
Brooklyn, bat Byrne is not yet prepared
20 LEI his old standby 20.
Rowe and White had done consider
able corresponding with the Washing
ton Club before they were-much 10
their surprise-reseIyed by Pittsburgh.
SAYS Prince: "Thurman's action is
|all The worse because have a written
statement. signed by him and \. G..
+ Spalding. agreeing 20 give rs Stovey and
Mack as nucleus for Our club
Chicago has Duffy on her reserve list
and vii! not give him over -, 500 salary,
while several clubs, both i'm the League
: and Association, would willingly give
The same player from $500 TO $4,000.
The services of Dick Buckley were
recently offered TO the Cleveland Club
/ by the New York management, but
I }
I Buckley wanted-S3, 800.
IL don't blame Stovey for his trick. -"
said Irwin, yesterday. He IS out for
all he can get. and he will get a rich
plum. The Cleveland club was after
/ him through Ed Hanlou, who Went to
New Bedford aud tried To GET him TO
sign q contract. but in vain
Kansas City has signed young Wilson,
of StreaJor. H., "a catcher who played
with the Pittsburg team last season.
Besides being q rafting good catcher
and good thrOwer 90 bases he plays
good first base. He can alternate with
Elmer Smith in the outheld.
John Ward. who carefully studied
Spalding's characteristics while making
the "trip around the world, says that
when Spaiding has q well-thought-Out
proposition 10 make he always hesitateS,
then springs il. giving one the impress
sion that the idea had come 10 MIN on
the spur Of the moment.
Manager Hanlon says: Kelly IS mad
simply because Ward has been so much
noticed lately, while nobody has appar-
emily been aware OF Kelly'S existence.
Kelly is killing himself. lie likes TO be
looked up to as the king, and since he
has been treated as an ordinary being
he has become mad AT himself.
During the Association meeting at
Louisville, they say, Spalding sent a
letter to Mr.. Thurman advising him to
get 81. Louis, Louisville, Columbus and
Baltimore to break away from the ASso-
citation. and with the Boston aud Phila-
delphia =. L. clubs. a team in Washing
ton and a prospective one in Chicago, 70
form new organization and call it the
limited" Association.
The Associations jump is the talk OF
base ball circles and the general impress
sion is that the Association owners made
mistake. The League will spring con-
ficting dates and il will be the Players
League fight over again. Louis Kramer,
the Associations new president, is a
Cincinnati lawyer. Each club deposits
81 Der cent. of its capital stock as secur-
ity i'm lieu Of cash. This VIII be known
rs tine guarantee fund.