Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-28
Rase Ban Gossip.

Base BAH Gossip.
A benefit will be given Hub COllins's
widow.
Fred Carroll can'tplay for two weeks.
Sore hand.
Baltimore has been playing in hard
luck lately.
Dunn. Lawrenceyi.le pitcher, has
Joined Lebanon.
DUNCAN robbed Elmer Smith Of a
triple Monday.
Tom Brown captains Louisville while
PietIer is away.
Jack Dolan was released by Washing
ton for laZlneSS.
Louisville will take Pitcher Dolan.
let 60 by Washington.
Fort Wayne took ST. PaurS place.
The latter lost $1,000.
Chicago has this seasons record for
consecutive victories.
O'Rourke, Richardson and BasSett
need an injection Of ginger
Pittsburg should sign Halligan, re-
leased by Cincinnati yesterday.
Burns has decided on one change.
Likely the release Of SwartwOod.
Kneu is an earnest fellow. On Mon
dav he covered first base four times.
Washington wanted either Bassett or
Lyons, but New York asked for Dan
Richardson in exchange.
Joyce has made the most runs, 30;
Duffy is second with 20; Hamilton and
Shugart have each scored - times.
Elmer Smith is pract.cing in the out
field over an hour each day. lie has
decided that he can make an Outhelder.
Mike Herman, OF the Giants, has
been experiencing one of his unlucky
seasons. He has met with accidents
and sickness.
Official figures of Pittsburg at home
attendance, II games, show 1882 ad-
missions, an average Of 2,354 TO game,
and there were but four good days in
the past three weeks.
In the games played thus far by Yale
and Princeton, Princeton has won 10
and has made lO4 runs TO its opponents
Al: Yale has won IL games and has
scored 80 runs TO it's opponents 133.
The record made by the Chicago club
cas- been excelled In the past, but con-
sidering the advances made In the
game, and the even distribution Of play
ing strength between the clubs, the
present squirt of AnSOn'S Colts Islealiy
remarkable.
Mark Baldwin is lying awake nights
trying % devise some way 10 fool Dun
gan. He famed the young man the
first time be faced him, but since Dun
gan has been hitting the ball hard.
The strikeOut was worked by putting
an iucurve ball right over, but DUNCAN
lays for this ball now.
Morgan Murphy, the fresh Yankee
with the Cincinnati Club, will have his
handsome face disfgured a little II he
persists in playing Ewing'S old trick Of
putting his mask on the base path.
George Miller was ser .ched by sliding
into the mask last week, and the Mid
get will have something to say II the
trick is repeated.
Jackson, of PittSburg, a very weak.
batsman, helped 10 beat Princeton,
Monday. In the fifth Bliss was sent 30
first on called balls and RuStin was re-
tired. Jackson and Murphy made hits.
The terrible din seemed to unnerye
Brigham" Young, who sent Bowers
20 first on called balls, forcing home
the only run of the game.
Captain Sexton aud Catcher Jenny,
the great Brown College battery, have
been suspended from the University
until further notice. They have alb
sented themselves, or 'cut" 90 recita-
lions from April /, and as a result they
may not have q chance 70 win game
Tor some time. The balance Of the
team are much depressed, as, since
Woodcoc6 left, they have depended on
This great pair for victory.