Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-15
Base Ban Gossip.

Base Ball GOSSIP
Pfeffer is being snubbed now. Louis
vile has lost seven out Of the last nihe
games.
The Clevelands went TO third place
yesterday, the highest they have been
this season.
These are heart disease games, :"
chirped Latham Thursday.
Hutchinson struck out three men in
the ninth Thursday, with al the cor
ners full
Tom Burns is accused of burying a
SQUIRRELS tail under the home-plate at
Chicago, and since the event Uncle
Arson hasn't lost game.
Little Willie McGill, who blackened
Comiskey's eye in the dressing room at
st. Louis last season, promised to be
big brother to him this season, and then
got drunk after one weeks employment.
The total attendance at the Western
games was 1873. 295, divided as follows:
Louisville, 35,723; ST. Louis, 2s,49s;
Cincinnati, 36.Os3; Pittsburg, 21,164;
Cleveland, 1927; Chicago, IL, 500. There
was no booming in Pittsburg. Philadel-
phia was the poorest card everywhere.
Only two Western clubs, Chicago and
st. Louis, won more games than they
lost TO the Eastern clubs. Chicago saved
the West from utter humiliation by win
ming S ont OF 10 games. OF she SO games
PLAYED in the West, each section won 81
nncluding the one forfeited TO Pitts
burg, and one was tie.
Tie Bostons have made their great
record almost entirely away from home.
They have played only two games on
their own grounds. Will they ever get
beaten there?
Eiteliorg, now with Kansas City, Ia
recent game gave 10 bases on balls; yet
his club won by heavy batting.
Little Billy Sunday said recently:
"How many are here tonight who have
so long neglected it that they are left
with uncean minds, not pure thought
or pure aspiration? l have known
such a man. He was raised piously,
but he came to Chicago and devoted
himself to the sinful things of the
world. He gambled, he drank, he for
got his mothers teaching. Bat the
mercy of Christ's sacrifice brought that
man out of his low condition. ] know
whereof speak. l am that man, my
self. and live to rejoice in so great a
salvation"
Gumbert was hit in the chest by
line hit from Duffee's bat Thursday,
but not injured.
First Baseman Taylor, Of the Louis
villes. was fined $50 Thursday by Um-
pire Sheridan for Directing to a de-
C. sion. Louisville papers say Sheridan
is incompetent.
Won der Abe insists that as the COM
mittee for awarding players has not yet
been discharged by the League, 1t is
Obliged TO settle the differences between
himself aud President Nick Young.
Won der Abe claims to have been
wrongful deprived Of Browning and
Hardy Richardson.
Manager Nea Hanlon says he has so
far recovered from his injuries that he
expects TO be playing regularly Ia the
Baltimore team In two or three weeks.
He will 20 20 right field and Wood will
be kept as an extra man.
There was a wild game At Cincinnati
Friday. II lasted from $3.50 TO 5:45, but
there was only two hours and forty-three
minutes OF actual playing. The game
was called twice on account of rain aud
was finished in the dark. Umpire Hurst
insisted on having the teams play At
Gao & was raining Hurst demanded
new Sail s,fh0p9n there was 5h old one
at his feet He went 70 ths ofzce.
Bora chefIes Abrams asked hin Why he
didn n8il the game. Ee made an IN
sulting reply. Abrams called him a