Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-07-02

championship games on Sunday. / have
mode careful study Of the problem and
long since came 10 firm conviction
that 1t does not pay. There are already
indications that the Chicago club made
a financial error when 1t departed from
its long stand against Sunday ball
! playing. Ii has thus far drawn lair
Sunday crowds, but its weekday
attendance has fallen Of In disastrous
| proportcns. This same result has
been noticed at Cincinnati, St. Louis
and Louisville. 1t Is easily explained.
! In every city there are hundreds OF peo-
| pie who make IL rule TO see one game
a week. They will take half day OF
from business when Sunday games are
not played, but when the chance comes
on Sunday they wait for that day, aud
| the weekday habit is dropped. There
| fore the excess which club draws 10
| its Sunday games comes largely from
the old weekday crowd.
Then thare are very many sport low
| ing people who refuse TO patronize any
club or association which opens It's
gates for the sake OF making money on
Sunday, and they are not all church
members either. II Is q well known
fact that Sunday playing In Bosten,
| New York or Philadelphia would drive
away 40 per cent. OF the regular at
tendance on the weekday games.
This state Of things may be founded on
| the old New England regard Tor the
| Sabbath or the Quaker spirit which
Penn left as legacy to Philadelphia,
1 k..t .,k a. Ia In IL haln In 0FAlt
spect by the eastern magnates.
A weekly review OF the base ball field
would be imperfect without few re-
marks about Arson. lie Is the Fly
ing Dutchman OF base ball. tho "Old
Man OF the Sea" OF the diamond. His
latest conspIcuosity comes from an &C.
cusation that he is growing "scrappy'
10 his old age and is playing dirty
| ball. Well. who can blame Uncle
| Adrian for trying to win "by fair means
| II possible, by foul means II must" as
| the william says IN novels? He has some
| thing less than dozen suits OF clothes
wagered with this, that and the other
! person that be will beat certain clubs IN
the League race or win the pennant. IL
seems 10 be clear case with him OF
dirty" ball playing or bankruptcy.
| Very few men grow mellow In their dis
position as they grow old. and the man
/ agement OF base ball team rs steady
business certainly does not have ten
dency 10 angelic man.
Intense interest In the national game
continues to peryade the country. III
| the umpire gauge be used, the measure
] ment shows steady increase Qt.reI.
! thusiasm. The more umpires who are
mobbed the more intense Is the baseball
enthusiasm. Ilursps rough treatment
| In New York was followed by police
escort to Southern League umpire,
by an almost deadly assault upon an
other umpire at Akron, o., and by a
regular footrace between an umpire
and an Infatuated crowd OF cranks In
the west. All this shows that the peo-
ple are alive 10 their rights and prlyi-
leges. II there were no interest 10 the
game. the cranks wouldn't care cop
per how the umpire decided points In
the game.
A base ball umpire occupies about the
same relationship TO the public that the
headsmen and hangmen OF old held
among their contem porarIes. And IL
takes foul tip on the unpire's person
to demonstrate his general unpopularl-
~. The universal yell Of delight that
goes I'D from an audience" whenever
the umpire catches a foul tip on bis
neck Is nothing less than ballelujah
| chorus. II | had 10 be either an pire
or a taxgather, I'd choose the latter vo.
cation. wherein could face my enemies
singly and 10 private.
One Of the mysteries OF the base ball
business Is the change OF form shown
by great many players when they
change clubs. A very recent instance
is that OF Pitcher Hawkes.. released by
the st. Louis Browns and taken up by
the Batmores, for whom he ID pitching
winning ball The Washingtons have
three winning pitchers In Maui. Meskln
and Esper, all OF whom were discarded
last year. Killen, with the Pittsburgn
Is another example, and In Stein a.
Terry Arson and the Brooklyns ba'V
each reminder that 10 err IL human.
Seyera! years ago Arson threw young
Stein out upon the cold world and
branded him IN. g." To-day, Stein
leads the winning pitchers OF the
League.
Three National league teams have
been giving their friends regular Ju2(
surprises OF the agreeable Kind re
TO the Philadelphia, the Baltim0
and the Wasbingtons. The "QUlIke
| glory has the best chance 70 remain
manent. and Harry Wrights mesg
4 - 1...Hara In the =
clip around the far turn and dovf
homestretch. IL was some homo
them 20 start on their first wcstsi
as leaders IN the fight, and should
return TO the same position they
a very hard band 10 dlslodge.
1t Is rather q remarkable fact that
spite OF the precarious business con
lions OF the country baseball clubs
experiencing the heaviest patrons
known TO masnstes since 1889. II Nd
be that the more men have 20 WORN
/ them 10 business way the stroDge.
becomes their desire 10 turn away I
| some kind OF recreation.
II has been some years sihcs the ~
sen advanced into the latter part oil Jdl
! with only one club failure amonh th2
prominent leagues aud sssocIatiqss n
the United States. The BIrmif kha
club OF the Southern league Slts ~
first TO quilt businessx But the ezamvI5
set by that club was DOT followed. ~ 70
usually the case, by several relwitb-
In few dbys. IL seems 70 have been 4
case Of poor mspagement on the Biz
mingham clubs part rather than
financial failure
One OF the most serious accidents
| tha wear WA that which happened g.