Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-21
SPORTS AND SPORT.
ANSON WAS ONCE A KID, BUT THAT WAS
LONG AGO.
A Training School for Base Ball Players Proposed
BY O. P. Caylor-Sportng Matters Of All
S~Ors-Pugiisdc POinis-Bass Ball Brsyiiss.
ALitls Horse Talk.

Worlds fair may come and Worlds
fair may 90, out Arson remains as the
worlds wonder ia baseball. l am re-
minded that it was during the progress
of the Centennial exposition in 1876 that
1 first saw Arson play ball. Phila-
delphia had the great international
fair that year, but II he'd lost Arson.
Chicago took him away from the Athle-
tic club at the end Of the season OF 1873,
and Chicago has not only retained An
son ever since, but IL now has a Worlds
fair also.
Arson played third base for the Chi
Cages in 1876. McVay vas on first,
Barnes on second. A. G.. Spanlding did
most Of the pitching and Jim White the
catching. or the nine star players who
constituted the Chlcagos that year the
greatest team Chicago ever had-Anson
alone is playing ball to-day; he alone
lasted from the Continental TO the Co.
lumbar exposition. Arson vas then a
large, rather awkward yoQ9h, whose
white stockings, knee "B$nts" and
iaunty cap gave 10 the spectator an
added impression that he was three
times too large for his tender years, and
that he must certainly wear knlcker-
bockers also while az hone with his
mother. He was "Anson tAe Kid then,
Now he is "Uncle Adrian III we have
another Worlds Fair II years hence,
Arson will probably be SILL playing
FIRST base for the Chicagos.
In the acknowledgements series. Cy
YOUNG, OF the latter team pitched his
sixteenth game against the PittsourG
CLUB. He has won - out OF the 10.
Young is Pittsburg's 'Iblack beast"
Every team has its betenbir among OPP
Dosing pitchers. VIII White, in his
oalmy DAYS. was a terror to the Chica-
COS aud what is called a pudding" to
the indianapolis team. In 1878, with
White pitching, the Cir nnatis defeated
the Chicagos 10 gameScht OF II, and
were defeated s games out OF IL by the
indianapolis team, WIS oh In turn was
beaten By the Chicalics s times out
Of 12 games. igo The pitch
ing has much to do With this queer
combination Of res IS. White was
a puzzle TO the Chic5ubs and ''pie" to
the indianapolis ninbg The C~inclnnatiS
could not bat "theb. Nolan" and Nc
CormIck Of the Hodolfr team, and the
Chicagos found nosiEouble with their
curves.
Jerry Denny, the ID time third base
man. won a game or his club, the An
Vustas, not jong 100 by stealing third
base. This feat, cbming so close upon
the heels OF q homel run which he made
q few days BEFORE, made him sort OF
demigod 20 the An4ustans. No man for
years has held so warm q place in the
hearts Of Augustahs as the Hon. Jere-
miah Denny.
When this man in his prime as n ball
plaver served q club at indianapolis
and made a home run, they showered
silver coin at him, Such at least are
the stories whichiwent out from that
eItv. And now as similar tales come
from the far southeast where Mr..
Denny is making a living the question
arises. are these tales true, or does
Jerry run an advertising bureau in con-
/ nectiOn with mis- ball playing.
Last fall the C%incinnatis engaged a
new pitcher ~Isurnamed Jones and
nicknamed Bhmpus. He pitched
one game for them just before
they closed outIbusiness for the year
and did so wellIthat he was promptly
signed for this season. The the Cincln-
natl base ball critics began TO sing the
| praise OF Bumbus to the measure of sew
eral columns Of print. l reminded
them at the time that one game did not
prove a pitcher great and powerful any
more than one fly was a token of sum-
mer. A few days ago the Cincinnati
club LED out their Bumpus pitcher and
presented hlnb TO Uncle Anson's Colts,
who proceeded TO pick tue guilt from
bis winter reputation. When the Chi
Cages wound up their acquaintance
with Mr.. Jones, he had no reputation
left 70 speak lof.
The selection OF Louis Z. hrathot as