Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-21
Around the Bases.

feet Of foot as he ever was.
Big Dan Brouthers expects to be able
to play with the Brooklyns.
Boston has been In the National Base
ball League twenty-three years.
Bennett Merritt and Stivetts each
have a 1000 per cent 10 fielding.
Won der Abe has decided TO pay $500
bonus to Buffalo for Sandy Grittin's re-
lease.
Thirty-six players in the League
have batting averages OF 300 per cent
or over
Up to Monday Ward, Conner and
Davis had each crossed the plate thir-
teen times.
Neither Sexton or Brown, or Carter,
OF Yale University, will sign with the
Boston Club.
Nash was the only player on the Bos-
ton team who failed to get at a n
hit off Rusie.
The Giants led the Bostons by twenty
points in fielding up to the beginning OF
the present series.
Arson has made another change In
his team He has put LANCE at short
and Decker in left field.
Burke has made three errors in
thirteen games. Herman, Conner and
DOYLE have made only one each.
The New Yorks open the season at
Boston this afternoon. Every city in
the circuit will then have played a
game.
Terry, who is now with the Spring
fields, made four hits in the opening
game-two home run and two three
baggers.
In Cincinnati the other day Kelly was
defeated at haudball by Chamberlain.
Captain Ward refuses to allow 1.-The
King" to 60 to the Reds"
The New York base ball reporters
will play several games on the Polo
Grounds next month white the Giants"
are on their Western tour. The dates
have not yet been fixed for the annual
with the actors.
Captain Arson, of the Chicago team,
is the only player o taking part In
the game who was a professional In
1871 and faced the Boston players OF
that season as third baseman OF the
Forest Citys, of Rockford, Ill.
There will be very few star twirlers
at the end Of the season, II the present
bombardment of base hits continues.
Where on earth would the pitchers
have landed had the box been moved
back to the centre of the diamond?
Mullane has been dissatisfied with
Cincinnati for q long time, and nothing
would please him better than to be al
lowed TO play elsewhere. Still, II he
should carry his somewhat cranky dis
position with him he would be a dis
turoing element.
Davis has the enormous batting aver
age Of .4T4. Keeleri is second, in the New
York team, with 400. Davis leads the
League, and is followed By McAleer OF
Cleveland and Robinson OF Baltimore
with .457 each. The other League
players with percentages over 400 are
Smith OF Pittsburg, 1929; Shugard, .42l;
Duffy, AIS; Hamilton, Az, and Boyle,
.4OS.
The house, stable and land which were
presented to king" Kelley, the base
ball player, in 1892 by his friends and
admirers are advertised for sale for I'M
paid taxes for tie year 1891 and 1892,
amounting to Sl23. There is said to be
a mortgage on the place of $4,000.
President Byrne, Of the Brooklyn
club, does not intend that the patrols
OF the grand stand shall be d~isturte ed
during the games. Last year he re-
ouested General" Dixwell to refrain
from altering his favorite "Hi-ni, and
now he has issued an order that nofchil-
dren be admitted to the grand sta1d.
Pitcher Lovett has NOT lived IN vain,
even though one year of his life has been
as it were, an arid waste. He poses as
a terrible and costly example. Ais three
thousand vacation last year was an Oh
iect lesson to every baseball player in
the land and a good deal to Go with the
general rush to cover this spring.
There has been more or less said
about the New York Club being
strengthened this summer. Perhaps
it is in some respects, but the club
misses Ewing's batting and base running
and misses it worse than anything else.
There is not q man in the team who is
sure like Ewing 10 do well with the bat
when men are on the bases.
1t is not safe to say much to Patsey
Tebau or any of his Spiders. His Louis
vile experience is Enough TO make a
man with an ANGELIC temper go out and
whip his horse, dog ,or anything else In
reach. Patsey aud his gang went to
Falls City bent on capturing three
straight from the kentucky soft
marks" but instead only brought In a
season Of rain.
The trouble with Arson is that he is
a victim to q nasty Sight that is going
on in his club right Under his nose. He
fines players and Hart RENTS the INES.
Spalding will be q very happy man al
ter this summer is overI when there are
no more Worlds Fair l%atrons TO catch,
and he can say that he never did be-
lieve in Sunday ball playing and will
control the team himself. Ryan does
about as he wishes and there are other
players who watch Ryan and pront by
his actions.
One feature OF Mike Keily's practice
in Cincinnati was his good throwing.
His arm is as strong is it ever was.
Talking about his throwing, Kelly said;
"I never in all my life(had . sore arm.