The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-28
Curront Matters OF General Inter.
ost All Along tho Limo.
THE NASHVILLE RACES COMMENCED
Yesterday and Some High. Glass Rae.
ing is Expcctcd-rho Coming Nation.
al Circuit Bicycle l,aocs-rho Week
In the National LeaGue-rho Cy.
clcrs' Race Traok-Tho Road Race.


The week in tho base bull league has
in several respects been surprising.
Cincinnati, which started out with three
victories over ChicaSo, came 10 grief
with Cleveland, suffering three singing
defeats. To-day this club opens n scrie,
with Pittsburgh which will DO watched
with interest by the local admirers OF
the national game. Pittsburgh started
of badly, losing two out OF three TO St.
Louis, but at Louisville tho Pirates re.
covered their breath and took two
out'oi three, one OF the games going to
them by a scratch. Baltimore, tho club
that spent the preliminary season in
the south, and tho Bostons, who PLAYED
all winter in California, arc ut tho head
OF the procession, and /: Is probable
their playing form will induce many
teams TO mako tho southern pilgrimage
next spring. Cleyeland's pitchers arc
all in good form. and much NAV be eX-
pccied Of this club during the tirst half
OF the season, St Louis continues to
win right along, and is the surprise Of
the first week OF the season, while tho
much vaunted New Yorks aud the
Brooklyns, who are away down in the
second division, are big disappoint.
monts. Chicago hasn't won II game.
and is in uudisputed possession OF tho
tail end.
Everything points 10 q most success.
iul bicycle race meet here September 20
next, the occasion being the national
circuit races under the auspices Of tho
Wheeling Athletic Wheelmen. Presi.
dent Geicet is in correspondence with
the leading racing men OF tho country
and he has assurances from many OF
them that they will DO here aud contest
1t is probable that Sanger, Tyler, Tay.
lor, johnson and the other cracks OF
the cycle racing world will be here and
contest In the specially sanctioned race
in which the, prize limit has been re-
moved by Chairman Raymond, OF the
LA. w. racing board. The clubs com.
mittee are about to commence the pro-
lim!nary work OF the meet.
The interestin the ISTELLI6EScss De-
corauon Day road race is quite general
among the local wheelmen, and it is
probable that there will be a big field
OF starters. There seems to ho a rivalry
between the riders, of various taakes OF
wheels, to take the valuable fast prize
down, and this will eliminate in the
greatest road contest ever seen around
Wheeling.
Yesterday tho spring meeting opened
ct Cumberland Park, Nashville, and the
interest in the high -class horse racing
which has conferred on Memphis will
be transferred to the Tennessee capital.
Intosestin Yesterdays races ccnteredin
the rich Cumberland prize, o last
year by the outsider, Henry Young, and
in which race Buchwa and Lszzarone
met at last. The starters and their jocS-
eys were: Sisurd. l07 lbs, A. CLAYTON:
Master Fred. l07, J. Davis Mulberry, ll2,
kunz; jim Lee, III, y. Hill; ~Jamboree,
III, overton; Buchwa, III, K Williams;
La Joya, Iii, Morris; Domingo, III,
Perkins; ]. 7. B., 100, Goodale; Buck
rene, l&, Sharpe; Lazzarone, ioo2, W.
Martin.