The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-12

To-day will probably soc the settle.
mcnt Of tho yexed grounds que.tion
with which Messrs. Buckcnbcrger aud
White, OF tho Wheeling base ball club,
have been wrestling for several weeks.
The. club has been DESTROYS OF securing
the Schmulbach site at the north end
OF the Island, aud everything would
hayo been settled ere this but for the
hitch between tho Wheeling Railway
Company and tho club people. The
railway people offered to give the
club a certain sum per month
during the playing season. AS the
season lasts only four months that
would amount 10 under 500. making
tho financial encouragement on tho
part Of the railway people very small.
and not at all compared with what
street railway companies in other places
have done in encouragement: of the ra.
tional game. The club has all along in.
sisted that as the railway will 10 about
the only gamer by the club being run.
1t should act Ia liberal spirit. A
liberal spirit, they say, would enable
the company TO equip the ball park.
General Manager Wrich. was seen
last night and said tina, tho otIcr already
made is inal and cannot be increased.
1t will be known to-day whether the
club will decide to abandon the local
field. as 1t has been intimated they
would DO in case & satisfactory arrange.
ment could not BIO made with the rail.
way company.
To-day Messri. Buckenbarger and
White, OF the ball club, will DO in the
city to close the deal for grounds. il q
proposition is male that they consider
satisfactory. Yesterday Manager Will
White took a gloomy view OF the situa-
ton and intimstNl that unless more
libsrality is shown by the local people
the club may take the franchise away
from WhealinS to Dennison or kenton.
These towns, compared with Wheeling,
are Insignificant and the transfer Of the
franchise TO either would be y lasting
disgrace and an u%nisvorable CON-
chkt W slc cHSct ptI5c VI utelIus.
Tho lSTcLLIoEYcrG insists that Buck
enberger uEd White will be making a
fatal mistake il they decide to desert
Wheeling, even though tho railway
people do not give the amount OF
financial encouragement desired. There
are other sites. outside Oh tina, at the
upper end OF the Island, that poasess
about as many advantages.
Take, for instance, the State Fair
grounds. The association is anxious to
make an arrangement with the baae
ball club whereby the games will be
played there, and it is j question
whether tho grounds at the upper end
OF the Island possess Us many advant.
ages. All that the ball club ask. oil the
railway company is that 1t equip the
park. II the State Fair grounds are
chosen the park is found already equip.
ped with what is undoubtedly tue finest
grand stand on the Interstate circuit
and one tina: will compare iayorably
with some found on National league
diamonds.
II the railway company is not pre-
pared 10 go farther than its original
proposition, why should not the State
Fair grounds be. selected? They are
just as convenient. or more SO to Wheel.
ing people, and the crauks OF the over.
the-rivcr towns have found them easy
enough to reach in tho past A Wheel
ing mar stands ready to-day TO put in q
steamboat that Car carry over from the
city at least SOD each trip, landing n. the
river entrance. It has been 4 question
with many cranks whe,he, the S,ate
Fair gronnds are not tho best location
anyway.
Manager White announces tina. no
has agreed on terms with two more
playera, a second baseman who has seen
~serTice in tho Western league, and an.
other ouiaclder, whose batting average
las; season was above the SCO-mark.
This makes eiGh. players with whom
White has come 10 terms, and their
names will DO made public as soon as
tho league is taken under the national
agreement wing.