Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-26

IGIS.
It is not likely that a search warrant
backed with unlimited authority, would
bring to light any evidence concerning
the existence of the sO-called home
movement" which has furnished a sub
iect for a series Of base ball articles in
the Intelligencer. 1t is true that
scheme for a stock company to control
the Wheeling franchise in the projected
Interstate league, was Matched in the
Intelligencer office, and meeting OF
four persons was held, at which the
brilliant idea was unfolded in all its
details. tits true that two, at least, of
the gentlemen who were present, are
not in sympathy with the movement as
opposed to the plans Of A. c. Bucken-
berger. 1t is also true that these gen.
tlemen. who were expected to be tho
most prominent factors in the move
ment" are ready to render whatever aid
they can to the persons who will con-
| troll the Wheeling franchise in the pro-
posed organization, namely, Messrs
Buckenberger and Moreland. In spite
of these facts. the paper in question
continues to refer to the likelihood Of
there being two claimants for the
Wheeling franchise" Either the Intel
Iigencer is disappearing the true sit
uation. or there is a secret movement
to throw down Mr.. Buckenberger, and
the fact that the Intelligencer alone
is in possession of the knowledge justl-
fes the suspicion that that paper is in
the movement.
What good reasons can be advanced
| for secrecy in the matter? No person
will oppose a movement which will IN
sure a good base ball club in Wheeling
under local management if there is
positive assurance that there is a tam
/ gible movement of that nature. So
| far the evidence tends to disprOye
rather than to sustain, the claims made
| by the Intelligencer. If a local COM
pany is being organized, if there is any
/ probability that it will be organized. the
base ball public should know it, and in
all Justice. Mr.. Buckenberger should
| know il. The fans in this city want
| a team in the new league, and Mr.
| Buckenberger comes forward with a
| promise to organize a strong club, but
adds that he is willing to drop out if
| a local stock company has been form
ed. If the gum boot movement eX-
] lists anywhere except in the columns Of
/ the Intellgencer. why has it not been
made public and Mr. Buckenberger
| given notice to withdraw? Is not the
fact that this has not been done ample
proof that the local stock company is a
myth? And if It is a myth, what
! other object can there be in the ire
/ quent ntelligencer publications than
| the embarrassn Mt of Mr.. BuckeDbcr-
| ger i'm his pla, +? Meanwhile Messrs
| Buckenberger sd Moreland are going
ahead with their plans. and neither OF
/ them takes the IuteligenCer seriously.
The burden of the Intelligencer argu-
! ment against Mr. Buckenberger is that
/ he will figure in "the dual role of man
/ egcr in Trenton and magnate IN Wheel
ing" that therefore Wheeling will be a
training school for Trenton. etc. Last
| season Mr.. Buckenbcrger assumed the
| dual roe" of manager In s.. Louis and
magnate in Wheeling, and there was
no opposition to him from Fourteenth
/ street. nor did the local team suffer be-
cause of that fact On the contrary, he
farmed out pitcher MacDougall TO
Wheeling. and he added strength to the
team. Buckenberger knows, if any
person does, that this city viii not sup
port a losing club, and it is not at all
probable that he will invest his money
here unless he sees a probability OF
realizing q profit.
"Buckenberger' crowd" to borrow
an Intelligencer expression, has given
good base ball to Wheeling lovers Of
the game in the past, and has the con-
fdence Of the Wheeling fans"