Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-12

"The sporting editor of the 'Courant-
Guardian has received a letter from
Manager Charley Faatz. Of the New
Castle base ball team The letter was
written on Wednesday evening imme-
diately after the game of that date. when
our own left the ball grounds at the end
of the sixth inning. The letter states,
Words OF mine cannot explain the rob-
berry and III treatment we received this
afternoon at the hands Of not only the
mob that was on the grounds, but the
umpire as we'll. After the decisions were
given time after time against us, Gan
eel made kick" AS he was starting
towards the umpire some colored man
threw a stone and hit him on the back
of the head. John Camel is not man
who uses bad language as all in New
Castle who know him will testify. He
did expostulate with the umpire and was
ordered from the game. Whitehill was
also put out for attempting TO talk 10
Alexander. Then Farmer Brown was
sat upon and ii looked as though the
whole team would be forced from the
field and Field Captain Camel, to save
the umpire the trobue, took his men
away. Stones were then thrown at tho
New Castle team, and Donovan. White
hill and Camel were again struck. II
was the most disgraceful conduct on the
part of Wheeling that | ever saw on a
ball field in the many years have been
identified with the game. Alexander
simply robbed us right and left and
showed that if he knew the game he was
either terrified at the conduct of Wheel
ing, or was willingly endeavoring to
give us the worst of it The Wheeling
papers, and particularly the Register,
were all untruthful in the accounts of
| what took place, and every member of
the New Castle team will tell you the
same. The patrons of~the game were
simply disguised at the conduct of some
of the toughs and yelled from the grand
stand that it was a shame TO abuse set
of men as we were being abused. Our
players are courageous but they would
have had no business in standing up
against a mob such as was on the Wheel
ing grounds this afternoon"
Every person who was present at
Tuesdays game knows that the state
ments made in what purports to be let
ter from Faatz are absolutely false. 1t
is a significant fact thatahe Faatz letter,
and the Characterization account OF
the game published on the previous day,
are almost identical in the charges made
against the Wheeling team. the spectat-
ors and the umpire. The management OF
the home club is righteously indignant
concerning this wholesale and reckless
Misrepresentation.
Manager Faatz was in the city last
night In the presence CT the manager
of the Wheeling team, and the sporting
editor of the Register he denied that he
had writtena letter to the sporting editor
of the Couran,- Guardian, and added that
he was not responsible for the state
ments in that paper of alleged facts con-
corning the Wheeling game. If Mr.. Faatz
is telling the truth the Courant-Guard-
ian is guilty of manufacturing lie out
of the whole cloth; if the Courant-Guard-
ian is truthful, the sooner the New
Castle club changes managem . tho
better,it Will be for the league and all
concerned. In any event, the Courant-
Guardian, as a matter of simple justice,
should correct the slanderous statements
which have appeared in its columns.