Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-27

TeSsa PurkCtt ran down rom rus
burg Yesterday TO spend Sunday at MS
home on the Island. He found his Va!
over 10 the city during the day, ana
drorDed into the Register office, where
no cbstted entertainingly on base ball
and kindred subjects for an hour. tie
is looking well and prosperous. but Is
2 trife overweight, tipping the beam
81 about rs pounds. Burkett Is one
of the best players sent to the National
League BY a community which pro-
duced 2 GlasscOck Barley. Wmte,
and developed such cracks as Walter
Brodie. Delehanty. and others, VINO
who have been or are now. famous On
the diamond Last season he led the
National league in batting. and he IS
getting his eve on the ball already, with
q view 10 duplicating his performance
Of last year.
BurkeIt thinks very we'll Of the Spid-
ars and saws they will land in first or
second place. The team is not yet in
eood form. Young and Wallace have
rot settled down. and thinner is on the
hospital list. Wilson. who was in the
box against Pittsburg Saturday, Bur
Selt considers coming pitcher He
NiH 60 against the Pirates aSain next
Tuesday.
Burkett owns some lots on the Island
and realizes that they are a good thing.
tie has not spent all the money he has
earned playing ball. nor is he in the bus
mess solely for glory. He held out for
an advance in salary this year, and he
got il. He is down on the pay roll for
So 400. Next fan he is coming back to
Wheeling to invest some Of his surplus
earnings in dwelling houses On his
Island property
Fort Wayne won't do a thing TO
Wheeling" remarked Burkett. when it
came to q discussion Of Interstate ball.
He says there are good players in the
Cleveland farm, and like President
Robinson he thinks they have grave
gard cinch on the Interstate pennant.
All Of which goes to show that Burkett
Is a better ball player than prophet.
That Indiana gang will be peaches and
cream for the local team.
Jesse Burkett is authority for the as
sertion that New York has lines out
for folly" Kane who is this year a
member Of the Petersburg CLUB in the
Virginia State league. folly" has been
doing very good work so far. and could
~ least hold up his end with the JOB lot
Of players who are representing the
metropolis at present.
Pitcher Topper. who was released by
Wheeling. was in the city Yesterday.
He is not well pleased with the action Of
the local management Wheeling had
TO dispose Of some pitching material,
and two others viii join Topper very
soon. Barrett. McGarver. McGary and
Daniels would make a good quarJette
Of pitchers.
Manager Faatz. of New Castle. is on
bat five cOOd men. He has released
twelve men because they did not know
anything about the game. This places
New Cas,le in a bad way with the open
ing game with Youngstown scheduled
for mkt Saturday. New Castle had an
excellent club in the Iron and Oil Lea
sue.
The Columbus Dispatch says: Davis
formerly OF Captain Billy Whites old
Wheeling team, is covering short for
Grand Rapids" There must be an er-
Tor here or Davis has developed re-
n7rkable sreed during the winter. The
spectacle OF the Wheeling backstop in
short field would be intensely amusing
TO Wheeling fans