The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-03
WORLD OF SPORT.
The Approaching Meeting OF the
Base BAH Masnatcs.
SEVEN CITIES ARE NOW SURE.
To DO lu Line for Organization To-mor-
row Dnytonistho Only Point ofunesr-
tatnty--Plcnty OF onier Towns are
Ready DO Take the Gem city's Place
New. OF nowiingdom-New Orleans
Entries Other News OF Sport.


To- worrow Mt Toledo will be held the
meeting that win determine whether
Wheeling Is to have a season OF protes..
siona1 base ball or sit in the corner ana
watch the othdr fellows.
It Is the meeting to organize what
has been dubbed the Interstate base
Ball League. After the effort to organ
lie the late lamentcd Central league
died In early infancy, the prospect,ior
bnse ball here in Wheeling looked de-
cidedly blue, but n new Richmond ap"
peared In the person OF Mr.. ]. w. Cum
nels, OF Toledo, who has been working
on people interested in base ball IN
many cities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana, with the result that matters
have shaped up so that n meeting mas
been deemed advisable.
II Is promised that representatives
from Toledo. Dayton, Wheeling, Fort
Wayne, Youngstown. Akron, New cas-
tie and Washington. VIII be present,
with possibly Erie. Pa. Unless some
thing Unforeseen happens It is proba-
bic the league will line up with the iirst
eight cities mentioned. Dayton 10 the
only city that liz at all uncertain.
In Toledo, Mr.. Gunnels has already
secured park In the center Of the city
for weekday games, and has n park
outside the city where Sunday games
can be played.
Fort Wayne is lively town OF about
$4,000 population that has always had
n good name us n ball town. Last sea-
son It was In the Western Interstate
league that lasted only about month:
The club here will be well backed anu
Sunday ball can be played. 1t Is
claimed
Akron has been In several leagues,
her most notable team being that
OF 1850, In which were such noted play
ers as bid" McPhee and Tony Null
lime Akron was In the Interstate
league OF 1895 for about week. but ms
the club was not backed by local peo-
pie, II WAS dlsbanded and Lima came
in. Charley Hezen, n well known
player win take the franchise here,
and as tho home people are backing
him Akron can be counted on as one
OF the best towns in the lot.
Dayton hasn't seen professional ball
since, 81. but the neutrality-suspicious.
about 10000, shows that It Is capable OF
supporting q team all right. The trou-
bic heretofore has been the inaccessi-
biIIty OF the park. This has been rene
died, an electric car line having been
built to the park. Sunday ball VIII
probably be played in Dayton. NO
local people have yet been Interested In
the club, but Mr. Gunnels says he has a
good man who will run the club
Youngstown. like Wheeling, Is
thriving manufacturing city. Just
now II is enjoying It's old time prosperi-
~ and as a result the cranks there are
anxious for another season OF base ball.
The Mahunlng Bicycle Club Is building
extensive athletic grounds convenient
10 the center OF the city. and II here the
club will have its home. The gentle
men behind the club are responsible
and will see that Youngstown ia among
the last to go to the wall, II the league
should encounter reef of Roncador or
q He'll Gate.
Newcastle, Pa, IS not so large as the
other cities mentioned, but It Is game
TO the core. Last season 1t was the
only city visited by the Wheeling club
where more than the guarantee was
taken away. The club. with Wheeling,
STAYED 10 the finish OF the Iron and OIL
league season. The people up there are
hustiers; only the other dny they had y
bnsc ball benefit in the opera house and
cleared 5000 for the club. Newcastle's
all right
And now comes little Washington.
She's the baby OF the league In point OF
size, but It's dollars TO dimes her team
will not figure around the tall end of the
procession next summer. She Is back
ed by Colonel b. d. ]. McKcown, an ar
dent sportsman, who has made his
millions out OF the greasy stun and Will
NOT strenuously object to dropping
thou or two on his ball team. Dave
Curran, an old college player, VIII be
manager Already they have leased
,-.,o,,,,J1 and conmnncnd getting ready
FOR the opening OF the season.
Finally comes Wheeling. She's been
tried many n time and Oft and has yet
to show the white feather. Whoever
runs the club. It IL sure thing q team
that will be at the front will be secured.
Ruckenberger and Morela1d will repre-
sent Wheeling ut to-morrow's meeting
and In addition, General Manager W. S.
wright, OF the street railway company.
will he on hand 10 see the Wheeling end
OF the AFFAIR Is o. Is.