The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-01


SIR:-In the opinion OF the writer,
the Intelligencer's plan OF dividing up
the season Is not good and the less II Is
agltated the better 1t Will be for all con-
cerned. The season Is yet young; In
fact the calendar says It is not yet July,
and. to agitate proposition to divide
up the season at this time comes In bad
grace Never was there better lea
que race than the one In which the In
ter-state league teams are partlclpat-
ing. Every team with the exception of
one has been In second place, and no
team Is seriously ont OF the race yet.
Springfield and Wheeling are In the
taii-end positions Mt present. but in n
week they may be Up in the bunch, II
Wheeling Is not satisfied with Its
chances, or Its team It should prevail
uron It's manager to strengthen up and
get In the game. In your article OF
June &c. you say "Messrs. Harrington
ana Coyle will act for their best inter
ests II they will take hold of the dou-
BILE season plan and see II It can't be
pushed through to success. Then with
strengthened team Wheeling might be
able to cut a figure In the race for the
second seasons championship II that
is true, why In the name OF common
sense can't Wheeling cut figure In the
present race? According TO the stand
ing Of the clubs, as published In the
Intelllgencer of June 90, Wheeling is In
seventh place, with percentage Of
games won Of $3.50 which Is but forty
points below Mansfield, ffty-eight
points below Fort Wayne and but one
hundred and ten points below Youngs-
town. Surely, II the Wheeling mag
mates would strengthen for second
season." they viii strengthen for the
first and only and II those few points
cannot be overcome, the writer will
miss his guess. II the league race was
jug-handled, Il might be different, but
as it's my judgment Is emphatlcally
against dividing up the day.
The best reason or argument that
can, in my opinion,be advanced against
the plan Is that 1t Is decidedly un-sport.
manllke, Eight teams went into the
race at scratch" Each had an equal
chance, aud in order to keep that
chance equal the league adopted a wise
salary limit, and the teams are sup
posed to be living up TO II. II New
Castle Is getting more for its money
than Is Wheeling there is no law on the
book to forbid Wheeling getting rid Of
players and getting better ones,-not
for second season, but for the first
II II can be done for the second season.
II can be done for the present season.
II may be said that Toledo news
paper man would not favor
n second season, because TIM
Toledo team is not down In
the rut. That, however. Is not the
fact, for a second season would be more
to the advantage Of Toledo than any
other city II win be remembered that
Toledo got away bad md that Now
Castle made n good start Since II got
together Toledo has been playing ev-
cry BIT as good ball as has New Castle
and with the experience the Toledo
players have had together. there is no
doubt that they could go into q second
season and stand a better chance OF
coming out at the top Of the Hist BE
this as u may, and though the writer u
perfectly loyal to Toledo he is against
dividing ny the season and always Will
be Let's be sportsmen, and pass mp
this backing down. so early in tho sea-
son. at least. Let's all get together and
give our own teams good loyal support;
let's quit "knocklng;" let's quit listen
ing TO the anvil chorus, and above all.
let's he sportsmen We cant all win
the pcnnant. some one must be tail
cnder 1f lrs you, Just remember that.
"There'll be time some day"
ERWIN Il. KEMP.
sporting Editor. Toledo Bee.