Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28

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the Opening or the Regular Sea-
son-The Metropolitan Club to
Have a Rout on April 6th.-The
Week in Bowlerdom - 9th ar
Sporting Matters, Local and by
Wire.
Manager Coyle is in correspondence
with all the players who will wear Wheel
ing uniforms at the opening of the base
ball season, and all report that they are
in practice and trying to get in shape for
the opening game. There will be about
fifteen players. and it is likely that all
will be carried for about a month, when
the list will be cut down TO twelve. With
a good team Wheeling should make con-
siderable money for the management this
season. No club ever started out with
brighter prospects. Everything is favor
able from a financial standpoint. Mans
field is having the trouble which Wheel
ing experienced last season. and Strouth-
ers has not yet signed a full team. All
the other clubs are in shape, and some of
them will assemble for practice the latter
part of this week. Within two weeks the
Wheeling players will begin to drop into
town and the great American game will
take on a new interest for the fans"
all right and Mr.. Farrell got into the
contain only four towns and the fourth is
still in doubt. GAINESVILLE. Marietta and
Parkersburg are enthusiastic oven the
project. Sig Marcus manager of the West
Virginia team. has a scheme for a fourth
club which viii represent the base ball in
terests Of Canal Dover. New Philadelphia,
Uhrichsville and Dennison.
Juntgen, the new first baseman for the
Toledo team, is so tall he can stand on the
initial bag and borrow a chew Of tobacco
from Kid keenan, without the latter leav-
ing the pitchers box. Very few ground
erS should pass between those two.-To-
ledo Blade.
"Reddy" Gray. of last years Fort Wayne
team, who was considered one of the best
players in the Interstate League last year.
will wear a Buffalo uniform this season.
Cray has professional experience of but
two years. and is certain 10 land in the
major organization if he continues his
good work. He was with Findlay IN 1895,
where his sensational playing attracted
the attention of Pat Tebeau, who signed
him for Cleveland and farmed him to Fort
Wayne. At the close of the season he was
released to Boston. The Bean Eaters had
three candidates for an outfeld position.
and Red" did not care to take chances
of decorating the bench. He secured his
ra1.osa nd STONED With RuffoIn
The Mansfield Shield is authority for the
statement that it has been arranged that
Wheeling and Mansfield will open the
season here with three games instead of
two. going TO Mansfield for two games,
Friday and Saturday, April 80 and May l.
The sporting editor of the Mansfield
Shield appears to be the only person in the
confidence Of Manager Strouthers. He
boldly announces that he knows of "sev-
eral men who have attached their names
to Mansfield contracts whose equals are
no, found in the Interstate League" What
Wheeling will do to those 'phenoms" will
be a plenty.
Manager sheible and Joe Rickert were
in Pittsburg Thursday TO sign Infelder
Taylor who played last year with Patter-
son. He batted go and fielded .S14 He
signed a day before Manager Sheible's ar
rival with Wheeling, so the Youngstown
team will have the pleasure of opposing
him.-Youngstown Vindicator.
George westlake will leave next wednes-
day for Paterson. n J., to join the base
ball team of that city.
spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1897 has
just been published. and now the base ball
season may be said to have fairly begun.
As usual the Guide has been compiled by
the veteran Father" Chadwick, than
whom there is no ADLER writer on the ma
tional game. Besides the new playing
rules. which differ considerably from those
of last year, the Guide also contains the
full official league records. compiled by
Secretary Young; the monthly standing of
the clubs during the 1SS, campaign; aver
ages of all the minor leagues and college
clubs. with a complete record of games
played by the latter; articles on batting,
pitching. fielding and base-running: Car
dinal Gibbons address on ball playing.
and many interesting articles on the game.
Robinson stood fifteenth in batting in
the Texas League last season, with a per-
centage of .S45. Dan Crotty was forty
third with a percentage of $50. Pritchard
was fftieth Conover eighty-siXth and
Minnehan ninety-second. IritchaM was
fourth among first basemen in fielding.
97S. Crotty was fourteenth In second
basemen. .S72. Kalkhoff was thirty-eighth
in outfielding. SO. and Robinson was third,
1863. Conover was twentieth among the
pitchers. .9l4. and Minnehan was at the
bottom of the list.
Indianapolis. Ind. March Eft is
believed that some interesting base ball
history was made here to-day when
John T. Brush, Frank DeHaas Robin
son. Stanley Robinson and James A.
Hart. held a secret conference in Mr..
Brush's office They arrived here early
this morning and went at once into
deep discussion Of the base ball stu
alton. Frank Robinson was the spokes-
man most of the time. All of the mag
mates refused to speak at length on
what had been discussed. President
Brush referred the reporters to Stanley
Robinson. and said that Mr.. Robinson
had something on his mind. Robinson
admitted that a conference of eXtraor-
binary Importance was on, but refused
to forecast the result Robinson wants
to get his club into city that would
yield a return on the investment. Mr..
Brush said that they had been discus
sing the means of best advancing the
interests Of base ball, and that nothing
would be done at this conference to in
any wav iniure the national game.