The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-10
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BASE BALL.

The exhibition seASo" Vi thu N"SN""H
,,.. haIl club was TO have opened yes
,s.d,v afternoon with a game between
". yaIlers aud the team of Pittsburgh
n,,,o..lonals led by the well known one
,,ncd pitcher, George England. who Is
Ss'tsr known here as one OF the Iron aud
hi league ump!res Va lS9S uhIortu-
,.,,lv me rain Of the morning was so
sssj mat the grounds were IN very bad
son. m the early afternoon and ut
t"iask IL waS announced that there
MA he no game. To-day however, II
W. weather Is at ait favorable the two
'H,,,s VIII come together and az Eng
,,nd's team Is made UP OF good material,
q Il assured that a g0od game VIII be
..en AS this ~ the first opportunity the
,osnI fans have had 10 see the players at
,,oTk who have been signed by the
WbreIIpg management, doubtless there
viii be large attendance.
The players OF the Wheeling team put
In part OF the morning and an hour or
tvS OF the afternoon In practice worh.
npJ me crowd Of early bird fans who
we're out 10 get line on the players eX-
messed themselves as delighted with the
MEN. Individual mention IL not neSes-
Ssry-evsry man OF the lot dtd.gI0d work
and Manager Coyle has q hard task
head IN picking out fourteen men who
yill be kept on the team Through the
s.asop. O'Bcien. KTeSH. LyOna, Taylor.
Messi,.. Curtis, AEcGinnls aud McSteen
an, yfbp6Sed 10 be fixtures. although the
good work OF Mcnamara may CIV MN
I regular place on the team. Atlea8t he
viii be kept as general utility man. OF
he pitchers It ig believed Coyle, ESStSn'
Campbell and G0rvey or Baker WIN be
kspt' though Fitfne OF the young blools
who are 70 be tried OFT In the exhibition
.sason may Dust come Of the old-t'mers.
II Is had enough that the New Castle
cSnr,pt. Guardian should steal Items
b,3ily from the intciitCeacer base bail
tomun, but when other Interstate
rspHrs reproduce the SAME aewsund give
rod. 10 the paper that was guilty OF the
theft. II seems time 10 make II cry,
tjlasscock II hitting At q merry clip Tor
s. Paul In the exhibition season, but
pIlly George does not seom u have got
NJ outlcs on the Spalding Vet But he'll
come around all right ere long.
sprinEheld's new maynr. Democrat.
and the only one successful ut the NUM-
cIpa. elec4on there this week. is the pres
,Ient Of the Interstate club, and this Is
taken TO mean that Sunday ball viii be
played In the Ohio town,
Con strouthers has now Seventeen
men signed for his Mansfield Ieam. and
IN. cnly reason that they have not been
ordered to report Is that the new park
ft no, ready for use. says tho Columbus
Journal. When his players do arrive
and get a few days practice together.
fhs Mansfield people will discover that
;hev are to be represented by \ real
hase hail team this season, and II they
are NOT. Ia the ilrst division after the
season IL fairly under way, It viii be
because all OF the teams are so evenly
matched that the position in the race
huctuateS each day.
70 read one Of the Toledo papers one
might thIak that they have lot OF Ma
tional league talent up there that ev-
eryone wants 70 steal away from them.
Strobel IS hard up and Is trying to sell
some OF his players, but as yet no one
h1g accepted the bait. II Is claimed by
tle pipe artist OF that city, who has
wheels in more ways than one, that
Columbus wants four or I'VE OF the To-
ledo players. This Is an absurd ns'er-
tOD. as there Is nOk Il man on lilE ieil
WHO could be used By Manager Loitus.
and no effort has been made 10 secure
PLAYERS under contract TO Manager tro-
bel, who will know more about base ball
and have less money when he sets
through at Toledo. That town Is SO
dead on base bail that the papers assert
that IL will be positively necessary to
have a park right In the heart OF the
civ. or at least within easy walking
distance OF the central points. That -
all that can be expected in a trolley car
league. but in Columbus The people go
three miles by electric cars, and turn
on, well at that.-COiumbus Journal
"BNI' Johnson was In conversational
mood at the Howell last night and being
a natural comedian, got of some good
ones" He Intends 20 play bah this year
though. and sayp he viii travel on his
rood behavior. henceforth. BIZ must
have had ambitions in his youth TO pose
Is the "tatoCed man" At circus. for the
numerous fferdgfyphcs on his arms
were scratched when he was ten years
old.
AustraIIan Bail Players.
EAN FRANCISCO, April g.-The Aus