Evening journal., 1897-09-02
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Wilmington Again Mentioned
for Atlantic League.
READINGS BALL TEAM FAILED

HAS BEEN COMPELLED TO PLAY
ELSEWHERE - ANOTHER FOOT
BALL TEAM FORMED FOR AC-
TIVE PLAY.
There is strong talk now OF VIII
mington being placed back in the At
lantic League and being again made a.
professional baseball city. Norfolk and
Richmond are too far away from the
Eastern cities while Wilmington is
just about right and business here Is
nuchsimproved.e
The Adonis Football Club, Of this
city has organized for the season, ready
to meet all comers weighing l45 pounds.
J. f. Coale is the manager, No. 3O5
East Third street.
Five Of Denny Longs best players,
who have been turned down. have
formed team of their own and play
two games a week with amateur clubs
around Reading. The FIVE men are Ray
mond, Herndon, Gallagher, Minnahan
and Kinsella, filling out the team with
local amateurs, The club Is managed
by TBobr Reith. a Reading sporting
man. and the players say they are max
ing more money than they ever got un-
der Long
The baseball season at Cape May
closed last Monday Roy Thomas led
the team in batting, with an average OF
.525 or eleven games. Scannell who
played in twenty-three games, was sec
ond, with. .4l6.
Joe" Herndon, one Of the Reading
Clubs best pitchers, who has had
trouble with Manager Long, states that
the latter owes his players over 81 900
in salaries Herndon says Long was
the first man to go down in his pocket
to ohelp out Norfolk, when the Southern
team was about to give up He could
easily do this, as he had only a few
DAYS before refused to pay the club
their guarantee of $13454' Gallagher
went to Washington and explained his
case 10 Nick Young. and the chief oifi-
cial says Long must pay Gallaghers
salary from the time he was laid of OF
forfeit his franchise
Philadelphia is already beginning its
annual Fall hunt after young blood. u
Manager Stallings has already secured
two pitchers Dunkle, from the sun
bury tPa) team, and Becker, "A left
handler, from Montreal. Out of all the
young blood" secured by Philadelphia
last Fall, not one is now playing regu-
larly. except Fifield, who takes his
turn ln'the box, but who has won only
four games out of over twenty pitched
Gillen and Geer, who were described
as such wonders by Stallings in the
Spring, have been replaced by the. vet
erans, Cross and Shugart. Lajoie has
been under suspension, Wheeler has
pitched few games, Brandt has been
sold andu the remainder are scattered
LAHORE turned out to be the only really
first-class man of the lot.
Denny Long seems to have hac
trouble with baseball in Reading, foi
he has been forced to transfer all the
games for the remainder of the season
Had Louisville won either one of the
last two games in Philadelphia, both o.
which were, lost by a single run, thu
C6lonels would be in seventh insteaC
OF eleventh place Only eight percent
age points separate the seventh anC
eleventh clubs this morning. The race
for the leadership of the ALSO rams Is
hot and interesting. Only the Browns
are hopelessly distanced
Lett Fielder Fred Clarke, OF thu
llouisville team, is a baseball gem. liz
isa diamond on the diamond. Clark
is as light and feet as Keller as gooI
on base stealing and sliding as McGraw
as fine a fielder as Van Haltren and a
sure a hitter as Delahanty. II is salt
that Louisville refused New Yorks OF
fer of $4,000 for him.