Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09

..-uesday Night - Bow inc Last
ether Live Sporting News.
- usual at this period of the win
~ mere is uncertainty as to the
= opdole makeup of the Interstate
league Of 1898, but the organization
- pe III good shape at the opening
'ne season, as the experiment of
80 summer proved conclusively that
"as one OF the strongest minor
Issues In existence. Springfield was
,spotlsd sh2ky' a few weeks ago
80 Lew Whistler is at the helm
Nj n' ana all is serene in that town.
"a ~ lioorecht, OF this city. has sigr.-
~ " pay IN the outfield for Whist
M New Castle, Youngstown. Fort
wayne, Dayton and Mansfield will all
ee ~ me with good teams and strong
llnahc,al backing. pop Lytle. who
prayed IN the outfield for Wheeling
,ase season, will have charge of the
Iahegans. Charley Strobe. OF To-
iedo, has been trying to Duh away
from the Interstate and 90 after the
vacant berth in the Western Leaeue
Strobe is between two fires and If
ne succeeds in breaking into The
western League. he will make the
most serious error Of his base ball
career. All his good players have
Deeh drafted by Cleveland. and it will
pe extremely difficult to secure good
men TO NIL their places. If he enters
the Western League it will be with a
weak CLUB, and a losing club will not
pay in Toledo. On the other hand,
MS team may be strong enough to
maintain place in the first division
IN the interstate, in which event he
VIII make money.
Ihere is some question as to Stro-
Deis right to transfer Toledo to the
western League, and President c. B.
POWER viii not submit without a fight.
MIR. Power is of opinion that there is
clause in the national agreement
which will prevent the loss of Toledo
from the Interstate He has arranged,
however, to have city of $4,000 popu-
latlon to take the Toledo franchise in
the event of the withdrawal OF the
Mud Hens.
Wheeling is uncertain, as usual.
While the city will probably have a
team in the Interstate, the franchise
may be transferred elsewhere. The
course of Manager Frank Torreyson,
with reference to this city, does not
please the local fans" He has re-
peatedly assured lovers of the game
that Wheeling will have club, and at
the same time he has been negotiat-
ing in three or four cities for trans
fer Or sale Of his franchise. Consid-
ering the fact that he secured the fran
chise near the close of the season over
a higher bidder, it looks iii cheme
to give Wheeling base aly in the
event that no other a be found.
In other words g is a good
city to fall back That has been
Wheeling's pos III the past, and it
a SiGss<sh It that the league
nagers havesnever felt that they
I'D get along without Wheeling.
anager Torreyson has not been in
heeling since the close of the base
II season An occasional visit might
move the suspicion with which his
:tions are viewed.
1t is perhaps not generally known
hat Jack Glasscock has been in cor
dependence with Manager Comiskey,
IF ST. Paul, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning if he can secure his release
from that team in the event that he
secures the Wheeling franchise 1t
was his plan to associate himself with
Sammy Nichols and place a team
in this city. There are no more popu.
lar local players than Glasscock and
Nichols, and they would undoubtedly
provide a winning team and would
have the confidence of the public from
the start.
The period during which the Ma
tional League could draft from the
minor league ranks expired January
list, but a new terror now confronts
the Interstate League managers. There
is a law, enacted last year, which per-
mits class 4 leagues to draft from
class B leagues between January LIST
and February 1st. The Western Lea
cue is in the former class, and the
Interstate in the latter. All the Inter-
state managers are preserving dis
Greet silence regarding the men they
have signed, and none of them will
publish their names until the danger
period is passed.
Several National League managers
have drafted Interstate players. Gin
cinnati has drawn Fleming, of New
Castle aud E. Lynch, of Mansfield.