The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-21

Twas during his administration that
Ed Delehanty, Cupid" Ch!lds, Ad Gum
bert and Jake Virtue graduated and
stepped into fast company.
Looking into the face of the future,
every one OF the Inter-staters sees Sue
cess mlrrored there. The season OF 81
wasn't such a bad one. land with chances
10 avoid mistakes made clear In the
School OF Experience, they expect '9S to
be winner all around. Fortunate In
the selection OF president, secretary and
treasurer, the Interstate has certainly
been, for Charles B. Power has proved
to possess the executive ability 20 tao
kle and unravel the difficult problems
and overlook the snarls that are the
outgrowth Of temper and doomed to die
natural deaths.
All the clubs were represented at the
convention at the Phillips House. which
put on base ball airs and served q spe-
c!al dinner with q wonderful menu
served a Ia base hits and fair bunts and
named after the Gem City's guests.
Two OF the managers were there-E.
B. Lytle--"Pop"-of New Castle. who
was one OF ]. Palmer .O'Neill's famous
tourists in 80. and Lew Whistler, OF
Springfield. There were few OF the
swatting elect IN the lobby. including
CORPORAL Wetzel, OF the Daytons; Char
ley Emig, OF Mansfeld's twirlIng corps,
and Theodore Guese, the "Wapak" big
boy. who goes to New Castle: Eddy
Ashenbach. the Cincinnati boy traded
to New Castle, and POT" Reiman.
During the past autumn the Inter-
state League lost something like
dozen players by the draft. Philadel-
phIa took Elmer Flick and Wiley
Piatt from Dayton; New Castle bade
farewell to Tom Fleming. taken By
Cincinnati. while Fred Miller went to
Philadelphia. Mansfield's catcher. Ed.
Lynch, was also called In by Cincinnati,
both these backstops doubtless being
booked for the Hoosier training school.
Cleveland lifted FIVE OF Toledo's Mud
Hens off the Naumee roost. Bob Gille
vii, be restored, but the cases Of Pitch
ers John Blue and George kelb, Catch
er "Bade" Myers and Second Basemau
Erve Beck remain, as Orator O'Rourke
would say. In .statu quo."
To Offset these detections, there will
be many new recruits on the Interstate
roster next spring. and this partial list
is the first of the sort that has beer
presented-gleancd from the noguls at
Dayton:
DAYToN-otto Carroll, r. L: Frank
lin, O.: Dave Willis, p, Nashville, Tenn;
c. D. saltmarsh, p: John Kennedy.
jp., Baltimore; Charles Lesch. p..Louis-
Mass; George Zlegler, c.. Chicago.
cIuna.i; War" Sanders, Mor.istown,
TNt
Ohio.
STANDARDIZATION Dobbs, cut
fielder, Chattanooga: Mike Nobright,
fielder, Wheeling; Ed. Maizena,, second
base, Nashville; ". W. Wells. r., To-
wanda, Pa, and Frank Russell. c.,
Cleveland.
ond base (the famous Timothy: Char
ley Smith, third base. ldte OF Wilkes
barre, Pa; W. II. link, first base, from
Northwestern League: John Barley, c.,
late OF Reading, Pa; ". S. Woods!de,
p, of New Albany. Ind; P. Il. Morgan,
p, OF Jefscrsouville, Ind; Theodore
Guese, p, Wapakoneta, and outlelder
Riekert, Youngstown.
=, Bart Howard will manage Mansfield,
the town that furnished team and
SIuunuS at tlltlS udyS IlOtlce anu M
ished fifth n the race last year. Mans
field had 4 youngster named Dalrym-
pie signed for '9S. but Connie Mack
grabbed him. That loss has made the
Mansfield mosuis shy and they do not
propose TO reveal their finds until the
gentlemen with seincs have passed by.
George II. Geer. OF Youngstown. has
named Catcher John a. Smith. OF Fair
mount, lad; Pitcher John x. Spears, OF
Paris, KY. and Edward Fortney, of
Titusyil!c. Pa, as new blood, but the
Toledo surprise party Is among the,
events OF the future. All danger of To-
ledo's detection has passed away.