Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-05

The management of the Wheeling
Street Railway Company appears dis
posed to do the proper thing with ref
erence to identifying and improving
the Giles bail park, where the week
day games at least, will be played dur
ing the coming summer. The grand
stand would be greatly improved by
a coat of paint upon at least that por-
ton which has been an eyesore to
patrons. Next season, perhaps, when
the railway company will have been
fully convinced of the great value of
base ball as a source of revenue, opera
chairs may be asked for in a section of
the stand, without the danger of any
sudden deaths of railway officials.
There should also be number Of
private boxes. They would give a
finish and tone to the stand, and in
cidentally to the game, which would
attract the very best class of patron
age. 1t is this patronage which the
management expects to have during
the season, and to the end that it may
be deserved, the most stringent rules
will be enforced with regard to the
department of the players on the dia
mond, and the general conduct of
spectators on the 'bleachers" and in
the stand. The reporters should also
have better facilities for doing their
work.
The traction companies in other In
terstate cities are not slow to show
their appreciation of base ball, and of
course nobody dreams that their liber-
ality is intended as an evidence of love
of the sport. 1t is matter of business
with them, and they are willing to
meet the base ball people half way.
II it is good business in New Castle
to spend $4,000 on park and grand
stand, and furnish it gratuitously to
ball club for five years; is it not also
good business in Wheeling? If it is
good bushes in Youngstown to con-
struct new, up-to-date park, which is
promised to eclipse even the beauty
1t New Castle, is it not poor business
Judgment to stint the expenditures on
a park in Wheeling? If traction COM
panies furnish modern, we'll equipped
parks in Dayton, and Fort Wayne,
cannot their action be fairly regarded
as a good business precedent for the
Wheeling companies?
Wheeling should not have the poor
est grand stand in the Interstate cir
cult. Every expenditure of money
which tends to make the ball park at
tractive, will tend to increase the pa
tronage, and an increased patronage
means more street car fares. The ar
gument might be added that the stand
should be made coy and comfortable
for the ladies, but such an appeal to
gallantry will be reserved until fu-
tllre date Even soulless corporations
could not withstand it.
Speaking of jolly players there are
Joe Katz, of Mansfield, Eddie Ashen-
bach, of New Castle, and our own
Gigs Donahue. 1t is often worth the
price of admission to get one of these
started, as each of them is full of GIN
ger and installs the same into the 9TH
er players. Joe Katz was fayorite
with all the attendants at our games.
Always in good humor and trying to
keep every one else pleased. Eddie
Ashenbach, with his wit and humor,
keeps the game going at a lively clip.
But probably no one does as much
talking as Donahue. He simply can't
keep quiet, and by cheering up the
other players while on the field has
helped in no little way to keep all in
good humor and thus help to win a
game.-Springfeld correspondent in
Sporting Life.
Manager Lytle yesterday received