Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-03
BASE BALL NOTES.

Manager TRULY, of Youngstown, for
merly with Dayton, has been signing
some choice players during the winter
months. 1t is safe to say that some
other clubs besides Youngstown will
land in the last rut this year. TRULY is
a hustler, all Dayton fans will admit.
The Boston base ball players should
be happy. Contracts have been re-
ceived. Eight of the players getting
$2,40O, the limit; Duffy $3.50, and
Nichols $4,000.
Pitcher Peter Mcbride declares he
will not don a Cleveland uniform for
less than $3.50 per month.
Joe Steen, for two years the main
stay Of Youngstown's outfeld, will
toss boards in his fathers Allegheny
lumber yard in preference to base ball
this year.
Jesse Hoffmeister will this season
play third base for Kansas City in the
Western League.
The Boston correspondent of Sport
ing Life has the following concerning
Pitcher Hickman, the Interstate pro-
duct:
Manager Selee got a letter from
young Hickman the other day in
hand was all right and he expected to
be in first class condition when the
bell rang Selee thinks that Hickman
is a great ball player, and would make
a cOrking Outfielder for some club.
Surely Hickman made a splendid i'm
preston here by his fine work in the
games he played in left field when
Hamilton was off. the team. He COW
about everything he was after.
Charles Sweeney, once a king
pitcher for the Providence National
League team, the only man who ever
struck out IS batterS in a league game,
is in trouble again. -Four months ago
he was convicted Of manslaughter for
the shooting Of a man named Nc
Manus, at San Francisco, and SEN
fenced to State prison for seven years,
but the governor gave him pardon.
Two weeks ago policeman attempted
to arrest him upon charge of in
sulting aWwoman, and Sweeney reach
ed fer his gun He was too late, or
the officer too quick for him, and he
was locked up on a charge of carrying
a concealed weapon.
Clark Griffith, of the Chicagos, has
gone TO Hot Springs, Ark, fora pre-
liminary boiling out.
Either Davis or Doyle will captain
the New YOrks next season. The lat
ter will do the team no good in that
capacity.
Prominent Chicago fans are angry
because President Hart disposed of
Billy Dahlen. There is method in their
madness
1t is now thought that the Baltimore
Brooklyn deal will not go through un-
til the February meeting of the league
If it goes through then.
Authorities" do not count the Bos
tons as strong as they were last year.
1t is quite certain that they have not
been strengthened.
Perry Werden expects to be back in
harness in the spring. The lameness
is gradually leaving his kneecap, which
was fractured last summer.
Barney Dreyfus has purchased addi-
tiOnal stock to the amount of $500 in
the Louisville club. He seems TO have
great faith in the city and team.
Creiger will do most of the catching
for Tebeau's Indians next season. 1t is
almost certain that Chief" thinner
will not be in harness again.
The old story that players will refuse
to sign the Brush resolution next sea-
son is out again. The law viii he en-
forced whether the players sign or
not.
The eaptaincy of the Chicago team
| is no nearer solution now than it was
before Dahlen was traded. He had
been counted out before last season
closed.
Marty Bergen, of the Bostons, is laid
up in hospital with an abscess on his
right hip. The abscess is the finale Of
a bruise he received in making a slide
last summer.
1t is thought in Cleveland that Geo.
Howe, one of the -times-rocks"
magnates, will control the Cleveland
club when Mr.. Robson moves to St.
Louis. Mr.. Howes name is expected
to draw crowds with poor team where
a good team failed.
Manager Strobef, Of Toledo. has ac~
cepted the terms of and sent contract