Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-19
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W Duy the 81 Louis CluD. Tie cldluS
to have good financial backing.
The best minor league hitter picked
up by the major organization last year
was Freeman, of the Washingtons.
Capt Duffy declares that Boston
needs another catcher for next season.
| Bergen and Yeager are not enough.
Herman Long of the Bostons starts
for Hot Springs next week. At pre-
| sent he is managing bowling alley in
Boston.
The Youngstown Interstate League
club officials are trying to induce jim
my McAleer to take charge of the team
this season.
The University of Chicago is trying
to induce the University of Pennsyl-
vania to play base ball game in Chi
cago this spring.
A cousin Of Catcher Clements, the
prospective Red has been accepted on
the team of the Northwestern Uniyer-
sity. He is a pitcher.
Fred Clarke, manager of the Louis
villes, considers Hoy better man for
a team than Bill Lange. This was true
of last season at least.
The Washington club seems anxious
to get rid of Catcher Duke Farrell. The
moves OF the Washington club are mys-
terious and unfathOmable.
Frank Hahn Thursday signed with
Cincinnati at $1,000 for the season,
which is $500 less than was offered him
last year, when he refused to sign.
Ben Niffer, a clever catcher of Gin
cinnati, is anxious for a berth with
10 T IL loc
played with Coshocton, Wapakoneta
and other teams.
Manager Selee has changed his mind
about booking the Bostons for spring
dates. The team will play a number
Of exhibition games in Virginia before
! the season opens.
Bill Kennedy, the Brooklyn pitcher,
is so pleased with the big deal that he
has already begun to train in a local
gymnasium. He says the Brooklyns
will be a ''1-2" team.
Several Of the Chicago players will
go to Hudson Springs, N. NJ, next week.
If they live long enough these men will
become hermits or monks, for Hudson
is about the last place on earth.
Jimmy Collins, Chamberlain and old
Sam Wise are among the base ball
colony located in Buffalo this winter.
Collins's father is a prominent police
official in the Lake City, while Cham
berlain'S is wealthy veterinary sur
geOn.
Chick Frazer signed with the Phila-
delphia team yesterday. He will be
given $500 for the season. Chick will
go to the Arkansas Hot Springs and
III, IN tCaY3
at Charlotte in March.
Chicago writer's must be hard up
for base ball matter. The gentleman
on the Inter Ocean, for instance, runs a
column or more daily recounting all of
President Harris doing during the day.
A detective could not do as Well-and
there is nothing in it.
Heinie PETIT, the Cincinnati star
backstop, has also baked on the total
abstinence clause of his contract, and
says he will not sign until he is in
possession of further information.
Heinie probably expects to secure a re-
bate on all fines assessed.
Joe Campbell, the Washington base
ball scribe, wants to know II Tom
Burns can't find some way to veil the
face of his new catcher, Nichols. THAT
man will scare the opposing pitchers
into fits" says Joe. Il never saw such
a face in my life. Dad Clarke looks
like an angel compared to him"
President Hart, of Chicago, says he
knows nothing of Big Bill Lange's
reported intention to marry a rich
mans daughter and retire from base
ball at the suggestion of his brides
father. Neither has he received a we'd
ding invitation. He expects Willie to
be on the Chicago team this season as
usual.
President Hart, who has reached the
conclusion that so many of his players
were put out of the games last season
because they did not want to stay in,
has issued a statement to his men that
hereafter fines are to be paid by play
ers. and players who are removed will
be fined by the club. He wants no
more Sinking.
Herman Long, the Boston short stop,
was formerly one of the most trouble
some men in the National league on
the money question, as he was always
looking for an advance before Christ
mas He is married now and his better
half takes care of his salary so we'll
that he has a bank account and is not
obliged to sign a contract at low
figure in order to get money to live
through the winter on.
Lieut. w. A. Lieber, on duty at Ma
Mia, has sent an order to Washington