The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-21
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Lineup shows Wheeling Has q Very
Strong Team, that Compares ia
yorably With Any Of the Others.


Lineup Shows Wheeling Has q Very
Strong Team, that compaEss.Ea
yorably with Amy Of the Others.
with the exception Of Columbus,
where the franchise and park aAeer-
,alnties have only recently been lhtis-
tactorlly adjusted. the personnel q the
eight teams of the Interstate league IS
known. and estimates on the strength
Of the several asgregations are in or
der.
The pennant winners OF 1889, the New
Castles. viii open the coming ;sseason
Win practically the same team Their
nltching stan is exactly the same,
wadsworth, STREET., Flggemelr. and
Smith. The only new men are Short
stop Walsh and outdelder Mccredle.
While New Castle seems to be content
to rest on their oars, every other team
has strengthened, or at least has made
changes = and Changing and
STRENGTHENING" in base ball nre words
Of synonymous meaning, at least before
the playing season opens. About the
first OF June 1t may be another story.
The second place Manshelds show
some changes. OF their '99 pitching
corps they have Irwin and Smith, both
good men, and Hackett. the erratic,
several experiments" have Been land.
ed who will be tried out before the
championship season opens, piggy"
Ward, at second. and Buttermore. In the
outAeld, will be missed. They were
signed when the Atlantic busted" and
insisted on the exclusion of the reser-
vat!on clause from their contracts. On
the present showing Lowney's team
does not look dangerous.
Toledo's lnHeld is minus McDonough,
the brilliant third baseman, who was
asphyxlatet by natural gas this winter.
In his place stroebel has signed Bert
schills, Michigan amateur. who may
be frost in the fast little Interstate.
Sandy" Griffin will no longer be seen
at short; In his stead Kane, St Louis
amateur whom Wheeling turned down
last spring. has been engaged. He is
said to be a promising player. Gates.
drafted by Kansas City, will be missed
from the pitching corps. which will be
made up of wiltse, Butler and Ewing,
of the ole team, and two youngsters.
Fort Wayne looks strong II they
make good" on all the players claim
ed. Guese. though, may be retained by
indianapolis, and will be II Watkins
knows his business. Then there is an
other uncertainty; Glasscock has not
come to terms. and on the other hand
has accep. ed terms offered by Sioux
city, Of the western League. Another
player, in dispute Is Second Baseman
Flood. with adverse decisions in the
cases of these players the HoosIers will
be weak, decidedly weak.
Youngstown is an enigma. They have
most of the players of the 80 team, and
the new manager, NJ. j. Finn. has
brought several Of his Newport, Or. ~
crowd with him. How these New Eng
landers will perform remains to be
seen: probably they viii show up lit
tie slow.
Dayton has bunch of new talent
that is difficult to diagnose. In Watkins
and Moore. of the 80 team, Armour has
two speedy slab artists. Not much is
known OF the new blood pitchers.
Columbus team is not yet completed
and of course will remain an uncertain
factor Riley made no mistake in
signing Freddy" GIlligan for short
field: he is fast on his feet and uses
excellent Judgment both at bat and on
the sward. He was with Buffalo the
latter part of the season of 80, but did
not get a fair trial there. OF the pitch
ers. Schmidt was with Cleveland last
year
And last, but not least. II the court
knows herself, comes wheeling-homs
Of the stogie, hot-bed Of fandon and
the best town in Uncle Sans broad
domain. What's the matter with the
team Healy and Lyle have signed" De-
cidedly, It's all right, and when It is
with the others we can do
nothing but add to our bunch Of conf
dence and calmly await Charley Pow
er's whip-crack for the starting Of the
race. We are being accused of winning
the 1860 pennant on paper in some
qunrters-that is an exaggeratIon. but
really we do feel pretty good and II VIII
require some hard knocks to eject COM
placency from our state of mInd
To begin with, the stogietown pitch
ing corps appears to outclass anything
the other clubs can show UP. Poole
would have been National teaguer
but for the eight-club circuit; Bates
has pitched great ball In both the Ma
tloual and Interstate leagues; Pardee
was Western League star; stricklin
pitched a Western Association team In
to a nennant, and Wells is a winner, IL
he reports in his 'ss form. Then there
are possible Corners in Bowman and
skopec. Both the infield and outheld
look very strong, and all-in-nll the
team has all the ear-marks Of a win
ner. with good management this team
is certainty for the first division.
From Cleveland comes the news that
Manning, OF Kansas City, has agreed
to release Pitcher Pardee to Cleveland.
1t is hoped Lyle can snow the right
kind Of claim to this twirler, for his
loss would be n sad blow. Manning re-
Gently released Pitchers Pardee and