The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-26

INDUCED m at their expense Induced
the fans 10 start one Just 70 get back
at Wheeling. In week the teams,
most largely made up Of wind, were
lettering; steubenvllle was first 10 20
to the wall. AS a sort Of last gasp the
team was Transferred to Akron. but It
was no 80, and then came dlRband-
ment George Moreland, OF Pittsburgh,
was the manager. and he had piclted
out several come4 including Ilttle
Rlctey. John and AZ Wagner ana sew
eral others, After much changing IN
the circuit reduction in number Of
clubs and resortlng 10. ali the known ex-
pedicnts to prolong the life Of Il sicsly
organization. including the division Of
the season into two championship
races, the league expired soon after the
Glorious Fourth" Barrow hnd en-
deavored 10 strengthen team that was
admittedly weak after the first week Of
the season, and had gradually built up
u first class team and was receiving
good support, when the Dust up
came,
Just here he showed his nerve and
grit. for he induced Twin Cities to join
with Wheeling In applying for admls-
sion to the Iron and oil league, a
"dinky" organization Charley Power
was running up in western Pennsylva-
MIA. The Pennsylvanlans knew they
had good thing and forced the new
teams to pay much larger guarantees
than ruled among the other clubs, but
the ex-Tntcr-staters were In the game
for finish and stood for the hold-up.
Warren was leading in the race for the
pennan- wheE the Iron and OIL initiated
the Interstate by extlnguiBhlng itself
before the schedule called for anything
OF the kind. wheeling and New Castle
were on about even terms for second
place Barrow hadn't had enough and
proposed a championship series be-
tween Wheeling and Warren. The lat /.
ter accepted, were beaten and pretty
soon along came long and narrow
piece OF bunting that was Toasted upon
for weeks by the tans-and that was
Wheellng's only pennant. Slightly ir-
regular, perhaps, but the cranks still
talk abou. 1t, especially when Our
present-day team happens to be drag
cling around about the tail.end, as the
teams of &c. ~ and 80 SO often did. sad
to relate. 'Ere's 'opln' Barrow will
give the canucks winner, but may he
escape the trials and trlbulations that
he went through back In 's5.
Speaking Of Barrows is a reminder
that three men who were connected
with wheellng's champion team Of 's5,
win hold managerial reins this season:
Barrows with Toronto, Al. Buckenber-
ger with Rochester, in the same league,
and "our own Jack GIasscock with
Fort Wayne, in the Interstate. Bar
rows and Buckenberger had started out
as half owner7 OF the club, Buck" at
the time being manager OF Won der
Ahe's st. Louis club. Glasscock had
begun the season with Louisville, was
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passed on to Washington and wound up
the season as captain-first baseman of
the wheellngs. Buck" was out of a
lob before the season ended, but before
he agreed to disagree with the Dutch
man, he sent on young blood pitcher
to be tried out on the Wheeling farm,
in the person OF McDougai. Mac start
ed out by pitching against Canton; he
laid out Harry Smith with speedy in
shoot in the first inning, and after that
the CantonIans famed the wind with
regularity that was broken only by a
scratch hit and two or three bases on
| balls. This performance pufted up the
young westerner, but afterwards he
was very ordinary, and week later
was knocked out OF the box twice by
Twin Cities. But he owned the town
for day of two, and drove all the
scrlbes into poetry. About the worst
eftuslon of the lot was from contrib
utor to the Intelligence Here 1t is In
a high state of preservation:
What did McpouEal do TO them, do to
! them, do to them: -,
| Why. Mister McDOugol struck them OUT
struck them out.
That's what he did to them, did 10 them
did to them.
Isn't it awful? Singular to relate
the author is still In the land of the llv-
ing, and as In the days of yore enjoys
seeing the good old national game. But
he swears OF on poetry when he thinks
OF that McDougal effort.