Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-28
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Rube Waddell struck out nineteen
batsmen in a game with Racine the
other day.
Dexter, of the Chicagos, has more
fielding averages than any other player
in the league.
The st. Louis club is making efforts
to secure Jack Farrell the Gown gton
boy who played second base for Wash
ington last season.
Boston used but five pitchers during
the base ball season just closed. Law
son was the only twirler released by
the club during the year.
Billy Mailman, OF the Phillies, is ac
cused Of being the grandfather Of the
player of the same name who was with
Milwaukee during the past season.
A meeting will be held in Raleigh,
n. c., next month for the purpose Of
forming a tri-State league. Virginia
and the two Carolinas will be repre-
sented.
The scheme to place an American
league team in New York IS said to
have been blocked by McGraw, who re-
fuses point blank TO remove the Orioles
to the metropolis.
Billy Hoy is not worried over the re-
port that he will not be a member OF
the Chicago American league outfeld
next season. There are few better out
fielders in the American league than
this same Hoy.
Tatthewson is not pitching well
down in New Mexico. The membe. S
of the team that are supporting him
say that his pitching arm is in bad
shape and that nothing but long rest
will make him right.
George Davis has led the National
league short stops during the past
three years. His is a case where fig
Ures do not lie, there being no short
fielder in the business who has an adj
vantage over the New Yorker.
Oonroy, who has been secured by
Pittsburg from Milwaukee in the AM
erican league, batted 1853 in the latter
organization this year. On the
strength of this showing there is little
prospect of his replacing Hans Wagner
at short
Elmer Smith Gilmore Cunningham
and Gus weighing. three star twirlers
of the American Association days,
dropped out of sight during the past
season. 1t is doubtful that any of
them will be resurrected again for fast
company.
The Brooklyn club is looking for a
soft berth for Pitcher Bill Kennedy,
the Bellaire boy There is every indi-
cation that he will be dropped before
another season rolls around, but an eff
fort will be made to place him advan
tageously.
Manager Comiskey, of the Chicago
American league club says he will
close his gates to any team that plays
Emmett Heidrick. This will exclude
the new St. Louis American league
team, which has signed Heidrick for
next season.
The fact that the New York team
was not down to the limit of sixteen
players at any time last season will be
the principal argument that Colonel
Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg club, will
use WITT the league magnates to have
the limit rule abolished.
Managed Comiskey, of the Chicago
White Stockings, announces that he.
has signed George Davis, of New York,
and Tom DAILY, of Brooklyn, to con-
tracts for the coming season. He also
claims Dan Green, of Chicago, and Ed
Mcfarland, of Philadelphia.
Jimmy Ryan says that he is not iok-
ing when he says that the Philadelphia
National league club wants him for
next season. The fact that Flick and
Delehanty have gone over to the
American league leaves the Quakers in
rather bad shape for outfielders.
Ed. Mcfarland, who caught for the
Phillies this year, claims that Wolver-
ton has no case against the Philadel-
phia, as he signed to play with the
American league in August, and that
this gave the Philadelphia club the
right to suspend him for the rest of the
season.
Christy Matthewsons presence in
Chicago a day or two ago is explained
by the fact that it was on the line of
the shortest jump from New Mexico
where Matthewson has been playing, to
New York. Matthewson expects to
resume his studies at Bucknell College
shortly.