Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-05
A CASE OF TOO MUCH sTR0BEL
And an Overdose of GiIks-Action of
the visitors Condemned by the
Crowd-A Word About Chawley.
Results of Games in the Western,
National and Amcricnn-0ther
Sporting Matters.
Wheeling 9-Toledo o.
Wheeling 9-Toledo g.
Matthews 6-Columbus 5.
Fort Wayne 10-Marion l.
oF CLUBS.

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columbus ...... ........+. al ~ .3o5
The one disturbing factor in the
Western Association is, and has been,
one Chawley Stwobel, OF Toledo. His
early training was secured in a sugar
kiss foundry, with baseball as a side
line. He early developed a fondness
for wearing a uniform and surveying
himself in a mirror with a magnifying
glass. In this manner he got an ex-
aggerated idea of his baseballistic i'm
%portance, and a bunch Of expert salvers
and ~jolliers have helped the thing along
until to-day Chawley is burdened with
the notion that he is the foundation
upon which the Western Association
rests, and that 1t is in danger of top
pling over every time he winks an eye
or takes a long breath.
Old man Gunnels, who gives a mar
rage license with every ticket sold at
the box Office. unloaded the Toledo
franchise on Chawley. Toledo is a
plum good hall town, and Chaw.ey
thinks he has made it so. Every win
ter and spring he threatens to jump the
league, and puts up such a line of
scare talk that when the annual meet
ings are held he has the magnates
bluffed and he gets what he wants. The
game is getting to be IN old one,
though, and perhaps some bright,
balmy spring day Mister Stwobels four
have to again waste his time and tai
ents on new designs for sugar kisses.
Chawley blew into Wheeling yester-
day with his bunch of players too late
for the first game of the double-header.
he COULD have been on time, with time
to burn. He had been told all about it
before. At 2 O'Clock the Mud Hens
were conspicuous by their absence.
The Stogies took their places, Kenna
pitched three balls across the plate,
and Joe Horning declared the game for
feited to Wheeling. 8 to 0.
-Three-quarters of an hour later a
bus deposited the Mud Hens at the
gate. Chawley took charge of the park
and the umpire, and announced that the
game would start at $3.50 o'clock. Horn
ing remarked that he'd be blankety
banked if it would, and he ventured a
query as to who was running the dod
blasted thing anyhow. He gave the
visitors time enough to warm up, and
announced that his Interpretation of
the rules contemplated the starting of
the second game 10 minutes after the
conclusion of the first. The first nav
ing been forfeited. it was high time
to start the second.
Butter up" said Horning.
Bobby Gilks, Graffins and the others
gave Old Joe what is known in side
walk parlance as the dirty laugh"
Horning, with a degree of patience
worthy OF a better cause, pleaded with
Gilks to play the second game. Bobby,
coached by the autocratic Chawley,
laughed in derision. The second game
was then very properly declared to
have been forfeited to Wheeling.
The crowd was eager to witness a
game, and was c~orrespondingiy disap-
pointed, but to a man the spectators
were with the home team and the UNI
pire. Their ~denunciation of Chawley
and his gang must have made the ears
of that se~lf-important manag fairly
Jingle.
Stowbel had previously announced
that he would play no double-headers
here. Wheeling is really paying games
already won-four games between
Grand Rapids and Toledo, which were
thrown out by President Myers. The
Toledo managers position is wrong
from every point of view. It is not mis-
first offense in the way Of injuring the
sport N other cities, and mis- players are
old offenders. His bluf1ng tactics
won t go in Wheeling, and Chawley has
been given to understand as much.
Last night it was reported that he
pld refuse TO pay, if the checks
out to patrons yesterday are
ed for this afternoons double
because he will get no share of
lhrst days receipts. His guarantee
|hey should be declared forfeited for
Is action of yesterday.
There will be a double header this
afternoon for one admission. The first
game will be called at two o'clock.
Kenna will be in the box and either
Killen or Bennett will pitch the second
game.
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