Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-02

the Le0Bue-Otne SpoftinS mat
ters.
Nj. Kreuger, who has taken the in
itiative DIN the matter of interesting To-
cal lovers of the game in the proposed
joint stock company, made no canvass
yesterday, but said last night that he
has been given positive assurances that
there will be ample money once it is
certain that Wheeling will be given
an Interstate franchise. Everything
is chaotic in base ball circles, but mat
ters are now assuming definite shape.
1t is said that President Nick Young
contemplates appointing G. B. Power, of
Pittsburg, as supervisor of the staff
of National League umpires. If this is
not done, Power will most likely be
reelected president Of the Interstate
League.
1t is known that the inability to play
Sunday games is the only stumbling
block in Wheeling. That no longer
exists, as the proposed stock company
will give a positive assurance Of Sun
day anne Mansfield is embraced in
the circuit mentioned in the Associat-
ed Press dispatches but Mansfield is too
small for the proposed circuit, and be-
sides is not a Sunday town.
Mr.. Kreuger has not yet received a
reply from letters addressed to Mr..
Strobel and MI. Moutner, for the prob
able reason that both were attending
the base ball meeting in New York.
The Commercial Gazette telegram from
New York yesterday contained the fol-
living:
The league magnates did not do a
thing to Charley Strobel, the president
and owner of the Toledo Interstate
team, to-day. Strobel is the mar who
took Charley Powers place at the head
of the Interstate League last season,
and VINO was so busy at the end of the
season helping Ban Johnson to organ
ize opposition to the National League
that he forget all about registering the
Interstate players and thus having
them protected. AS a result of Stro-
bells forgetiulness, President Hickey Of
the Western League gathered up all
the Interstate players for the league.
Leid for StrobeI.
Strobel came on here to enter a pro-
test and get his players back. He was
UP before the national board of arbitra-
ton, and this board is made up of such
wise base ball men as Messrs. Soden,
Hart, Brush, Rogers and Robson, and
as they had a perfect knowledge Of all
of Strobel's actions in the Johnson mat
ter, they were laying for him. When
Strobel went into the room where the
board was in session he was just from
the barber's chair and looked az though
he had just stepped out of a bandbox,
and when he came out about an hour
later he looked like a ghost, and re-
marked to a friend that he was glad to
escape with his clothes whole. That
crowd Of club owners gave Mr.. Strobel
such a ripping up the back that he will
never forget, and they not only ruled
that Hickey had acted right and proper
in securing the Interstate players, but
that Strobel or the Interstate people
had no claim upon them and no redress
Whatever.
The national board, by the way, has
come to the relief of Messrs. Power
and Watkins, the promoters of the de-
funct American association, and will
help them out in their efforts to Or
game a circuit consisting of Indian
apolis, Louisville, Toledo, Wheeling,
Columbus, Dayton, Fort Wayne, and
Grand Rapids. AS viii be seen, this
circuit embraces the best towns of the
old Interstate league and with the addi-
tion of Indianapolis and Louisville,
gyill make a strong, compact base ball
circuit that can be run at a small ex-
pense, as there will be no big railroad
Jumps. The board also granted their
request that they be allowed to re-
tain the title of American association.