Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-13
FOOT BALL
Games Played ut the Capitol and Island
Kinks Last Night.

Games Played Mt the Capitol and Island
Kinks Last Night.
A REGISTER reporter dropped in at the
Capitol rink, last night, about 9 O'Clock, and
saw the funniest sight he ever witnessed.
The fun consisted in q game Of foot ball on
roller skates. There were two teams en-.
gagged in the game-tNelve on each side
consisting of high and low kickers. The
teams were respectively csptained By Messrs.
Daniel Lamb and Will Rice.
Genial Harry Sturm, the manager Of the
rink, acted as referee. Riee's team Won
the send-of and the fun commenced. Rice
tossed the ball up into the air, kicked at it,
missed it and stood on his left
ear. Joe Handlan thought he saw
his golden opportunity TO win everlasting
laurels and fred one of his ~lillipuuan ped
ais at the ball. Joe missed the ball by just
exactly eleven feet and parted his hair in
he middle with one of Dave Dinger's
skates. Then Howard Carothers thought
he saw a chance to get in his elegant work.
BE did! Howard lust whaled away at the
ball missed it and sat down on the floor
hard enough to dislocste every tooth in his
Jaws. At this juncture Of the game the ball
uysteriously found its way in the middle Of
the floor, and in a still more mysterious
manner about thirteen excited foot-ballists
found themselves piled on top Of it.
This scene caused Dick Bird, the genial
door-tender, to laugh so hard that he fell off
his chair On to the floor from excessive
ninth, and the audience fairly screamed
with laughter. Dave Dinger finally
rescued the ball and by a
well aimed hit fairly landed
the ball over the goal, earning the first score
for Lambs team. The second inning was a
iepitition Of the first, as regards excitement
and fun, and the ball was finally gosled by
one of Dave DiDger's everlasting landers,
thus winning the game for Lambs team.
AT TIE ISLAND RINK.
The Island rink was fairly jammed with
spectators, hast night, TO witness the Mother
Hubbard game Of foot ball, taken part in
by eighteen men in all msnner..of outre cos
TUNES. The game vas inaugurated shortly
after eight o'clock, and during its c~ontinu.
ance the fun was last and furious. The
boys looked very stylish when they first
made their appearance on the floor, but the
wiid chase after bounding rubber sadly dis
arranged their toilets, and they came out of
the scramble looking a little the worse for
wear. There will be another game next
Monday, the teams being increased to eigh-
teen on q side, or thirtysix in all.
NOTES.
Messrs. 0dbert and Vankeuren won the
prize in the double team race at the Capitol
Rink last night.
Miss Bessie Lamb is the most graceful
aud artistic feminine j~uvinile skater in the
Nail City. The palm of superiority is uni.
verst lily conceded to her BY all the %connoiA
seurs Of good skating.
II is startling but true, nevertheless, that
WheeliDg's lady skaters, or gracefulness,
utDumber the gentlemen three to one.
If you with TO see a real, genuine martyr
Of an ing'orious cause quietly gaze upon the
anguished co~untenance Of the ayerage skate
instructor while be is Historically employed
in plotting an eighth ofs ton specimen offem-
mime humanity over the skating surface. 1t
is a sight to make to make the gods weep
or smile, We don't know which
Manager Clouston, of the Island rink,
challenges sny foot ball team in the vicinity
to tacklethe Island team. The game to be
PLAYED on rollers, twelve on a side.
Tonight at the Island rink there viii be
a game Of polo on rollers.
Saturday evening, at the Island rink,
there viii be a game Of foot ball, free for
all.
Agrspd S~hakesDearesn carnival is being
agitated for one of the leading Kinks of this
city. There is no doubt but what it could
be made an immense success. The list will
be started for signatures today and if
enough are obtained the carnival WILDE q
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