The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-18
BACK TO SECOND RLAGE.
The Wheeling Club Presents
Lima with a Game.
THE FUNNIEST KIND OF BALL
On the Island Ground Yesterday.
Is it Forerunner of the Teams
Luck away from Homer
Other Tri.state Games.

The Wheeling ball team completed its
second series of games at Island Park
yesterday afternoon in a game with
Lima. 1t was played before an audience
Of about 1000 and resulted in the de-
served defeat of Wheeling by score Of
Sto7. There have been twenty-three
games played here during this second
series, and Wheeling's record is twenty
won and three lost. The three that
were lost were practically given away,
as all will testify who. witness
ed the game won by sandusky and
the two games played with Lima.
The team started away last night to be
gone one month. It is scheduled to
play eighteen championship games in
that time. With the memory of the
disastrous work the team performed on
its last trip still green, and with the two
games with Lima as samples OF the dis
gracefully bad work 1t is capable OF do
ing, the prospect for good results on this
trip are not at all bright. The team
plays in Sandusky to-day. Simmons
has been ordered there to umpire.
1t is probable that more disguised
audience never assembled at the park
than the one that was there yesterday,
and it had right to feel disguised, for
OF all the poor playing ever seen here,
that Of the home team yesterday was
about the worst. Many of the errors
were such as amateurs would not be ex-
pected to make, and some OF the base
running was so ill.timed and numbering
as to be almost laughable. The game
was given away, and Lima once more
takes the lead in the race for the League
pennant.
Three or four OF the Wheeling players
should have been fined right on the
grounds for their rank work in the game.
BrOdie is one OF these. There is scarcely
game in which he does not show his
temper by pouting, and yesterday in
that awful third inning when he made
an exhibition OF himself by tossing in
the ball like careless school boy, and
thereby allowing another score to be
made, $40 would not have been too
much to have put on him. In the same
inning Yak allowed Corbett TO reach
third on a passed ball that he could
have easily gotten, and thus kept the
man on second or else put him out. A
fine in that case might possibly prevent
repetition OF such "don't-care" playing.
In the last inning Stapleton made a
throw to third that was uncalled for,
which was both high and wide, and let
in the winning run. Stapleton saw
what he had done before the ball had
travelled half way across the diamond
and started for the dressing room. Van
Zant's work was without flaw, but he
spoiled the good impression his good
work had made by standing on third
and swearing over the decision made on
a ball hit by Knauss along the foul line.
1t was in the third inning that the
general decentralization took place, and
Lima took the game. 1t was an awful
period, and then just about the time that
the audience was beginning to forget
that, Stapleton made his phenomenal"
throw and the game was over.
The details are too narrowing to go
into. The following diagram drawn by
a special staff artist shall tell the tale Of
disgrace and defeat: