The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-31
THE NATIONAL CAME
As Played aIIover the Country
Yesterday, ~.
WHEELING Defeated TWICE
by the Klol.apoo Tribe at GAINESVILLE.
Other Trl.statc Gamcs-Inthe Big
Lcagues-The Amateur Games
Hcrc-Gcneral Ban Gossip.
Oh, for the hittors that used to hit,
And the slugyerk that used 10 slug,
When they took up the bat with confidence
And smashed the ball on the mug;

For the home run, that wrung with anguish.
The hearts OF the visiting team;
The tricky base runner and slider,
EZlWhO run like Gn engine OF steam. =
The above jeremiad was received late
last night from lobe, the Mascot. 1t
and the official scores published below,
tell the story OF the two defeats Wheel
ing suffered at GAINESVILLE yesterday.
The scores tell the same storythnt the
scores sent from Jackson and Lima did,
and that is, that the Wheeling men have
either forgotten how to bat or else they
are not trying TO hit the ball. They
were nearly all high-priced players when
they signed, and one OF the principal
things that enabled them to command
high salaries was their batting ability.
How long they will continue to be high
priced men, and be able to only knock
out u few singles, with an occasional
two-bagger, is an interesting question.
The batting record they have made in
the last eight games, compared with that
made by their opponents, justifes the
grand laugh they are getting from the
other members OF the League.
Yesterday mornings game about
proves another thing that the people
here ut home have been suspecting for
the past few days, and that is, that
Knanss is an "explOded phenom." The
report OF the game shows that he was
touched up at Zanesville's pleasure, and
that Nich0l and Brodie saved him from
being wiped entirely out. -
AT the beginning OF the season it was
announced as one OF the reasons why
Wheeling would be sure to win the pen
nant, that the management was going to
be giit-edged. Manager Buckenberger
consented to playa postponed game at
Lima Tuesday. There were no games
scheduled for that day, the idea being
to allow all the clubs 4 chance to reach
the places they were scheduled for on
Decoration Day, and get nicely rested up
for the two games they would be called
on to play. To the surprise Of nearly
every one, including some OF the direct
ors, the men were worked Tuesday and
then had to travel all night. Some
Wheeling people who wentto GAINESVILLE
to see the game and who returned last
night, say that the team reached Zanes-
vile at 3 o'clock yesterday morning.
They say that the men were completely
worn out; that some of them were seen
drinking in saloons an hour after their
arrival, and that some Of them did not
go to bed at all. II all this is true, it is
small wonder that yesterdays games
were lost. II this sort Of thing has
taken place in one town may it not in
some Of the towns further north? The
management that will play
postponed game the day before
a holiday and then travel all night is
not gilt-edged. The Wheeling people
who returned spoke highly OF the work
OF Nichol and Brodie. They are re-
ported to be playing their very best.
The following interesting communica-
ton was handed in last night:
To Mc Editor of he InteliOencr.
SiR:-I would like with all tender
ness and consideration for the feelings
OF the management OF the Wheeling
base ball club, to make this pertinent iu-
quiry: Why not disband now, as it is
said you intend to do when you COM
plete the present trip? The sooner the
other cities of the League begin to
laugh, the sooner will the humiliation
ut home be over. LINE HIT.