Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-08
BEATEN At LAST.
Whssing's Big Run Of Luck Comes TO an
Unexpected End.
DOWNED BY SCRATCH, YESTERDAY
But 1t Takes Sandusky Twelve Long In
nlngs to do the Work.
The GAMES and THE RECORD.

The Wheeling team, after making the
remarkable, and, as we have every reason
to believe, the best record Of successive
games won in any League, suffered their
first defeat in the home series yesterday at
the. hands of one of the weakest clubs thai
has appeared here this season. IL Sook
twelve innings to decide it, but it wa a de-
feat nevertheless, and the hopes OF their
admirers that they would surpass any
nreyious record 90 far that there would be
no question about the supremacy were
dashed to the ground. OF course, excuses
are inyidious after the battle has been
fought and lost, but time and time
again, by little head WORK
and good base running, the home team had
victory in their grasp, but they failed to
connect at critical points. The loss OF the
game may be Justly ascribed to Rimbsr's
moor work in the first two innings and
Brodie's miserable misiudgment of r.
Westlake's hit in the twelfth. With two
out, and a man no further than irst in the
last inning, Westlake hit for a single,
which Brodie, in an excess OF zeal, tried TO
capture on the fly, with the disastrous re-
suit that the maj on first scored the win
mig run for the visitors, and the long
struggle was over. The Sandusky club
left the grounds in q very happy frame Of
mind, singing q song Of triumph in honor
of their success in breaking the victorious
career of the pennant-wiuners.
The game itself was in marked contrast
to the one of the day before. Wheeling
was both outbatted and outfielded by the
yisitors-a rather new experience for the
local admirers of the game. Still the con.
test was full of excitement, and the 4OO
spectators VINO had assembled to see the
home team pull out another sure victory
were kept on the gui rire from beginning
to finish. In the ninth, with defeat star
ing the home team ia the face, Brodie made
a hit and attempted to steal second. West
lake threw to cut him off and Reid
had the ball in plenty Of time, but
he got right in Brodie's way, and a. our
lett fielder was playing to win, he smashed
into him and knocked the ball n way
and Reid the other, thus obtaining the
coveted bag. Van SAINT followed with a
hit, bringing him in with the tieing rum, but
it all proved of no avail, rs the fates had
determined that Wheeling should lose.
Kimber was very wild in the first two
innings. He hit three men with the ball
and made three wide pitches in that space
of time, allowing the visitors three runs
through his wild delivery.
After a careful investigation of the sta
t~istics, the following has been found re-
garding the record of the Philadelphia
club last season: In the third week in Sep
TENDER they won 3 and lost 3;in the fourth
week, won 5 and lost 0; in the fifth week,
won 9 and lost 0; in the first week OF Oc-
tober, won 6 and lost 0, making a record
of only a possible 16 straight victories, and
that only in case they lost three straight
before they began their winning streak.
Brodie and Nichol batted and ielded
well, with the exception of the formers
bad blunder in the last inning. Sammy's
home run hit in the sixth was a corker.
Yak did not play his usual fine game be-
hind the bat, and the quarrel between he
and Kimber in the second was as unneces-
sary as it was useless.
The attendance was not what might have
been expected from the fine game Wheel
ing has been putting up lately, and it is to
be hoped that the base ball public will
show more appreciation of the fine playing
Of the home team.
The full score is as follows: