The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-30
Down 10 THRD PLACE.
Lima Wins Three Straight and
Wheeling TumbIes.
To-DAY's GAINESVILLE GAMES
To be Witnessed by a Large Number
of wheeIlnsites aud "Tobe," the
Mnscot-othcr Games Played
interchangeable Police game.

Yesterdays game ut Lima was a rep
etition OF Saturdays slaughter, Wheel
ing being defeated by score Of to 2.
The Lima boys had fiat bats, a foot wide,
and plenty of muscle to swing them.
For them the ball was OF a proper size,
and they batted it around to their
hearts content, but in the eyes of the
Wheeling players it was no larger than
a buckshot, and three solitary hits were
all they were able to secure; one of
these, however, was three-bagger
tapped out by professor" Van Zant. 1t
is pleasing to note this hit, as it indi-
Gates that there is one man who has not
forgotten how to bat. 1t is evident that
the others have forgotten that import.
ant part OF game, and unless they soon
learn again how to hit ball, even their
warmest defenders among the few they
have left, will have no use for them. As
usual, there were great chunks Of
sorrow lying around loose last night
when the news came in and the disgust
was n foot thick. The details OF the
affair will be found below.
Yesterdays game made three straight
that Lima has made off Wheeling. II
was thought when jackson made two
straight that the limit had been reached,
but that was mistake. Lima is now
the leader in the Tri.State race. Count
ing the game she played with Toledo on
Sunday, May Is, she has won 10 and lost
II games, giving her n per cent OF 1888,
Columbus did not play yesterday, and
with Is games won and II lost has u per
cent of 1921. Wheeling comes third
with n per cent OF 900.
To-day the Wheeling team is billed
to play two games at GAINESVILLE, and
the chances are even that they will
meet defeat there, for GAINESVILLE has a
strong team. They will be joined there
by two new playcrs-Elias Peak, OF the
Southern League, and James Gray, OF
Pittsburgh. 1t is seldom that anything
good comes out of the Southern League,
but Peak may be one of the exceptions.
Gray is first class player. Peak will
relieve Van Zant, who has bad ankle,
and Gray is to be played ut second.
Why Lemons is not kept on second,
where he is doing as well as the balance
of the team, is what people will want to
know,
In addition to the new players there
will be about one hundred Wheelingites
at GAINESVILLE to watch the two games.
A party of fifteen left for there on the
B. 4 o. yesterday afternoon; tifty-tive
more left at 10 o'clock last night and
about thirty went out at II 10 o'clock.
More are expected to go out this morn
ing. Among those who went out were
some of the directors; they will ask
Manager Buckenberger to explain the
performances that have reduced Wheel
ing to the ranks. There is one thing on
which to base hope that Wheeling
will win to-day and that is the fact that
"Tobe" will be preseHtin his old time
capacity of Mascot. A purse was sub
scribed last night to pay his expenses.
When he was told that it had been ar
ranged that he was to 60 smile illumi-
mated his ebony-hued countenance that
made his mouth look like Il yawning
chasm. He hurried home, attired him
SELF in n billed shirt and his best clothes,
and with n red base ball cap on his head
was ut the depot in time to go with the
"boys." To-day he will sit on the sun
seats and endeavOr to work "hoo.dOO"
on the kickapoo tribe.