The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-13
AGAIN on THE TOP ROW.
No Team Ahead of wheeling in tho Pei
nant Race.

nnnt Race
The Wheeling ball team is again in the
lead in the race Tor the Tri-State League
pennant, and II The team continues to
play the game it has been putting up
nearly all the time since its return from
that fatal first trip, there is no reason
why it should not keep in the lead to
the finish Of the championship season.
The fact that the Wheeling team is
again at the front is the result OF yester.
days games. Wheeling won in the
game with Jackson and Lima lost in the
game with Columbus. Wheeling has
won 81 and lost Is games, which makes
her percentage .672 Sill. Lima, accord
ing TO President McDermith, has won 50
and lost 10 games, with one game in
dispute. Lima's percentage is 572 1918,
which is .0957 OF one point less than
that OF Wheeling.
The one Lima game that is in dispute
is one that was played with Toledo on q
Sunday early in the season. 1t was the
first time that young Clarkson was in
the box for Lima, and not knowing
what he could do Lima WINS afraid to
have the game counted us one of the
championship series, and accordingly,
by mutual agreement, 1t was played us
an exhibition game. Toledo could do
nothing with Clarkson and was defeated
by large score. After the game Lima
claimed the game as one OF the champ.
ionship series, and has been doing SO
ever since, Last year the rules of the
League provided that all games played
by teams OF the League on League
grounds during the season must count
as championship games; this year the
rules allow for exhibition games.
Now that Wheeling is again in the
lead all the other teams Of the League
may be expected TO turn in and do their
best to down the Wheeling pets. There
are four more games to be played on the
home grounds before Wheeling starts
out on her second trip. In order to get
Il comfortable hold on first place Wheel.
| ing should win all four. When the first
trip was made Wheeling started out with
big lead, yet before the team returned
it had slipped down to fifth place.
Wheeling has two trips to make before
the season is over and the same thing
may occur again on one Of them. Lima
is placing great store on the fact that
it plays its last eighteen games at home,
while Wheeling will play its last
eighteen away from home. From now
on Wheeling must play carefully and
steadily if the penant is to come here.
Yesterdays game with Jackson was
won by Wheeling by score OF II to 2,
The attendance was light, people being
kept away by the threatening aspect OF
the weather and the high river, which
about put stop to the skiG ferry bust.
ness, and compelled people to 60 and
come by way OF the bridge. The game
was about the tamest and most uninter,
esting ever seen on the grounds. 1t was
drag from the start, and at no time, OK
cepting when Tom Flanagan made q
driving base hit that brought in two
runs and surprised the natives,
was there anything like enthu-
siasm. Flanagan pitched an unu-
sually swift ball, and Yak was both
cred to hold him. A feature of the
game was some stupid base running by
the Wheeling men. In close game
with n club Of more equal strength
such base running as some of the
boys did yesterday would lose the
game. In the last inning Larsch was
lined out in manner that must have
broken his heart. The six runs scored
were pounded out and earned in the
easiest kind Of style. There was nothing
really brilliant about the play on either
side. The game was finished just in
time to enable the few spectators to es-
cape the storm.
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