The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-12
A RANK CASE OF STEAL
Perpetrated on WheeIing's Ball
Team at Sandusky
BY AN INCOMPETENT UMPIRE.
A Dizzy Story to the Eject that the
Police had to be Called in to Pro-
tect Him-othcr TrI.state
Games-GencraI Ball News.

The Wheeling base ball team playe'
at sandusky yesterday, and sustained
its third defeat since the opening Of thu
championship season. From the reports
that have been received it does not ap
pear to have been case ofsquare defeat
but rather one Of deliberate robbery
Manager Buckenberger has very prop
erly protested the game, and will contest
for fair deal to the bitter end.
The first report received from the
game was in the shape OF private dis.
patch to President Seeley from Mr.. Buck
enberger. 1t read, "Sandusky 3, Wheel
ing 9. Game given to Sandusky by
score OF 0 to 0, when Wheeling had two
men on bases and no men out" This
was startling but very unsatisfactory for
the reason that it gave no particulars.
This meagre news spread radidiy, how
ever, and the large army OF base ball en-
thusiasts that abide here were more
than eager for additional news. The
next installment received was the full
score which will be found below.
Then came the following dispatch:
"The game between Wheeling and the
home team to-day abounded in brilliant
PLAYS and took ten innings TO decide.
During the last half Of the tenth inning
the Wheeling players made menaclng
assault upon the umpire and the
police had to be called in to
protect him; whereupon he called the
game and gave it 10 Sandusky, 9to0."
This increased the mystery OF the affair,
and it was not until the following from
Manager Buckenberger, in reply to re-
quest for his version OF the game, was
received, that the mystery was cleared up:
To The Editor Of The Inteiligenoer:
Young, the regular umpire, had been
given leave OF absence until Monday.
We wanted a Sandusky player to UNI
pire the game, but the Sandusky refused
TO agree to that. We notified the UNI
pire before the game that we would play
only under protest. They put in man
named Ruetter, substitute umpire.
We had the game won in the eighth in
ming when he called 0tterson out on
home plate. He roasted us all the way
through, but we did not kick until in
the tenth inning, when Van Zant led off
and got to second on hit, Yak made q
sacrifice to first and beat the ball, Van
Zant going to third rs Strothers fumbled
the ball. The umpire called Yak out,
claiming that, he had hunted the ball
and insisted upon sending Van Zant
back to second. Page 81, section s, rule
AZ, explains where the umpire was
wrong. While Van Zant was on third
and Knauss in the batter's position and
none Of Sandusky's players in position
the umpire gave the game to Sandusky.
Wheeling did not refuse to play the
game out; it was n clear case OF steal.
The game has been protested and every
body in town is convinced that the UNI
pire was wrong. The game will proba-
bly, 60 TO Wheeling.
A. G. BUcHRNDERdER.
Section s OF rule AZ provides that a
batter is out il after two strikes have
been called, the batsman obviously at
tcmpts to make a foul hit. Yak has u
cute little way Of hitting a ball down in
the diamond at critical points and then
beating it to first. 1t is all perfectly
square and that is what he probably
did yesterday. The team has the SYM
pathy Of its many friends here, though
they are surprised at the number OF er-
rors, especially those made by Delahanty,
and wonder what has become OF the
boys batting ability.
The full score il as follows.