The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-30
A Rv0KY GAME on BALL

Made More 80 by the UmpIre-CantOu
s~laughters wheeIlng-otlsr Games.
The Wheeling ball club yesterday lost
It's seventh consecutive game, this time
by the crushing score Of 81 TO 0. The
game was played with Canton on the
home grounds before an audience mum
bering $50, and was one Of the poorest
exhibitions seen here this season About
the only feature that aroused any inter,
est was the Varlegated work OF Umpire
Barrett. In giving his decisions he was
MS erratic as the %proverbial male bovine
in fly time, and kept everyone guessing
us to what he would do next. He made
both clubs suffer, and thoroughly dis.
gusted the audience by his unexplain.
able and manifestly wrong decisions.
The audience vented itself by guying
him numerically, and in that way got
about the only enjoyment out Of the
game that was to be had. One thing is
certain, aud that is, that only o few more
games such as that Of yesterday will be
necessary to cut the already small non
paying attendance down to nothing, and
sink Wheeling's club unwept, unllonor-
cd and unsung in tho grave OF oblivion.
Neither club was In good condition
yesterday. They had been up aud
travelling all the night before aid blt
little time was allowed for Bleep and
rest after reaching here yesterday morn.
ing. At ! o'clock yesterday morning oil
the players who had participated in the
game at Canton Sunday, went before
Justice Wattock, by whom they had
been arrested at the conclusion OF the
game, in accordance with a previous ar:
Fsngetnent, aHd were duly lined. The
Inc aud c6stsi in each case amounted to
but ST 80, and was paid hy the Canton
management. BY being thus arrested
and fined, the CLUBS are saved from any
prosecutions that the Law aud Order
Society might put on foot and which
would prove much more expensive and
annoying. Immediately after the pro.
ceedings before Justice Wattock the
two teams took a train for Wheeling
and trayeled the BALANCE q tho night.
Naturally neither teala was In shape to
play good bali
The Wheeling team, besides suffering
from loss Of sleep and want Of rest, was
in u badly broken up condition. The
fact that there Is no one to play short
regularly has q constantly bad effect.
speidel has been a candidate for the hos:
pital for TIM past three weeks he is'all
broken up with q cold that has made
him'sore and stiff he can scarcely speak
above q whisper and hil hearing has
been affected, aud he is In anything but
condition 10 play first base. The clubs
pitchers are not 10 be depended upon at
critical times, Kennedy, the one time
%"phenom,' having, apparently, been
most elfeCtually exploded. There are
other weak points that could 10 Gunner
ated, bNtehoggh has already been shown
and is generally known, TO demonstrate
that the club is not In winning form,
especially to 90 up against such a strong
organization as the Canton team.
or yesterdays alleged game there ID
murdered in the third inning, and the
exercises alter that consisted'ot kicking
the corpse for amusement. Meehan's
delivery was made to matertallge in that
inning Into q triple, three doubles and
four singles, Five men stole second
base and four errors-awiul ones-two
by Bowman and one each by thinner
and speidel, completed the tragedy.
The same clubs will play again to-day.
It is hoped that q good nights rest will
put the boys In shqpe 10 play at least a
llbrs equal ganie than that OF yesterday,
and that Barrett will have ire5hened up
on the rules Of the game.
The full score Of yesterday game Is as
follows: