The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-10
AVERY HVHN BALL GAME.
One of the Prettiest Contests
Of the Season Yesterday
WON Blythe WHEELINGTEAM,
Some Of the Features of the Game,
Small Observation-Disclosures De.
: feats Canton Again and Day.
ton Drops a Few Points,

The Springfield ball club was again
humbled in the dust Of defeat by the
Wheeling club, in a game played at
Island park, This time the score was
2tol /, The game, which was q well
played one-ope Of the best Of the
season, in fact, was witnessed by only
q mere handful Of people, and the man
agement after counting up the receipts
had good T~eason.to feel discouraged, Tor
there was less than 81 over the actual
expenses IN the way Of q guarantee and
bus hire fOI the visitors, President
Howell and the other directors think
that 1t is uniustly severe on them that
the officers Of the law should close their
eyes to the many infraCtions OF the law
that take place here on Sundays and yet
be on tho alert to arrest every one con-
neCted with u ball game played here on
ID sunday under the auspices Of the
Wheeling Association OF the TIi,State
League. Two good Sunday games
would let the management out OF the
hole 1t is now in, and they would then
DO willing to forego all other Sunday
games,
AS before stated, yesterdays game was
q good one, well worth seeing. On both
sides the work was close aud spirited.
Wheeling won its first run in the Sec
ond Inning. Bowman, first at bat, got a
life on an error by Easton and stole sec.
ond. Miller struck out. HObrecht made
his sacrifice advancing Bowman to third,
and tho run was made by Bowman
scoring on Zimmerman's hit. In the
third, after 0'Rourke, first at bat, had
flown out to g.. Westlake, Dunn made a
hit, was put on second by Williams soc.
rihce and scored on Speidel's two bag.
ger, which earned thu run. Atno time
after that wa Wheeling able to get a
man further than second base, and only
one there, till in the ninth, when Miller,
after u man was out, got to first on an
error by Stencil, stole second and went
to third on Il bad throw by r. Westlake
to Elston to cut the runners of. He was
unable to score after that.
Springtield's one run in the fifth was
made by WittroGk, who, after ono man
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third on Van Alstine's hit and home on
Il wild pitch. Up to that time tho Wis.
iLors had gone out in one, two, three or.
der, In the fourth inning Shamus did
what has not been done before this sea.
son on these grounds-pitched only
three balls in order to put three men
out, Stencil cracked the first one
away QUITO Williams, g. Westlake fouled
the second to Bowman aud Sommers
sent the third also out to Williams. 1t
looked in the last OF the ninth us though
Springfield would surely win the game.
Sommers opened with a hit, Easton
flew out to Hobrecht, Wittrock hit out
double that put sommers on third, Van
Alstine went out on a hard fly to Miller,
and Il. Westlake was caught between
Dunn and Speidel.
Umpire Burton was an improvement
over what no was the day before, but
still the visitors found in him cause for
much complaint and kicking, The
same clubs will play here again to-day.
The official score Is as follows: