Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-05
A GAME FOR EACH.
TWO EXCITING CONTESTS AT THE ISLAND
PARK.
The Canton Warriors Taken Into Camp Bag and
Baggage-The Umpire Wins Game IN the
AhernOon-Grsat Contest at Springfield.

Nine petite and prancing black spiders
yesterday morning invaded the Island base
ball ground, intent on swimming in gore.
They were the Canton team, the leaders oi
the league, and they had left Deubertown
with the clash Of cymbals and the beating
of tomtoms. They had beset the walled
cities of OHIO, aud had cast them down.
They had broken the idols of the
house of Dayton, and the young men
of Springfield had they taken prisoner,
and its young women mad they put in
mourning. They had come into the land
of milk and honey to lay it waste,
and set themselves down before the gates
of the Island Park. They had with them
a mighty leader, who rode in chariot OF
fire, and threw darts of forked lightning
with his cunning right hand, and his name
was Monroe. But an angel appeared to
"Perkins" Kennedy and eight other able
sluggers in the night and said, "arise and
smite the heathsn, for they are yours, y
and Perkins and his valiant men arose and
Qirded on their armor and smote, and they
were "theirn."
CANToN's SLAUGHTER.
Such is the brief, sad history of the
slaughter of the Canton base ball team
yesterday morning 1t was an overthrow
that will cause mourning and sadness IN
the home of the Cantonese, for it was
crushing in it's heighth and depth aud all.
roundness. Wheeling was out to win and
the victory was won by batting, which has
never been exceeded on the Wheeling base
bali park. Monroe, Wheeling's old hoo
doc, was in the box for the visitors, and
he was hoodOo no longer. His curves
had ceased to lure, and his swift and slow
balls had lost their deception. He was
lined out numerically, and the smiling
Mr.. Stab, who took his place at the end
of the third inning, Jared little better al
the hands of the prosecutors.
The day was perfect for ball playing.
The sun broke through the clouds early in
the morning and put the grounds in mag
nifcent condition after the preceding rain.
A fresh breeze swept up from the river and
gave new life and strength TO the hundreds
who had hurried to the grounds to see the
exhibition. Nearly twenty-five hundred
people were present. Both grand stands
wers filled to overflowing. The sunseats
were a solid mass of enthusiastic human
ity, and ropes had to be stretched on each
side to keep back the pushing crowds.
They we're all well repaid in some OF the
fuest displays of base ball work that Q
Wheeling audience has ever been treated =
1he game was too one sided e
be exciting but the enthusiasm oi
the audience was kept at white
heat By the home clubs continuou;
fine stick work, and the long line drives,
and home run hits more than made up fol-
any lack of interest in the result OF the
contest. Nichol, Damn and Kennedy led
in the stick work, and no man got less than
two hits, while a total Of twenty with for
ty-one bases represents the entire number
they were able to CLEAN from Meesrs. Mon
roe and Staib's erratic curves.
THE FUN BEGINS.
Scoring began in the first inning. Mr..
Samuel NichOl was the first man on the
Wheeling score card. He walked up 10
the plate with confident look in his eye
and his favorite bat in his hand. Mr..
Monroe smiled grimly as he feasted in i'm
on a rich, ripe victim, and be-
gan TO shoot in his curves. Samuel studied
his motions until he thought the time
had come to act, and act he did. Swish"
his bat swung through the air and met
one of Mr.. Monroe's out-shoOts. The con-
en- ssion sounded like a cheese box broken
by bed slat, and as the ball sped out into
centre field, Mr.. NichOl maneuvered for
and obtained position on first base. The
opening hit &c emed to break the ice, and
fron that time on a genuine cOnuonsde
kept the Canton fielders hustling, until
many of the weary professors felt
like falling by the wayside. Dunn
flew out. and Williams advanced NichOl
on a sacrifice. Then the old reliable
Splinter, "Puggy" Speidel, came forward,
and the hitch of his trousers indicated that
he was alive to the dignity Of the occasion.
"Puggy" looked at house over in Bridge
r1t, lined away, and the ball sailed grace
fully over the homerun fence, while "Pug-
py" took his time in walking arouud the
diamond.
The invaders scored one in the first. The
ann was in Nichols eyes and prevented
him from getting Miller's high fly, That
sprightly gentleman went to second, ad-
ysnced q base on a wild pitch and scored
On Bergers hit This ended CantOn's run
getting for awhile.
TWO CRUSHING INNINGS.
In the second Michael Hobrecht, erst
while of the South Side, Wheeling, but
now of oil West Virginia and Eastern Ohio,
picked out one elegant curve, and while
she felders were looking for the ball, trot-
ed around home. Miller, Kennedy and
Nichol followed with hard drives, but ow-
pg to some remarkable fielding By Sharp
md Delaney, were not able to score more
han one run. The next inning crushed
Tsnton's hopes and sent Wheeling stock
soaring skyward. Piggy SPeidel fattened
lis batting average with another hit,
O'Rourke followed with a two bsgger,
md by a magnificent burst of speed
Speidel got to third. Bowman
MT safe and S5edel scored.
Bowman died at second on Hobrechts
,hort drive, while O'Rourke scored. Then
Miller and Kennedy hit safely and the
Dases were full. Sammy Nichol was next
Al bat, and Sammy picked out his terri
-ory for home-run drive. He looked long
md earnestly at Me. Monroe's curves until
he found the one he wanted, and then let
oose. The ball flew from his bat IS from
, cstspult and made a direct dive for
Tomas Pigott's mansion. 1t glanced from
he frame with tremendous crash and
,lowed up three-fourths of the onion bed
belonging TO the regal house OF Pigott
before its wild flight was stopped
Then Sammy was standing on the
nome plate. while two thousand en-
spectators were In the delirinm
# ioy. Six runs were scored aud the
light was practically won. Canton played
, iistless game from that on, and although
,everal changes we're made in the playing
positions, they had no sppreciable effect.
wheeling scored six runs in the fourth,
ifth and ninth innings, and Canton got
our in the fourth, fifth snd sixth. Fol
owing is
THE OFFICIAL sC0RB:
CANTON. A. b X Blu - n
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Doyle, m & r...................' p n S Si NJ n
Miller, N, ? < l-.......---..... d Il 4 n
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