Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-31
WHEELING WINS
A GAM FROM CANTON BY HITTING THB
BALL HARD.
Several New Men to DO Given Trial-KsnnsdY
viii Probably Go 10 the Hamilton International
League Cllb-Noiss Of the Game.

After seven successive defeats the
Wheeling team won game Of ball yester'
day from the Spiders OF Canton, but there
are lot of crAnks in the city who circu-
lated the report that the game was virtu-
ally given to Wheeling, and yet not one Of
these mouths" saw the game. 1t is nom
sense to say that the Canton team would
not have won if they could, and they could
not win with the pitcher they had in the
box.
Canton is short Of pitchers, as Monroe
has been sick and Riley WAS released OF
account of a sore arm, leaving no one but
Stab and Miller, the latter not being a
regular pitcher. In this dilemma Manager
Harrington went in the box. There have
been lots of worse games pitched on the
Island park than he put up yesterday, and
tia no discredit to any pitcher to be hit
hard by the Wheeling team. In every
other way the Spiders put up good game,
what errors they made not being especially
costly.
Wheeling put up good game in the
field and the way they hammered Harring-
ton was terrific; Shamus, Williams and
Dunn leading in this work. Shamus put
up good game aud Berger was the only
man who hit him effectively. There were
no exciting features in the game and the
only times the spectators got enthused was
when Wheeling made her four runs in the
third, and when tbs victory was clinched
in the fifth by the addition Of five more
runs.
Barrett, the alleged umpire, did not
Officiate 10 the game. Mondays attempt
in that line was enough to 'queer" him,
and both clubs agreed to do without him.
young man named Bradbury was put
behind the bat TO call balls and strikes,
while Billy Bowman WAS selected to watch
the bases, and he officiated in that capacity
until Kennedy acted the monkey in left
field, when Billy went into the game and
Kennedy looked after the bases, but he
dida't have much to do. Bradbury did
we'll in his position, but he gave Wheeling
a run in the seventh inning when Shamus
was fairly thrown out at the plate.
Canton led off with two runs in the first
inning, when Miller raised out an easy fly
to Kennedy, and that stick deliberately
muffed it, giving Miller second. He then
scored on Ryn's single and Dummy stole
second and scored on Berger's double. In
the sixth Ryn got life on Spiedel's error,
went to second on Bsrger's out and scored
on Harris' hit, and that ended Canton's
run getting.
In the third Shamas lined homer over
right-field fence, Williams got base on
balls, Damn pounded a hole through the
air for three bases HObrecht got single,
Soiedel got a life on balls, Halter
lined cut a double and Doyle missed
a fly, giving Wheeling four runs. In the
fifth, Bowman got hit, Meehan a double;
Ryn made an error; Harrington made a
wild pitch, and Jimmy Shamus hit out an
other home run over left field, and Reddy
Williams lined one over the fence, half
way to Bridgeport, five runs being scored.
In the sixth, double by Halter and a
triple by Bowman added another, and in
the seventh, hit by Shamus, double by
Dunn, a bad decision by Bradbury, pass
ed ball aud wild pitch brought two more
in. In the ninth, the last two we're made
on Shamus' hit and Reddy Williams sec
ond homer toward Bridgeport.
Following is the official score: