The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-09
'IHH Opening BAIL GAME
.of the Season Won by the
Wheeling Team,
WITNESSED BY AGooDCRoWD
Players Show up well-Howthe Runs
were Made-Auother Game To.
day-Newsy Notes from the Dia-
mond and About Players,

The base ball season OF 1883, IN Wheel
ing, was opened very apspiclously at
Island park yesterday afternoon with a
game between the Wheeling club and
the Springfield, III. club, Of the Inter
State League, which was won by the
home club by a score OF 0 to 4, 1t was
witnessed by over six hundred specta'
tors, including several ladies, The sun
seats were the ones most In demand for
the reason that nearly everyone found
basking in the warm rays OF the sun
which shone brightly and made the
afternoon a charming one, the most
comfortable way In which to view the
game,
While there were no specially brilliant
plays to distinguish the game or arouse
enthusiasm, II was quite an IN
teresting one, and everyone was agree
ably surprised at the good showing made
by the new home team. There has been
a very general impression that this sea-
sons Wheeling team was In the nature
Of a pickup organization, and that but
little, II anything, was to be expected OF
them. This impression was quickly dis
PEELED from the minds OF those who saw
yesterdays game; the men, considering
the short time they have been associated
together, play remarkably well, and
with the improvement that should nat
urally follow when they become more
limbered up and better acquainted with
each others points, ought to form a
very strong team, Mannasau bids fair
to become q popular player, and Mike
HobreCht, the South Side boy who
makes his first appearance as a profess
sional, has already found a place In pub
lie favor; he promises to DO handy with
the bat and covers short In good style.
Dunn was ~applauded when he stepped
to tho plate and demonstrated by the
double and single he raped out that he
had not forgotten how TO bat, while in
running bases he was as tleet.tOoted US
ever,
The Springfield team, It will be no.
tiCed, has several OF last seasons Tri'
State Leagues players on It's roster, in
Guiding StapletOn and Van SAINT, OF the
Wheeling team OF last season, and Dick
johnson, the Colored catcher and fielder
on whom GAINESVILLE set such store. Van
SAINT recalled old times by INDUCING in
one Of his profane breaks in front OF the
ladies' stand, u performance that the
management here should set down on
very heavy, no matter who the offender,
II they expect decent people 10 attend
the games,
Wheeling made her runs as follows:
In the first Ryan reached first on an
error OF Fuller's, who fumbled the ball,
stole second, went to third on q passed
ball and home on a missed fly OF Spei.
del's by johnson. In the second Dunn
opened with a single, but died at second
in an attempt to steal it. speidel went
out on u grounder TO Stapleton. Jimmy
Green hit out q single, reached second on
a passed ball and stole third. Alm:
mer got bis base on balls and
stole SECOND. Then little Hobrecht
stepped up and covered himself
with glory by hitting outa red hot single
that brought the two mon on bases
home, and aroused the only real cheer
OF the afternoon. In the fifth Ziegler
got his base OIL balls. Ryan knocked
out q high fly which everyone thought
johnson had sure, but he mutred 1t;
Xiegler naturally had not dared go far
down the line from first, but after the
muif he had to go aud vas put out at
second, johnson having recovered the
ball and thrown 1t toWright. Ryan stole
second, went TO third on a wild pitch
and home on a two base hit Of Dunn's.
III tho seventh Sullivan struck out,
Ziegler got his hase on balls again, was
advanced by a single OF RyRn's who
reached second on q bad throw OF Bells,
and then Mannasau let drive hard at the
ball for two bases aud drove both the
others home.
Springleld's four scores were made as
follows: In the third after two men were
out, johnson hit a single, stole second
aud was brought in by a single knocked
out by Gilman. In the fifth Wright got
n base on balls, Bell bit out u two. bagger,
johnson followed With a single that
landed Wright saie, but was gotten home
Just in time to kill off Bell. johnson
was sent home by a two.base hit on the
part OF Gilman. In the fourth after one
man vas opt Munyan got a basn on balls
and was sent homo op singles by Wright
and Bell.
The score is as followsi