Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-14
A Good Game of Ball on the Island Park
Yesterday Afternoon
WHICH SENT WHEELING UP
To Second Place---The Standing Of the
Clubs
SPORTING NEWS OF INTEREST
Little Jimmie Shsmus
Sat in the corner,
Eating his humble pie;
BE put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum.

The above touching rhymes titly repre-
sent Mr.. James Shamus' feelings before
and after yesterdays ball game. Mr..
Shamus was humbled by an unholy COM
bination of umpire and wet ball on We'd
nesday. He was bowed down in the dust,
and the Philistines trampled Oh his car
cass, but bis day of triumph came. He
rose in his might yesterday, and pranced
over the diamond as lithesome and as
frisky as a yearling colt He shot curves
across the plate, and outshoots into the
umpire's Iibs. He fred the swift ball into
the grand stand, and toyed with the
frolicsome and deceptive slow delivery.
He smote the sluggers from Hamilton and
they fell like wheat before the reaper.
Even as the stubble of the harvest were
they consumed. He twirled the leather,
and for nine long innings did they reach
it not.
The game was Shamus' yesterday from
first to last. He was practically invlncible
and all the efforts of the gentlemen from
Hamilton netted them only one measly
little hit. When this is known the story
of the game is known.
Nelson, who pitched for Hamilton, ALEC
did good work, bat it was not in the same
class with the Wheeling twirlers. The
home team batted him freely when men
were not on bases They had hard luck,
however, in punching their hits and the
unusually large number of fourteen men
reached the initial bag, only TO perish mis-
erably before they connected with the
home plate.
The game was Won by Wheeling by
timely hitting in the second inning.
Neither eide scored in the first, though the
boys in blue made a desperate effort to
do so, and only missed it by the cuticle OF
their incisors. Hsller started the fun
when ne came to bat. He hit safe and got
first. amid round of applause from the
bleaching boards. Meehan followed him.
As he stepped up to the plate, Meehan
gave an extra hitch to mis- trousers, and re-
arranged one of the hairs of his moustache.
He was then in condition to do some slug
oinp. Professor Nelson began to work
with him, but be aid not have to labor
long. One strike was called, and the mt t
bali sailed in over the plate, Just where 1t
was wanted. The smack of Meehan's bat
sounded like a hen coop had been hit with
a crow bar; and the leather sailed far ont
into left field, past Higgins head, past the
trees. and scraped acquaintance with the
back river fence. While Higgins was
sprinting around after it, Meehan and
Hsller took their time coming home. An
other run was scored in the same inning
on thinner being hit by the ball, steal,
and put out. Wheeling added two more
to her score in the eighth and ninth by
good clean hitting, and then rested with
the game won.
The visitors were able to get only one
man across the plate, and his journey
around the bases ought TO have been nip
red at the start. Miller got his base on
balls, stole second, and scored on Z'mmers
error. This WAS the best they could do,
and the game ended five to one in Wheel
ing's favor. Following is the official score;