Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-19
COMEDY OF ERRORS.
THE WHEELING TEAM A BAD CASE OF
RATIFIED"
Mansfield Has Complete WalkoVsr and Time to
Spms-Ths Home Team Distinguishes ltselfby
Loose Playing-Eight Runs in One Inning
Features Of tie Game

Features o. t2e udme.
There was supposed to have been a
matched game of ball between the Wheel
ings and the Mansfields yesterday, but
as it turned out, only the Manshelds
played ball: the home team looked on.
Seldom has a ball team became more
disunited, almost disintegrated, than
our own pet Wheelings did yester-
day. 1t was game lost by errors, and
what made the contest all the more
painful to the auditors, was the fact
that the errors were largely inexcus-
able.
A peculiar characteristic OF the home
team is that it starts out with glowing
prospects, but seldom maintains the
even tenor Of its way throughout the
conflict. This was strikingly exempli-
fed yesterday. The Wheeings caved
early and often. They began to reap
harvest in the first two innings by
piling up three runs, but evidently be-
came too highly elated to keep up cor
respondingly good field work. After
the second inning the home team SEEM
ed somewhat afraid of the visitors, and
contracted, which is known in athletic
parlance as bad case OF "rattles." The
visitors collared two runs in the third
inning, and from that on
SWUNG TIE WILLOW
with very marked and scenic effect.
Gibson, who pitched for the Wheelings
six innings, put up an errorlcSS game,
but was very poorly supported. In the
first half OF the fifth inning the visitors
seemed to have the Wheelings COM
plctely meSmerized. The visitors in
stituted Il sort OF half hour running
match around the bases, and they en-
countered few obstacles. They crossed
the home plate with the methodical
regularity OF machinery. 1t actually |
got dazzling TO see the visitors doing |
the circuit of the bases. The entire |
bottom of the Wheelings dropped out. |
The only thing that kept the audience |
intact was the superlative character OF |
the weather. 1t was almost perfect mid |
summer day. The fatal fifth inning |
knocked the starch out OF ''our boys"
Eight runs, whcw
II was rumored late last night that
the Wheeings had man on first base
yesterday. but nobody was found to
subStantiate the statement. Cline was
supposed to represent
THAT IMPORTANT POSITION,
but Cline might Just as well have been
In Denver, Colorado, yesterday. So
far as we can learn, he was neither
sick nor tired nor sublimcly full. but
some part OF his organism was sadly
out Of gear. 1t was Cline's off day, and
very off day. Now, we appreciate
the fact that the position OF first base
man is very responsible one, but far
more in the line OF accurate play than
almost any position in the field, and for
this reason errors there are almost in
eXcusable. Such errors as Cline made
yesterday are not down In the category
of mishapS. On several occasions he
had the ball square in his hands and
would then drop it.and fumbled around
the base for it. What Cline needed yes
terday was less feet and more hands.
or the eight errors credited to the
Wheelings. Cline was the author OF five.
a slip up on what ought to have been a
straight catch might have been endur-
ed, or even two, possibly three, but
four. and then five, heavens. didn't the
audience get nervous. Get basket"
Tie bag around the base" were
few of the gentle reminders sent out
from the audience.
Nor was Cline alone in the general up
heayal. O'Brien, who usually puts up
a faultless game, and who even yester-
day successfully made one or two dar-
ing plays, once tumbled all over the
ball before he could find II, and
Alta CRITICAL STAGE
OF the game. Belts fumbled, Mills FUN
blcd, and even the undaunted Lytle be-
hind the bat, not to be outdone by his
perspiring confrcres, soon found his
mittens too big for the ball. and began
TO play somewhat at random. Gibson,
who naturally enough got tired oiliciat-
ing as feeder for the Mansfield sprint
ing contest In the fifth inning was dis
placed by third baseman Belts in the
last half of the sixth inning. and the /
home team getting second wind, man
aged to keep the visitors down to only ,
one additional run. [
The wrctched field work Of the |
Wheelings seemed to have somewhat q
dismantled the boys also at the bat, and '
they struck promiscuOusly at good, bad :
and Indifferent balls. Cline, on one oc-
casion, struck at a sky scraper that
greatly amused the audience. While
the visitors played n stiff game, and pre- ,
served a marked unity OF action, the l
twelve runs should never have been
there. Had the Wheelings been unsal- /
aricd school boys merely
WILLING AWAY SURPLUS TIME,
the game of yesterday might have been
excusable, but with trained artists, and
salaried at that, never. We would sug-
gest. and with kind feelings, that the
put on its Spectacles and
look over the club. 1t is barely posi-
BILE, that even at this critical stage OF
the championship season, it could he
improved by little "weeding OUT or
patching up" The following tells the
story OF how the WheelingS were wal
loped:-
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