Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-22
STANDING OF cLuBs.

Warren 20 > ~
tN lity OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 .33o
heeiiuG ........................- / 3 = .JoO
New castle. ................----...- = .3SO
RANK ....-..........---....... 10 - 10
Iltu7Nliie- ......-.......-..... i : 10 -
Nctcfo ll----.-.-..- ......-.....-.. - --oJ
Twin Cities......................... p .25O
Some months ago Mr.. Geo. L. More
land organized a ball club in Steuben-
Vile His principal capital was con-
fdence, of which he had an abundant
supply But he was short on cash. He
constructed a ball park in a hole, and
the fans were wont to gather around
the edges and peer down at the boys
tossing the sphere about the diamond.
There was a surfeit Of enthusiasm in
the town, and a dearth OF gaze receipts.
Moreland had two courses open TO him,
the building of q sixty foot fence at
the TOP of the well and the transfer Of
the team to Akron. He chose the lat
ter. Akron promised eagles and gave
pennies, and thus it happened that an
explosion occurred one Saturday night
IN the Ohio town, which was the enter
ing wedge in the destruction OF the
Interstate League. Ii was pay day,
and Noreland had not the wherewith
In his jeans TO stop the awful clamor
OF players for salaries.
All this may appear to have no con-
uectiOn with the IRON and Oil League,
bu- from the Akron fiasco dates the
hopes of the Warren roOters for pen
nant winning ball Moreland had
job lot of players who were putting up
stiff game, and Warren captured an
even half dozen of them, including the
two W0guers Richie and pitcher Bar
retL Later they got Cooper, of Ken
ton, who promised to come TO Wheel
ing, and who was so TOundly Missed
every time he came TO bat yesterday
and deservedly so, for breaking faith
with the Wheeling management. The
Warren fans secured Chamberlain
and Fickery, two National League
twirlers, who We're expected to prove
the Darwinian theory of evolution by
making monkeys of the batters who
faced them. In the language OF the
street urchin. they came nigh, but
they had TO have en- Chamberlain
was recalled by the Spiders, and it de
wolves upon Nickery alone to demon
strate the vast superiority Of the big
league players.
Vickery attempted to give the home
club little lesson in the national game
yesterday, but somehow or other they
managed to connect with that miscel-
laneous assortment of twists and cur
yes. and that beWhiskered speed that
was 10 NOW them down like blades OF
grass. and Nickery was last night ask
ing himself where he was at They
banged his balls right and left and in
the middle i'm the first, and won the
same i'm single inning. Nickery real
lied. like the man who ran against the
Kansas cyclone, that he struck some
thing. Then he settled down, but it
was 100 late
"TOIy" Kane twirled for Wheeling,
and gave a much more creditable eXhi-
bition than Vickery. He was remark
ably effective with men on bases. In
the seventh inning Warren had two
men on bases. with but one man out,
and folly made the next TWO batters
fan the breezes. lie repeated the per-
Torrance i'm the eighth, and was warm
IT, appiauded by the spectators. There
were number of costly errors on both
sides. but they detracted but little from
the interest in the game. The fielders
eyened matters up by making num-
Der of brilliant catches and stops.
Nickery was easy in the first inning,
and the spectators thought he would
De knocked out of the box. Ball led
of with q nice single, and came in on
Pete SOmers' drive TO left for two bags.
Uncle Dan flew to left, and Pete came
i'm out of the cold GlasscOck gave up
the ghost at the initial bag. Kerr fol-
lowed with a drive to right, was adj
vanced on Ireland's single and trotted
across the plate on Kaikhof's hit in
right garden. -Four singles and a dOU-
ble. and three earned runs. Two were
added i'm the seventh. Glasscock hit
10 third too hot TO handle. Kerr bunt-
ed and got life on RUsseli's muff. Ire
land forced the Canuck out at second.
Splinter Davis hit to third. Wagner
fumbled the ball and then threw wild
10 first allowing GiasscOCk and Ireland
to cross the plate.
The visitors scored one run in each
of two innings In the third Smith led
OF with a hit. Rickert was safe on
Irelaud's error. and Smith came in on
Waguers single. In the fifth Rickert
hit TO left, but was forced out at sec
ond Cooper popped up a foul fly
which went through Davis fingers, and
he followed it with a hit in right field
which brought Richie in. The result
should have been to 0. The score:
WHEELING. A. II. n. PA. y.
Ball SIS . .