Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-21
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Two veteran Tri-State twirlers faced
opposing teams at the Island park
yesterday afternoon. in the presence Of
twelve hundred spectators. Monroe
pitched for Canton in the old organiza-
ton, and was the star twirler of the
league. He proved yesterday that his
arm has lost none Of its cunning His
speed was terrific, his command and
curves excellent. Wheeling batted the
bali into the infeld generally, and with
the exception OF Kerr's home run, no
long hits were made. Theodore Con-
over, a product of the State of bloOded
horses, beautiful women. and good
whisky. pu- the sphere over the plate
like rifle balls, and twisted it about the
necks OF the batterS.
IL was a battle royal between the
pitchers. in which ConOyer had a de-
cided advantage he held the visitors
down 20 three hits until the ninth in
ming, when two more were made, but
they We're of the scratch order. Every
time q New Castle batter connected
with the ball it went into the infeld
and the runner was retired. The few
hits which went outside of the dia-
mOnd were fly balls. and they dropped
into the pockets OF the Outtielders.
Notwithstanding C0uover's mastery
work. Wheeling was defeated.
The score should have been l to o.
Wheeling making the only earned run
in the game For four long innings
both sides drew blanks, the New Cas-
ties securing bud two hits Off Con0ver
CCotty's fatal error I'm the fifth was re-
sp0usible for the first run scored by thg
visiting club. Thompson was the first
man az bar. He hi- TO Crotty, who
fumble1. giving him q life. GilbOy and
Monroe went out on dy balls. Steen
hit safely 90 right field after the side
who had taken a big lead off the bag,
completed the circuit of the bases be-
fore lac ball was felded in to Davis
Wheeling tied the score in the sew
enth. Charley Kerr was the first man
at bat. He got his optics on the first
ban which came 10 the plate. II was &
beauty. He sent it spinning ont be-
tween centre and right and il was lose
in the high weeds. II was good for
three bases. but he went on around to
the home plate, before the ball was
found The crowd cheered Justify. for
it was poetic Justice That Wheeling
should be assisted by the weeds in re-
turn Tor the awful disaster of the pre-
vious day. The run would have been
made. however. If the BAH had not been
lost. Cro-rv was retired at first. Bro
die GOT q life on Blair's error. Kalkhoff
sacrificed. and Conover few out
The visitors did not make 9 hit in
the sixth seventh or eighth In the
ninth. Pollard hit TO Pritchard. It
was TOO hot FOR the first baseman TO
handle. and Pollard reached first in
safety He was forced out at second by
Chambers. O'Brien was hit by
pitched ball advancing Chambers to
second Thompson hit to Brodie, fore
ing Chambers out at third GilbOy hit
toward short The sphere came straight
toward BAH. and looked like an easy
one TO handle but just before reaching
him. fl struck something in the infeld
and bounded over his head But for
that bound. the -wo teams might have
been PLAYING vet O'Brien went around
To- the plate scoring the winning run.
II wa hard game to lose. and Wheel
ing should have had the victory
Midget Wier became III during the
first inning. and retired in favor Of
Blair. who gave q gilt edged exhibition
az short. Weir and Smith play their
mfeld positions like a stone wall and
throw with uuerring accuracy. AL
though Ball is charged i'm the official
score with two errors. he played
much better game than ON Friday. and
made three of The eight hits credited TO
Wheeling. Charley Kerr's work In left
field was excellent. He got everything
he went after. and he Went after every7
thing ne saw. invading the territory Of
Crotty and Pritchard once or twice.
Kalkhon put up an excellent game in
center.
The game on the whole was one OF
the prertiest of the season. II il had
been played on Friday there would
have been five hundred more specta-
tors at Yesterdays game New Castle
has am excellent club. and viii give all
the teams a tough argument Callhan
and Monroe are excellent pitchers. The