Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-21
STANDING or CLUBS.

The usual genial smile mad disappear
Cd from the handsome face OF Manager
Hrr.ng.on Of the Celeron's, and IN its
place was a grave yard grin, when he
unbosomel himself to the Register man
last night
Nov. I don't believe in rabbits feet
as masco.s. and / don't think it vii!
bring good luck TO expectorate through
the fingers waen you meet a cross-eyed
girl. but hang me if don't believe
there is some i'll luck in the figure thir-
teen. We started on our trip with mat
number Of players. We put up good
ball. and everything would move along
smoothly unit, the ninth inning, when
we would usually sc pieces as we did on
Monday. We lost half a dozen games
that we had a dead cinch on, see? some
az Them we lost by one score. / got sus-
pic;ous about some of the players, but
one day somebody called my attention 10
tba fact that there were thirteen men IN
the club. i ,ett one behind at PittsDurS,
thinking the spell might be broken al
Wheeling. and / thought we would
strike q winning streak until that fatal
ninth inning In Mondays game. had
an Jhe bats put away and was getting
ready to ge- into the bus, when Ball
drove that two bagger over second. That
Pittsburg man was laid of with salary,
so 1 guess IT'S no use trying 70 deceive
these hard luck tiends. To-day I'm go
ing TO fire some one or sign another
player. and when Wheeling comes 20
Celer0n the team viii have to win by
putting up a better quality Of ball
CC1roy came TO Wheeling heralded as
'phenOm" He must have slept in
room 13 al the hotel as the boys found
him very easy The visitors were not
I'm it az any stage. and the game was
devoid of the exciting features of Mon
days contest. C0nroy was touched safe
~ fourteen times, and three OF them
were doubles But Wheeling would not
have made so many runs, but for the
errors of CelerOn. McCleary went on
the rubber for the local club, and proved
TOO much for the sluggers Of the New
York team. Even Campfeld famed the
wind, when a hit would have meant
several varieties of trouble for the home
team. Mae was IN splendid form
The game was reple-e with splendid
fielding plays by the home infeld, and
in striking contrast. stupid blunders by
the visitors. CelerOn certainly played
yesterday ike tail enders. Their work
lacked the snap and ginger which dis
,ingu.slsd Mondays game The home
i
and Celer0n never showed front. Two
scores were made in the third and two in
the fourth In the fifth Celeron played
like a lot of school boys. Glasscock led
off with q nice single. Kerr walked to
the initial bag. Ireland reacher first on
Cos-ello's bad throw, which also allowed
Glassc0ck 10 come in. Ka,khOff singled
and Kerr scored. Davis hit in the in
field, and beat the ball 10 first. "Davy"
had on a bran new pair of sprinting
boots, and he went down to the bag like
q streak of lightning. "Davy" is think
Ing Of going into draining this winter
for The purpose of bloss0ming ont next
spring as a foot runner. In the effort
Co catch Davis the visitors left third I'M
covered and "Kal" stole the bag. Then
they threw the ball an around
,ne lot in an effort to catch the fleet
footed Davis going to second. and when
the dust cleared away both he and Kalk-
h0U had crossed the plate.
The visitors made one in the fourth.
and one i'm the sixth, and made a rally
I'm the ninth, after Kelly's rank decision
in declaring llcKeever safe when he
was thrown out at first by Ireland. The
score.