Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-31
STUBB0RNLY FOUGHT.
An Exciting Game Between Wheeling
and Warren Yesterday,
The Home Club Won by a Narrow
Margin - Results of National
League Games 80 sterday s
Turf Events-Other Sporting
Events. LEGAL and by Wire.

Uncle Dan CrOtty first saw the light
of day in a pretty little frame cottage
between two saw mills, out in Wau-
kesha, in the heart OF the lumber dis
trict of Wisconsin. Uncle Dan is
uiGe sensitive about the number Of
years he has been on this mundane
sphere, and as the date Of his birth has
nothing to do with the case, ira la" it
viii not be mentioned here. During
his boyhood he spent many hours in the
mills near his home, watching the giant
saws at work, and gathering a fund OF
valuable information relative to the
peculiar characteristics OF different
kinds Of lumber. He knows a good
stick when he sees il. When he came
90 Wheeling he expressed a half dozen
OF bats. but they were lost in transit.
One day he saw a teamster on Market
street, and lie fell in love with the oak
tongue OF his wagon. For a consider
alton the teamster consented to the am
putation Of the tongue, and 8 few days
later Uncle Dan showed up az the Dall
park with four foot stick on his Shout
der, and his genial countenance suf-
fused with smiles.
That stick has done very effective
work In a number of games. Ii PLAYED
o star engagement yesterday afternoon.
Uncle Dan persuaded Splinter Davis
that it was a good thing, and ''Davy"
did the pushing The game was all but
lost when the ileet-fO0ted catcher came
TO bat i'm the sixth inning. He opened
, proceedings with o clean single, and
Crotty made a timely hit with the same
stick. which brought in Wheeling's first
run. "Davy' also united the cord
which allowed the balloon to go uD in
the eighth, and Uncle Dan welded the
wagon tongue so effectively when his
turn came. that the home club turned
defeat into victory. The bat was very
much i'm evidence. "Toly' Kane did
the rest.
That time-wOrn phrase the umpire
robbed us, which was covered with a
heavy growth of whiskers long before
Guy Hecker was i'm his prime. would
have figured prominently in q descrip-
ton OF the contest but for the fact that
Wheeling pulled out of the hole i'm spite
of rank decisions. Mr. Kelly was de-
cidedly OF yesterday, and unfortunate
ly he home club was the victim in the
roasting But Kelly does the best he
cau which is more than might be said
OF at least one other umpire who 0fici-
atej here He will DO.
To was one Of the scrappiest games
ever witnessed here, and the spectators
We're wrought up to high pitch OF eX-
element Both twirlers were i'm good
form. and IL was a t0ss-up as 20 which
earned the laurels. lie was a battle
from start TO finish. and runs were as
big as balloons. Barrett did not use his
slow ball. but put the sphere over the
plate with all the speed he could COM
maud. For four innings Wheeling
went out in one. two. three order. The
first hit. made by KalkhOn i'm the fifth
was a rank scratch. The visitors
scored the first run in the game in the
fourth inning Al Wagner hit safely.
was advanced on RusSells hit, and
came in on a clean single by smith.
The home club tied che score in the
first half of the sixth. when Davis and
Kane each drew singles. Ball famed
In am EFFORT 10 bunt the sphere. Violet
was hit by the ball. and the bags We're
filed. Cr0tty made q beautiful drive
90 LEFT. and Davis and Kane came in.
It was here that Kelly made a very bad
decision. Rickert tielded the ball to
the home plate. but Smith did not touch
Kane Nevertheless Kelly called him
out There were still two men on
bases. Glasscock popped a foul fly
about half way between third and
home. Smith started for it, slipped
and FELL but the ball dropped in his
right hand. and he held il.
Warren again took the lead in the lat
ter half CrOtty's tumble of Cooper s
drive, which was eXcusable, allowing
smith TO come in. gave them lead OF
Two runs in the seventh. But the game
was not over vet.
Wheeling won out in the eighth
Davis and Kane both hit safely. Ball
flew out 10 RiCkert Violet washed his
lamps and drew free pass to the mi
tial bag. filing the bases. Uncle Dan
swiped the ball again, and it fell safe in
center field. scoring TWO runs. Glass
cock went out on a long fly 10 Rickert
and Violet came in. The visitors did
not get a man past second IN the eighth
or ninth. The score;
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