Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-02

There was no contest at CONey park
yesterday afternoon. but the following
imprornptu programmewas rendered for
the dedication of the six hundred per-
sons who passed through the gates:
overture-"what VIII We DO TO
"Glve er a boomp" Co.
McHoverter and Chorus
Saffron tinted umpiring ............. Daniels
High Kicking Speciality. ............. .Thorp
Initiation Of School Boy Playing. Saginaw
(a) Baby Rack Pitching.
Co Japanese Juggling.
(c) High and Lofty Tumbling.
(O Finale. Balloon Ascension.
Potnouri-"Tdey Nav Have Seen.
Butter Fingers" "Oh what 4
Frost" Get scoop" Skate
Slide-ow-wow" .............. Bleachers
More Umpl-ing-Bad Worse. superIa-
Artistic POsia g-''Browri4". ........ Thorp
over the Fence i OUT. .Whaley
Dialogue-''YOu'r rOtten-r0tten" .Thorp
"That'u cost you ten Daniels
0l "Ilberiy Frightening the I'm
pire ......... ..................ThOrp
Cbl After TIE Bath ION seconQ. Violet
2 ..Aa me ;n B 59i,, = SaginaW
Closing Chorus Rotten. Rotten. Good
and Rotten ...................B leachers
Every number OF the programme was
q gem. ThOrp was star performer.
He is one Of these ''little-but-oh-my'
fellows with elongated pedal eXtremi-
ties. a lusty voice. and a wooden arm
He runs largely TO stomach and hips
and maSUres as many inches across as
up and down. He is captain OF the
Saginaw aggregation, and is the man
, ha II l.
picture He took a dislike 10 Daniels
early in the game. and before it was
over Daniels reciproCated. A lit,le
kicking now and then is relished. and
IS species of ginger. but Thorp gave
the crowd TOO much Of a good thing
Daniels was decidedly off on balls and
strikes. but he was impartial If the
score had been close. his troubles
would have been increased and multi
piled
But Saginaw could no. have won
Daniels had given them the benefit
every close decision in the game III
spectators are beginning to think tina
after all there is some justification for
the howl which has gone up from the
western section about being outclasSed.
The Michiganders gave an exhibition
yesterday which was very poor, the
poorest yet seen at the local park: Blu,
they say il is the worst game they have
played. and in ahrcharity, they should
be given the beneIit Of the doubt They
are dead sore and fighting mad. and
swear by each individual hair in the
head of umpire Daniels that they will
win to-day. IL viii be a scrappy game.
IL was not RutherfordS fault He
pitched fairly good game. under the
most diShearteniug circumstances.
Every one Of the infelders had an er-
rOr behind him. and they threw the
bail around like they were playing a
game OF "giVe-GWay" a. checkers.
Wheeling took advantage Of all these
blunderS and The players incidentally
fatteued up their batting averages.
Irwin kept the visitors guessing. and
pitched very good game. His sup
port was clean and quick. One OF the
errors was an eVcuSable muff by Violet.
Red gO- four hits. two OF them
doubles. Whaley. Wagner and Gal
lagher also found the ball often.
The visitors scored in the first. with
the aid Of base on balls and a passed
ball, and in the fourth in the same way.
They earned one run in the fifth. on a
double which Gallagher took a couple
Of Somersaults in chasing. and three
singles.
Wheeling made four in the first on
four hits. base on balls and passed
ball They piled up six in the fourth.
on three hits, a like number of mex
cusa6le fielding errors. two bases on
balls anr wild pitch. In the fifth in
Ming, Wagner and Violet drew doubles
Gallagher single. and Whalev a home
run. and three fielding errors sssis.e \
the Wheeling players in piling IN four
runs. After that the visitors settled
down. and Rutherford held Wheeling
down TO one hit in tour innings. The
score.