The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-10
INTERSTATE LEAGUE.

To-day's gamos-New Castle a Wheel,
Ing, Toledo at Saginaw. Fort Wayne at
Jackson Youngstown at Washington. 3
The wheeling5 won a glorious VIC
tory yesterday. ot71i
BY many of the followers6fth club
It was called the finest exhibition OF
the season. sSgs
The pitchers were Hewitt and Baker.
Hewitt Is the young f~ellowsghose short
experience with the Pittsburgh leag-
ucrs have not cffaced the oas Of new
mown hay nor the Alvin ItssIDl drawl
with which he was Accomplish when
he came In from the backfToods a
season or two ago. to giysothe West
Virginia University team the benefit
OF his celebrated rail fence curve. He
Is still the same old country youth and
would be called Farmer" Hewitt were
II not that there was already: a Far
mer" Brown on the News Castle list
when Hewitt Joined the team But the
boy Is some shucks as PITCHER as all
who witnessed yesterday,ssgame VIII
testify. That Baker 9 his game
when stacked up against spcstrons an
opposing twirlcr Is grcatlystoShis cred
: BahGA a ..
sends him away up in the estimation
of the local cranks. q,
The game was In agreeable, contrast
with the scrappins match OF. the day be-
fore. Manager Faatz. of the New
Castles, had told President Power, who
came down yesterday morning, that he
would not play with Alexander as UNI
plrc, making the very funny assertion
that that official had given his team
the worst of IL on Wcdnespay. Presl-
dent Power put a speedy stop to Faatz's
vaporings by telling him tb4the would
play with Alexander rs umpire, or for
felt. Then the New Castle afnan caine
to his senscs. However, Alexander did
not umpire yesterday. lie went to
Pittsburgh yesterday morning TO con-
fer with Mr.. Power, out as the latter
had started for this city, he did not
see him. Jack" Crogan, the veteran
ball player. was put in for umpire, and
he did remarkably fine work. His, de-
cisions on balls and strikes were salts
factory to both teams. and bis base de-
cisions were just all thb2ESh, New
Castle making but one k~i3ksawhdn a
mar vas declared out at trefplate.
The bright particular start Of the
CANT was Shorty Gallagher. He
played q great game in 'right-fleld. His
catch OF Suulyan's fly In the eighth in
ming was the prettiest piece OF fielding
seen on the Wheeling grounds In many
a day. In the sixth Inning with two
men on bases and Baker apparently
about to ascend In the balloon, Gala
CHER. made a nice catch Of .Donovan's
fly and returned the ball To- Shaw for n
put-out at the plate, retiring the side.
The game was nip andIstucls from
start to finish. Just sixteen hits were
made, altogether, and the runs of both
teams footed up three. AS Wheeling
got the two end all is lovely on the
Ohio this morning.
In the first three inningsnflfe Wheel
Ings went out In one-twouthtcc order.
not making anything approaching n
hit or Hewitt, who was pitching Won
derful ball. THE fine field; work of the
Wheelings kept tic hits for New Castle
down to two'in the same time.
In the Nth inning Wheeling scored n
run amid intense !excltemcpt6and en-
.thusiasm. Shaw sent a hiSll n to:
Whitehlll, which was accented. Then
Whaley and Whaling madcyslngles and
the crowd began 10 see vIsiHns OF a fu-
sLiade OF bnsc hits. The HeSt man up,
dlabb.added to the excitement, by reach-
ing first OIL four wide Jnes, Baker was
not expected to do much. Sliut le came
to.the front with n timely sacrifice that
enabled Whaley 10 score tho first runof.
the game. Violet retired tho side by
Ftbdlng q gragsscutter to! SoYders.
In New, Castles half the v5sitors tied
The Score. George Cancelled on within
base on balls Donovan was out for I'M
terietGnee with the ball dHthe plate
and Hewitt was retlred. oh u fly to-
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