Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-06-05
CUTTERS.
Kanawhaville's Professionals
Show the White Feather.
They Quit the Game in the Fifth In
ming Like Schoolboys.
With the Score Standing Four to Nothing
in Favor of Marietta-The Umpire
Refused to Call Fair Ball
a Foul and Gave the
Game to Marietta.

nine of Parkersburg, Wheeling and 9
few other cities came up to Marietts
Thursday with a smile of superiority
and an appetite for pudding, but they
skulked home like co&hrds, defeated
and disgraced. They, staid on the
field for FIVE innings until it was Ger.
tain they were beaten and no match
for the plucky Lobdells, and then qui,
the game because the umpire refused
to rob Peters of a good clean hit by
calling it foul.
The game was fairly we'll attended.
The Parkersburg delegation were con-
fident and boisterous. The Marietta
spectators, having learned that Park.
ersburg had secured crack profess.
ional battery and third baseman from
Wheeling, were inclined to soberness
and the players of the Lobdells had al
most given up the game themselves be.
fore it had begun.
The visiting team were all big fell
lows and their handsome new uniforms
took the shine out out of the smaller
and younger lads who had thrown
down their work in the rim factory to
defend the Marietta cause. But the
gaudy uniforms of the Kickers from
Kanawahaville were disgraced aud dis
honored before the game closed and
the local team had forever ingratiated
itself into the good graces of the Mari
eta fans.
The visitors were outplayed at every
point-outbatted and outfielded. Their
paid team is failuIe and should con-
fine itself to playing the kids of its
own city.
The pitching of Reynolds for the
Lobdells was brilliant and entities him
beyond doubt to berth on the paid
team now in process of formation.
The batting of McCallister and
Schlicher and the fielding of Garry,
Theis and Seamon were features of the
game.
Parkersburg opened at the bat and
went out in one, two, three order,
Bumgardner being hit by batted ball.
Marietta got nothing in the first in
ming, Klintworth, Seamon and O'Neal
striking out in order
In the first half of the second Seam
on handled a grounder to Schlicber
who passed it to O'Neal for a neat
double play, retiring Hastings and
Caskey. Baker was hit by a pitched
ball and left at first by Anderson's
strike out For Marietta Peters made
nice hit, but was unable to score be-
fore the side was retired.
The game warmed up in the third in
ming, but the visitors were unable to
score and added another goose egg to
their record. The inability of the
pitching began to have it's effect upon
the players of that team, but when
Johnnie McCallister stepped up to the
plate and smashed the first ball pitched
into left field for two bases the spirits
OF the local fans revived. McCallister
scored on Seamon's hit to left, the only
run of the inning.
In the fourth the visitors added an
other goose egg to their record, as did
also the home team.
In the fifth O'Neal, Wissen and Gilli-
gan went out in order and the aspect
OF the game began to change. Every
minute the Lobdells were settling
down to steadier, more earnest work
and the crack Wheeling battery of the
visitors was evidently becoming rat
tied.
Reynolds opened the inning for Ma
rietta by drawing four balls. He went
to second and third on passed balls and
scored on Seamon's long fly to right
field, Klintworth meanwhile striking
out. O'Neal had no trouble making
first on q little hit that was not fielded
and went to second on another passed
ball. Schlicher brought him home by
smashing two-bagger, and in turn
scored on Peters hit to right field.
The hit was clean one, but Captain
Caskey, of the Parkersburg team, who
is we'll and unfavorably known in base
ball circles here, took his men off the
field when Umpire Alderman turned a
deaf ear to his kick and refused to call
it foul The game was given to Ma.
rietta by score of to 0.
Following is the personnel of the
teams and the score;
Parkersburg Martetta
Gilligan, Sb ,Klintworth.. q
Bumgardner, II Seamon. So
Williams, SIS O'Neal 1b
hastings, 2t Schlicher, 2b
Caskey, Id Peters, rf
Baker, CT % Garry. 3b
Anderson, Theis, CT
ONeiii'rf McCallister, II
Wissen, p Reynolds, D
Innings. gs..............1 2 8 A 5 Fl E
Loodell. ...............0 0 l 0 81 8
Parkersburg. ..........0 1000 / 6