Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-20
STANDING OF CLUBS.


tice was demonstrated by the Canton
team yesterday. The visitors won
through superior work in the field. The
home players hit the ball harder and
Dftener, but gave Morris pocH support
at critical times.
The contest, like those which preced-
ed it, was ''scrappy'' throughout. The
home players are hard workers, and
they proved to the satisfaction of the
crowd that they are not cutters. y
They were in the game from start TO
inish-more particularly at the finish
and the bleacherites helped them with
some very noisy roofing" II did not
enable the home club to win, but it
gave Bell a bad case of ''rattles," and
put him out of the business in the
seventh.
1t was this same Digby Bell who was
in the box for Canton Sunday, when
the ST. Louis team was defeated. He
was swelled up by this victory, and
strutted about the diamond with gait
that was cross between the peacock
and the ice wagon. He had watch
me-make- monkeys-of-em" air that did
not please the crowd, and the bleachers
cut loose on him very early in the
game. There was not much opportun-
ity for roofing" until the sixth, and
after that life was made burden for
the twirler with the theatrical name
Digby wasn't doing half bad when he
was taken out of the box, but it was
probably fear of what might happen
that caused the change, as the little
Brownie twirler was disconnected by
the yells Of the fans"
Morris could not have been expected
to be in good shape after pitching
Tuesday and playing in the outfield
Wednesday, but with fair support he
would have won his game with ease.
His control of the ball was not as good
as in the first game, and in the eighth
inning, with the bags filled, he forced a
run across the plate with a base on
balls.
Canton started off. by going down
in one, two, three order. In the second
inning Hammond was given a pass to
first and committed larceny on the Sec
ond bag Drumm singled and Quisser
got a life on Pritchard's error. The
bases were full and Hallam hit to Nor
ris, who fielded the ball to Breneff, re-
firing Hammond at the plate. Ander-
son sent fly out to center, and Drumm
beat the ball to the plate. In the next
inning a tumble by Koran gave Dele
ney a life, he went to third on Ham
monds single, and both runners tailed
on Quisser's single to center In the
fifth, Deleney walked to first, went
around to third on Williams drive to
right and scored on Horan's error in
handling Hammond's infield hit. In
the sixth, Morris lack of control, an
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Hammond and Bell, brought in three
more runs, making the score Z to in
favor of Canton.
There were several times during the
early part of the game when timely
single would have meant runs for
Wheeling. Eggert started off in the
sixth by walking to the first STATEN
and stealing his way to the second
from which point he was brought home
by Davis double to deep center. Brenef
flew out to Anderson. Wilson hit tC
center, and Anderson allowed the bal
to get past him, scoring Davis.
scratch infield hit by Minton and a sin.
gle by Morris brought in Wilson. Min.
ton and Drummer were retired on a dou
BILE play.
In the seventh Pritchard led off witt
a hit to Williams. which he fumbled
Koran was passed to first. Digby Bel
was slowly but surely going up in tn,
air, and at this stage of the proceeding
he was sent to adorn the bench, an(
Lyons. who had been warming up OIL
the lines. was substituted. Egger
sent his first pitched ball out to RICH
field. scoring Pritchard, and Koran tai
lied on passed ball by Quisser, but tn
next three Wheeling batsmen went on
in order.
The enthusiasm of the crowd was a
a high pitch by this time. In tn
eighth with three to tie and four t
win. Minton led off with a single, wen
to second on Morris single and score
on Brunners two-bagger to rignt gar
den. In running the bases Morris stop
ped a thrown ball with his hand. an
was declared out. Pritchard and Hora
retired the side on pop-up flies. In tn
ninth, with two out, Breneff reache
first on a scratch hit in front of tn
plate. took second on Quisser's ba
throw and third on a balk by Lyons, bu
Wilson ended the agony by dying Z
first. The score:
WHEELING. A r II GA
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