Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-07
STANDING OF CLUBS.

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| ~ Finds 1888
It was that awful gap in the infield
again-so why knock, ye erstwhlle
rooters? Why agitate the frisky mall
let when the management is doing as
much as angels could-its level best?
Because, forsooth, old Nick Young is
in his dotage and won't strike the pace
you desire, why vent your spleen on
"Pop?" Know we not that he has trou-
bles of his own that are rapidly caus-
ing him to become bare-footed on ms
sky-piece? Sore, are you? Ihen
squander a quarter on a telegram TO
Young, urging him to send on Maizena,
and Woodloek to plug up the infield
hole.
can't win 'em all, you know. After
all two in five doesn't justify such
frisky manipulation of your little ham
mers. Be We patient. Wait week,
fortnight Then if your team nuns
and fumbles, if the twirlers flag out, II
"Pop" takes a trip skyward, If the
boys fail to get their optics on the
sphere-pound away, then, pound until
YOU drop from exhaustion. It's your
prerogative. That's what you go
down into your jeans and dig up the
ticket coin for. Remember when you
PLAYED on a scrub team yourself, don't
you? Remember the day when the
score was tied and you muffed an easy
fly and let the winning run in, don t
you? And you promised to do better
and the captain gave you another trial
and your two-bagger won the game IN
the ninth-do you remember? OF
course you do That was one of the
happiest of your boyhood days, for you
became hero in the eyes of all the
fellows who said before that you were
"rawtin."
We all have our off days, don't you
know. You had one when you made
the "muff," and you complained within
yourself of the gross injustice while
the fellows were calling you butter
fingers" You redeemed yourself,
though; so will the Wheeling team.
It's the true test of craftsmanship TO
accept defeat good-naturedly. They
say everywhere that we are hard losers
in Wheeling. So we are, but why not
temper chagrin with forbearance?
1t goes hard when you think you
should have won. That was the case
yesterday, and it's the irony of Fortune
that ball team plays poorest before
the biggest crowd. Just little stage
fright, too, wasn't there, Messrs. Heine
and Francis? You were not sufficient
ly ballasted with confidence. 1t wasn't
playing of the sort you did yesterday
that made you think you were too good
to accept the Interstate cut III salary,
was it Mr. Heine?
The home club started off at pretty
pace, Dobbs and Durett cracking out
safe ones and both reaching the home
plate with the very material assistance
of Catcher frost. Three more were
added in the second after two hands
were down and Latimer was on fret.
Poole got a pass, Dobbs hit fa two
bases along the right field foul line and
Durett singled.
Not until the seventh, when two runs
were needed to tie, did Wheeling send
another player across the plate. Fran
els had gone down twice on "pop-up"
fys, but this time he found a safe
place back of first and took two bags
on his drive, scoring on Poole'S single.
DObbs tried to bunt-a trick in which
ne Wheeling players are not at all
proficient-and hit little fly to Gan
zell. Durett's single sent Poole around
IS bird and he scored on Niles fly out
to center field. The score was tied.
McCredie doubled and was sacrificed
to third in the visitors half, but Pooles
GOODNESS prevented a score, Berte fan
ming and frost flying out.
kim was first up in the eighth and
was thrown out at first on his infield
hit. Latimer singled. Heine popped
a fly to center and it kept Lat" guess
ing whether it would drop safe or in
the basket with the result that he fail
ed to get back to first in time.
The visitors won the game in their
Aalf. Heyman went out on fly to left
field. VanBuren hit to Niles, TOO hot
for him to handle, and got life. PEN
der went down on foul fly. With two
out and man on first it looked like
case of tie. Connors raped out a sin
gle and TRULY double to left. Van
Buren, tailed and Connors also the
latter owing to the stupidity of Heine,
who held the ball when he could>haye
cut the runner off at the plate.
IN the ninth Wheeling was retired
in order. The score:
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