The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-05
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Inc morning BdIue went W lAG SbS-
giles after every one Of the 1900 specta-
tors had given up all hope. When the
eighth inning opened UP, the score
stood 8 to 2, in favor Of the Haymak-
era, and although the team had been
putting up a nice fielding game, the
visitors had punched hits :Off Wells
when they counted for runs and thus
secured lead which 1t could hardly be
hoped the home team would overcome
In tn. last two innings. But Just here
the s ogies fooled the crowd by giving
an exhibition Of team hitting that
brought in six runs. five of them earn
ed. The crowd simply went Wild in
its enthusiasm as the hits followed each
othe- in rapid succession and the runs
came over the plate in n stream, the
Haymakers the while playing fast ball.
hut unable to stem the tide which had
set in against them. naI.
The first man UP was Dobhs, who
lined out beauty for one base. Then
Denny" Lyons came up to the plate
and followed suit by placing a safe one
in right garden. Before Durrett had
fielded the ball Dobbs was, perched
safely on third and the crowd was yell
ing itself hoaFse. Myers added to the
excitement with a fine single Which
scored nobbs and sent Lyons to sec.
ond. Lyle was there or thereabouts
with sate hit that Allied the bases.
TwIuehnIn waited for straight one
from .Hnckett, who was dolnE hts best
to fool the Stogie hltters, but he could
not negotiate the big catcher, who hit
a beauty to center that scored both
Lyons and Myers, Lyle reaching third
on the throw to the infel1. With Niles
at bat, Twinehnm worked up to second
on the first ball pitched, andQhqth Lytle
and Twineham scored on "Bl " Niles
corKing two-bNBger at this point the
enthusiasm was without bounds, for the
runs Niles sent in had placed the Sto-
giles one run to the good. Niles reach
ed third on a passed ball By Belt, and
with nobody out the outlook was bright
for more runs. At this point, LOwney
took out Hackett and sent irwin to the
slab, who was more effective. However.
the next man up, Strang, hit an out
field fly to Beecher, on which Niles
scored the sixth and last run OF the In
ming, The next two batsmen were
outs, and the greatest batting rally
ever witnessed on the local grounds
was at an end.
In their half Of the eighth inning, the
visitors could do nothing with Wells,
being retired In one-twO-three order.
In the ninth, each side got hit. but no
scores resulted, Wheellng's lnheld
work. that Of Taylor, Niles and Lyons,
was especially brilliant.
The WheelingR scored the first run OF
the game in the first inning, when
Taylor hit for a single, stole second, adj
n thtRI nm nnhhp' unNFiNnn
and scored on Lyons base hit. The
next two men were outs.
The visitors Jumped into the lead In
the fourth by some hard and timely
batting. The first man up was Law,
who hit an ugly bounder to Niles, but
the latter made a clever pickup and a
fast assist to Myers for the out. Beech
er landed hard on one of Wells out
shoots for two bases but Belt was the
second out on Il ily TO Niles and the
outlook was brighter, but Just here the
beautiful uncertainty of the national
game was shown, Durrett getting
base on balls. and Keenan, hitting out
for two bases, scoring Beechcr and
Durrett. To make matters worse,
Proctor made a single. scoring Keenan,
with the third run Of the inning.
Wheeling made It close In the fifth,
Taylor scoring on his single. n steal OF
second and Dobbs single.
The visitors wideued the breach In
the sixth. when Durrett hit for his Sec
ond two-base hit, went Ia third on Tay-
Ior's failure to handle Keenan's lnleld
bounder, and scored on Proctor's SIN
gle. With man on third and another
on first. It was risky throwing to catch
Proctor Mt second. but Twineham tied
for the out and Lyons got the sphere
in time to retire thr runner and Mt tho
same time hold Keenan, ut third. The
next man up. Hnckett, retired the side
by striking out.
The Hnymnkers got two more In the
seventh. With one out. Quinn worked
n base on balls. went TO third on Laws
bounder 20 short. which Taylor heldcd
TO Myers Just half second too late to
retire the runner. BeeCher came up Mt
this point and mhdc hts second two
base hit. scoring quinn and Law. Bee
cher tried To stretch the hit into n
three. bigger and was thrown out at
third. strnug to Taylor to Niles. Belt
was the third oft, Taylor TO Myers.
Score: