Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-06
MANSFIELD 9: WHEELING o..
TOLEDO II; DAYTON 4.
YOUNGSTOWN o; NEW CASTLE B.
FORT WAYNE 20: GRAND RAPIDS 3
STANDING OF CLUBS.

Grand Rapids -.... e g .ass
Dayton ....-..-.. ....-- Il II 'oo'
What of hocus-pocus was en-
ployed is not in evidence. This much
is certain-somebody worked the van
ishing ball trick. Some of the specta-
tors say First Baseman Law was the
prestidigitateur; Others allege that
Catcher Belt worked his slight-of-hand
on the sphere. At any rate the balls
disappeared.
simultaneously a little gentleman of
Hibernian extraction with a pea green
sweater, who doesn't happen to know
as much about the national game as
he thinks he doe:, pulled a Waterbury
ticker from his jeans and announced
that he would give the Wheeling play
ers five minutes in which to produce a
ball. Then there was a scampering
and scurrying about the field and a
tramping through the adjoining cab
five minutes were stretched into twenty
but no ball appeared.
Mr.. Lally, from Ireland, approached
the grand stand with a cake walk
step and announced the forfeiture of
the game to Mansfield. Then Mr.. Lally
did a very wise thing. He executed a
two-step movement toward the carriage
gate and got outside before the
"Where-are-we-at" expression on the
faces of the bleacherites had changed
into a "Rousmitthim!" feeling. One
minute later he would have been de-
tanned and the boys would have given
a very correct imitation of rough
house.
The Mansfield players had a narrow
escape from rough treatment. The
gate was closed and barred on them,
and they appealed to the crowd to al
low them to catch a train. The fans"
were in a humor for m~asticating the
cloth, and they were not satisfied until
the whole thing had been chewed over.
President Howell had been over to the
city, and entered the gate just as Mis-
was bewildered as a matter of course,
and the visiting players did not leave
the grounds until he gave the order to
let the bars down. 1t was very lively
Tor a while, and the nearest approach
to actual belligerency was when a local
D~fficeholder frantically waved a saw-lOg
at one of the Mansfield players who
broadly i~nsinuated that he was not on
familiar terms with the truth. The
Mansfield man %apologized very meekly
a~fterward. The retreating wagon OF
visiting players left TIE grounds, fol-
lowed by a fusilade of sticks and peb-
Dles. But for the presence Of Sheriff
Richards, it might have been worse.
All this happened after ten innings
had been played, and Wheeling had
virtually won the game in the first half
of the eleventh. Six fielding errors and
several battery errors gave Wheeling
FIVE runs in the first two innings, and
it looked like a "cinch" for the home
club, but the visitors made a stand in
the ninth. and by a nice batting rally
tied the score. 1t vas all done with
Hacket on first and two men out. Law
and Beecher singled, and Belt banged
out a triple, with a net result of three
runs.
Both sides scored in the tenth, and
Wheeling would have won the game but
for stupid base running. PastoriuS led
off with a clean single. Taylor tried
a bunt, and Twins error gave him
a life. Dobbs' sacrifice advanced the
base nner Lyons was passed to
first and the bags were filled. Myers
cracked out a clean single to center
field, and Pastorius scored. Taylor al
so tried to make home on the hit,
but was thrown Out four feet from the
plate. If he had remained on third,
he could have scored on Wells fly out
to left field, and there would still have
been a chance for more runs.
The visitors were lucky. Lally made
Pastorius cut the plate, and keenan,
walked. He advanced a base on Low
ney's sacrifice, and scored on Twins
single. Hackett famed, and Quinn
Jew out to Wells.
Twineham led off with a clean single
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on a passed ball. Niles hit to Lowney.
who failed to retire T%wineham to third.
and both were safe. Twins bad throw
allowed Twineham to score. Strang
banged out a triple to deep center.
which scored Niles. Twins error gave
Pastorius a life. and allowed Strang
to score. Billy Taylor forced Pastorius
at second. Three runs were in, with one
man out, and n on first. There is
no telling where it would have ended.
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