Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-10
GRAND RAPIDS 10; DAYTON 3.
TOLEDO 8; FORT WAYNE 2.
MANSt1 ED 5; WHEELING 2.
NEW CASTLE Z. YOJNGSIOWN4

Sore, Ell? Never go to see another
game until the home team is strength
ened, say you? 1t is rather tough in
your case, after that colossal falsehood
you told the boss about your wife be-
ing sick. You really deserved some
thing better. but then the lib" was
sprung for the circus as well as the
game. Wouldn't mind defeat ii
it was good game. did you
say? You are just 'jollying"
yourself. Did it strike you that
If the other club had made the errors
and fallen down on the hits. it would
have impressed you as a good game?
Depends largely on the point of view,
after all, and your very soreness is the
best evidence of your loyalty to the
home club. That's why it might be an
opportune time to remark that one or
two victories would transform a small
army of knockers" into dyed-in-the
wool boosters.
Perhaps it will be pleasant to you to
know that the merry music of the anvil
chorus has fallen upon the auricular
organs of the President of the club.
Yes, Howell has heard the knockers
refrain, and he will do his share. He
presented Mr.. Francis with hand
Somely embossed set of walking papers
yesterday morning, and last night an
exact duplicate was placed in the hands
of one Heine, who was SO swelled up
last season with an exaggerated idea
Of his own Importance that he declined
to accept a salary cut which was ac-
guessed in by better men. But that's
Mister Heine's business, and a proper
regard for the eleventh commandment
should prevent you from commenting
upon it.
Howell also wired ticket to Little
Billee Taylor, who is now presumably
on fast express train speeding toward
Wheeling Everybody knows Little
Billee's failing, and if Pop" can
Svengalize him. and keep him in the
straight and narrow path of rectitude,
Billee will be good little boy and
tower of strength upon the team And
Lyle "kin if ennybody kim" Perhaps
Billee will be in the game to-day. Turn
out, anyhow, We knockers, and give
him hand, if he is there. If he is not,
you will at least have manifested a
proper appreciation of Howell's efforts
to give you bang-up club.
Wasn't it a downright shame that
the home players should be Inundated
before the Wheeling Fair? The ladies
are loyal-God bless them-and they
cut loose in that eighth inning with
little soprano screech of unadulterated
JOY, when the bags were filled with the
mighty Kihm at the bat. 1t was
ticklish situation. The time was when
"Dummys" approach at such a junct
ure when he was on an opposing team,
would have struck terror to the hearts
Of the fans" And on many such oc-
casons did "Dummy's" trusty stick
change defeat to victory.
But Mr.. kim and Mr.. Timely Hit
are not on speaking terms this season.
There were two hands down, after
Mahaffey cracked out a single, and he
came in on Niles corking double to
center field. Lyle hit to Lowney,
Mansfield's weak spot, and a tumble
gave him life. Hunt was hit by the
ball, and there was a Wheeling uniform
on every bag. Dummy" spent five
minutes in picking out stick to his
liking.
The first ball Smith sent over the
plate was called a strike.
Knocks.
The second was wide. but Kihm
reached after it, and punctured the at
mosphere.
Fear.
The third was a ball.
Hope.
The fourth came sailing over the
plate, and Dummy" tried to knock the
cover off. The bat did not connect
fairly, however. 1t was a stingy little
hit to Smith. who carried the ball half
way to first, and tossed it to Law in
time to catch Dummy" ten feet off the
bag.
Despair.
1t was sad, very, very sad Kihm
had chance to immortalize himself.
From aff1uence to poverty, from the
sublime to the ridiculous, from a glori-
Gus opportunity to a dismal failure, is
sometimes but short STEP Verify,
the uncertainties of base ball surpass all
human understanding.
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