The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-01
TO.DAYls GAMEa.

To-DAY's GAMES.
Fort Wayne at Wheeling,
Dayton ut youngstown.
Springfield Mt New Castle
Toledo at Mansfield.
The Wheeling team put up another
nice game yesterday and made it six
straight victories by defeating "Jack''
Glascocks Fort waynes in the first
game OF the series. The stogies show
ed conclusively that the improvement
in form evidenced last week is perma-
nent. and fandom may now rest assur-
ed Of witnessing games worth seeing at
the Island ball park,
Parvin and Swain were the opposing
twIrlers, and the former had slightly the
better of the argument, notwithstand-
ing the fact that one more hit was
made OF his delivery. Parvin wnS
much the steadler Of the two, Swain
giving five bases on balls and hitting
two batsmen at inopportune times.
Swain, however got very rocky sup
port, five errors being made by Fort
Wayne in the opening inning, and
yet in the face of this miserable show
ing he let the stogies down with
but six safe drives.
Aside from the poor work OF Glass
cocks men in the opening inning,
which was possibly explained by. the
fact that the team came to the grounds
direct from their train and jumped In
to the game with but few minutes
practice, the game was u brilliant
one. The stas fielding play of the
game came in the fourth inning and
little o'Hara, wheellng's new right
fielder, was the hero of the play. With
two out, Lytle WINS safe at first on
Lyons error, and Rleman. the next
man up. sent a corking two bagger
deep into left center. Lyle saw the
ball was long safe hit and made
desperate effort to score what would
have been Fort wGyne's first run.
Both o'Hara and Dobbs went otter the
ball and the latter got 1t lin the
shadow OF the center field fence. His
throw to the plate to catch Lyle was
the greatest ever seen on the Island
grounds; 1t was true to an Incl, and
Cote got 1t Just In time to touch Lytle
as he was diving for the home plate.
The play was enthusiastically applaud
ed. y
Dobbs. too. figured In a sensational
fielding play. his running catch of
Babbs ny in tie sixth inning being
on the hair raising ord,r. For the Wis
itors, Glasscock. who played at short
in the absence OF HollIngsworth. made
a enchanted stop OF a liner from
cote's bat back of second that was a
reminder of the days when H. pebble
Jack" was the star of them oil at
short field.
Fort Wayne was weakened by the
failure OF Holllngsworth and Belden
to connect with their train, and as a re-
suit three pitchers were in the game.
Belden. however arrived later and got
in the game. succeeding RIeman in left
garden.
Wheeling got lead in the first that
was large enough to win the game.
Dobbs worked a base on balls, Lyons
was safe on Miller's error. and
swaim's mlsplay gave Niles life. and
filled the bases. on Myers iufeld hit.
Dobbs was retired at the home plate,
but on Guese's failure to handle Ber-
gems throw to catch Myers at first and
thus make n brilliant double, Lyons
came in with the first run of the game.
strang singled and Niles was retired at
plate. Glnsscock to Bergen. on Miller's
error, Myers scored the second run Of
the inning. o'Hara made timely sin
gle, and scored strang, whose life was
saved by Bergen's tumble.
In the fifth Wheeling got another
Dobbs led off with single, and moved
up a peg on Lyons hit. The bases
were filed on Myers base on balls. and
on strang's infield hit Dobbs scored,
Myers being retired at second on the
play. o'Hara struck out, retiring the
side.
The last run for the stogles came In
the sixth inning. Cote received one Of
swaim's lnshootE on the ribs, went to
second on Glasscock's error, which also
gave Parvin n life at first: went to
third on Miller's failure to handle
Dobbs' CrOunder. which filled the