Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-02
STANDING OF CLUES.


The glorious uncertainties of base ball
were never more forcibly illustrated. 1t
looked like lead pipe cinch for Wheel
ing in the ninth. With two men OUT.
Toledo tied in a heart breaking finish.
They got the winning run across the
plate in the eleventh on the yellowest
kind of fuke.
To retire twenty-seven batsmen was
the contract which Paryin undertook
when he entered the box for Wheeling.
He sent twenty six Of thehn TO the
bench by mastery pitching. and the
score was 4 to 2, with the odds on the
Wheeling side, when the last man faced
of the batting list. and it looked so
certain that Stockholders began paying
over money to the Wheeling END.
There was no easing up on Parvin's
part, and it was not the big fellows
fault that victory was turned into de-
feat. He worked harder for the last,
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Mud Hens possess a quality which has
been described as stick to-it-iyeness,
and it was very much in evidence.
Gilks and Arthur were easy in this
inning, and Ewing had singled and was
resting on second, Two hands down,
two out, one man On base and two runs
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take the Jamaica out of any twirler.
Gates had previously gone down on easy
chances, and Parvin had him disposed
of, and the victory won-BUT-Cote
failed to hold Gates foul fly after get
ting under it on a hard run. Gates
started in to win his own game. by
driving the ball out to right field for
three bases. Ewing crossed the plate.
Then Griffin took a swipe at Bones
while his toes were just fraction OF
an inch above terra firma. He sent
the ball to centre for Two bags, and
Gates tied the score. Hartman tried
the same spot, but Dobbsie got under
it, and an extra inning was necessary.
Denny Lyons was first up in the tenth
and ms drive TO deep centre gave him
two bags. Pop sacrificed him to
third. Strang was ratified by Colgan
calling two strikes on him, and swiped
the third upon which he was easily re-
tired at first, while Lyons was kept
pinned to third. Leahy was itching for
a good one to connect with, but drew
a pass, and no effort was made to stop
his progress to the second station.
Cote was an easy out, when he had a
brilliant opportunity to redeem himself
for his costly error in the ninth.
The visitors went down in order in
their half. Dobbs was the only Wheel
ing player to get a base in the eleventh,
and he was thrown out in an attempt
to purloin second. Gilks went out to
Dobbs, and Ewing was retired, Leahy
to Cote, in the last half. Arthur did
better, driving out single to center.
Gates sent the ball safely over Lyons
head. Arthur over-ran second on the
hit, and was apparently undecided as
to whether or not to try for third He
was ten feet off second, and decided to
make the attempt. Lyle felded the
ball quickly to Leahy, and he had Ar
thur mile off third. but his throw to
Niles hit Arthur on the back. The
hall bounded hack of the bag ten feet,
and Arthur kept a-going, reaching the
plate before Billy fielded the ball in. 1t
was an awful "fuke" and the silence
of the crowd was painful and ominous.
This afternoon two games will be
played. The first will be called at two
o'clock.