The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-02

Wheeling under somewhat unfavornble
conditions. which had q considerable
effect on the attendance. But notwlth-
standing the heavy rain Just before the
game. which kept away hundreds. and
the street car strike, which kept away
more. the game was witnessed by over
1000 people, OF whom 939 were paid ad-
missions.
The game was preceded by parade
OF the two teams and club officials In
carriages, accompanied by Mayor
Sweeney, Congressman Doyener and
other gentlemen. Before the wlnd-up
OF the parade the shower began, and
soon became downpour. Happily.
the weather cleared at O'Clock. and the
sandy ground having absorbed the wa
ter, the grounds were In very good
shape when Umpire Colgan called Play
ball"
The first ball was pitched By His
Honor, Mayor Sweeney, and It was
called n strike by Congressman Dove
ner. The latter gentleman opened the
season with q short speech. In his usual
happy vein, that nut the big crowd In
Il good -humor ut the start.
Unfortunately, the game was n de-
feat for the WheelIngs. and this In the
face of the fact that the New Castles
were outbatted seven to five. Wheeling
wasweak in two or three particulars In
the opening game; to begin with. Jack
Donovan Is not Il short-stop. so his
three errors are not surprising: again,
Latimer was away of in his throwing
TO DnSes, four Of the visitors pilfering
the base on him; then, again, New Gus
tie put up an exceedingly lively game.
while the locals seemed TO be In 4
razor-edge state OF nervousness at sew
eral stages liz the game. The opposing
twirlers were Crablll and Wadsworth.
and the Wheeling man carried of the
honors. being hit safely but five times.
and giving but two passes to first, while
Wadsworth was hit safely seven times
and five Nailers were tlcketed to the
initial bag.
Neither side could do anything In the
first inning. but Wheeling got In the
game In the second, when Latimer
reached first on Mattress error after
Lytle had made the first out. "Tacks"
went down for second. but Graaius had
his arm with him. and Latimer was out
by two yards. Then billy" Niles hit
for two bases. and had Latlmer been
on first he could have mnde the first
score Of the game. As It was, Hefne'5
out ended the inning without n run. a
The first runs were made by Wheel
ing, in the third. With Durrett an out,
kim worked n free trip to Captain
Wright's side station, and Wadsworth
kindly sent Pepper" Lytle on a similar
errand. Then came Latlmcr, who pick
ed out nice one. and sent a slashing
two-baggor into deep center that scor-
ed both kihm and Lytlc. but Lat!mer
WIS thrown out at third. trying to
stretchhls hit Into three-bagger Niles
was the third out.
New Castle went two better In their
half of the third. Mattress allowed
Crablll to crack him one on the thigh,
and he ut once stole second. Latimers
throw being off-color. On GraiIius'
out to Durrett. Mattress went to third.
Nadcau got Il base on balls and
promptly moved up to second. Ashen-
beck singled. scoring the two runners.
Then big Wright made lucky two
Dagger over Dobbs' head, and Ashen-
beck scored the third run of the in
ming. Wright reached third on Lati-
mcr's drop Of n pitched ball. and scored
on Miller's fly to Dobbs.
The visitors forged still further ahead
and Niles. together with Grallius' Elm
gle and Wadsworth's three Dagger. ma
terlalized into three more runs.
Wheeling went In to make things in
terpsting In the eighth, and succeeded.
With Crabill an out. Dobbs singled,
Durrett was given another base on
balls and kim singled. With the
bases full. Captain Lytle came to bat,
and was freely advised to do some
thing" and he was not unequal to
the emergency. for he sent clean
two-bagger Into right field that scored
DobBs and Durrett. On Latlmer's fly
to Farrell, Kihm scored. and Lyle
moved up to third. Farrells throw
was clean and quick, and kim would
have been an out but for GratIlus' rag
ged work In receiving the throw. Niles
worked base on balls, and the pros
pect was for tied score: all that was
needed being single, but the best
Heinc had In shop was bounder to
Mattress, who threw to Miller. retiring
Niles.
In the ninth. Wheeling went down the
line in one-two-thrce order, and the
first game OF the season ended In de-
feat for the home team. Score:
WHEELING. Alb. Il. BIZ. 20. 4. e.