Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-27
STANDING OF CLUBS.

With the exception of the eighteen
inning Sunday game between Wheeling
and Mansfield, there has never been
quicker, snapper game of base ball
ON the home grounds this season than
the fifteen-inning argument with Day.
ton yesterday, which went to the visit
ors on fiuke. The game will be pro-
tested, and while the League managers
usually sustain the umpire, it is diff
ficult to see how it can be done in this
instance.
Caruthers' decision was palpably
wrong. Stopec had made easy work of
the first two batsmen who faced him.
Hardesty and Burns were next, and
Stopec was unable to put the sphere
over the plate. He hit Donahue with
the ball, filling the sacks, and the sit
uation looked very grave. Miller had
been finding the ball, and was the
ba'tsman to face Skopec in this crisis.
He hit down to Rothermel and Burns
was guilty Of interference which pre-
vented Rothemel from throwing the
ball. For some ,unaccountable reason
Donahue did not run down to second,
but Dayton coacher sent him off the
first sack, and the ball was fielded to
Lyons before he reached second.
1t would appear that either play was
sufficient to retire the side, but Car
ruthers was obdurate. He appeared a
trife too eager to bring the contest to
a close. The Wheeling players con-
tended that Burns was out for inter
ference, and If he was not out Dona-
hue was forced out at second. Car
ruthers was criticized rather sharply
when he walked over to the club house,
the spectators sending misses and cat
calls after him. A crowd lined I'D out
side the club house, but Chief Clemans
was present, and no violence was Of
fered.
Caruthers refused point blank to go
out to umpire the second game. He
felt sore at the criticism to which he
had been subjected, and possibly fear
ed the anger of the crowd Caruthers'
sensibilities are a trifle too tender for
place on the umpire staff, judging by
what must be construed as a very puer-
lie exhibition yesterday.
The game was gilt-edged, and mark
ed by brilliant fielding, and remark
ably effective work in tight places.
Wheeling had number of opportuni-
ties to win out with a timely hit, but
while Watkins was touched up safely
in nearly every inning, the team could
not hit consecutively. All the scoring
was done in the first two innings.
Skopec was wild in the first, and
the team was unsteady, SO that the
game was virtually lost before the Nail
ers settled down to a business basis.
Donnelly walked. Hardesty reached
first on an error by Skopec, but was
caught mapping. Burns went to the
first sack on gift, and Ritter's error
filled the bags. Donnelly scored while
Miller was being retired at first. and
Burns and Donahue came in on Myers
two-bagger, which got just beyond
Billy Taylor.
Congalton scored in the first on his
single and Lyons double, and Wheel
ing tied the score in the second. Pc
Quincy got a life on Gochenauer-s
tumble, went to third on Rothemers
hit, and both scored on Skopec's single.
Only the toughest kind of hard duck
prevented Wheeling from scoring the
winning run in any one of several sue
ceedlng innings. In the ninth two
singles amounted to naught. In the
thirteenth, with two out, Peuuinney
singled, took another base on Miller's
error, went to third on a wild pitch,
and was left there, Rothermel retiring
the side on an infield fly. In the four
teenth Ritter led off with a hit to left
garden good for two which he stretch
ed into triple by hard sprint. and
fell on the third bag painting for wind.
Skopec hit to the infield and was re-
tired at first, Ritter remaining on
third. Meaney hit to Burns and Ritter
started IN but was cut off at the plate.
In the fifteenth Lyons got life on
Wheelers error, went to second on
Poole's sacrifice. to third on Taylor's
unintentional sacrifice, and was left
there, Pequinney popping a little fly
up in the infield.
Dayton was in hard luck in the
twelfth, making double and a, single
without run. Myers hit for two
bases, but was thrown out at third on
Gochenauer's attempt to sacrifice.
Wheeler hit, but Gochenauer was cut
OF in trying to reach third. In the
thirteenth. Hardesty was safe on Roth
ermeps tumble and Burns drove the ball
out to left 1t would have scored Har-
desty if it had gone safe, but Taylor
made a hair-raising catch.
The game ended unsatisfactory, but
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