The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-28
To-DAYs GAMES,

New Castle NJ Fort wayne
Columbus At Dayton.
Tho longest game in the history Of
,,a Interstate 1esgue-elght zen In
1Irrg-and with one or two exceptions
,bs longest in the history of professional
las. bail, was won from the Manshelds
by The stogies yesterday. afternoon, and
the 1000 or more spectators found it
t,pDossibIe TO curb their enthusiasm
during and at the close OF the contest.
POOLE and Meredith were the opposing
pI;chers. and both pitched magnificent
r,nes. In eighteen innings, the Wis
tors secured but nine hits on Eddie
POOLE. which is certainly 4 remarkable
performance. AT the close Poole was
better than at the start. but with
Meredith IT was case Of nearly -all
IN" Poole nelded hts position marvel
ously, cutting down hunts and base hits
IN A manner that was really wonderful.
Al the bat he was the whole thing, his
two-bagger and three-sacker coming
opportunity. and ne scored two Of the
stogiss' three runs.
The locals scored the first run Of the
game in the third inning. With Ritz
ter an out, Poole was safe on Truby's
miss Of an easy chance, and he scored
on Bobby" Rotharmers corking two
Dagger. With one out, Rothermel was
unable to score, Meany and Taylor be-
Ing outs on pop-up files.
IN their half of the third, ths visitors
went into the lead, Belt walked, but
was forced ON Lowney's infield hit. Mer-
edith hit to left field, and Taylor made
a nice catch. with two down the fans
breathed easier. but Quinn startled
them by hitting safely, sending Lowney
to third, and Beecher's base hit. to-
gpthcr with Meany's tumble scored both
Lowney and Quinn.
Not util the eighth did the Whselinga
tie the score. Poole hit out for three
bases. and Quinn's error gave Rother-
mel a llfe. Meany wasn't equal to the
emergency. his grounder Meredith to
TRULY. doubling up RothermeI at Sec
ond. Taylor picked out nice one for
q single, and Poole scored the ueing run
amidst great excitement, On Lyons
inaeld hit double play retired the
eide.
Then both teams settled down, and
as inning after inning after the ninta
passed without any runs the excitement
grew to a very high pitch. In the
tenth It seemed as though Wheeling
would surely win, Ritter starting OF
with a single. and Poole following with
a two-baggpr. but the next three bats
men we're easy outs, to the great disap-
polntment Of the crowd.
again In the thirteenth, Rothermel
worked a base on balls. only to be
doubled up with Meany. Then Taylor
singled. and Lyons followed suit Taylor
going to third. Turner carefully picked
out a stick, and great things were ex-
pec,,d, but the best he could do was
to strike out, to the disgust OF the
spectators,
In only one of the extra innings were
the Mansfield boys near scoring. In ali
the others they were at the mercy of the
peerless Poole. The exception was the
sixteenth inning, when Quinn led Off
with single and was sacrificed TO sec
ond by Beecher. Then F1ournoy's In
field hit sent the runner to third. and
TRULY doomed UP at the plate big and
dangerous, but Poole was there or
thereabouts, and, putting on steam,
proceeded To strike him out. The
crowd at this point was unable to re-
press Its enthusiasm.
In the seventeenth the stogies were
very near TO scoring With congalton
an out, PeQuInney mot n straight one
for two bases, and RItter's out adj
vanced Pick" to third. Poole, the next
batsman, hit with terrific force to deep
left, and 1t looked to be run sure, but
little Beecher ran with the wings of
a locomotive right into the shadow OF
the fence und pulled down the sphere
Just in time for the out. 1t was one
Of the flncst Outheld catches ever seen
here.
The end came in the eighteenth with
R0,hermel down. Meany drew base on
balls. was advanced on Taylor's out
aaarcoredon Denny Lyons two-bagger
Turner struck out for the second time
In thelr half the visitors were easily