The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-05-22

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CARNEGIE SIEEL HAS
Taken A SLUMP
Continued ron 4 First \ z ase. is
with two down 9. sDugant shot a drive
toward right field! III came SO fast
that Eange had no time to- either get
ton a. long Sbounc or 60 up and get
ttsin the air. It was some distance TO
his3left: and while on a dead run, at
right angles with the seudling sphere,
he hooked itson. short hop. la. I.
These two were easily the, stars,
vet the tire team play like "a ipen;
nant winning aggregation In the Big
league and every single man pro;
duced a favorable impression. To go
back to Helmick.. On two or three
occasions a little hit 5byB one 3sof the
visitors would, have meant one or more
runs but with the exception Of Lange's
sensational stop, the tow-headed youth
who never saw natural gas until he
arrived in this city, held them by his
own mighty self. Just the same, that
bunch of Chief Cassel's Is a mighty
handy thing to have around and no
doubt would have cared fol, anything
in their line as well as Helmick at.
tended to his business. u
Old dyed.in.the-wool fans who have
seen many diamond struggles on many
fields were heard to remark that Hell.
mick had the biggest curves and
shoots they ever saw in operation.
Just imagine pitcher letting husky
bunch Of young steel workers whose
season is more than a month old, have
but three hits in a game.
On the other hand Bradley was
batted almost at will. Sixteen safe
drives for a total of seventeen runs
was the result Of the swatfest. OF
these one was for three bags, while
six were two cushion shots. In the
very first inning four Snakes wriggled
around the circuit. West was passed
and stole second. Snedden struck
out but was safe on Manning's drop
land wild throw to catch him, while
West took third, While Gibbs was at
bat (and by the way he got a nice
hand fro mthe crowd, Snedden and
West attempted the double steal with
the result that the former was an easy
out ut second. Gibbs drew base on
wild ones and promptly stole. Green.
wald sent a hot one to Ashenbaugh
but it took band bound, West scor.
ing and Gibbs taking possession OF
third. Grecn%ald moved up n peg on
the first ball pitched and Conner went
out Bradley 10 Carney. LANCE doub,
led to right center and Gibbs and
Greenwuld scored Duff singled to
left and Lange counted. Duff was
caught trying for second on The throw
in
The first man up in tie visitor half
struck out and while the second got
a llifeion Helmicls's error of hard
srounder, he struck the next two ont.
In The second this same Helmick re.
tired the side on strikes, j.. Dugan,
Manning and Andrews falling victims
to his proves. In fact there wasn't
an inning in which he didn't strike one
or more OF the visitors ont but his
premier performance came in the
fifth. J.l Dugan was first lip and Sin.
gled past second. He pilfered second
and took third on a wild pitch before
a hand was down. This looked.pretty
bad1o the crowd bnt the boy from tile
Buckeye State did not falter sFbut
struck the next 1wo0men out and then
:Ashcnbaugh sent him an easy one and
all danger was past Not 9only did
he set the first man in the game down
but in the last inning with man on
first and two gone. he furnished very
fitting climax by inducing Manning
to beef at three questionable ones.
The locals rested on. their Z laurels
until the fiftlwhen they again broke
into the run column on Gibbs single
Greenwald'st5 double and Lange's
grounder to Carney. Gibbs again
scored in the seventh, reaching first
on pass, second on Greenwalds IS sac.
riflce. and third on Connor's out, Davis
TO Carney. lit was at.this stage of the
game that LANCE cracked .fshis big
triple TO left, but liet died there when
Duff struck, out. u s. 5 ny fiF Is
{. TfheySstore OF another in the eighth,
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