The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-05-10
SMOKES UNABLE TO COMBAT
PITCHERS AND COLD WEATHER
LosE LAST or TIE mnrEs TO TIE
AX8oN 0IAHTB
Y8IDAY.
stcgtes Put Up Fast Game 1ut were
Unable to Secure Sufficient
Number of Runs.

Once again those aspiring "Sons of
Swat from the town OF Rubber" took
who was too good 10 be beaten. and VINO
had the locals breaking their backs Tor
eight long tantilizing innings. True We
late. the brief rally only making the
taste OF defeat more bitter: the end be-
Twas the same old story-air-tight
pitching. For eight innings only two
stogie bstsmen succeeded In putting
their shillaiahs against the pills admin
bingles. For the FIRST three frames they
went out In order. In the fourth. Ham
mond lifted a dandy three Dagger nigh
on sacrifice ny. but aside from this
there was nothing dom up until the very
last inning.
Hogan started the obsequies for
Wheeling and the Akronites Jumped on
him with the first man mp. Hogan was
had been gathered on his offerings by
grace OF "A walk, two bingles and a sac
ritee ny. he retired in favor OF elongated
bunch like his name sake goes after
spring crops and pitched "A good game
throughout the time he was In the box.
Without the bad start Hogan made. IL IL
possible that the game might have re-
suited differently. but IL was we were
forced TO accept the second slam IN a
place where IL hurts, well fall OF
two places down the ladder.
We almost did 'er in the ninth and
showed in this inning the class Of ball
that We are really capable OF putting
up but the rally started when IL was
too late with two down, and when the
tnal count was made fell short OF tn
six runs acquired by the other fellows.
Tho field ng OF the smokes was also
a little wobbly Yesterday. four miscues
the .Nkron bunch showed a noticebaie
improvement over the frs; two games.
Hogan in Bad.
The sad. sad story began with the
very nrst man up VINO Was handed free
transportation To first and helped along
stu further by a wild hcave by Hogan.
on which he moved To second Jackie
came across with an infield single, plac-
Ing Hunting on third. from Where he
scored on HaVeis sacrifice ny. Jackie
stoi- second and on Donica's well
run number two At this point Frost
took up the burden and forced SNYDER
T., to- pop To- Hssmm"nd- Not satisfied with
safe one 10 LETT. scoring DoniCa. The
spaSui WAS ended by Sicglc. vino hit a
b Eh one To Stciny. 0 leaving Wheeling
From the end of the FIRST there was
q" scoring done ny either team until
snyder Tor Akron opened up with
single to right. was sacrificed to sec
ond by Hicmer and came home when
Molly let IL throw from Hammond get
past him. Hammond kept up his good
batting record bV driving one TO the
score board for three sacks, and tailed
90 Nasher's sacrifce nv to center This
ninth. maui ''' t
Fatal Sixth.
The fifth saw both teams 70 score
less. but in tn. next inning the locals
chances for victory went elimmerlng
when Akron added two additional scores
mon were ont. snyder started by
ngling TO right and stole second.
Ziemer. following him. landed on the
or Frost's slants for two sscker to
left. tallyinE Snyder. Cap SieEle
helped things along by adding another
single. on which Ziemcr scored Msckey
very cans'derately grounded out. Gray
GOOD Rally.
Akron saw three innings go by during
which they registered but one hit ard
only had one man on the sacks. while
Wheeling remained helpless in the sew
cnth and eighth. II was In = blaze cr
glory. however. that the Stogies finally
went down 1" defeat ana TIN a figItir
spirit that was deserving OF a better
tate. Gray, the first man up in the
ainth. beat out an infield hit. West.
who has been hitting hard and timely
In every game. went down on an ca syl
FOUL to the catcher and things looked
stu hlackcr when Molleukamp was out
at first Gray went to second on this
many ~ the crowd began 20 leave. but
the little ond sacker proved TIE man
Of the hour. scoring Gray with a timely
hingle 10 right. which got rast Donica,
allowing him 70 get to second. Wclcncr
teen brought tho whole crowd 10 It's feet
when he smackcd another safety IN tire
substituted TO bat for Frost. and fur
thrr increased the excitement by sin
sling TO center: sending Wsleher across
present yelling FOR him 90 Kill it."Iism-
mond came 10 the plate After Looking
two over. Ham picked one to his hSIns
and swung. meeting the ball for high
fiy 10 LETT. ending the suspense with the
third out