The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-07-21
LONGEST CENTRAL LEAGUE CON
TEST PLAYED YESTERDAY
AT LEAGUE PARK.
'swetz" Allowed Nine Kits in Long
Drawn Encounter - Splendid
Fielding Zeatured-Set-
bold Hos Big Day.

Wheeling yesterday defeated Terre
Haute. 3 TO :. in the longest sanic ever
played in the Central League. Tho con-
test went eighteen innings. and was one
OF the prettieSt games ever seen on Il
local park. Lefty" Wctzel was on The
mound for the Stogies and he was op-
iwirler Tor the Tots. Both pitchers
pitched wonderful ball. bat the local
souchpaw had the better OF the arSu-
ment. He ,wirled the eighteen innings
and allowed his opponents but nine safe
drives Wheeling touched up the detiv-
cry Of the visiting pitcher for nineteen
safe blows. which included TWO triples
and a double, The fielding OF either team
double plays, three by the visitors and
enc by the home team featured the con-
test.
The game was one Of the n:ettisst
pitcherS' battles ever seen In W heSilns'
We,zel did not allow hit until ne
NTH. Another came in the sixth and the
visitors could not locate his delivery
again until the ninth. when. AFTER t"o
were out, the connected for three Sale
drives, and the only runs scored uurtns
game. These were hits by Holderman'
LaRoss and Maches. the latter being
double, and all three came after TWO
were down.
For the home team. Cleveland Played
wabble was not costly! and his four
put-outs and five assists wore all hard
chances. Sox Seioold. who was ptaElns
first base. on account OF Lear ulosss}
also put up a wonderful game: He nad
twenty outs and one assist. Every OUT
fielder on either team put up a Splenotd
exhibition of fy chasing. ana >ime attei
time cut down drives taat were Hs ,,Iied
down a line drive that looked good loT
three bases and doubled SheereE on Sec
wetzel Never Fnltered-
With the exception OF the ninth IN.
ming Wetzel held the visitors al ms
mercy and never once did he talter. IL
was a splendid exhibition or twlfllhS
and the southpaw deserved Elcto's
With men on bases the opposing oatlets
could do no better than hit pop flles or
rrounders that we're we'll taken care OF
bv the Smoke intielders. he appeareo
TO grow stronger as the game proSress
ed and in the last nine innings ne tdu
ned five OF the nine men Ssruck Hut ,so
gave a good exhibition Of skin ana heaa-
work in the thirteenth. With one Guy:
Seibold tripled TO left. Ainswortn lis-h
purposely walked Sheeren and Esilly;
Blackwell hit a high lily to Mitchell anu
Wetzel forced Reilly at second.
Setbold Led Attack.
\ In the stick work Of the players. SoN
'Seibold led the attack. In ms seven
trtps TO the plate. SoX secured five hlts
and base on balls. Included IN ms
five safe blows were triple ara q oou-
bic. Cleveland came through Win tou'
Sits our Of eigh. tymcs up. While Alien
burg, Callahan. King and RelliS TtCii
came through with pair OF nltS. ~
derman. with three and wagner WIN
two, were the only visitors TO get more
than one hit. <-+
The StoSies started hitting in the flrSt
inning Altenburg was out on Sroutu-
er to second. but Cte\eia Came .nI ous.,
with base hit through snort. CaAtau Tar
4 L. ri
ties came in the second. After KING had
Grounded out TO second base, Lear SIN
gled through third. Seioold was sene III
to run for him Sheerens nit past tn tu,..
nut Setbold on the last corner. KellE
SYore one to left that looked good Tor
double, but LaRoss grabbed the drive
and doubled Fritz off second The tnuro
was a blank. but in the fourth TWO more
In the sixth the Smokes broke into the
scoring. Altenburg famed. Cleretan9
singled over second. Callahan trlppteo
10 left and Cleveland and kins SIN
base hit. but the next two were easy s
cuts. That ended the scoring until the
3. final run was made in the eighteenth
when Blackwell singled and was sac
on an out and scored on Mltche1ls ef
The visitors could do nothing with
wetzel until the ninth frame: IN N enae
followed by double and two runs came
oVsr. This all came after two were
F1Tbe effectiveness Of the pitching can
we'll be seen from the fact that " nee.
ing had ten men left on bases and me
JS,.nrS 10 With men on bases the
pitching was practically unhittable. with
the exception Of the two frames IN
which the two scores were maze. IL
day will be the final game between
Wheeling and Terre Haute and It is
more than likely that Seioold Will DO
rhe pftching.