The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-22
TWO THOUSAND ENTHUSIASTIC
FANS OUT To GREET BASEBALL
GAME IN THIS VICINITY Is BOUND
TO PROVE A BIG SUCCESS
THIS YEAR.
The Situation is Presented to You and
With Any Kind Of Interest the
Game VIII Be Revived
tBy Yocke.)


That baseball will live in the Ohio
Valley WIS very justly drmonstralc cd
Yesterday aftrrnunn when some 1000
baseball fans turned out when III" nm
nouncerncn1s that the BaucrS and the
McCnnkCys would. play an exhibition
game While this So-Calicd game was
not Il real contest. tho fact is there that
III" fans will support III" game in this
vicinity. These mines huttlcd IN Il ser
SAW affair for seven odd innings one
team leading and then the other. Ii be-
came a hit cold and the boys gave it UP
for A had job
Local Situation
Now arises thu local baseball Sitia-
ton, how il will progress. The ms and
outs. the players available and the ef
feet OF thu war.
There ART sad Birds in all lines. That
is particularly true of the members ui
that sncalIcd ancient y tribe OF proph-
cts. AZ Il rulc. the ever alert prophet
who takes Il peep 1T conditions facing
the lucal amateur and scni-Pru outfits
this season, saSps It few dlscouraGing
means and then subsidies into speech
less mood
Prophecies usually work out by con-
tr;Lries. AS everybody has doubtless ex-
pcr!encni
Now. the same identical fact is going
10 hold true again. When the snow OF
mid-wiEtcr WAS still sprinkled over the
frozen ground these wise old owls with
the supernatural thought and conviction
arose and went on in words 10 this ct-
feet:
''Hund-hyc amateur baseball for next
summer. This terrible catastrophe will
Just lick the platter clean Of the young
players and public interest. The up
holders of the national paSlimc might
just VOL order their black bordcr"d
hGnLkcrChicts now. There shall be wall
inE and mourning with tho springtime,
for no moro will the crisp crack Of the
bat As il lands squarciy on the horsehide
cover resound throughout the land. The
Am is through--dune u Il crisp.
Prophesy1ng Fails.
And now. with the pleasant arrival IF
Miss Srringtnmr and all its fancics. ono
Is placed in IA position tn look int" the
matter more clearly and see the situa-
ton as 1t really presents itself or in
other words IL tn" outlOog is as had as
pictured To begin with, the prospects
"C baseball in this locality. especially in
tho Ohio Valley. are sound and sure.
Already enough teiLmS have vouchcd
their Inteuti0ns Of playing 10 insure
plenty Of the diamond sport. The posi-
hllty of there being nothing dOin'"
around this neck If the woods is 4 joke
Again. Uncle Sam hasn't been so mean
rs 10 dcnOpulatc the country Of all the
young and promising athletes. No use
trying 10 sc; around il, for it is quite
tru" that thk draft has caught many
and showed its nl;Lrk--and that was 10
hc "Xpectcd---thrrr has been no team yet
stepped forth with the declaration that
its lineup has boon crippled or put out
Of commission Ia any extent. The situa-
ton in 4 nutshell tells lha; others have
been signed 10 will the vacancies ID
while tho teams may no, be- as strong
as former years. they will be made up Of
practically all men under or over draft
axe who are or were good and this will
Keep up the EHmc.
Your Uncle Talks.
Another point the dnlcrul prophet fail
cd In consider and that is The fact that
our own Uncle Samuel is making siren
uouS cnd"avors 10 enlist interest and in
SniN spirit into all III" young men and
boys Of this proud and flouriShing roun-
try. the dire need and good derived ly
the nation in tn" national paSrim",
which has been baseball for many years.
Your old uncle" III this imr II war
activity is Il wis" old creature and hn
knows that this is Il grand idea in keep
inG his young nephcws in good rhySica,
training.
".ill work and no play makes lack a
dull boy"
TIL" government realizes tho fact TINT
III" fellows who keep in training hv
playing baseball this summer are in
point Of fact doing their patriotic duty
and their duty t0 themselves. And with
tn" many intentions Sirnficd Of teams
In take tn" field already in evidence hv
III" call for practices. puts III" death
knoll on the fact that III" ever popular
game is 4 dead issue.