The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-09
STATE LEAGUE.
DIAMOND DUST.
Toronto again today.

Would we rather have Wilkes-Barre win
or Buffalo lose Is at present very tender
question.
Jack Huston so seldom has an of day
that he will be forgiven for yesterday 3
mistakes.
Scranton has won ten Of its last four
teen games and has taken seven out of
ten games from Toronto.
Smiths triple was q hummer, and
Schriver hit his two-bagger out after a
fashion dear to the heart Of the faithful.
Toronto will try a new pitcher today.
His name Is Brennemer and he Is from
Brooklyn. Should he fail to arrive, Gray
will pitch.
Bll Schriver, formerly Of the New
Yorks, has signed with Scranton. He
would have been a good man for Syracuse.
Syracuse Post.
Beginning today the bleachers and
grand stand will be policed by regulars.
The management has decided to put a
stop to hOodlumism.
Until Scranton audiences become more
orderly, more loyal and less profane this
city will have no license to criticise .he
department Of the Wilkes-Barre article.
A long suffering public would cheerfully
subscribe toward paddock for jack
Meats lips. II he would learn something
new and commit II to memory he might be
endured-but he has become tiresome,
very tiresOme.
Buffalo begins three days engagement
here tomorrow. and then after three days
at home with Wilkes-Barre the club goes
away on its last trip of the season, re-
turning Sept. 10 for three games each with
| Springfield and Providence.
The blasphemer Is probably the most OBJ
| nox.ous object outside prison walls, and
| there Is a varied and sickening lot Of them
who pay 25 cents for the privilege of ex-
ercising their porcine characteristics at
| the Scranton base ball park.
Wilkes-Barre, which Is just ahead OF
Buffalo, Is playing winning ball. as Is
| Scranton, which is on the round below
| Between these millstones the Bisons will
| soon be crushed to "quivering mass Of
human jelly" as the lurid word painter
Of the police court might say.-Buffalo
| Times.
The jeers Of the crowd so disgusted Luby
Wednesday that he retired from the box
after the fifth inning and told Manager
Barnie he would not pitch again for Scran-
| ton. Considering the provOcat!on, Luby
could not be blamed for his action. Last
night, however. his anger had left him
and he will twirl today's game against
Toronto.
The cranks will be glad to see Corbett
| try to play base ball on the Scranton club
against Buffalo next Monday, but there
Is no desire to see the game sacrificed for
the sake of extra dollars. This condition
has led to an arrangement whereby Scran-
toms chances will not be jeOpardized
| Corbett will play In right field and Meaney
will pitch.
Says the Washington Post: Frank
Bonner drew salary from the Baltmores
| q long while on suspicion that he was a
| ball player and would prove a valuable
man in event of injury to one of the regu.
lars on that team. After ne was traded to
| the Browns 1t was soon seen that he was
not fast enough for the league. Then lie
was sold to Wllkes-Barre and found toe
| weak for that organization"
Amateur ball Notes.
The Taylor Reds and the MoOslc POpu-
| lars will play this afternoon on Taylor
grounds at $50 o'clock.
Honesiale, Pa, Aug. 8.-The Antilles, OF
this place. defeated the Actives, of Scran-
ton here today by score OF IA to 6.
1
The Hughes club accept the challenge OF
the Rustlers Of Mlnooka, for Aug. II. J.
J. McAndrews, manager; Tom Hughes
captain.
The Moosic Populars accept the chal-
lenge of the Taylor Reds and will meet
them on their grounds today at $50 p. m.
Thomas Muir, manager.
The Anthracites, Of Moosic, accept the
challenge Of the Olyphant Browns and will
play them on their grounds Saturday at
o'clock. John Deans, manager.
The Oyphant Browns defeated the Hlck.
ories, of Jermyn, at Farvicw yesterday by
score of to !. The Hickories' crack
pitcher, O'Garrah, was knocked out Of the
box in the first inning. Welsh pitched a
fine game for Olyphant and was supported
well.
The Dodgers. Of Old Forge. challenge
the Browns, of the South Side, to game
| of ball on the home grounds Aug. II.
The Dodgers challenge any club In Lack
awanna county between 16 and II years
| old on home grounds for Aug. IS. Answer
through The Tribune. Joe Hayes, man.
ager.