The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-18

We're gone over between tnem ana
Manager Barnie. From interviews
with President Belts, Manager Barnie
and several Of the directors it is evil
dent that line of broad, business
policy has been mapped out for the
season which will not hamper the man
ager but will work to such an end that
the public will be attracted and
pleased.
The Scranton Players.
To begin with the list of players
looks promising. not only on paper, but
from their work last year. Only four
played on the old Scranton team
Their names follow:
Players. Position. Last Year.
Rogers ............ Catcher. Scranton
Delaney ......... Pitcher. Scranton
Fox .............. Pitcher. .......... Pottsville
Johnson ........... Pitcher. Lincoln, Neb
Clark. First base. .liazleton
Ward. Second base. Washington
Whitehead. Third base. e........ Scranton
Sweeney y.........S Short stop. Allentown
Brady field. ....... Fall River
Johnson .........Center.. Scranton
Winkleman. Right field. Durham, 5. c.
When the season opens the grand
stand will have been altered to such
degree that it will have lost almost all
semblance to its former crude, uncom-
Portable and unhandy self. The
ladder-like stairs at either end are TO
be taken down and several broader
flights built up from the rear, where
will be located the only entrances. The
tunnel stairway in the center of the
stand will be abolished, and a como
dious exit stairway built on the end of
the stand next the street. The row of
boxes. excepting a reporters box, is to
be removed, and the space converted
into a passage way. According to
present plans there will be no necessity
for scrambling up on the rear seats in
order to escape the sun. A projection
or hood is to be built out from the roof
and will keep out the hot rays which
last year were wont to scorch specta-
tors faces all colors from delicate
pink to nut brown.
A proposed improvement which will
be not the least appreciated is a Sec
ton to be set aside for women and their
escorts. A partition will separate this
section from the main part Of the stand.
No Carriages on the Field.
Carriages are not to be allowed with
in the grounds, but the associa-
ton has secured a space in the field
directly across the street where hitch
ing places will be provided and man
permanently employed to watch the
horses and whatever articles may be
left in the carriages.
1t had been intended not to sell any
season tickets, but the demand has been
SO great that at Saturdays meeting ii
was decided to sell within a limited
number of weeks tickets at SIS each for
the fifty-six home games.
1t is probable that some of the play
ers will be surprised by the training
and practice methods under which
they will be managed. The disciplin-
ary features of the team will not be
more ardOus or more lax than the
discipline maintained by and expected
from the managers of the major
leagues. Never in the history Of
Scranton base ball has a player been
obliged under penalty to report for
practice play at a certain hour every
week day morning. nor have they been
obliged to seek their beds at or before
a certain hour of the night. They will
be expected to do both this year.
Billy Barnie has never been accused
of being too exacting or mandatory
with his men, but he has managed base
ball teams many years and has brought
in pennant winners at the end of sew
eral seasons He owes his repute no
less to his knowledge of the game than
to his knowledge Of how to manage
men, keep them active and strong and
merit their respect and obedience. 1t
is obvious that during 1895 there will
be no undue slackness and no undue
severity imposed on the Scranton play
ers, but they will be expected to play
balr' in the figurative as well as the
literal sense of the term.
Two Kinds OF Uniforms.
The home uniform will be of gray,
with royal blue cap and stockings:
away from home the team will be clad
In navy blue uniforms, includings caps
and stockings of that color.
The men will not be put at even
knock about or catch practice at home
until after the first weeks play abroad.
The reasons are plain Adverse criti-
cism might produce an incurable case
of rattles, or a player might seriously
cripple himself by OVERRIDING. April
the players will leave here to play in
Harrisburg April 10 and IL: Pottsville,
April IL and 10; Newark April IA. They
will return here to play Pottsvllle,
April Is and 16: Murray Hills, April Is
and 19; Bnghamton, April 20; Carbon
daledale, April %; Binghamton, April
90; Hazleton, April 25 and rs; Cuban
Giants, April 27. April "a they play in
Carbondale
OF the holidays. the Scrantons will
play here on the afternoon of May 30
and the morning of July with Wilkes
Barre, going to that city for the morn
ing and afternoon games respectively.
| Fourteen Saturday games will be
played here, and the opening game on
the Toronto grounds will be played
with Scranton. The local team also
goes to Toronto for Labor Day.
Concerning the recent New York
meeting which arranged the schedule
and made several important revisions
of the bylaws and rules, Manager
Barnie yesterday spoke In the highest
terms of the unity and common feel
ing. He makes no boasts or promises
of what the Scranton team will do, but
In speaking of the seasons prospects
generally and of the accommodations