The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-13
Comparative One.week Table.
SNYDER WAS AWFUL.
His Umpiring Didn't Lose Scranton the
Game. but II Made Spring gfield's Victory
Ridicuously Easy-we We're Outpiaycd
NJ Every Point

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There were two exhibitions at the
Baseball park yccterday afternoon-one
by the Springfield and Scranton clubs
and the other by Charles Snyder. an
umpire of the species dammttus rot
tea,us. In showing how very, very rank
an umpire can b, and stiH escape ar
resi-, Charles Snyder is a distinct sue
cess and thing of great glory and JOY.
He Is not charged with robb!ng
Sciaton of the game, because Scran-
ton was never in the hunt and could
never have won with any old kind of
umpiring, burt he did allow himself to
be bamboozled. brow beaten and fab
bergasted by the Springfield players to
th, end that the score indicates that
Scranton did not figure in the game even
from theoretical standpoint. 1t is hui
initiating enough to be played to
standst,ll. but when the umpire is either
plainly incompetent or partial and his
weakness is all in favor of the upper
dog-why. then 1t Is quite proper to
squeal, and to squeal long, hard and
often. Please, Mr.. Powers, deliver US
Of Snyder.
Sample Of Snydor's Partially.
After the game had been in progress
but a short time Gruber. who pitched
for Springfield. plainly showed that he
had Snyder hypnotized, pants and but
tons. Grwber only said. You don't
know your business" well, I'll play
when I get ready" or You'd better
watch the game" or some such mild
expression and Snyder would go to
sleep to everything in Scranton's favor,
Gruber ever and anon giving vent to
his impudence as a matter of principle.
The thing vert along very nicely until
the sixth when poor Tommy Bannon,
in tn. fullness Of his heart. took excep-
tons to Snyder's elastic, pooh bah judg-
ment. Tommy was fined S. and ordered
TO the bench-but Tommy was only
Scranton player. and thereby hangs a
tale. Mayor Ccnnen Immediately sent
down from the grand stand the amount
OF the fine. and the mayor was compen-
sltei to within half dollar of the fine
by the free will Offering Of number OF
gentlemen who sat near him. This in
ctdent did not SO much represent gift
as It did a rebuke to Charles Snyder,
the umpire Of the species dammitus rot
tenus.
The batting. fielding and pitching
game Of the visitors was every inch
wool and several yards wide-of kind.
in fact, which makes 1t seem mysteri-
Gus that Wilkes-Barre could take two
games from them in one afternoon.
Those who saw the kind Of base ball
the Springfields can play, formed the
conclusion that Belts the freak pitcher,
rather than his team, won the games.
Details Of tho Pitching.
Gruber, with Snyders generous as
sistance, was never solved. Off him
were secured only five singles and a
double, and only in four innings did
more than three batsmen face him.
For Scranton, Luby pitched fairly we'll,
considering his two long periods Of idle
ness because of injury. The thirteen
hits of him were for seventeen bases,
three Of the singles were Of the scratch
variety.
With the score to 0 in favor OF
Springfield. the only Scranton run was
made in the last of the fourth. Meaney
singled, reached second on EagaRs
sacrifice and went to third and scored
on scheffler's tumble Of Bannon's long
hit to right.
OF Scranton's four errors, only that
Of Bannon in the second did not aid
Springfield in the run-getting and the
same is true Of only one base on balls
secured by the Ponies. The three other
6ranton errors account for four runs.
Score: