The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-05
HUTCHINSON IS missing
Has Not Yet Reported to Manager
NcDermOtt.
NOTHING HEARD FROM BONNER
Belief That brooklyn is juggling
Mahoncy. the Catcher. is Not With
tho Team Not Likely to
BE Signed.

tho Tcam-Not Likely to
BE Signed.
Special from Il staff Correspondent.
Springfield. Mass. May 4.-The team
leaves here tomorrow morning for
Providence. Hutchinson has not re-
ported and nothing has been heard
from Brooklyn relative to McDermotts 5
acceptance of Bonner's and the Brook
lyn clubs terms. AS Bonner had not
participated in the negotiations, it is
supposed the Brooklyn management is
Juggling. Power wired tonight from
Syracuse the rather indefinite informa-
tion that he had explained matters to
Mr.. Brooks. VignauX will be dropped
here and Rafferty, will begin to catch
tomorrow. A telegram tonight from
Mahoney. the X-Portlander, says he
cannot join the team now. Tomorrow S
makeup will be the same as today.
The possibility that Mahoney will be
signed by McDermott is slight. and. il
signed. the possibility of Mis- being re-
tanned seems slighter. As related in
yesterdays dispatch. Mahuney left here
because of his miX-up in u fight. The
fellow who was whipped threatens to
have Mahoney arrested whenever he
steps foot in the city. That Is bad, but
what Is worse. IL is learned from
sources that are needed that Mahoney's s
| arm Is gone. McDermott believes this
report to be exaggerated. as Mahoney
last season was as good as any catcher
In the New England. and is not with
Portland now because he and Manager
Leonard had u fiare-up. Mahoney's
family still refuses to reveal his where
abouts. but McDermott il between the
devil and sea in the matter anyhow, us
he Is frightened by the glass arm story
and disturbed by the possibility of Ma
honey's being arrested in case he should
visit Springfield with the Scranton
club.
PLAYERS DETERMINED.
This morning dawned warm and
bright. All traces had disappeared of
the Sabbath's cold. damp and dreary
weather and all hands were glad of the
| possibility of q game. There was feel
| Ing that while Scranton was weakened
by its emergency infield. Springfield
was weaker, not only in its fielding
strength but in its pitching and batting
as well. The men Went into the final
game with the belief that they would
win and thus be fortified with .G67 pei
cent. On opening with Providence. They
made good their belief to the great
chagrin of Manager Burns and his
! Ponies.
1t seems a pity that Scranton was
not permitted to open tho season with
a stronger infield In such case the
first game would surely have been won
1t is annoying the permanent players
as much as |. is McDermOtt. With an
intact infield Ward. Meaney, Eagan and
| Chiles feel that Scranton can bat ol
field out almost any game with the aid
Of what is unquestionabiy as good a
corps of pitchers as Is contained In any
club in the league.
1t Is hard 70 understand why WARD
is IA favorite here but he is. However
| the reason seems TO rest with the good
nature Of Springfield audiences rather
than with the senator himself. a
Springfield man or woman goes to Il
game with much the same object thai
he or she would go to the theater-tC
be amused. Seeing the home club wiz
appears to be a sort of secondary OBJ
ject. The audiences want first to bt
amused. and so the spectators take Gooc
naturedly Wards bantering and jolly
Ing of the home players. When Ware
opens his pipes in other towns 1t is ar
invitation for hard-feeling and perhap!
Kisses, but Springfield likes it.
MEANEY a FAVORITE.
Meaney, too. is prime favorite, bu
his popularity is solely on account ot
all-around good playing. In the open
ing game Friday he was applaudet
when first he came to hat and he was
| accorded the same recognition there
after whenever he participated in {
play or secured hit. Eagan is another
well-liked player. His I-dont-cart
way Of trotting under high fly or ol
saur S.ring up to the plate and smash
ing the ball Is not lost on the knockers
Eagan is a better player than mu
sician, although he Is by common con
sent the acknowledged chorister ant
pianist of the gang. Unfortunately
some of the players discovered the
piano in one of the Hotel Russell par
lors and Pete was forthwith hunted W
and deposited on the stool thereof. TIL;
music CD that ensued seemed to salts
fy the club. but 1t gave everyone elst
in the house the flutters. Pete has al
ear-for treble-but his method leads
him to play one bass chord for all key.
and all airs. and maybe that's why ont
Of the hotel clerks yesterday sent bel
boy to the parlor to announce, to th'
company there assembled that tn,
guests of the house opposed all bu
sacred music on the Sabbath. Pet
had been regaling himself with Tara
ia Boom-de-ay." 20, Uncle john etc.
but he politely needed the bell boys re
quest and drifted off into Onward
Christian Soldiers and Hold tn
Fort" The themes were all right, bu
Pete, unfortunately, was not; he con
tinued to hammer at the same old bas
key. Probably this accounted for tn
second and final message from the hote
office that "a lady was i'll on the fourtl
floor and must have quiet" This mes
sage was delivered by big. husk.
porter, and not bell boy. His porter
ship locked the piano.
MDERMOTTS METHODS.
To control his men, McDermott ap
pears to depend first on his own eX
ample, which is good, and next on sug
gestions and gentle arguments rathe
than commands and harargues. s.
nearly always, even though their man
. ager has negatived some proposed
jaunt or amusement, the men are II
good spirits and in a frame of min
which would make them think OF dut
and their contract obligations befor