The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-28
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time and why the Reds finished SO low in

time and why the Reds finished so low in
the race.
Dan Brouthers says that in 1894 he con-
sidered Rusie the hardest man in the
league TO hit. He attributed this to his
terrific speed and change Of pace. He be-
lieves. however, that he has seen his best
days. There is not a pitcher in existence
who Is not liable to let down after seven
hard seasons.
The friends of Jimmie Dean. the pitcher.
will be pleased to learn that he has not
been farmed out by Manager Buckenber-
ger Of Toronto. The club has six pitchers.
and in order to keep them all working
Dean has been loaned to Hamilton. ont,
for a week or two.-Scranton Times. Here
is an illustration of the deep insight some
of the scribes on the circuit have into the
national game. What is the difference be-
tween farming" and ''loaning" in base
ban?-EX.
Says the Wilkes-Barre Record: 1.-THE
Scranton club has been regarded as Sonie-
what of an experiment owing to the fact
that its men collectively had not been to-
gether before. and IL was rather to be eX-
pected that reyerses would come to them
to greater degree than would be the
case with Wilkes-Barre. McDermott was
handicapped to the extent Of assuming
charge OF an aggregation with which he
was scarcely acquainted, at least only
in so far as their individual records would
reveal"
tors yesterday answered Swift's inquiry
as to what they would sell the team for
by telling him 81, 800. The Leaders report
that McQuaid had been sold is false
Scranton offered u fair sum for him Sas-
urday, but they wanted the deal closed at
once. The directors fooled around just
long enough to miss their chance. Scran-
tons management changed its mind. The
local management has not yet succeeded
In reducing expenses. 1t is pretty general
ly believed tina Swift is working against
the association, but for some ineXplicable
reason he has not been released.
OF Ward, the Buffalo Times has this to
say: Talk about your Lathams and your
Connellys. but for downright amusing
coaching Piggy" Ward. the mastodonit
second baseman of she Scrantons, is pret-
ty near the top of the heap. He's whole
show in himself and is the personificatioN
OF infectious good humOr. When he laughs
the crowd laughs with him, and his smile
is perennial. There is wit and more, too
In his remarks, and they are sweet as glu.
cosc ice cream or beet sugar before 1t joins
the consolidated white sand trust. The
tang OF the wild cherry may sometimes
manifest itself, but never in Buffalo
where Red Jackets" admonitions are al.
ways encased in capsules that would make
even cod liver oil palatable. Wards voice
Is deep and sonorous and Is suggestive ol
the harbor fog horn when II has frog In
the troat. The diamond never knew an,
other voice like his unless it was that
which originated in the diaphragmic re
gion of old Chief Rosemans anatomy
II is. as big. luscious and juicy as a Del
monico oyster.
The Springfield Union errs in saying
that McDermott, in defiance of orders
and protests, pitched Harper" Harper
wasn't pitched until the leagues presi
dent said to go ahead. The Union also
! says: "McDermott's attitude in defiance
Of the presidents order is in strong con
trast to somewhat similar occurrence
at the opening of the season. .wher
Scranton protested against the playing oi
Tom Power by Springfield, and McDermott
was ordered by his owners not to play II
Power was in the game here. The foot IL
in the other shoe now" If Tom Burns
had had the right to play Power on the
| occasion referred to. he would hav,
played him. And later events proved
| whether Springfield was entitled to Pow
er's services. So We cannot see how the
Power and Harper cases are at all paral.
lei Rochester wouldn't take Harper from
Brooklyn for part of the season; Scran
ton Will. Scranton will also farm from
now till doomsday If that's the only way
to keep pace with the National kinder
gartens in the Eastern.