The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-24
KUNTZSCH-DOESCHER
WANTED TO FIGHT
Separated by Friends and Policeman
Saturday Night.
UMPIRE BECAME VERY ANGRY
kuntzsch Hinted at Things and Does.
cher Wanted to Strike Him. Down
on the Base Ball RialtO..A Bit Of
Ancient HistOry..Lighter Gossip Of
the Diamond aud Players.


posed Eastern league umpire. and
George kuntzsch. the owner-managel
OF the Syracuse Stars. wanted to thrash
each other during the midnight houl
Saturday night near the Scranton house
but were prevented from exchanging
blows by the interference of PatrOlman
Lowry and several members of the bast
ball party.
In the group We're Umpire Tim Keefe
Manager Dan shannon, of the Roches.
ter club, Actor Tom Murphy and q few
others. DoeScher, since his diSmiSsa
had been very much wrought up over
the affair and had been waiting to meet
personally and express his opinion oi
several base ball men, who had com.
planned of him to President Powers
kuntzsch was one of these.
When the two met Doescher began
in very mild manner, but with plain
words to tell the Syracuse manager
what he thought of him. The umpire
concluded by saying that no club got
a fairer deal then did the Stars at his
hands in Syracuse.
Kuntzsch replied that Doescher ought
to be ashamed to say that after hav-
ing given the Syracuse team the worst
Of it on the road, intimating that the
umpire did his work according>to con-
ditiOns and circumstances.
You dirty. low -" angrilly ex-
claimed Doescher as he advanced to-
ward the manager. But what would
have been a pretty mix-up was pre-
vented by Murphy. the actor, and Pa
trolman Lowry. The former held
Doescher and the officer came between
the two enraged men and compelled
them to go in different directions
Doescher went into the Lackawanna
depot. where he boarded a train for
New York city. and the KuntZsch party
went to the ST. Charles hotel
1.-The m-u-dway," as the late Mike
Kelly always referred to Penn avenue
in the vicinity of the st. Charles, was
wrapped in halo of base ball talk, base
ball players, base ball managers, base
ball diamonds and base ball followers
Saturday night. The crowd included all
that cOmposes and goes with the
Rochester, Scranton and Syracuse clubs.
The latter aggregation reached here on
an early evening train from Wilkes
Barre, and left with Shannon and his
Blackbirds in special Pullman Sleep
ing car. attached to the 2.40 a. IN. train,
for Syracuse. where they played Sun
day game yesterday.
Once before the same two clubs left
here in a special sleeper but under pc
culiar circumstances. kuntZsch made
his Syracuse players go early to the
car and hypnotized all the lower births.
leaving the hot and unhandy upper
ones for Shannon and his Rochester
chargers. To say that Daniel was
angry when he discovered the condi-
ton of things is expressing it mildly
He not only kicked and kicked vigor-
ously. but said he be blankety-bla
if he'd allow his club to keep its Sun
day engagement unless Herr George
tumbled his motley crew out of their
couches and made them divvy up. The
Blackbirds had been given the tip and
when the Stars rolled out Of their
Of the division. When 1t was all over
Daniel was slumbering peacefully in Il
lower birth while KuntZsch, who sat ell
dishabille and with his moccassns
dangling from the birth over and not
under Daniel, was chewing with his
men concerning the great American
pork. History doesn't tell which club
got he worst of the last Saturday
nights division. but IL Knntzsch was
forced to lay his head in a second
story bunk it Is awful to think of what
happened before the car reached SYRIA
cuSe.
A peculiar condition of affairs would
exist If the percentages of the
other Eastern League clubs We're based
OH their games won and lost with
Scranton. Such figuring compared with
the real positions would put near the
foot and middle of the list the best
clubs In the league and place the others
in more favorable positions The table
would be as follows:
Real
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