The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-18

total attendance Of 6,0o0 By a special
agreement with President Freedman at
the beginning Of the season the Nets re-
ceive no percentage Of receipts In this city
Hence Manager BARNES face II wearing
u smile 4 mile hong. The Saturday game
with the Nets was witnessed by 1000 peo-
pie who saw the finest game Of the sea-
son. the locals winning in the tenth in
ming by knocking J. Bentley Seymour out
OF the box and scoring a run amid the
widest enthusiasm. The town has gone
base ball mad. the attendance increasing
at every game. Average crowds during
the week are about l.400 and at Saturday
games 2.lO0; IL the boys keep up their
present gait, no one can tell what the lin,-
1t will be. Alec Smith. our Brook
lyn farm hand. Is putting up gilt-edged ball
behind the bat and his hitting is above
the 800 mark. He Is also quite favorite
with the fair sex, who crowd the stand
on pleasant Tuesday and Friday after
noons."
In commenting on a shake-up likely to
occur in the Philadelphia team, Frank
Hough says in the Philadelphia Press:
evident and the officials are going to
take the bull by the horns Immediately
They have tried gentle measures and now
the end has been reached. Colonel John
L. Rogers, treasurer Of the club. stat
ed yesterday that the club Is securing the
country for players to take the places OF
those Tow on the pay roll As soon as
good men can be found the shake-up will
come" The Washington Post printed an
interview with Captain Joyce last April
In which Joyce predicted that Johnnie
Ward would be y charge of the philies be-
fore the Fourth of July. JOyce's predic-
weekly sporting sheet. but recent devel-
opments known to certain base ball men
familiar with the goings on of ball politics
behind closed doors, have given rise TO the
well-founded rumor that Johnnie Ward
will be paid a fabulous salary to manage
the Philles. That a change Will be made
not only In the makeup of the team, but
in the managerial end. there is little rea-
son to doubt"
Harry Merrill, the well-informed sport
ing writer of the Wilkes Barre Record,
Is hopeful. Concerning the recent work
of the Alligators he has this to say: THE
base ball editor Of the Record. notwith-
standing the unpropitious defeats the past
week, cannot discover anything in the
work of the team that Is In any sense dis
couraging by analyzing the averages, ex-
cepting among the brace OF players
assigned to the box. The element OF hard
luck--genuine base ball hard luck-seems
largely to enter into the matter Of the loss
Of games. The pitchers, when their per-
formances are compared with those Of op-
posing mines, are doing equally as clever
work in so far as the averages demon
strate, but there seems a fatality about
their pitching that punched hitting in
one or two innings deprives us of the
victory. The team has been hitting to bet
a1l
their opponents during the past week
and yet dropped three out Of five games.
Nine errors have crept into their fielding
In the past six games, while their hitting
has been sufficiently strong to elevate the
general batting average .0l5 points. the
general fielding advancing .Ol6 The very
heavy batting average of the Wilkes-Barre
club in comparison to its present standing
in the race is a matter of great surprise
to the writer. There are seven men on
the team hitting at the 300 mark and bet