The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-09
DIAMOND DUST.

Springfield again today.
johnson and Berger will be today's bat
terry.
Louisville has finally released Hassamer
and traded Second Baseman O'Brien to
Washington for Third Baseman Rogers
and another player
Griffin last night wired Bowerman to re-
port at once. With Bowerman supporting
him. Corbett would never have gone in the
hole in yesterdays first inning.
This is the last game at home until Fri
day of next week. Scranton plays at
Springfield saturday and Monday, and at
Providence Tuesday and Wednesday
SANDY Griffin has worked wonders with
the raw Scranton team and they play lOo
per cent. better ball under his charge than
any team representing SlOcum Hollow has
ever done. In Il couple more weeks, pro-
fitting as they are doing by his advice and
example they will be the equal Of any
team In the league both In fielding and
batting Wilkes Barre News
Dealer.
The Wilkes-Barre Record may be nc.
cused Of being more than hopeful. Of being
very visionary when 1t says: III the
Wilkes-Barre club gets for manager the
man the management Is thought to be
angling for. the Record vouchsafes that
everybody will not only be pleased. but
SuIpIlSeu, WINE IL lS CcTtuil lIc
club will yet land up among the leaders
and that's what every one is desirOus OF
seeing accomplished, both players and
public"
Now that Chapman has left and the
management has fallen into other hands,
1t Is sincerely hoped the Wilkes-Barre
club will show that 1t can play ball. The
local cranks have become sick and tired
OF the wretched exhibitions the players
I<svNsr ,friV
Of defeats has knocked patronage into
smithereens. even the Scranton club.
which has always been pie for Wilkes
Barre, seems to have an easy thing with
us, which Is probably the bitterest dose OF
all. Get together and do something
Wilkes-Barre Times.
Though Scranton does not play Sunday
ball, the team has played the same num-
Der Of games as Toronto, and only one
less than Providence and Syracuse and
three less than Wilkes-Barre and Spring.
field. However the club would make at
least $lOO for each Sunday game played.
The owners. though. don't figure 1t just
that way. They argue that the men can
play better ball week days II they rest on
the Sabbath. and claim that this better
playing means an extra patronage which
will replace many Of the dollars lost by
not playing on Sunday. There Is a great
deal In that argument.
Today is the limit set by the National
league board Of directors for Patsy" Te-
beau to make good his fine or retire from
the game until he planks down the 2O0
simoleons. Frank de Haas Robson. who
yesterday secured an injunction restrain
ing the league from collecting the fine.
says the fine will not be paid and that
Patsy will play just the same. The Bal
timores are scheduled to play in Cleveland
today, and the outcome Of the affair will
be awaited with considerable interest
throughout the country. 1t IL the general
impression that MIR. Robson will be
obliged to eat very big dish Of crow.
1t is in order to continue to remark that
Toronto is q prominent factor In the race.
The change Of the Toronto franchise to
Albany is received with approval through
out the circuit. Albany isn't the best base
ball town In the world. but It's q good
sight better than Toronto. q city where
but handful Of 400 or 600 cranks will turn
out to support club that's in third place.
The selection Of Albany. too, will reduce
schedule expenses and the change will not
interfere with the schedule as originally
drafted, though next season, II Albany Is
chosen to remain in the league. the dates
will be fixed 50 that the down-east clubs
and the clubs playing in that section will
move west via Albany instead Of Wilkes
Barre and Scranton.
''Of course there are silver hairs among
the brunette" says Scrappy Bill Joyce,
as he dotted his derby and filtered his
hand through his frosted frizzles. Be
cause I am gray the public believe I
must be at least 81 or 40 years old. I
have heard is said that l am as old as
Anson, and Anse, you know listened to
Washingtons farewell address way back
in 1882. The fact IS, / was born In St.
Louis in 1857. and did not begin TO play
professionally until 1858. / came by my
gray hairs honestly-by inheritance. My
mother was gray when q years. When a
young player starts out say at Is, the
public pays no attention to his age. He
is youns blood, SO TO speak. AS he grows
IN service, by the time he il 80 he is re
garded as all old-timer. The public begin
to figure out his age and they become de-
luded with the belief that he has been
playing quarter Of a century instead Of
a dozen years. At 80 he Is called an old
man. Take the case OF Charley Comiskey
He began playing professionally in 1850 at
the age of ~. and that makes him SO at
the present time, yet If you told the av-
erage base ball fan that COmiskey was
under 45 he would be likely to give you the
laugh. It's the same with other players
and Bill sighed as he turned away TO take
his turn at the bat.