The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-08
BASE BALL NOTES.

Jack Houston has begun playing with
New Orleans.
Shannon has sold pitcher Luby to
the Carbondale club.
Rochester has loaned Third Baseman
Henry to Lancaster.
Tommy Bannon. the New York out
fielder, will be one of the Jersey City
farmers.
Campfeld with Wilkes Barre last
season. is playing with Dallas of the
Texas league.
Buffalo has signed a Western pitcher
by the name Of Roach. making five
twrlers in all.
The Clevelanders struck out more
times during 1895 than any other team,
Washington excepted.
The National league last year tried
is umpires, of whom five are on the list
announced to otiiciate this year.
There are still 81 men on the Chicago
payroll. This list includes nine pitch
ers, and Chicago will release none of
them for the present.
To Washington has been assigned the
king of the major league staff of UNI
pires for the premier game on April 49,
with New York, and his name 1t Is
Timothy Hurst Post.
Third Baseman McGraw, Of the Bal
timores, Is i'll with what has been dag
nosed as typhoid fever in the Atlanta
hospital II this Is true. Donnelly,
drafted from Springfield, viii surely re-
place McGraw.
Ex-Governor Mckinley was given a
silver pass by President Robinson. of
Cleveland. and here Is what he said:
II have your courteous compliment Of
the 26th inst. Please accept my thanks.
| enjoy few things more, as Il relaxa-
ton, than to witness q good game Of
base ball"
Big George or mike" Mahoney, the
Herculean Georgetown pitcher, Is in
bigger demand than any amateur
pitcher in the country. But the Major
league magnates and managers will
waste valuable time by fabulous offers
and attempts to corral him into the big
league. When Mahoney graduates
from Georgetown he will settle
down at his home in Boston and prac-
tice medicine.
1t will be worth the price of admis-
sion this year to hear Jennings and
McCiraw conversing in Latin with Jack
Doyle during the progress of game.
They can call Tim Hurst horse-thief,
q hiehwayman and a dog-kennel bou-
Duet in q dead language, and Tim don't
know a word about 1t. Whereas. If
"Dad" Clarke or Patsey Tebeau at
tempted it in their East Troy American
alive language, Mr.. Hurst would be on
in minute.
OF Big Bill Clark. with Scranton last
year, New York writer sarcastical!y
says: "Mr. William Clark, of Pitts
burg, Pa, a member of the New York
| base ball team, is large, strong young
man of somnolent disposition, with a
tendency to assume attitudes Of repose.
| 1t Is not unlikely that Mr.. Clark would
| he u difficult man to arouse at night II
| the house took fire. In the game at
| Manhattan Field. Clark. in comatose
condition, stood near first base in the
| coachers' position. Pitcher Seymour
was at the bat and Manager Irwin
| urged him to knock the brass tacks out
Of the ball. Mr.. Seymour took coed
aim and drove a ball at Clark like a
shot from a Hotchkiss gun. Clark
| heard the bleacherites yell and looked
up Just as the pigskin struck him in The
middle of the back. He cast re-
proachful look at Seymour for thus dis.
| turbing his siesta and then resumed
| his nap"
The New York base ball club has, ap.
| parently without any reason, cancelled
| it's date with Syracuse on the Pole
grounds for April I. Manager Kuntzscf
is at loss to understand the why and
| wherefore. THE only reason that
can think of for this action" said he
'is that they may be afraid of the
Stars. who are the best team that the
Giants are to meet during their exhihi
tlon season. 1t wouldn't look well fol
the team to be beatenby minor leagut
club. .''-Syracuse Herald. Isn't tha
juicy? The reason Is apparent" t
anyone conversant with the game II
that the Polo grounds, owing to de-
layed repairs. will be unfit for use foI
several days yet, and Manhattan field
which is being used for the Giants
practice is not adapted to good regula
tion games. But it's pity the gam'
was Cancelled and such an opportuplt,
lost for reducing the size of Kuntzsch'i
hat band. Doubtless the Salt City root
ers will believe IN oil good faith tha
there Is no team in the big league tha
dares run UP against their aggregation
of $500 beauties.-Springfield Union.