The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-25
has signed Gilman. o'Hagan and Pitchers

Mackey and Freye and Catcher Hodge.
Since joining the Washingtons, ''Slver"
kink has won seven games and lost four
Pretty fair record for player who was
supposed to have gone TO seed long ago.
Pitcher Doheny was sent back to New
York yesterday. His arm in practice gave
out entirely. Irwin says he does not think
Doheny will ever be able to pitch again.
The Lawrenceville friends of Bill Clark,
first baseman OF the New York team, in
tend to give him u rousing reception at EN-
potision park, Pittsburg, when the Giants
play there Thursday.
Pitcher Gray, who went south with the
Baltimore club in the spring, and who was
later farmed to the Columbus, o., club,
and afterward released, will pitch for the
Buffalos In the second game today.
The catching, hitting and throwing of
Jim O'Rourke for the Bridgeport team
would surprise several of the league stars.
O'Rourke was q clever catcher in the same
city more than twenty-five years ago.
The first professional game of base ball
played in Oswego. n. v, in eight years
was played there Wednesday between the
Rochester and Albany teams, of the East
ern league, and attracted about $500 spec
tators.
Manager Hanlon announces that Reitz
and Donnely will be continued in the
and McGraw's recovery. Quinn will be
kept as an emergency man and McGraw
will he held back until the end of the
season.
Fred Pfeiffer is now field captain of the
Chicagos. BY the way, Fred is playing Il
great game of ball nowadays, and 1t must
be soothing to Freedman and Arthur lr-
win when they read of the work which tho
man whom they discarded as being of no
earthly use is doing for his old club.
Third Baseman McGraw. of the Balt-
more Base Ball club. is at Cape May
getting in shape to join the club. A few
days ago he wrote to Groundkeeper Muir
ply and asked to have his base ball suit,
gloves, shoes, etc. sent to him, as he in
tended to practice with the Cape May
team.
"You will shoot a chute or two when you
meet the eastern clubs in your next trip,
mark what tell you, Buck" said Captain
Joyce to buckingham Ewing. Joyce. how
ever, has a high regard for Bucks abl-
tiles, and while he doesn't believe the
Reds will finish as good as second, he
predicts they will finish no lower than
fourth.
'If Chicago ever happens to land first
or second Your Uncle and his Colts will
never play for the Temple cup" says Buck
Is funny. Jim Hart attended a league
meeting during AL Buckenberger's reign
as manager of the Pittsburg club. Al
was sent to the meeting to represent the
interests of the Pirates. For some reason
or other Jim Hart took a dislike to Buck
enberger, and asked Mr. Kerr, one of the
Pfttsburg club owners, what that fellow
Buckenberger was doing at the meeting.
'Buckenberger,' responded Kerr, has as
much right at that meeting as you. He is
the hired man of the Pittsburg club, and
you are no more than the hired man of Al
Spaldings club Hart never recovered
from that shot. Mr. Temple, who donated
the Temple Cup, is Il Pittsburg man, and
great friend of Mr.. kerr's, and that's
why Jim Hart is sore on the famous Tenn
pie trophy"
Do pitchers after they have been re-
leased by club with which they have
been playing for sevral years and on
which they imagine they have a cinch
play better ball with another club with
which they sign? is a question which has
been agitating the minds of base ball fans
for years past and they have had some
apt Illustrations of the "second-leasc-of
life act on many occasions. Last year
KID Cannon twirled for Manager
KuntZsch and he was a frost according to
the Syracuse magnate, who could hardly
wait until the close of the season to re-
lease him. He was Immediately signed
by President Franklin, of the Butfalo
team with the result that he is easily the
star of the home team this year, and is
giving his opponents but five or six hits
in any game. Ad Gumbert was recently
released by Brooklyn for not being up to
the National league mark. He was taken
on trial by Philadelphia, which at pres
ent would apparently take q G-year-old kid
if some one told the manager he could
pitch. But yesterday Gumbert showed
what he was capable of doing by giving
the Pittsburgs but nine scattered hits
which. if he had decent support, would
have been but five and the Pirates would
have been shut out. He also batted in
two runs for the Quakers. A more re-
cent instance of the in-and-out playing Of
pitchers is that of Heinrich Gruber. He
offciated In the box for several games for
Springfield this season and was 80 rank
that he was played most of the time on
first base. He soon was released and
again Manager Rowe took a chance with
the result that has won the only two
games he has pitched for the Bisons and
that, too, by giving his opponents but very
few hits. Joe Herndon was released by
President Franklin this week. If he
is signed by another club it is dollars to
cents that he will again make a record for
that club.-Buffalo Enquirer.