The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-03

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Wellners injured hand is improving
rapidly, and he may be able to pitch
in a week,
Atlantic league games scheduled for
Newark, Paterson and Gloucester yes
terday were prevented by rain.
Harper and Boyd, Rochester's old
battery, made monkeys of the Syra-
cuse players yesterday-Buffalo En-
quirer.
Three full-fledged medical doctors are
members of National league teams,
viz: Pond, of Baltimore; Parker, Of
Chicago. and McJames, Of Washington.
Umpire Gaffney did his usual clean
and satisfactory work. Gaff is not in
fallble-no umpire is-but he is the
best symposiarch Of a game of ball
that Wilkes Barre has ever had
Wilkes Barre Leader
Umpire Hurst noticed yesterday that
some one had traded" watch chains
with him. He thinks the trick was
worked on him in Washington. The
chain that was left on Tins watch
looked very much like his own except
that was brass.-Ex.
Manager Griffin was yesterday in
Wilkes Barre, where he acted as god
father at the christening of the two
weeks old baby boy of Right Fielder
ABE" Lezotte, of the Syracuse team.
The child was christened "Rowell Abel
Lezotte." Its father was unable to be
present owing to the Wilkes
Barre game at Syracuse.
Tim Keefe's umpiring was as good
an exhibition as is likely to be seen
here this season. He miscalled not
more than three pitched balls, and his
base decisions were all right Just one
thing might operate to improve his
work, and that is merely in giving the
number of balls and strikes when
alled.-Providence Journal
Arthur Irwin has negotiated a deal
by which he secures Lush from Wash
| ington, the former Eastern Lacquer
who cut such a figure with the Wash
ingtons after he was drafted from the
| Rochesters. Lush will join the Toron-
tos at once and will be played at CEN
ter field. McHale will be transferred
to third base and Wagner. who is a
a rafting good infielder will replace
| Moss as short stop.
The Buffalo Express says: MANY
people have been wondering who East
! ern League Umpire NJ. j. Kennedy is.
! He is best known as Doc Kennedy.
Doc is an old ball player. He was
catcher of the Cleveland's when Her
| man Doescher was manager of the
| team, and was released because of his
| slowness. Kennedy has played in the
| Eastern with Albany. He has also
| played with Fall River and Corning,
oi ic fp ho
| nearly as old as Pop Wise and Pop An
| son. Kennedy is best known for the
playing he did on the Rochester team,
covering first base for many years in
a manner which delighted the fans.
Manager Powell ordered new uni
| forms for the Coal Barons yesterday
through the Kress Stationery COM
! pany. They will be of blue gray ma
terial, black belts and stockings, the
| caps having black stripes with black
! buttons. The shirts will have "W.-B."
! lettered thereon and coats will be in
cluded in the uniforms.-Wilkes-B Barre
Record. Those letters "W.+B." will
! stand for "waY-back" before the sea-
son is over.-Scranton Tribune. Oh
| you fresh, young, sweet thing. VIII
they, though? The scranton Tribune
| paragraphist who now writes with his
| feet, will be taught by the seasons
| experience to use his head, instead
| Wilkes Barre Leader. The Leader
| paragraphist will not even have the
| consolation of being able to use his
| head he seems to have lost it-pro-
vided he ever had one to lose We will
| be charitable and assume that he i'm.
| agines his coarse effusion of alleged
| wit came from his head, but if he i'm
! agines correctly we would like to know
in what part of his anatomy his head
| is located.