The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
DIAMOND DUST.

Wellner and Boyd, Morse and Gunson
will be the Scranton batteries today.
Bonner has made his northumberland
first hit. Beard is within six of the CEN
tury mark.
George Mahoney, Boston's big colleg-
ian pitcher, has been farmed out to the
Portland (Me) club.
Two games with Syracuse this after
noon. These will be the last games in
Scranton for two weeks.
The Syracuse Courier says Swartwood
has succeeded Gaffney as king in the
Eastern league. The Courier is about
right.
Willis is losing his games with marked
regularity. The Wolf must stop eating
blackberries for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Courier
Muggy McGraw holds the seasons rec
ord on one count. He has kicked him
self out of more games than any other
player in the big league.
J. Earle Wagner, of the Washington
club. was in Wilkes-Barre yesterday. 1t
is presumed he wants Richter, of the
Montreal team, and Odwell of the Barons.
Malarkey and Ryan, Lampe and Shaw
will be in the points for the Stars. Ma
larkey has many relatives and friends in
this city and they viii be out in force to
root for him.
The Stars are in Scranton. The
Miners are playing better ball. If we win
two out of three then no kick will be
written down in the knock book.-Syra-
cuse Standard.
O'Brien faced Willis six times Monday
and didn't get hit, but he went TO first
three times on bad balls and once through
being hit by pitched ball and scored
three runs at that
The West Side Athletics challenge the
Lackawannas to a game of base ball on
the Dunmore grounds for Sunday, July
ANN-x III
Tierney, manager.
Out of Eagan's six times at bat Monday
he had opportunities to bat in six runs in
five innings, but he failed in each instance
and forced two runners. He had not q
fielding chance. Peter didn't cut much of
figure.
There Is absolutely not a grain OF truth
In the rumor started by Arthur Irwin in
Wilkes-Barre to the effect that the Scran-
ton franchise had been offered to Mon
treal or that any dickering had been
started toward that end.
Says the Syracuse Courier: ''The Cour-
Ter has made arrangements with Pro-
prietor Kuntzsch to start a guessing con-
test on Monday morning, if the Stars
do now win between now and then. The
fan who guesses the hoodoo will be CIV
en- n season ticket. AS an additional
prize the Courier offers a tooth brush.
Send in your thoughts"
Priceburg Nonpareils for a series of six
games, three to be played in Dunmore
and three in PIiceburg. A magnificent
trophy will be given to the club win
ming the series of six games by Thomas
| Logan, proprietor of the Exchange hotel,
punmore. If same is accepted the Dun
| more manager would like TO meet the
| Priceburg manager at Exchange hotel.
| Dunmore, tonight to make schedule of
| games. John ]. Coleman. manager; John
| Mcdonnell, captain, Dunmore Nonpareils.
Freeze Bogerts paper, the Wilkes
| Barre Leader, contained a score Of lines
| devoted to a roast of Howard Earl The
paragraph was probably instigated by the
| slap that Ear. administered to Bogerts
| face last season. The truth of the Lead
er's implication that Earl is "a plug-ugly"
can best be determined by inquiring into
| what he deemed were good and manly
reasons for laying the palm of his hand
| against the Wilkes-Barre presidents
face. A magnate's organ could be in busi-
ness better than STOPPING to roast a
| player like Howard Earl who is every inch
gentleman-and he's tall at that
''The sale of the Rochester base ball
| franchise to Montreal is distinct loss
| to Rochester" said a well-known mer-
| chant this morning. 81 contend that 1t
| is worth at least $4,000 a year to the
| city to have a base ball team in one of
| the recognized leagues. 1t advertises the
town. even II the team does not play
good ball. OF course, II we have a win
ming team, we are all the better off, but
| no matter whether we win or not the
| city's name is before good share of the
population of the country all the time.
You cannot advertise town too much,
| and there Is no better and no cheaper
| way Of keeping a name before the people
| than to have a good base ball team
| playing every day in different parts of
the country. Union and Ad-
| vertiser
In commenting on the failure of the
| Clevelands 10 get a run against the
GiantH5n IS successive innings, o. p.
CayloTEemarks that this is record
whichgpas not been made in the Ma
tional league for years. 1t was eclipsed
in 1896, when the st. Louis Maroons shut
out the Kansas City club for 30 success
sive innings. The games were played in
st. Louis on Sept 20. q and % of that
year. In the first game the pitchers were
Long John Healey, now a st. Louis po-
liceman, for the Maroons, ana stump
Weidman, the present manager of the
Montreal club, for Kansas City. The game
was called at the erd Of the eleventh in
ming without a run having been made
on either side. In the second game, the
pitchers were Henry Boyle, now Phila-
delphia travelling man, and James Whit
ney deceased. The score was 6 to in
flavor OF st. Louis. In the third game