The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-07
DIAMOND DUST.
Now It's Pop Morse Who Is Delights
ing the Fans Abroad and Taking
Boquets from sandy---Umpire
Knowles Robbery of Saturdays


Game at Toronto.
1t will interest the fans at home to know |
what Is being written about Pop Morse |
on the trip. Pop" won everybody over
to his side at Buffalo, and the writer's
there forgot all about Manager Sandy
and began to spread it on Pop" in this
wise:
In the box for Sandy Grifin's crack
players was a left mitted individual named
Morse. He sports a sweater with a wide
collar and every time he went to bat ne
wore his pitchers glove hooked to his
waist like an Indian warrior with string
of scalps. He pitched the finest game of
oali seen on the local grounds this year
and gave the Bisons but two hits up to
the eighth inning and both of these were
secured by Chief Urquhart. Enquirer.
A tall, husky, middle-aged man whose
name is Morse, pitched the second game,
and the Bisons, famed far and wide for
their hard hitting, were unable to make
but seven hits off his speedy delivery in
nine innings and two of the four secured
IN the last half, when the lanky twirlcr
mad tired himself out shooting them over
the plate. Mr.. Morse gave the hottest
cXhbition of pitching seen at Olympic
park since Wadsworth's fist game here
last season, which Is well remembered as
the finest article of twirling put up on a
ouHalo diamond for many summers
Morse had nothing but speed and curves
fils straight ball, even, was too fast for
the veteran Wise, who struck out in the
sixtn inning. For seven innings he held
the Bisons down to two hits, striking out
four men. Then he let down a hit and
hoWes men were saved the disgrace Of
Delng smut out. Urquhart was the only
Bison who could pick EN- OUTLINES.
In the second game, Southpaw Morse
was put In the box by the visitors, and
his pitching was a revelation TO the
tn ht,r,,
innings and shoots and curves to throw
away. The home batters were COM
Pletely at sea, except Urquhart and
fanned the air industriously while the
Dall cut the plate in half, without even
whisker being taken off Of ii. 1t looked
u'Ec!ueuly t' IKE shut-out for Buffalo un-
| Til the ninth.-News
Buffalo went to its Waterloo in the sec
ond game and Grandpa Morse. the pitcher
| with strong southpaw and a bucolic
look helped it not a little in reaching that
| goal. In fact, he was almost entirely re-
| sponsible for the discontinue of the
Blscns Mr.. Morse, as has been remarked.
is pretty nearly as much of globe-trotter
| as curly-headed Billy Earle having
played all over the country. That he has
not done so in vain was proved by the
mastery and unctious manner in which
ne served up shoots and curves which the
| Bunalo aggregations could not fathom for
eight long innings. They were as much
| OF a mystery to them as are the French
dishes of the table d'hote to the Bowery
| girl. Mr.. Morse has the air of a simple
| rustic swain, but is as wise as Solomon
IN base ball ways and wiles, as the
blsons discovered to their sorrow. In
appearance Morse forcfbly reminded
many of the spectators of big Ed. Cusb-
man. the left-handed twirler who was
| with charlie Morton's Erie pennant win
hers several years ago.-Express.
knowles has gone and done It, Not
satisred with umpiring poor ball, he has
| done What even poor umpire doesn't do
| -roasts the visiting team to such an ex-
| tent that even the home crowd is ashamed
| OF the spectacle. So he must be worse
than a poor umpire; he's a dishonest one.
Wherever he has appeared he has been
| severely critc1zed and so belabored by
| the press that President Powers can now
do nothing but dismiss him, and that
quickly. Probably the best game he has
umpired and the only good one was,
strangely, the one game in Scranton,
'when Springfiel9 was here. The Ponies
won by score of 8 to and Knowles
wasn't seen at his worst After his de-
liberate throwing of Saturdays game ia
Toronto he ought to be chased off the
earth. If President Powers hasn't ano-
ther experiment in stock the players and
public would feel better satisfied If two
players umpired the games.
|
The mere fact of the Miners defeat or
Saturday with Harper in the box should
not encourage a severe criticism of the
latter. Telegraph reports of the game in
dicate that the Miners would have wor
but for Knowles partiality and down
right crookedness. Harper has not pitched
good early-season ball, but from now OF
he will be found to be the peer of the bes
| lpAQnp There
i to handicap him at the start, amons
which was his own pigheadedness in no
/ reporting and thus beginning the seasol
in poor condition, but he is regaining tn,
| form which made him a star in '95, and /
he doesn't win at least two out of every
three games he pitches we shall be disap
pointed.
Tommy Gillon will pitch today and Gun
son will catch.
Each of the five games in the Atlantis
league Saturday was won by one run.
Wilkes-Barre hasn't won a game on tn
trip. Scranton, Springfield and Provi
dence have each bagged one.
They don't seem to like Knowles ou
in Syracuse and Rochester. We dom
blame them The visiting team that run
up against him stands a poor showing o
winning Springfield Union.
| The Scranton owners are little ahead
= financially, on the present season.-Scran
2 ton Tribune. Glad to hear It, They de
serve II and more of it.-Springfield Union
= Umpire Knowles proved one Of the rank
est and most partial judges that ever OF
e flciated on ball field in the Easter
e league. Time and again his decisions o
= bases were Kissed by the crowd and whe
a Rochester gang sides with the visitor:
something must be very rotten.-Syracus
Courier. 1t must have been about tina
I m.