The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-12
BASE BALL GOSSIP.

McCreery was hardly released by New
York when Pittsburg snapped him Lp
P!ttsburg is Toms home.
Pitcher weighing. for back salary. at
tached $500 in President Young'g hands
due Dallas, from St. Louis, for short
stop Hall. Sooner than have further s'iit
Manager McCloskey settled.
Base ball Is queer game. Baltimore
won five straight from Philadelphia and
hen lost two to Washington. poStun
captured three in a row at New York
and came here and dropped two to The
rhli!es.
Last week was great one for Presi-
dent Freedman. of the New Yorks. He
fired McCreery for making AN error
Then he frightened Umpire Heydler into
resigning, and the next day Anson bade
him farewell
An agreement has been reached by
which the games scheduled for the Reds
in Cleveland will be played in Cincin-
natl This includes four games the lat
ter part of September and three early in
October - Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une.
Umpire Burns, of the Eastern league.
left Wiikes-Barre Saturday night for his
home in Paterson, N. j., having notified
President Powers on Thursday night that
he would leave the city Burns goes to
Brighton Beach, where he will make a
book on the races and as he saws he rs
out for the cash he takes this offer be-
cause it is much better than an umpire's
berth.
1t is about time the New York ten m
lost that name "Giants." The men are
as a rule small. and the sort of game
they play certainly does not entitle them
10 anything like so suggestive name
The Philles, who have Delahanty, La
joie, Douglas, Orth, Wheeler. DunLle
Abbattacchio and Jiatt, all in the neigh =
borhood of six feet. il would seem. are
entitled to the name.-Louisville Courier
Journal
Fred Odwell. of the Wilkes-Barre team
telegraphed President Stegmaier satur-
day morning from Rome, n. Y. tha.
he had strained tendon i'm his pitch 4.
ing arm in the sixth inning of Friday s
game and would he unable to use mis- arm
for ten days. He asked for instructions
as to whether he should return or re-
main with Faatz. Inasmuch as Oddie
was ordered by wire early i'm the morn
ing to report here at once, II seems
strange that he should have pitched the
game, or that Manager Faatz would usn
him, when he had both Miner and Kis-
senger to take their place at the slab.
This unfortunate mishap accounts for hiS
non-appearance in Saturdays game II
having been announced that he would
be on hand for the contest. Odwell was
ordered to meet President Stegmaler at
Syracuse yesterday, and It may trans
pire that his telegram was simply n
ruse to possibly prevent his being com
PEELED to leave Rome. The score shows
he pitched the full game on Friday.
winning it by 6 to 2.-Wilkes-Barre Rec
ord
This years fight for the National
league pennant ought to be recorded in
base hall history as the best fray, the
hardests fought battle for the Aag that
the game has ever seem" says Earl
Wagner. "a year ago today the first and
final team in the race were separated by
500 points, This season. up to Monday,
found but 329 points difference between
the first and last teams. This difference
simply proves that the four-trip sche-
dule has knocked out the losing streak
and given the teams of the sscond divls-
lon a better advantage. The short trip
is bound to break a losing streak II a
team is playing any old kind of ball"
Pitcher Frank Donahue's name has
been entered in the book of base ball
lmmortals. The Phlllies' twirler pitched
his team TO victory Friday. which goes
down as one OF the most remarkable on
record, for the Boston team did not make