The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-28

taken out of his arm. A New York ply
sloian who is undertaking the operation
SAYS he will have the Brooklyn shoct-
stop I'm good condition in three weeks.
The Plttsburg players say tho reason
the team has increased in long hits, is
because better balls are being furnished
by the manufacturers 1t might be we'll
IL Scranton could get a car load of these
'long hit" balls They may need them.
The center field fence of the grounds at
Paterson, n. j., has, for the past two
seasons been an cysore to the heavy
batsmcn of the Atlantic league. The fence
Is quite a long distance from the home
plate, and no ono was successful in plaC-
ing the ball over this fence until few
days ago, when Montreal played siN-
inning practice game with Wrights kill
ers. In this game, Jaclllitz, a promising
young catcher, succeeded in pushing the
bail over this much enVied fence. jack
litZ Is now regarded by the Paterson fans
to be the greatest hitter on the diamond.
Rasty Wright is wondering how he can
accomplish the same feat.
The many friends of IIughey jennings
will be sorry to learn that he is to retire
from the diamond for one month. The
| injury he sustained one cold afternoon IS
more serious than first believed, and his
physician has ordered absolute rest for
one month. Ilughcy's many friends i'll
this section wish him a speedy recovery.
Umpire John n. Gaffney has the fol-
lowing to say relative to the much talked
about balk. Just as we all of us OK
pected," replied Gaffney. "Thcre is GO
| ing to be fun ana let's of 1t, over that rule
| before the season closes. There has been
some fun already but more will follow
Pitchers are all at sea regarding it, and
| the modification on first base made the
| other day does not simplify matters
/
! both of them on Klobedanz in the game
! he pitched at Brooklyn. Klobedanz has
| three distinct movements. There is a
| sort of hitch and kick which he has to
| deliver the ball. a swinging of his foot
| through the air, so that the baseman
| cannot tell where his foot is going to
| land and whether he will throw to first or
| to the catcher, and the legal delivery.
| That swinging his foot through the air,
| to my mind, constitutes n balk. 1t was
on that account that | called two on him
| in the game the other day. funny
| thing happened at Brooklyn Tuesday aC-
| tcrnoon Hughes was pitching for Han
| Ions team and there was a Boston man
on first base. Hughes looked over tc ilrst
| base. That was all; he made no move to
| throw the BAH over; he simply looked in
| that direction. The base runner started
| down toward second. Hughes watched
him until he had gone two-thirds of the
| distance. Then he turned around and
| threw the ball to second and the base
| runner was touched before he reached
| the bag. Captain Duffy wanted me TO
rule that Hughes had made a balk and
| that the base-rmncr was entitled to Sec
| ond and the batsman to first. The fact
| that Hughes made no move to throw the
| ball to first prevented the balk and re-
| fused to call one / Just cite this in
| stance to show you how the rule is mis-
understood by many good men, and this
| misunderstanding will continue all
| through the season."