The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-12

Every season Scranton Is represent
ed on the gridiron by some one bright
particular star who manages to make
u showing that puts him easily up
among the candidates for the "all col
lege" elevens which the critics are
won't to organize when the years play
is at an end. This season it looks as
II John a. Horan, the ex-high school
player, now at Lafayette. is the man
who is to be relied upon to retain
this distinction for the Electric City.
In the accounts of Saturdays games
at Philadelphia, between Lafayette and
Pennsylvania, the brawny Scranton
boy comes in for more individual
mention than any other man on either
team, and in his expert review of
the contest, printed in the Inquirer,
George w. Orton. the famous athlete
calls Horan Lafayette's star, and then
goes on to say:
"For Lafayette, IIoran, Cure, Chal-
mers and Ernest did the best work.
Cure did some excellent punting, and
he hit the line hard and fast Horan
was all over the field tackling, and
he seemed the hardest man to stop in
the straight guards back play through
the line. His work proved him to be
a great guard, though ] am told he is
erratic. Judged from his play yester-
day Horan must be considered a fine
guard. Chalmers played a very plucky
game. Morrison and Platt also deserve
mention for their fast and heady
play"
Some other special mentionings of
Horan'S work in the In1uirer'S story
of the game We're: "Horan of Lafay-
cite, is great on gathering in fumbles.
He fell on four. On the first
play Hare fumbled and the everready
Horan clasped it to his bosom.
Horan's great line punging advanced
the ball Is yards
The Philadelphia Press man seemed
to be particularly attracted to Horan's
great success in getting on to the ball
after a tumble. These are some of his
comments on that particular thing:
There We're features galore to the
game and fumbling was one of them.
Hare fumbled, SO did Potter, Hodge,
McCracken-in fact, the list of men
who handled the pigsllin cleanly would
be much shorter than list of the
fumblers. Then there was a man on
the Lafayette team named HOran. He
played left guard and just dotted on
fumbles-never seemed to tire of eat
ing em alive. No matter where un-
der the sun that Penn elected to make
a tumble. that man Horan was there
ready and anxious to hug it to his
moleskin heart. He was the most
happy-gO-lucky individual in this re-
spect that ever wore u football suit.
If Hare dropped the leather, Mr..
Horan was at that particular spot at
that particular time-if Hodge made
ten yards through the Lafayette line,
was tackled and fumbled, 10! from
the depths of nowhere up bobbed HOr-
an and clutched the leather to- his
painting breast. He seldom ran with
the ball, seldom stopped guards back
when it battered its catapault way in
his direction. But he was death on
fumbles. and seemed to so into the
game with no other end in view save
to wander around finding fumbles and
eating them. He gobbled up seven
during the afternoon-and then his
appetite was but whetted, and he
sighed for more. Cure, Lafay-
cites full-back, attempted goal from
placement, Morrison fumbled and John
Gardiner fell on the ball. But he
didn't stay fell-and the irrepressible
Horan, who loves fumbles better than
Il New Englander loves mince pie for
breakfast-the irrepressible Horan, with
Il gurgle of delight, fell OH the pig
skin. When Hare had kicked
the goal and the score was II to in
PENIS favor then, for little while,
the Quakers relapsed into a state of
somnolence once more and fumbled Sc
Horan could get the ball for Lafay-
cite. On the very next play
Hodge fumbled and Horan did his re-
markable speciality of being on hand at
that precise second and falling on the
bali Once more Penn started
to take the piGskin toward Lafayette's IS
goal, and near the center of the field
Hodge fumbled--Horan, etc.--and La
fayette got the ball"
Dr. John w. Hunter, the junior resi-
dent surgeon at the Lackawanna hos
pital, was one of the patriotic Repub-
licans who had regard enough for his
party's welfare to leave the city and
journey to Philadelphia to cast his i'm
perial ballot. With Dr.. Charles w
Wunder, his colleague, he visited the
City Of BrOtherly Love. exercised his
right of citizenship. and has now re-
turned.
DR.. Hunter, like both DR.. j. w
Busch, the senior house surgeon, and
DR.. Wunder, Is graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, having left
college with the class of '99, of which