The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-22
Right off the Bat.

III he places confidence In hut one OF
his twirlers, and that is McGinni-
ty, who is now working every other
day and between times. Poor McGin-
nifty! 1t Is not hard to see his finish.
He may succeed in saving the flag, but
at what cost! If he does not ruin his
pitching gear this year, a good many
close students OF the game will be
agreeably surprised. Hanlon's action
in working McGinnity to death recalls
the glorious days when Billy Hoffer
was doing the almost daily twirling for
Foxy Ned. Hoffer was a good fellow
and faithful to the core. He was the
only man who could win the pennant
for Baltimore, and Hanlon jollied him
into working overtime. The next year
Billy Hoffer was a dead one and Han
lon cast him adrift. Release and a
roast were his reward for having
pitched Baltimore into the champion
ship. Let us hope that that sterling
exponent of the art of twirling. now
defyng all laws of nature in his efforts
to save the team will not receive the
treatment accorded Billy Hoffer.
That Hanlon is resorting to every
known trick to save the Brooklyn team
from falling out of the nice soft bunk
they have been occupying is certain.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Now that Bill Donovan has been
recalled from Hartford, Iron Man Nc
| Ginnity may be given a partial rest,
| and only used in his regular turn.
Donovan made his debut Monday and
| won from st. Louis. He pitched fine
| ball, but Muggsy McGraw, the willy
| little base ball Ulysses, managed to
| keep the big ex-RichmOnd twirler
| guessing. In his five appearances at
! the plate the st. Louis captain drew
| four bases on balls and once managed
| to get his toughened anatomy in the
way of one of Donovan's softer shoots.
| Christy Matthewson, the Factory
Vile boy, now pitching with New York,
| last week received one fair trial when
he held Chicago down to six hits,
| errors by the Giants losing him the
| game. The correspondent of the Chi
| cago Daily News made the following
remarks regarding the big blonde:
| Matthewson for New York also de-
serves credit for pitching a good game
after bad start. All Chicago's exc
cution was done in the first and
fourth. Matthewson, formerly a Vir-
| ginia Lacquer, has a good bunch of
speed and an effective cross-fire. In the
eighth, aided by the dusk, he struck
| out Dexter and Bradley and had Nc
| Cormick trimmed to the satisfaction
of the crowd, but not of the umpire,
before Mac singled. He then got two
strikes on Killing, but again missed on
landing the third. failing to make the
record the crowd was pulling for.
In Tuesdays game at Toronto, the
| Canucks touched up Klobendanz of
Worcester for sixteen hits, and yet
only scored two runs, In the sixth
inning they made five hits, one OF
which was a triple contributed by
Lynch, and yet only one run was
tailed. Pitcher Duggleby, of Toronto,
had ten assists to his credit, and the
whole team had the very large num-
Der of twenty-five.
Undertaken Joseph Quinn is doomed
to release by Cincinnati. The veteran s
stick work was fair. but the slowness
of his fielding was actually painful
to behold. Another release, made hy
the Reds, is that of Arlie Latham.
The clown of the diamond was only
engaged for his coaching powers, and
Manager Allen has now decided that
the team can stagger along without
|
What is perhaps the star batting
feat of the year was performed by
Noblitt, of the Chester team, in q
, game last week with another semi
professional team. Two home runs
! two doubles. and a single were the
components of the juicy bunch OF
drives he gathered.
Last Saturday Montreal, in a double
, header with Springfield, played nine
! teen consecutive innings without ar
error. The first game was a fourteen
innings one, and the second only FIVE
the Ponies winning both,
Bransfield, of Worcester, seems Bucl
Freeman's successor, as the Eastern
League home run artist. Seventeen
home runs have been made by hin
this season, And talking about Free
3 man, where oh where Is Bucky any
8 way? With the exception of beinl
y once in awhile sent in TO bat for {
pitcher, poor Buck seems to have al
most vanished from the armament o
. which he was such brilliant sta
a last season.
!. Eason, the young pitcher, VIII
pitched for Elmira this season. is nov