The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-24

ITHE LAST GAME of the Scranton
High School eleven will be played
this afternoon at Athletic park.
when the fast Wilkes-Barre High
School team will oppose the local
warriors bold. The itch promises to
be we'll contested and stubborny
fought, and big crowd ought to be
present and cheer on the boys.
The local High Schools lineup will
be practically the same as in the other
games 1t has played throughout the
season, and the young men from down
the valley will also put their usual
team into the field.
Yesterday afternoon the High School
scrub played and easily defeated the
1.ackawanna eleven by an 1870 score.
Williams, the fast young High School
halfback, made all three touchdowns,
and O'Reilly kicked the goals. Grimes
played Lackawanna's best game.
One of the features of the individual
work of the foot ball players of this
season has been the punting and drop
kicking of Matthewson. of Bucknell.
He has not participated in a game in
which his marvellous kicking has not
materially influenced the score. Last
Saturday he drop-kicked field goal
from the dO-yard line against the fast
West Point Cadets. He is probably the
best kicker on the college gridiron to-
day and 1t seems a pity that he does
not attend some university where he
would be more prominently brought
before the football popuace.
Matthewson is a Factoryvll" boy and
Formerly played with Keystone Acad-
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earned him a great local reputation.
This season his work in gaining with
the ball also has been admirable
The football supremacy of 1900 will
be settled in this afternoons great bat
tie between Yale and Harvard Who
ever wins will have the undisputed
premiership. Princeton's hopes We're
nipped in the bud by Yale and Harvard
drubbe[ Pennsylvania soundly enough
to prevent the Quakers from piping out
any demand for the luurcls. Harvard
will depend on her swift backs to score
on the Sons of Eli and Yale will con-
tinuc to use Hale. Rloomer. Brown and
Stillman. her human battering-rams,
against he Crimson line in the manner
that proved so effective against poor
Princeton. An end run will be occa-
sionally worked in by Cooke or sharpe
the big half backs and line bucking
will most likely feature the Yale Of
fcnSve work. However the Harvard
line is not weak by any means and Will
fight much more stubbornly than the
light lads of Old Nassau. Little Zeus
Roberts. the 250-pound boy may be
used at one of the guards and the game
that the lad with the NEUROLOGICAL
name has put up in practice augurs
that there wont be a great many OF
gains made through his territory if he
gets into the match.
Then too. Yales ends are not up to
the standard and Sawin. Gierasch,
Kendall and Ellis are uuartette OF
backs who directed by a general like
Captain DAILY are likely to make
trouble for any end - - All things
considered the game looks like close
one and will undoubtedly be the hard
est fought of the season.
Walter Rurnham is mentioned as a
possibility for manager of the st. Louis
base ball team of 1901. The Missourians
could do worse than to secure Burn
ham, and indeed it's unlikely that they
will do better AS a handler of the
willy base ball player Burnham is a
genius. He preserves splendid discip-
line and yet always manages to retain
the friendship of the men under him
and their best will along with the most
implicit confidence. He has Il great
eye for the qualities which make a sue
cessful base ball player and has prob
ably turned out as many crack tossers
as any minor league manager in the
business. Billy Hamilton, Sheckard
Pittenger, and numerous other Nation
al Leaguers are among the covents of
Burnham.
He demonstrated the value of his
Judgment when manager here during
the Inflated Atlantic League season
He was out at Athletic Park a day OF
two before the opening of the season
when Nanny Kervin, the sOuth-paw
pitcher arrived. Kervin had never bt :
fore played with a professional team
and he stepped out on the diamond
un-uniformed and rather fatigued from
his journey. He tossed the ball up to
the plate awhile. and took his turn at
bat with the other players, and Burn
hams face beamed as he watched the
young fellow.
Hell do. That lads natural play
err" the manager remarked briefly, and
when the season of 1900 came to close
Danny Kervin the Philadelphia anna
teur, was found at Buffalo, one of the
winning pitchers of the American
League standing in the same ran,
with men like Rube Waddell, Hoffer
Dowling Cronin and Kellum.
Doings in the bowling world are al.
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