The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-09

moons battery and Magic or Schmidt will prob
ably twirl for Wilkes Barre
The veteran Gus weighing was yesterday resur-
Iected and rsed by 81. Louis against Cincinnati.
lie won his game, only giving seven hits
Kennedy held Elmra down to three hits in
the first league game. Yesterday the Elmirnns
got fourteen safe ones including Ave doubles.
Jimmy Deans work at second base was one
OF the features of the game with Elmira Monday
and the 600 spectators present applauded the
little Scrantonian to the echo.
Now that Kelly has been secured, Collihower
will probably be worked as one OF the regular
Wilkes. Barre pitchers and ought TO prove tower
Of strength in that department.
Kelly, Wilkes Barrels new first baseman, is an
amateur from Edwardsville. and few hours
before taken out on the diamond was at work
in the mines lie made a single and three
bagger in Mondays game with Allentown.
Billy Goeckel may think the local club is all
right, but all the same the management is look
ing around for new mber.-Wilkcs'Barre Daily
News. That's right. Start in knocking good and
early. lis a good way to discourage a team.
The Wyoming Seminary team was defeated at
East Stroudsburg by the Normal school team as
the result Of inability TO hit Pitcher o'Neil, the
Minooka boy, who formerly played for the Y. NJ.
c. A. team. O'Neill was in for a strike out
record and famed out just twenty-one men.
Instead Of playing tcmorrows ball game in
the morning intended it has been decided
to call il at Ais o'clock in the afternoon, as the
records VI base ball games in the city on days
when a circus has been in town show that the
games have been attended by enormous crowds,
the rival attraction not detracting at all from the
attendance.
The members Of the Pittsburg ball team arc
led in batting 80 far in the season by big Honu'
Wagner, who. in thirteen games, has made twen
ty.five safe hits and has average OF .lsl. Ely
is the lowest regular player, having only batted
10, in thirteen games. Chief thinner, who has
caught in eleven games, has fielding average
Of .9SS, and Center Fielder Beaumont, in thir'
teen games, has felded 1862.
William J. Goeckel, the ex-Wilkcs. Barre first
baseman, in speaking Of the Barons, gives as his
opinion that the team, on the whole is good
one. The outhcld, he thinks, is a very strong
one, being made up of especially good batsmen
and the infeld is also very able. with the ex
ception OF the first base position, where hi
thinks Collifower is rather awkward and novice
like With practice, however, he believes this
be overcome, and the ex-National leaguer''
hitting powers ought to keep him on the team
In regard to the assertion made in one of the
Scranton papers that the local team is composed
of gentlemanly players, the Wilkes-Barre Daily
News makes the following amiable remark: 'les
Second Baseman 0'Brien is a gentleman-nit. u
0'Brien is a hard working, aggressive player
with nothing of the dirty ball tosser in his com
position. He is captaining the team, and, al
though his emphatic championing OF the mems
rights has already led to couple of differences
with the umpire, he has done nothing to war
rant the above ill.natured comment.