The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-03
Right off the Bat.

Right off the Bat.
II ERWIN, the young Buffalo pitcher
N seems to be the genuine article.
"A He makes good game after game
and has become a steady winner
Western Exchange. And, says Harry
Merrill, in the Willtes-Barrc Record,
''This former Scranton southpaw
rtarted in Ike a world beater for
Buffalo and for a considerable period
won every game he pitched. When
the general Generalization struck the
Pan Ans Kervin looked like all other
twirlers Of second rate to the batsmen
of opposing teams and he has had bad
luck almost without interruption"
Which we rise TO remark is a rather
strange way of describing young Ker-
wins really remarkable success at Buff
falo. Burnham's Philadelphia find, is
pitching magnificent bail, and when
he does occasionally lose a game 1t is
due to the poor hitting of his team.
Just look at these two games He re-
Gently pitched two games in one at-
ternoon against Cleveland. His first
game, against the veteran Hoffer, he
wen, by the score of SO. In the sec
ond game the Clevelands piled up the
grand total of three runs and five
hits, which however We're sufficient to
yin as the Bisons only gathered in
two tallies. The Ruffaio papers all en-
thUsc over the left handler. and be-
moan the fact that next year will find
him in the National.
Flick is the first Philadelphia play
er to score one hundred and fifty hits.
Duffy. who has supplanted Suck
Freeman in the Boston outheld is
playing left in grand style and is also
batting finely. lie has hit safely In
eighteen of his last twenty games.
Charley Hickman, the youngster who
IS playing third for New York, has
hit safely in twcnty-fOur out of his
last twenty-siX games.
Jerry Nops, the much touted eX-
Baltimore pitcher, has drifted into
minor league company and signed with
Norwich, Conn.
Honus Wagner leads the Pittsburg
batsmen with the fine average of 1885.
ThirtY-siX of his swats We're two bag
gers, eighteen three baggers, and two
home runs. Schriver and Tannehill
are the only other Pirates who have
batted above the 300 mark, and neith-
or of them has been in more than thir-
ty games.
Bill Wolfe, pitcher for the Anderson
team of the Interstate league, famed
out thirteen men on the New Castle
team, recently. The same afternoon,
Pitcher Moore, of Dayton, pitched two
games against Marion and won them
both, only giving four hits in the two
games, and striking out sixteen men
in all.
President Ban Johnson. of the Amer
lean league, is a firm believer in dis
cipline and rules the players with n
rod of iron. Frank Dillon, last year
with Scranton, and now with Detroit,
was suspended for five days by Presi-
dent Johnson, as the result of a row
on the road, when it was claimed Dill
lon threw n gin bottle into the crowd
at a spectator, who was criticizing
him, The Detroit players say that a
bottle was thrown at Dillon, and lie
picked it up and threw It into a vacant
space of ground nearby. Dillon al
ways acted as a gentleman in Scrdn.
ton, but the scrappiness of Elberfield,
Ryan, ct al. seems 10 have communi-
Gated itself to him.
Montreal only scored two runs on
Syracuse Wednesday and both talles
We're made on home runs. FIRST
Baseman Raub cracked out one of the
"heim laufs," as Looie Hartman Iolls
them, and Joe Delehanty, who played
in the Allentown lett field this sea-
sen, was responsible for the other
Patten, Wilkes Barras old pitcher,
is twirling finely for Kansas City He
has recovered from the disCou-aging
start, he made, and is now moving
down opposing batsmen, most beauti-
fully.
Frank Bonner is welding the ash
with deadly effect for Rochester, and
in Two games in one afternoon with
Toronto, last Wednesday, made six
hits in eight times at bat. His to+al
included two doubles and a home run
In the field he collected fifteen out of
sixteen chances.
Up to Aug. Is, but twelve Eastern
leaguers batted over 800. B"anslielG
Of Worcester leads with .3i6. our old
Tommy Bannon, now with Toronto, is
fourth, with .32:, and Jack Walters
another local fav0rite, now with Prov
idence, is hitting at .3OG.
Pittenger, of Worcester, is looked
upon as one of the most clever young.
sters in the Eastern league. He is ont
OF the pitchers that Walter burnhan
discovered.
Miller, the crack Detroit twirler, 4
kept out of the game at present 10y
illness, and the Detroit papers say tha
in all probability he will never agaiI
be able TO pitcn.
And now there comes the news tha
Toronto will next year make a strons
bid to enter the American league
Eastern league clubs have not mad,
much money this year. and the Ca
nucks would like TO break into III,
fast Western association. A new cir
cult could be arranged, they argue
by which Toronto ana Louisville woulC
take the places of Minneapolis anC
Kansas City, neither Of which has hat
remarkable success.
The American league clGb. whicl