The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-08
A SORRY LOT OF
SCRANTON CUTTERS

SCkANIUN QUllIEN0
The Amateurs (p) from the Electric
. City, Composed 'of Half Of the
Semi-Professionals, Merit the Gen.
sure of 5000 Persons by Retiring
. from Duffy's Field Because of Um-
pire's Decision-The Score Was 7-2
I in the Sixth Inning in the Cres-
Z cents Favor-A Disgusting Exhi-
bition Of Scrantonians.
The Scranton Amateurs co, who
comprised over half of the semi-pro-
fessional team of the Electric City,
came to Carbondale with fairly good
opinions as genuine sports preceding
them. Those same Scranton Amateur
Semi-Professionals left the home of
Our Pets" last night with the repu-
tation OF being sorry lot of cutters:
cutters. mind you, that you spell with
three is.
Five thousand rooters. including the
Scranton rooters who live in Archibald,
left the field dlsgusted with the ex-
hibition that the scooped- together
crowd of Scranton ball tossers and
kickers gave in overfowing measure.
and sore and sorry of the fact that
there We're in existence such bunch of
q-u-i-t-t-t-t-e-r-s within sixteen miles
of the Anthracite city. 1t was an ex-
hibition that the cranks here are not
~
played cutters; quitting is foreign to
their nature: there isn't particle Of
1t In any of the Crescents players
rlake-up. and it was enough to make
one srieve to see the sport of base bali
toyed with In such Il loose. reckless,
unfair and uncalled for manner. Moth
1nS ike the circumstances of yester-
day would ever Justify the withdrawal
OF team from a diamond: and any
team That ran away like the Scranton
punch did yesterday has no business
coming to Carbondale. 1t has no busi-
ness being in base ball The gold brick
business. selling green goods. running
a loaded sweat board at a county fair
or any him-ham or short change game
would be just the caper for such a
crowd. At this. they would be Johnny
on-the-spot, and would give them a
clnch on the sunny side of easy street,
where awnings foot thick would be
necessary.
The hundreds of persons who paid
10 see the game were entitled to hav-
ing the goods delivered to them, in
stead or being held up and fleeced,
from sportsman's standpoint. as they
We're by these Amateurs, these anna
tcurs from Scranton: these strangers to
1air play and square dealing.
The Amateurs-Amateurs from Scran-
ton-can plead what specous excuses
they will. but nothing that they may
say of this game will justify the bunco
game that they practised on the several
thousand persons who came to see the
contest. but We're neeced of their rights
by the hard-loosers and cutters from
Scranton-way. Every Carhondalian,
when he went home to his supper, had
bad taste in his mouth which is ant
TO return every time he thinks of the
exhibition OF the Scranton crowd.
,IWlce this year the CrCscents had am
pier reason than the Scranton team
supposed It had to. leave the field; but
ala they: No. never, while they're
"Our Pets" That's what makes Car
bondalans feel so proud of their team:
they are true sports to the last drop
of sporting blood in their veins. They
!eel what they owe themselves and the
crowds before whom they play. and no
matter how they would smart under
adverse unpirng, they would never
desert the field. Anybody who was at
Iionesdale and at Lake Lodore on Au-
gust q. Will confirm what is here said
mat the trescents are no cutters It's
dollars to burnt matches that the
Pets would no longer be such 10
tarbondalians II they committed such
an o'fcnse as did the Scranton team,
Anything hut a gutter in any sport!
Away Win him. Back, back. Scran-
ton, to your three-feet stalls, which,
even at such a small measure, is too
big for the narrow spirits you showed
In this farce and fake you inflicted on
E,010 sports
Before we go any further, it might
be well to say that the game was given
to the Crescents by Umpire Burke, by
the usual score of forfeited games-
80. The actual score, when the ANA
teurs--the Amateurs from Scranton
did their quitting stunt. was - in the
Pets favor, in the last of the sixth
inning. 1t threat tened to be l4-2 in our
favor. and this explains why the lIlec-
trict City deserted their places and iu-
lulred for the first lunch counter. The
bad taste was evidently in their own
mouths, and they sought to remove it
with some pleasant flavor.
The kick was over a batted ball that
Harrison, of Scranton, who pitched for
us, sent down with express speed to
Crane in left field. He was the first
man at bat for Carbondale but the
heavy sluggers of the Crescents were
TO follow, and 'twould never, never do
to see half dozen more runs piled up
and the game thus lost heynnd all hnna