The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-24
De MlNOOkS WERE
EASY, SAYS CHUCK

Ano the CTeSCeutS, w ho hiS uo Va viz,
Made Good with the Minooka Lads
BY a Score of e-3-Kelleher's Good
Pitching, and the Hard, Timely
Hitting of Carbondale, Won Out.
A Good Game, and We Are One
More to the Good.
Say" said "Chuck" Connors last
evening, as he passed around quart
of peaches that he bought at Peanut
Nick's, desc reminds a feller Of de hits
de Pets made dis afternoon. If dere
battin wuzzn't some Del'ware free
stone peaches, den I'm reddy to live in
Archbar an lstun t Johnnie Dougher
sing dat 'rign'l pardy o. his'n. Re
main in Your own Rear Play Grounds.
An If dat quiet buck, Kelleher frum up
de line, wuzzn't c'ndr'm to Mickey
Mangan and de rest o. de bunch from
Car's Patch, I'll go and wurk In de
White Oak when the strikes over.
"Yes, SIR concluded Chuck" as he
ran up the street to borrow a Sweet
Caporal from Mickey German, de
MnOoks were asy tings.'
"Chuck," as usual. sized up the sit
uation just as it was The Pets" ran
away with the Minooka team yesterday
afternoon on Duffy's field by the score
of 9-S.
The Minooka team was the reorsan-
izcd, rehablitated and re-everythng
1t was Il better team than went UP
against the Crescents . and then down,
earlier this season. The new manager
has new team that can play new ball.
And who said we weren't glad of it? 1t
makes the credit all the greater for
the Pets don't you know.
When you talk about the Minooka
team, your mind is on good hitters.
for these same laddy-bucks from over
the Scranton city line, down below
Johnnie Gordons home, are some hand
full of shuCks as swat artists. They
can push out safe ones as good as the
best, and better than most Of EN-.
Mickey Mangen. MclIugh, OF the Scran-
ton semi-professonals Philbin and the
rest, are enough, too often, to make
pitcher look like half-past one or two.
and make him think of changing his
boarding boss. But like all men of
equal terms, they meet with Il hard pro-
position, once in Il while. that pune
lures their tire and makes them ride
home on a wheel as fiat as a Homes
dale mans laugh over one of Billy Nc
kenna's jokes in his Evening News.
Well anyhow. (see Bobby Gaylor).
such triple-plate Harveyized armor
proposition came fOrninst them yester-
day; and they were soon all in. Kelle-
her, the man who never says q word,
one of the quietest fellows you ever
met, is his name. Forest City is his
home; and his trick is-well, ask the
lads from Minooka. Maybe they will
tell you how they couldn't hand out
safe smashes. when they would be
Johnny on the-Spot." There were
some safe ones, ten, all told; but they
came when they weren't needed, and
when they weren't needed, they came.
Case of hoss and hoss.
While the silent man had matinee
of fun with the Minooka batters, the
Crescents conducted soaking picnic,
at which the star attraction was the
knockouts, one every little while, they
gave to the ins, outs, drops and switches
handed up to the home-plate by Pitcher
Kelly. No, nothing to the $4,000 beau
ty; but Kelly, Of Moosic, where the
powder mills are.
Poor Kelly! How he was abused.
Owney McAndrew, "Our Owney," one
of his neighbors and who used to play
with him in the days Of Pleasant VAL
ley; Billy Emmett. Jimmie Murray,
Billy Flannery and Dick Monahan had
no regard at all for his pitching, and
slammed him all over the lot. Twas
fearful for Kelly and immense for us.
Fourteen hits three of them two-bag-
gers, We're the harvest. Here was
enough to win two games. With almost
perfect fielding, we couldn't help but
win. That's why the score was 9-3, and
why they are still our Pets"
Minooka scored the first run of the
game in the first inning and without
making hit. Mcdonald was hit by