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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1894
Page
2
The Providence team enjoyed a surge in batting, placing balls with ease while Scranton's pitcher yielded bonus runs. Buffalos and Syracuse slide while Erie drops to Binghamton. league standings show little movement as Eastern League teams maintain positions and win totals after recent games.
A chaotic Scranton effort fails to field a competitive game as Providence wins. Donovan pitched poorly amid lack of leadership with Swift absent and Cahill not yet arrived. Rogers leads Scranton with a triple and a double while Stricker areas solid defense for the visitors. Attendance 1,300 as Providence tops Scranton 6 3.
In a mixed East division tilt, Syracuse faced Springfield with errors and runs spread across innings. Batters Bauswein Hess and Coughlin contributed offense while pitchers and umpires, including Doescher, Kottrick, and Healy, managed the field amid scoring bursts.
Wilkes Barre loses to Buffalo 6 to 3 as Meakin struggles on the mound. Attendance 850 at the Municipal Stadium with Hoffer and Huffalo contributing hits while Buffalo capitalizes on errors and timely runs.
Reports show Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Brooklyn, New York and Chicago results with hits errors and batters listed. Games include call to allow Washington to catch a train and a fire delaying a Baltimore grandstand game.
In Reading Pennsylvania and Harrisburg and Lancaster and Pottsville scores are listed with towns such as Reading Reading Philadelphia Harrisburg Stienan doah Lancaster Hazleton Pottsville Allen town.
Turmoil grips the Scranton Baseball Association as stockholders quarrel over leadership. An informal meeting leads to Swift remaining manager though Patollen seeks a move to Cincinnati and Cahill may join as a player. a decisive vote is planned tonight amid hopes for a strong lineup and continued exhibition baseball.
An article urges writing on nursery walls that half of infant deaths stem from improper feeding. It extols lactated food as superior to any infant milk, citing Mrs. W. H. Caron of Merriden Connecticut detailing her sick baby Walter who improved after using lactated food and now thrives through summer teething.
Entries received by M. J Sanders, Scranton Press club regatta committee, indicate Lake Ariel races next Tuesday will dwarf Saratoga events. Oarsmen will row a mile in about six minutes for singles and fifty four minutes for doubles and fours. The Flying Cloud faces Ariel in a major yacht race and a large crowd is expected from the valley and nearby areas. There is no admission fee.
Report of bicycle speed attempts and records including Jenny’s one minute two seconds class A ride, Adolph Goebler’s 12.91 five mile mark, and Shorland and Peterson’s 40 miles events. Notes on leather covered saddles, a land and water Tricycle crossing attempt, and a large touring group affecting town sleep. Also mentions Pinkett’s failed English Channel bid and Delia Isle race results led by Charles Barthel and the Grant brothers.
Senator Hill shows baseball zeal in Congress as Arthur Ball signs with the 8 Louis club for second base. Leo Smith struggled at short for Scranton, discouraged by playing conditions. The Blue Bellis face a challenge, captain Louis Hinerfeld notes. Clarkson leaves pitching, plans mercantile work in Michigan. Hughen returns from injury to join Pottsville. Springfield Union notes Scranton’s pennant push and hustling battle. Baltimore’s quiet captain Robinson leads by example amid noisy teammates.
An advertisement claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has aided millions of mothers for over fifty years to soothe teething children. It promises relief from wind colic and diarrhea, softens gums, and is sold by druggists worldwide. The price is twenty five cents per bottle.
estate listing offers a spring water fed home on about three acres with a barn for three horses and two cows a hennery a fruiting area and a good lawn. Price listed at 4000 dollars with additional lots on Western Slope Dalton for sale inquiries to B Mott manager 421 Lackawanna board trade address unclear
A scrambled page shows an auction listing for horses at Cusice's stable in Scranton with unclear details and an advertisement by H J Spauks of Prospect Ave. Also listed are an architects notice for a fire dept building in Scranton, financial syndicate notices, sealed proposals for a public school building in Moosic, a testamentary notice for Harriet Lyman in Lackawanna County, and various public saleroom and employment notices with partial names and locations.
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