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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1895
Page
7
No National League games were played. Saturday results did not alter club standings. In the Eastern League Scranton lost to Rochester and Wilkes-Barre fell to Buffalo. Meaney pitched after Saturday work, but Scranton and Wilkes-Barre were unable to sustain pace.
Cranton visits Rochester. Wilkes-Barre at Buffalo. Providence travels to Toronto. Springfield at Syracuse for today’s league matchups.
Rochester defeated Geranton amid heavy hitting and ragged fielding. Meaney logged a second pitching appearance after Saturday’s effort as Hewitt enjoyed better support from his defense and Rochester outplayed the host team throughout the game. Score:
Buffalo N Y wins for Buffalo bats in eighth inning with heavy hitting from Bottenus Cranby Shearon and Wise. Wadsworth allowed nine hits in first two innings and Miners scored eight early runs. Lanee played faultless short despite injured hand. Attendance around 3 000. Umpire Doescher replaced by Jack Rowe and performed well.
In Rochester New York, Duryea started strong for Scranton but faltered in the sixth as Hewitt relieved. Scranton led by one run through five innings until Keenan’s single in the last frame decided the game for Rochester.
In Syracuse and Toronto reports several matchups feature players Patten, Delaney, Barnett, Kilroy, Rafter, Callahan, Guneon, Eagan, McAuley, Payne, Luke, and Dixon. Providence and Springfield are noted as opponents with varied outcomes and margins.
Scranton will end the season at home with Springfield and Providence. President Betts told a Tribune reporter that Springfield starts a three day series here tomorrow, followed by Providence for two games Saturday to close the week.
The Jersey Central Railroad employees baseball club defeated the wholesale clerks on Saturday afternoon by a 11 to 9 score. Batteries were Clark and Borcher for the railroaders and Ruddy and Powell for the clerks.
Kelley and Keeler exceed one run per game this season with Kelley hitting his tenth home run. Pitcher Johnson nurses a strained knee and may not pitch before Friday’s series finale with Providence. Keenan stands out as reliable on the Harons trip, Coakley improves when not wild, and Betts shines against hard hits. Syracuse and Wilkes-Barre disputes surface in a Sporting Life dispatch, amid amateur notes and Dunmore North End hopes for September games.
Fred Jessup of Orange wins the singles title defeating Johnson in a surprise final. Torrance and Moon take the doubles, eliminating Johnson and Fuller in the semi finals. The closing day featured many tight matches including three set affairs and lunch was served. Consolation rounds will be played next week to conclude the club’s most successful event.
In a mixed results set of matches Kirkpatrick and Shaffer fell 5-3 6-0 6-2 while Torrance and Moon defeated Johnson and Fuller 6-3 and then beat Kirkpatrick and Snyder 6-1 6-1 6-3. The singles prize was a silver mounted flask and the doubles prize a silver-tipped antelope horn corkscrew.
Small fields marked the Driv ing Park meet with thirteen horses across three events. Monrove driven by Schadt won the free-for-all, Jima Mears ridden by Hil, and Duke led by Payne captured the 240-yard race in a card featuring three-mile, half-mile and sprint heats.
Scranton bicycle club football team candidates are called to report for practice at the baseball park this afternoon. About twenty men are expected to respond. Preliminary practice will continue about a week to decide positions. The first game is set for Sept 21 against Carbondale.
Nellie Are stands as a notable trotter while Western riders push to reinstate Jockey Willie Flynn after a life ban. San Francisco pool rooms remain busy, Indianapolis eyes exit from racing after seven meetings with about 12000 in losses. Baden Europe hosted the era’s largest trotting event. Spofford by Kentucky Prince won with times around 2.17 and 2.16 as Valkyr and Bellewether contended in a 20,000 spectator melee.
A melee among a crowd of Hungarians after a Saturday night de bauch on Fifth Avenue left John Madur stabbing Joe Hronik twice in the shoulder. Hronik bled heavily but survived. Madur fled across a river before being chased by Patrolman Walsh. Joe Toth was arrested as an accomplice.
John Butler, a 7th street resident, stabbed William Ross, husband of Jennie Ross, at Rose's home 818 West Lackawanna avenue during a 3 am fight. Butler fled but was captured and placed in custody after a court appearance, with bail set at 500 dollars.
The West Side funeral for David Bevan II drew a record concourse at Jackson street home. Ministers Bell and Jones led the service with a quartet singing hymns. burial was at Forest Hill cemetery with Royal Arcanum and Capouse lodge attendance and floral tributes. A separate item notes a Saturday surprise party for Miss Lottle Piper and other community notices including local police beat assignments and a chicken theft report.
Returned from New York City Mr York will depart soon for Empire State work with Van Bergen & Co. of Carbondale. Miss Anna Hutton of Sumner Avenue and Miss Sarah Kresge of North Hyde Park Avenue returned from Rye Beach and Stroudsburg respectively. Verna infant daughter buried at Washburn Street cemetery. funeral for Mrs Deyo held on Hyde Park Avenue with choir and pallbearers named. Local directory items list repairs, groceries, second hand furniture, wall paper, plumbing services, and a tent revival ending today. A street accident near Pittston and Maple drew a large crowd while a lumber mill addition and a single coon hunt are noted. Pillsbury flour mill capacity listed as 17 50 barrels daily.
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