The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24
KEOkUk wins
| TO 0 CONTEST
Game Yesterday Ended in a Stormy
Session With Whitehouse as
y Leading Man at
Carthage.
CONTEST FORFEITED
Purple and White outplayed oppon-
ents and Made Brilliant Ad-
vance to Within a Foot
/ Of the Goal.
CONTEST FORFEITED

The local high school football team
still retains a clear slate 80 far as
victories go, already having two to
their credit linked with a tie which
Quincy furnished. The contest yes
terday which lasted only one half,
was the cause of stormy session be-
tween some of the officials, and White
house, the Illinois expert was a
head liner. With the ball but one foot
from the Keokuk goal line after a rush
of forty yards through the opposing
line, and ten seconds to play, this
gentleman calmly announced that the
end had come and further participa-
ton was over with for that half The
Carthage team left the field while the
locals remained. Timekeeper num-
her two, P. C. Hayden, notified Referee
Pechstein that ten seconds remained
I'll give you five minutes to resume
play" said Pechstein. The five min
utes UP. he calmly announced: Game
forfeited to Keokuk, one to nothing"
Protestations from Carthage support
ers followed and general mix up
was narrowly averted.
The trouble all happened this way:
With the ball, as has been stated
above, one foot from the goal line and
ten seconds to play, the referee called
time for the purpose of measuring the
distance correctly. This having been
done, play was ordered to continue.
Whitehouse called: "Time up here
upon Hayden protested, saying that
ten seconds yet remained AS soon as
the Carthage team heard Whitehouse
call time they left the field, being
only too glad to get away, as touch.
down would be sure to result on the
next play. Hayden explained to
Pechstein that there was ten seconds
to play yet when he ordered time out
while Whitehouse said that no time
was called. Pechstein then s.nnounc-
ed that five minutes would be given to
the Carthage team to come back and
upon their refusal to do, this in the
specified time, he gave the victory to
Keokuk And rightly did he do so.
Whitehouse has made reputation
for himself as one who could get up
excuses to keep his tear. from get
ting beaten. This time che turn was
called on him and he will probably
learn not to do it again, on the locals
at any rate. Last Saturday while his
team was playing at Quincy and he
was acting as umpire, he penalized
the Quincy bunch on several occas-
ions when they were at the point of
making a touchdown, whereas he let
his own men do the same trick and
did not say word In all the time he
has. been identified with athletics at
Carthage, he has never sent visit
ing team home with feeling that
they had received square deal at his
hands.
When they play here" said Coach
Belknap, I'VE will run up twenty
points or am badly mistaken. We
had them clearly outplayed today
That advance up the field to within
one foot of the goal line was one Of
the cleanest pieces of football which
have ever seen. They just couldn't
stop us. If we would have play ed that
second half with decent officials there
would have been no telling when we
would have stopped scoring. / think
we did the right thing With them and