The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-30
|OTTUMWA HAS
BEST OF deal
Looks Like Packers VIII Have an Ex
ceIIent Chance Of Finishing Well
Up in Percentage
Column.
PIERCE IS A MANAGER
Catcher Who Worked for Burlington
Part Of Last Season. Will
Handle Appleton Club
Next Year.

| 1t looks as if Manager Ned Egan.
who goes to Ottumwa, fortified with
some of the best Of last seasons Bur
lington team and with number Of
strong players of last years Ottumwa
team. will have an edge on Manager
Geier, of the Pathfinders, who is now
the Burlington manager as announced
in The Gate City yesterday.
It is certain that Outfielder Fin
ney, First Baseman Rose, Pitcher
Boyd and Catcher Severoid will go
with Egan and it is also reported that
John House will be back in the fold.
II is well known fact throughout
the circuit that Ottumwa last season
had some of the best players In the
Central Association. The great diff
Guilty during the entire season was
the lack Of manager and this great
loop hole has now been filed.
What Geier, the new man, will do
| is hard to surmise, but there is little
doubt but that he will make the Path
| finders strong club. He is ball
player with long experience Ia high
er leagues than the Central Associa-
ton and it should not be hard for
him to secure proper material for a
class d club.
Quincy is the only club in the
league now without manager and
Hofer will likely secure a man before
many more weeks have passed. 1t
is thought that he has delayed this
because of the unsettled conditions
] in Quincy.
Bemis Pierce, who worked behind
the bat for Burlington part of the
time last season will be manager
next season. He has been signed to
handle the Appleton team in the
a Observation-Disclosures league.
Have Parked.
Cyril Slapnicka and Fred Spencer
baseball pitchers in summer time and
vaudeville stars in winter, who start
ed out this season with thrilling
acrobatic act, are no longer partners
says the Burlington Gazette. It is
said they do not even speak. The
boys were booked as Spence and
Slap, the Chair Balancer and the
Acrobat and 1t Was going big" I'M
/ til Slap forgot his lines. or rather
i forgot This business at critical
4 point in the act.
4 Slapnicka's chair balancing was
good. He tried it on the dog in this
4 city last season and it went fine
4 Spencer is about the handiest fin
4 topper in the business and has some
|, great ideas about comedy, and he and
Slap framed a brother act that was
4 getting the money.
d They We're doing some southern
4 time and in the city Of Louisville be.
fore an immense audience were going
q through their act. At one part in the
! act Spencer grabs a table and falls
backwards towards the audience who
naturally gasp in horror, Imagining
he will fall into the orchestra. But
Slap is on the job, or rather was on
the job, and grabs the legs of the
table and pulls Spencer back to safe
ty, while the people applaud with
great venemence.
Slap forgot to hook into the table
legs, however, and Spence crashed in
the orchestra pit. The piano player
narrowly escaped humiliation, the
bass drum was wrecked and other
damage resulted Spencer fortunately
escaped with slight bruises and was
naturally mad. He climbed back on
the stage with blood in his eye look.
ing for his partner, but Slap had va
moosed
4 And that's the reason why the
Spence and Slap act has been
scratched on the booking agency
books.