The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-09
!. pitcher Anderson Of Decatur For
- CORNER keokuk outfieIder and
is Making an Effort for
other Stars.
line UP OF HANNIBAL
-.... Who Will Give Housh Winner
Team and Enable Him to
Reach $4,000 Mark in
Attendance.

u.nnibal must secure $4,000 paid adj
n,;ssions during the season of 1909
and Manager Hough is of the opinion
,ho, this can be done more easily if he
has a winning team
Hougn was in Decatur tae other day
and chile there engineered deal
,hs,ebv the Indian Williams. who
nitched and played the outfield for
Keoklk the early part of last season,
finishing the year with Hannibal, be-
oomes Commodore in exchange for
| Catcher Anderson.
He also stopped over in Springfield
md made a determined effort to Sc
curp Pitcher Grandy from Kinsella,
int failed. The Decatur Review says:
"Hough is willing to pay good money
IN get them Ia good pitcher and a
rood catcher.) He isn't bit timid
In the matter of salary. Still with all
the inducements in the line of cash
offered the Decatur management, Pres
ident Chidls failed to give him any en-
enlargement in the Lauder-milk mat.
fer One of the arguments brought
out by Hough in support of ais belief
that Hannibal will raise the required
10000 attendance is the lack of in
terurbans. which he claims would take
people away from the city on Sundays.
He also stated that Hannibal had a
large negro population and that that
at least 10000 of the required $4,000
attendance would be black
A Lineup.
Hannibal Courier-Post: Let EN-
talk. know we are an unknown guam
tity, but then they will learn who we
are soon enough I'm not going to as
semble any St. Louis Brown team, but
when the din of the battle is thickest,
think that Hannibal will be in the
midst of the fray along with the Old
Guards.
II is thus that Manager Hcugh re-
CARDS the various stories afloat in the
circuit as to Hannibal being weak
sister, or at least sort of an obscure
quantity.
Manager Hough has just returned
from st. Louis, where yesterday he
signed Rollins the hard hitting first
baseman, who played some last season
with Mexico, Mo-, and ended later
with Brinkiey, of the Arkansas State
league. He was fourth in the batting
list OF the league, with figure of 1863
50 It will be seen that Hough has a
hard hitting youngster here, for Roi
lns'is only youngster, just being OF
age, but then he has played ball in
fast company for several years now
de is what some ope singers would
call a ''phenom, as he had a try-oui
with Joplin, when only sixteen years
DID, Rollins is expected to make good
In the Central
The lineup as it looks now.
Catchers-Copple, Mitchell and VIII
kins
htchers-Swalm, Kraft, Hey, Wiley
Kltzman, Giffen, Bradley.
FIRST Base-R Rollins, Cook and Nc
Ferrin.
Second base-Roland, Prout ant
Evans.
hlird base-Bagnall, Woodmanson
Beck and Bradley
snort stop-Riebold, Mckinney.
outhelders-Dowers, Everett, Mill
gan Williams, Houser, Dunleavy.
Many others are signed, but most o
uem are youngsters and probably will
not be called upon to report. Will,
'ae above list will be material,
eaansed before the players report OIL
april .. Hough is still shy crack
Pitcher and catcher, but has his out
WON set for some good men, the new
VI which cannot be given out at pres
emit.
win the addition of Everett an,