The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-22
. M.etlns viii be Held Next Fri
day Evening For Purpose Of
Organizing Boosters
Club in City.
NOTES OF THE GAME
Mcguire, the Fast Quincy Third Base
man, Win be Back in the Field
About Umpire
Newhouse.
4 Roosters, Club for Keokuk

Boosters Club for Keokuk.
This is what the base ball fans of
Keokuk have wanted for long time,
and the time has finally come when
preparations are being made by the
base ball directors to oragnize the
biggest and most loyal boosters club,
in any town in the Central Association
circuit.
The date of the meeting has been
set for Friday evening, February 26,
the fans to gather at the superior
court ROOM and a complete organiza-
ton carried out.
The meeting is open to every man
or boy in Keokuk who has any SYM
pathies with the great American game
+ in the city and every one is urgently
requested to be present and lend their
support to the undertaking.
Officers will be elected and an able
body of men should become members
to carry out the work of boosting the
game right here at home.
Keokuk fans do not fully realize
what boosters club for this city
could do, but it has been tried in
many other cities in the country and
found to be complete success. In
fact several towns of the Central AS
ISOLATION have boosters clubs and
newspaper reports are very favorable
concerning tle organization.
An organization Of this kind will
doubtless be for the betterment Of
the game in Keokuk and it is up to
the fans to be present at the coming
meeting and lend their support.
Be present Friday evening and be-
come member of this club, for 1t
will certainly give you more of an in
terest in the game and you will feel
! like a stakeholder in the club with
several thousand dollars worth of
shares.
About "Umps" Newhouse.
Colorado exchange prints the fol
lowing statement by Umpire New
house, last season an umpire in the
Central circuit:
Il have signed to coach the Colo
RADIO college ball team of Colorado
Springs, Colo, this spring, and have
decided not to go out to umpire until
June l. when my college schedule will
be finished 1t seems that the UNI
pires of the minor leagues are poor
ly paid. have plenty of offers OF
$3.50 and SITS month, which ! de
clined, as that is small salary fol
an umpire for four months sea
son. Ball players in Glass c or {
leagues get that money, and / think
an umpire is worth $3.50 month Oh
more. An umpire pays his living ex
penses all the time and the player
only half of the time. The league
rules forbid umpires to stop at no
tells patronized by players, at which
they can get rates, and the conse
quence is they have to pay from $1.5'
to 81 per day. Figuring this heav,
expense and tne cost of a blue serg'
suit, mask, protector and shoes, N
has little left from his salary"
Quincy Wing: Acting on sin
chance that terminated successfully
much to the surprise even of the le
cal manager himself, Harry Hofer pun
chased the release of Joe MCGUIRE
last years speedy little third sackel
who was drafted by the st. Louis Cal
dinals at the close of last year. tn
return of this player to Quincy wa
as much of surprise to the loca
management as to anyone, for al
hopes of getting him back had bee
abandoned after the first overture
had been turned down fatty by tn