The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-19
.PENNANT DOPE
From QUINCY
Herald Makes Review Of Situation and
Comedies kewanee a Chance
to Get Into First
Place.
GEMS ARE LOOKING UP
Have Won Five Out Of Last Seven
kewanee and Burlington Con-
tinue to Advance With
Indians Ahead.
GEMS ARE LOOKING UP

continue TO WIN, Quincy received Q set
back at Ottumwa yesterday and Han
nibal is hitting the bumps. Unless the
Cans take squirt and win Few from
Burlington the Pathfinders vii. stand
an excellent chance to play Keokuk
strong for the flag. In summarizing
the pennant situation and possibilities
of each team for the season the Quin-
cy Herald offers the following:
Quincy won again. That makes five
victories out of the last six games
played. Today the buds open their
last series at Ottumwa. The Packers
have just lost two out Of three to
Keokuk, but will not be as easy pick
ing for Quincy. While in this city
few days ago Rusty Owens said that
out of the last seven defeats. five had
to be charged to the fact tina; he had
no third baseman. BY me time Quincy
gets to Ottumwa, thu. new man from
La Junta Colo, will be Of deck and
the Quincy team Will do well To take
the odd game Still II they only take
one out of three, they are playing
500 per cent ball on the trip and that
is doing as we'll as can be expected
of any team on the road Friday eve
ming they return home for three games
with Burlington. Hot6cc5y is no long
er on the job and it IS barely possible
that President Justice will not order
Pat Wright to Quincy. Quincy has
had to work in more lanes under Pat
than any other team nf the league.
In spite of protests the Quincy pub
| lie had to stand for his rot.enaess.
which was all the harder to swallow
| through Pats own admission that he
preferred to see any other team win
rather than Quincy. With Pat Nris hit
eliminated, the team still has show
of breaking into first division.
Kewanee is coming strong On the
J home stretch. Four straight from
Burlington. four straight from Kec-
kuk and four straight from Hannibal.
| the three teams leading the league,
| is going at some gait. What is more
the Boilermakers have The majority
! of the games still 10 Ire played sche-
duled for the home grounds. Kewanee
has twelve games abroad aad nine.
teen more at home and Il they keep
up this record of winning every game
at home, some team above them viii
have to vacate for n I'm. After the
Burlington series the Quincy team
goes to Kewanee for the last time
Quincy has three postponed games a:
1 Connorsville and II these three are to
be played off the boilerlnaker fans
will have three doublehealers in sue
cession. Quincy has not won Il game
at Kewanee this year and if they can
get the long end of The next series
there, 1t will help their standing ma
terially.
Keokuk opens at Waterloo today
Boyle saved Kent for the opener and
hopes to get the majority of the
games from Belt. Nothing conl6
please the Looloo fans more thar
that. especially If their pets could wir
those two games that were thrown on
by President Justice.
Burlington took the, last game Of
the Jacksonville series also. The twe
clubs do not meet again this year o.
the twenty games scheduled lictwce r
the two clubs, seventeen We're PLAYED
and these seventeen yern all Burling
ton victories. This is perhaps the frs
time in the history of organiznd Das.
ball that one team Eas not wen f;
single game from anothcr. The Luna
tics could not win game from Bur
lington all season. but thsy IRE liabl,
to go over to Kewanee and clean NJ
on the Boilermakers. team tina
, made it four straight the last tim.
they met the strongest enemy th'
Jacks had this year.
Kewanee is only three games be
: hind Hannibal, four and a half be
hind Burlington and six and a hal
behind Keokuk The season run
for little more than a month long
: err and just now Kewanee has a
good chance to cop the rag as an,
! one OF the three teams ahead of II