The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-29
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hut yes.erday he SAW one plainly and
/ cTacke. il over Dowers' head for two
I sacks
Hunter made a nice catch IN the
eighth
Old Danny Kerwia has not had
much luck here. He has secured but
fne hit in seven times M.
Hunter looks them over, but seems
inclined TO carry his system too far
Yesterday he was placed IN q hole
several times By allowing Swain to
cut the plate.
Yesterday the baseball scorers dis
covered that tAe press box more re-
sembled z sweat box than anything
else, and moved TO a cooler place In
one OF the boxes. That accounts for
the brseziness OF today's sheet. Lots
OF pep.
That man Collins has the actions of
ball PLAYER, but that's about all he's
been able 70 deliver this week On
the trip reports about mis- sensational
work filed the newspapers. During
the two home series he has given
evidence OF being capable of accept
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easy rollers have spelled defeat in
several instances
Those Indians still need little
pep. Every club coming to Keokuk
makes a roar in the field, but the
Keokuk players stand silently on.
Let's hear from some one, as life il.
what snoothes the path to victory.
Foley, the second baseman with
Hannibal. is one of the cleverest in
helders in the Central Association, if
actions alone count for anything. He
handles himself like a big Lacquer
and made hard chances look easy
The lad is handicapped by his hitting,
but that should come in a year or
two. When Prout signed Foley it was
simply to give the youngster chance.
Prout of course thought he would
play second himself But Foley look.
ed so good that Prout went to the out
field. Yesterday Foley was shifted
to short when Hamilton left the
game, and he looked about as good in
that position as anywhere else.
Foley is a conner
1t looked for a time as if Willie
Prough was going after a strikeout
record. He had whitfield eleven men
in seven innings and needed FIVE in
the last two to best the record OF
fifteen strike-outs. However, he fail
ed to get any in the last two rounds.
Keokuk hit for a total of ten
bases and failed to count. In addi-
ton Swain passed one man, Hanni-
bal had two errors and Forney al
lowed stolen base.
Sporting News: "The I'm. league
is. developing some remarkably hard
hitters this year, principal among
whom is Forsythe, the crack first
baseman-of the Pekin team. His av-
erage is around 1856. Forsythe is
regarded as the sensation Of the year
and he is exceeding his record of last
year, when he hit 1926. His most re-
nlarkable feat was on Decoration
Day, when he secured three doubles
and four singles in eight times at
bat in a. double header. McCann,
Pekin's catcher, is also hitting .354;
Connors, first sacker for Macomb.
has .355; Novacek, with Lincoln, is
.34s. The league shows 13 men who
were hitting 800 and over on July
/, the date of the last official aver
ages. Lotshaw batted 1923 in the
I'm. last year. They either have a
peculiar style of scoring over in that
league, or the pitching is rotten.
Hamilton didn't mind being ousted
from the baseball field, but later
when he learned that he had been
dragged to the gate actually humil-
iated-by but an amateur policeman,
he was In a rage. After being order
ed from the park Hamilton sought a
seat behind the Cannibal players
bench where he could view the game.
! At the instigation Of several of his
team mates a star was given Capt.
Jack" Ferris and he marched over
and ordered Hamilton to beat it,
He even went 50 far as to accompany
the player to the outside.
II looked as If the ball which
caused Keokuk's defeat yesterday
should have been handled by Collins.
He was running towards second and
it would have been natural for him
to take the batted ball and Herbert
the base. But plays of that nature
cannot always be avoided, unless
the team work is perfect
Bill Connors Of Kewanee is the sec
ond Central Association manager to