The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-27
INDIANS DROP FINAL GAME, 4TOl
Sporting Views
By the Editor

more than one run, but such was the
luck of Keyes.
Maurice Kent, pitching for Ottum-
wa, held Kewanee hitless yesterday.
This is the third nohit game of the
season.
II we remember right PA" Belts
home run yesterday is not the first
one he has made on the local base
ball field.
1t is Pop" Eyler's turn to work to-
day and willie" Prough's tomorrow.
The veteran from the Northern should
make the Cans like it in the opening
encounter.
Pitcher Patrick, with his wife and
child arrived in Keokuk last night.
The veteran is primed for an early en-
counter as member of the Indians
pitching staff.
A little life is also needed by the
Keokuk team right now. There are
only few players on the club who
make noise, and some of that growl-
ing would sound well right now.
Herbert is proving himself a hard
hitter. Yesterday he drove one against
the left field fence which would have
hit the candy sign had It been
Strengthened out in that direction.
There was considerable humor in
one question from bleacherites yes
terday 1t was this "Tretter, are
you going to pitch again this season."
Despite the kidding Tretter is a
much admired finger in this burg.
Umpire Cleary worked in place Of
| Johnson yesterday. The spectators
| In some instances took exception to
| his work, but for the most part his
decisions were good Cleary is a
I good umpire, there Is no denying that.
Hannibal comes today for four
games. Right now the Cannibals are
! going better than any club in the
league and unless Myers gets back
in the game soon, the cans may slip
ahead of Quincy Keokuk dropped
four straights in Hannibal last week
but the feat cannot be duplicated on
! Keokuk's ground. The Indians should
pull the long end, if anything
Keokuk and Kewanee Will play two
games next Sunday. One of them will
/ be game postponed at Kewanee early
in the city, when; it rained on a Sun.
day and spoiled a double bill. Double
admission will be charged, but only
one admission to the grandstand The
4 second game will go only seven In
4 nings, but the fans who want to see
only the second game will be admit
4 ted in the seventh inning of the first
game, so that they will get TIER
moneys worth.
When it comes to having the wings
keokuk pitchers are strong men, but
/ what they need is a little life and
a keen perception of what is going
on from inning to inning. It Is esti
mated that easily one Of every ter
4 games lost by the Indians is the re
1 suit of poor fielding by the twirlers
! and it is this that makes their work
less effective Blue Jacket has a
nj
/ to get such lead that Johnny Killing
with his thousand dollar arm, could
not stop them from stealing. And
then again often double PLAYS are
thrown to the winds by the twirlers
failing to force the advanced runner
| at second. Blue Jacket had an op
portunity yesterday which would
have been meat but he selected
the safe and easy route of throwing
to first. Pop Eyler is the only one
of the four Keokuk twirlers who
handles himself satisfactorily on the
mound from a fielding standpoint
I A Quincy paper says: Last
ii WEEK SOlilC lS1iOW WEnj any
with the heat and sent out dis
patch to the Chicago papers stating
4 that Quincy had made the Dubuque
/ Baseball association fattering offer
for its franchise. The whole story
was so ridiculous that no one here
paid sany attention to 1t, but several
of the sport writer's OF this circuit
swallowed the whole thing, hook. bait
and all. and wrote essays on the I'M
fairness of Quincy in trying to shake
the Central association in such man.
ner. The Dubuque association may
have made such fool statement to
gull the fans in that city and induce
4 themsto buy the $500 worth of unsold
/ stock. but Quincy never made that of
i fer Anybody with common sense will
realize that the Dubuque franchise
would do Quincy no good whatever
i We could not even use the players
On their tail-end team Quincy has
been sought by the Three-Eye, provid
ing 1t could gets its release from the
Central and last fall and attempt was
made to get this release, but the direc