The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-21
Sporting Views
By the Editor

Tretter, the Quincy twirler, is des-
tined to be the leading pitcher in the
league this year He has won ev-
cry game he has worked in thus far
twelve straights.
Morris pilfered three bases yester-
day and Miller one. Those Indians
show plenty of speed on bases when
they get there.
Manager Belt always figures on do
mating to the league in the way of
each season Five of it went yester-
day, when he and Cleary had a dis
pute in the ninth.
Red" Corridor is leading the
Western league in stolen bases.
Hughie Miller is playing for faster
company than the Central Association
This is shown by his work this sea
son, for such reversal of form In
hitting could hardly be expected by.
any of the FAM. 1t looks as If after
all Hughie is endowed with that nat
ural ability to hit the ball which is
just now cropping out and manifest
ing itself 1t will be remembered that
last season and the season before his
hitting was of the listless type, but
his fielding and base running contain
| cd much of the ginger that was need.
| ed for winner Now he is stepping
| into everything offered by the twirlers
Of the league, and hits them all alike
Quincy Journal: While there is
always "a chance for the unexpected to
happen in baseball, it Is very seldom,
| II ever, that team that is at the bot
tom at this time of the season takes
a brace and finishes at the top. Pos
sibly the chances of a teams winning
out when so placed are SO minute that
statisticians have not spent much
time in trying to figure just what the
chances are. A fair idea can be OBJ
/ tanned by taking any team that is at
the bottom and figuring a little, al
though the chance can not be even
estimated, only to say that it is small
Take Burlington, for example. TIC
date the team has won fourteen and
lost thirty-three games, which is
about the average for tail end team
To be at the top of the first division
the middle of the season, the team
would have to win every game for two
weeks, and then its margin would be
small It's percentage would be .451
J, with half Of it's games played Their
If the team averaged two out of three
for the remainder of the season, II
would have won eighty games and lost
sixty, which would give it percent
age of .572. Burlington finished the
season last year with an average Of
$40, and the race promises to be as
, close this season as last. Ir Burning
ton was to win four out of five games
would have percentage of 622, prac
tically the same as it won the pennan-
| last season. The figures indicate tha
a team anchored at the bottom at the
present time has mighty slim chance
of getting to the top. and would have
to play pretty good ball to head the
second division.
Burlington Gazette: Umpire Ed
: dinger, who made his initial bow II
i the capacity of an umpire on the loca
: lot yesterday afternoon, knows hii
, business. He is one of the best UNI
, pires ever seen in this city. He is no
J an entire stranger here, as he played
ball back in the pioneer days of loca
: league ball with Joe Cantillion ant
, the rest of the old boys. YESTERDAY
/ he reprimanded Pitcher Tretter o
the Quincy club for shouting to Pitch
er Wolverton to throw the ball t.
third base to catch a runner. wher
, there was no chance to make the pla,
successfully. Tretter contended tina
he had right to say anything b,
pleased on the coaching line. Ed
dinger was acting strictly in accord
ance with rule So, which, In part
says: A coacher shall not address,
any one except the base runner ant
then only in words of assistance il
running the bases" This rule |,
persistently violated and there are nj
doubt many players who never heard
of it. 1t would perhaps be well foI
players to read all of rule 5S ant
other rules as we'll.
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