The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-26
Post Mortems Being Held in Every
Cigar Store in Cities of the
Central Association
Circuit.
GOSSIP OF THE DAY
Annual Meeting Will Likely be Held
Next Week in ouincy-Man-
aser Drill of Monmouth
Quits.

InlS is the DAY or post mOrtemS.
Central association fans are buster
than the coroner of Lee county, and
all can see what we should have done
and where the trouble really was.
Next season will see but one change,
and that will be to more conserva-
tive salary limit or rather salary
limit that will be adhered to.
Keokuk fans will be surprised to
learn that Keokuk's attendance-chil-
dren's tickets, adult admissions. ct al,
reach total of over $4,000 The fig
ures from all of the cities in the cir
cult have not yet reached the presi-
dents office and the official figures
are thus delayed.
1t has been decided to hold the an
nual meeting in Quincy instead of
Chicago. The date has not been an
nounced but the meeting will likely
take place next week. This will throw
the January meeting, when the big
business of the year is transacted, to
Chicago.
Announcement comes from Mon
mouth that Manager Lew Drill is to
quit baseball and devote his entire
time to law plactice. Il must quit it.
My law practice in st. Paul is in such
shape that l jeopardize it greatly by
playing ball in the summer and it is
to point where l must give up the
game. I'm getting along in years, not
old, but old enough, and business is
business, so must put it on the shelf
with the myriad of playthings that |
have discarded long ago This is
the way the manager of the Browns
announced his retirement.
The passing of Lew Drill from the
ranks of professional baseball is more
than the passing of the manager of
the Browns 1t means the retirement
of figure from the baseball drma
ment who has helped for a score of
years to make national baseball his
tory. For many, many years he was
a star catcher for Detroit and Wash
ington OF the American leagues. He
managed Terre Haute, of the Central
league; Pueblo, of the Western league
and has assisted in compiling that
great history of the modern game. He
has been one of them as much as any
of them ever has been, and as he
boarded the train for his home in St
Paul, no longer a baseball manager, a
retired player, a lawyer if you please,
there passed from the limehght Of
baseball one OF the boys that has made
the game what it is. Goodbye, Lev!
Monmouth has reserved only five
players. They ar PAU Irmscher.
Walter Hart. Arthur Lage, Adolph
Nasseth and Fred Clarke.
The overwhelming sentiment among
both fans and officers of the Mon
mouth association in favor of a PLAYER
manager indicates that no one will be
considered for manager for next year
unless he is q PLAYER, and an active
one at that. The increased expense
should be eliminated, and will be, in
choosing a player manager. The di-
rectors of the club have been busy
during the past few days settling up
the affairs of the past year. The con
dition of the finances is about the
same as last year when the team ran
behind. The past season has been
one Of the worst known in the history
of baseball and no city in the league
has come up to expectations so Tar
as finances are concerned. However,
the fans OF the Maple City have FL
ways proved themselves loyal, and il
is believed that they will respond an.
other year as literally to the support
OF the game as they have in the past