The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-19
Bee Says That Home Boys Could
Not Cope Successfully With Such
an Array of Talent as
keokuk Sent.
FIND BUT TWO OFFICIALS
Paper Charges that Bruce Lake and
Ed G. Vaughan Were Only
Two County Workers, the
Others Being Ringers.

As Was anticipated, there comes a
great wall from West Point because
the home boys" lost to those Lee
county officials. OF course, the West
Point Bee says that the boys were
not expected to cope with such an ar
ray of semi-professional talent as that
which came up from the Indian vii
lage under the guise of officials. Fol
lowing Is the obituary published in
the Bee a few days following the
fatality:
The West Point ball team instead
| OF playing lot of Lee county candi-
dates had to face a team of semi.
professionals from Keokuk last Sun.
] day and went down to the score Of
is to /. The ball game had been adj
/ vertfsed pretty strongly and many
came in to see the game. They styled
themselves as the candidates but only
one candidate was among the play
ers. Bruce Lake, of Keokuk, candi-
date for county clerk. was the only
candidate in the bunch. besides one
near-candidate, Ed Vaughan, who is
deputy county recorder at Keokuk
The real candidates were very scarce.
there being but two on the grounds.
Fred Chambers. of FIT. Madison, and
Gilbert Lee The rest of the bunch
Tor some reason did not show up
The ll7e-up as given to the Bee last
week. was fake. The Bee was In
no way responsible for the lineup 1t
being given us by one OF the c---i IL
dates. Even the league pite r.
Burch. did not show up. There were
two democrats in that lineup.
| The game was attended by about
three hundred people and started out
in fine shape. Matt Conley was In
the box for the home team and never
did better work. He struck ont
twelve men. while the Keokuk man
struck out but nine of our men. Con-
| sidering that the visitors were pro-
fessionals. Mats work in the box
was remarkable. Brice Pease. of MT.
| Hamill. did the backstop work. The
home boys scored oae run in the fir.t
inning and from then on until the
/ fourth inning there was nothing bit
goose eggs on both sides. In the
/ fourth. the visitors by hard work man
aged to get in their first score. 1t
was in the fifth when our boys lost
the game Just through few bad
throws the visitors sent five men
safely over the home Mate. This
! gave the visitors a good lead and an
4 neared to rather discourage some of
the home boys. The visitors got
4 two more scores to their credit in the
sixth inning. West Point failed to
score anv after the first inning.
4 West Point can pvt up a fairly
4 good game of ball, bnt can't be expect.
ed to get the best of it with a lot OF
semi-professiona The West Point
band. after playing piece or
two up town. marched to the
Fair grounds, where they played a
number Of nieces. The ball team has
requested the Bee to publicly thank
the band boys for their kindness and
for the splendid music furnished.
Following were the line-ups:
West Point-B. Pease. c.: Conlev
n: w. Pease. IS; Hall. h.: Ed
strothman. 2b.: w Goebel. 3D.; Pogge
! rf.: Wilson. cf: Goebe1, If.
CaDdidates-Ke Kelley. c.; Robertson
:. p: Klusmyer, S.; McAndrew. h.;
Johnson. 2b; Tigue, 3d.; Vaughan
Irf.: Lake, CT; Malloy, If.
4 Umpire-Joseph Leyes.