The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-10
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Sporting Views
By the Editor

| Weather forecast: Prospects for
| pennant landing fair; rise in percent
age column expected as season adj
| vances. reaching top and remaining
stationary; checks in case of rain.
/ The report is current that a band
of Indians are headed this way and
will storm the town about April 4.
! Citizens will come forth from their
cabins and extend greetings when the
| first detachment arrives.
| 1t is learned unauthoritatively that
RUDE Burch will get two hits next
season, and that they will come just
when needed to win two of the critical
games of the season.
Galesburg Republican-Register AS
usual, Frank Belt can be depended on
to have first division team. He will
have all his last years pitchers back
and his infield. Foxy Morris is valu-
able addition to his outfield. For
catchers he has Jack" Reardon of
Battle Creek, but honestly, 1t doesn't
appear to US that he will set the
! league on fire, for if he was such a
star he couldn't have been purchased
for what Belt gave and, again, if he
was so good Battle Creek wouldn't
| dispose of him.
Poor logic. my boy, poor logic.
Don't you know that some of the best
ball players in the game today are
sold for a song. What did Keokuk
/ pay to bring Lemon from the Three-I
/ league, and then. what did Burlington
pay Keokuk? Almost nothing. But
what did it prove? There are cases
daily of small sums being paid for
players who can deliver the goods.
AS an extra inducement for tie play
ers of the two big leagues to lead
their respective organizations this
year a motor car company has guar
anteed the star batter of each league
a thirty-horsepower machine. The
company suggested the offer to the ma
ton commission and that body accept
: ed it without any delay AS Honus
: Wagner is an automobile bug the
chances are that he will slug that ball
as he never did before to get one OF
the cars.
1t is noted with some interest that
George Davis, formerly with the White
: Sox, who was Internationally re-
leased for his faithful services, has
been secured by Owner John Higgins
! of the Des Moines club According
J to Higgins his new leader will be one
of the highest salaried men in minor
? league circles. Davis should be a
great card in the Western league.
r There is no question of his ability to
: handle the managerial reins, as he
g held that position in the past with the
e New York Giants. George is well along
r in years, but still has quite a little
r ability left that might just as well be
e brought out in the Western league as
s anywhere else.
/ Stung! Who? Why the doctors, OF
Il course. The other day Frank G. Ban
Il croft, business manager of the Cincin
natl Reds, fed from his cot in the
s hospital half hour before the doc
o tors were to operate upon him for ap
e pendicitis Mr.. Bancroft noted one o
e the attendants wheeling dead MAJ
g, past his cot. When will the doctors
$. be here?" he asked the nurse. She
l. said in an hour. How much do owe
3 you?" he asked. She told him it wai
d a dollar and half. Then I'm through
y right now said Banny. He got III
s and put on his clothes and fed thu
IS hospital When seen down town late
ID he slapped his side and said he di'
not have appendicitis, and even if h
% did, preferred to die after the tril
ID around the world next summer, in
g stead of now
T. There will be a meeting of tn
Northern league Friday in Clinton
Among the important questions t
come up will be that of schedule
y and it is hoped that one will be ADOPT
a ed There will be program of tw
1t days and the meeting will be conclut
= ed by banquet Things are no.
u said to be moving about the circuit
:" Manager Dial Williams of Decatur ha
Of gone to indianapolis to secure NOR
players. Baseball men from Muscatin
have visited Davenport with an ide
of learning about baseball parks.
,g
or Here is another member of the An;
nd Mas club recruited from among til
20 men now engaged In the learned pr,
nj fession of baseball. He is Sanfor
"a. Luster, who qualified by telling til
.. following story:
~ Il was in queer ball game once
-. says Luster Two queer things ha
~ pened-I hit a home run and the gan
was called on account of rain.
Il gave the ball an awful wallop ar
on it went over the center field fen,
iie about a mile high The ball went l
us and came down like ton of brick
or fell into railroad water tank a.
splashed water all over the feel