The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-07

and handled it with neatness.
: Hughie Miller's exhibition in the
ninth was neat one. He beat out a
slow one and then easily stole second
and third.
Donahue, in center field, is regarded
by many as the strongest player on
the Quincy team. He is certainly one
of the best fielders in the league.
Catcher Clarke was put out of the
game by Umpire Nugent for disputing
with him about that ball hit over
third. Gard took his place behind
the bat.
President Justice has fined Outfeld-
er Kommers of the Galesburg base
ball club, s25 and suspended him for
I the rest of tie season for his assault
on Umpire Nugent last Saturday.
/ Joe Burg and Sensenbach are in a
! class by themselves when it comes to
throwing from deep short. Burg
throws with a shorter swing but it is
hard to say which man fields the
better.
A story was started the other day
that PA" Bit was to manage Mon
mouth next year, and that Monmouth
director had been in Keokuk confer
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matter. The report is denied by Mon
mouth directors.
1t is hard to see how Pennington
is much of an improvement over that
little fellow Collins Pennington seems
clearly out of his position at short.
for coming in on ground ball every
time does not seem to be to his liking.
And then again, the big fellow has
not been hitting the ball
The Spring held team of the Three-I
| league may now lose every game on
the schedule and still win the pennant.
The split in Mondays double header
with Peoria made the required num-
Der of games won to clinch the pen
nant safely and beyond loss. Their
percentage at Tat time was SOS.
After fifteen rounds of gruelling
at Boston last night. Sam Langford,
1 defeated Joe Jeanette, of New York,
both colored, at the Armory A. G..
/ The decision of the referee was con-
Cured in by tie crowd. as the Boston
man maintained the advantage
throughout In strength and skill
,ford was Jeanettes superior and
the ring with scarcely mark,
while Jeanette's face was badly cut.
Keokuk winds up the Quincy series
here today and opens up at Hannibal
+ tomorrow, playing Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Sunday the club is
back with Kewanee playing three
games and teen winding up the sea
son with FIVE in row on the home
grounds with Galesburg. Fans will
be treated to plenty OF ball before
the season ends. for the schedule
i gives up those eight games here. The
season closes en- Sunday, Sept IS.
Here is a paragraph just to show
that the error made by Keokuk might
have saved the club from defeat. 1t
came in the sixth inning Had not
Miller missed the throw Keokuk would
not have been presented with a chance
for a double play, on which Penning-
ton failed, and the advanced runner
would have reached third with two
down had only one man been retired
. However. Tretter, first man up. had
: gone out and the situation cited would
r have been impossible.
Give the glad mitt to Umpire NJ
= gent for just one thing. He made
2 his first descision In favor of Keokul
!. yesterday when he called Herbert's
Q screamer down I e third base line fair
The ball vas hard one to judge
: and after it vas all over Quincy in
felders pointed to 2 spot alleged Il
: be where the ball struck the ground
g The dirt at that particular place wa
? kicked up about three inches outside
Whether the ball was fair or foul M
gent gave it 10 us but we would mucl
I rather have had that decision at thu
plate
There is q world Of difference II
Q the arms possessed by the Keokul
8 infeld as compared with the ouinc,
]. outfeld That throw Hartman mad
in the seventh woul1 hardly ever b,
d duplicated by our trio. The weakness
r in the Keokuk outfeld as to throwinr
!, was best demonstrated yesterday dur
ing practice when the three mel
] heayed the ball To the plate a hal
dozen times without getting singh
Q one to hop in true If Reichle eve
d becomes a heavy hitter and goo
fielder it viii be his throwing alon
that shuts the big league doors O
Il him.
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