The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-02
Directors Working For an Attendance OF
$1,000 People For the First Baseball Game
in Championship Race
CITY IN PITCH OF GREAT EXCITEMENT
Random All Astir With PROSPECTS of Big Omen.
ing and Weather Man Says 1t Will Be
Fair, But Frosty Tonight

4 KEWANEE, May 2.-What will be
the lineup and the batting order of
the 1911 Boiler Makers in the opening
4 game at keokuk Wednesday after
noon?
i That question has been asked
Doctor Jay Andrews score of times
during the last few days.
But the Boiler Makers leader can
not at this time state definitely just
: exactly the order the players will trot
out from under the visiting players
bench to the batters box.
Looks Like Good Team.
With the curtain ready to fall on
the spring training season Manager
Andrews; the kewanee baseball Of
i flcials and that all important person,
Mr. Baseball Fan, are all greed upon
one subject That Kewanee appears
/ to have chance to get some place in
/ the Central association race this sea-
! son.
4 One thing about the methods en-
ployed by the kewanee base ball man.
ager is that he believes in giving his
i men careful looking over. If play
/ er doesn't fit in his base ball machine
/ in one place the leader tries another
! idea
Manuel an Example.
That lively little Boiler Maker.
J Monte Manuel. is an example. Monte
who is law student in a school in
Chicago, during the season when base
I ball isn't played came to Kewanee
with the idea of wearing Lehr's shoes.
Well Monte was crowded off the in
held and Manager Andrews liked his
hitting powers so one day, he shifted
Manuel to the outfeld and kept three
! regular candidates for the place in
/ the shade of the players bench. What
Manuel did is too well known to recite
but II you doubt that he looks sweet
/ to Manager Andrews bear in mind
that he'll probably be the first man to
4 bat in the game al Keokuk Wednes-
day Manuel Is said to be one of the
4 best "leader-offs" that Manager And
rews has uncovered in recent years.
f Nearly every time he goes up to the
7 plate he gets two strikes and three
balls, and that means that the pitcher
I has to put the next one in the groove.
That gives the batter a chance to set
4 himself and take picks
i Andrews Cripple.
Kewanee fans, keokuk fans and in
fact the whole league will be disap-
pointed, probably in not being able TO
hear or see Kewanee's manager in the
first game. The NJ. D. is suffering
from poisoning. 1t is not likely TO be
serious, but it has been aggrayating
and about the the only kind of relief
that the manager could get at nights
has been to take in all the ''nickle
shows" in town and then get book
and read until he was so tired that
the pain of the poisoning would be
forgotten and here and there he has
been able TO get an hour Or two OF
sleep without disturbance
The pitcher for the opening game
will doubtless be either Tommy Dro-
han or Johnny Beltz. Both have made
good here and are being kent in the
pink" for the real championship
games. If one or the other should not
work or if both should not be right
then the third choice will fall on the
shoulders of Lee Kadigh, whose work
Is attracting attention.
Dileer May Catch
: digger, who knows the ropes of the
c. A. circuit may be the catcher's
selection. Kurke is still slightly han
dicapped with a bruised wrist as a re-
suit of the rap he got ten days ago
Dilger looks no less than 30 per cent
better than he did when he was at
his hest last year, so the fans need
not be Worrying about the receiving
end
The lnfieId.
Llewellyn will probably be on first
base the way it looks Berhammer
will be on second. Petite Hill will cover
short and old reliable utility Kilpat-
rick will fill the stockings and shoes
that would have been worn nv Man