The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-12
FIRST BLOOD Of SEASON
WILL Be SHED TODAY
Onening Games in Both Leagues Will be Played
This Afternoon as Openers for
Great Season.
GIANTS And ATHLETICS PICKED
Majority of Sport Writers of the Country Believe
That These Two Clubs Will Lead
in Pennant Race

the frat half Of last year from an a. /
tack Of diphtheria Reuibach Is noE
hurting In his oldtine form and
Chance gays he expects 10 uge lin in
at least afry gameg, counting the
pieces. this rear.
The Giantz are gtiII another team
that take the field Just as Their left il {
last rear. with me bare possibility /
that Becker MAJ find place IN the
outfeld at the last moment. IN place
OF snodgrass. The Giants got miser-
able sta-t last year. 10 which fact
Manager McGraw attributes the loss
Of the Dennaut This year ne counts
on z better beginning and has forti-
fed his team against reyerses IS far
as It is possible for human ingenuity
TO do go.
New York's chances are considered
particularly good this rear because
81 tne belief that Mathewson Is az
good as ever and that pitchers Ray
rnond and Marquard viii be OF ire
mendous gervice 70 the team. Mar
guard has found the thing he needed
rnost-controL II these two mound
rnen meet specifications. McGraw viii
hare about the niftiegt pitching STAFF
in the National league.
The only change in the Pitt burg
lineup is the placing Of Hunter at first,
In place OF Flynn. Hunter is the
unptynmpth man wig has tried 70
play first for the Pirates since KITTY
Bransfeld quit Smoketown. Some OF
there days Manager Clark Is bound 10
find a good man for this bag-on the
Law Of chances sand those who have
seen him say Hunter ia the man.
Cincinnati and Philadelphia will
show the most changes OK any Of the
leading teams, due TO the swap Of four
players. Eddie Grant, according to
reports. Is playing a bang-up game
AZ third for the Reds and Pitcher Nc
CULLEN another Quaker cast-of F., Is
showing great form. That. Cincinnati
has good team-eyen dangerous
team no one viii deny but the team
has blasted hopes so often that 1t Is
next 10 impossible TO consider Crit
fith's men az anything more than
troubie.rnakerg FOR others. In Fromme
and Casper, Griffith has two men who
should win big majority OF their
games fl their arms remain intact
There is the usual talk OF Brooklyn
and St Louis breaking into the first
+ division this year baf i either Of them
I does, It viii be the prise Of the
season. AZ for Boston, be verdict Of
baseball writer's is almost unanimous
that she viii win the BOBBY prize
hands down. There does not seem a
chance for any other team TO rob her
" the dighonor If any team other
than Chicago, New York, Pittsburg
ana Cincinnati enters the first diyis-
Ion. the dope all points to Philadei-
pnla. but Philadelphia ia d great deal
like Cincinnati, in failing TO measure
up 10 expectations.
Manager Chase's New York High.
landcrs, runncrs-uD last year, are gen
orally picked TO repeat this trick, al
though II will not be the same team
, this year Austil at third and La.
, porte and Gardner at second, are gone
; from the lineup this year Jack
}. Knight, who played short last year Ii
8 doing well al second and Johnson
J. Hartzell and Elliott are fighting 1t out
d for the positions OF third and short
II stop. II IL diynlging no secret to sa.
8 that many New York fans doubt the
j. managerial ability Of Hal Chase The,
:. Ga tlaat :, nan ,Iylo opcn dnoor+nd ~,
II team and brought about his own ele
H.. walton through the medium OF dis
organizing cliqueg, is not the man Il
q hold a team together throughout al
e entire season. The Highlanders loo9
le strong, especially in their batteries
at and have lot Of pepper, but 1t Il
~ feared that a hard row is ahead o
he them
lg Already the word has gone dow,
at the line that Comiskey's White So
in must be watched closely this yea,
III Duffy's men have done wonderful wor
~ In practice and there Ia feelin
lg abroad that this Is the White Soy yea
TO finish we'll TO the front. Comiske
b. seems to have picked up wealth c
n good new material, SO that his tear
ey should be well fortified at every poin
i'd Corhan at short. ooks like he woul
or create as much talk as the hare
10 skirt
I'd Hughey Jennings at Detroit says ii
n Tigers are going to do what the Cuf
If did last year; come back after the
IL reverse and carry OFF the flag. Jen
~ ings is known as great manager b,
n. IL he beats out Connie Mack this We;
or with his somewhat doubtful bunch
ie Tigers. he may well be called the grea
,e est manager Jeaeings has lost To