The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-31

League DulltiilS III I/OI.
decide the pennant winner Each had
but one club to meet after that time
and a clean sweep of the crucial ser.
les meant a practical cinch on the
championship.
Both were In magnificent form
and going at top speed with the
players keyed up to the highest point
In anticipation OF the struggle On
the day of the initial game when
Egan took his club to Waterloo, ac-
companied by hundreds of Burlington
fans, the percentage column showed
Burlington's standing at .61S with
Waterloo at SIT, one point removed
1t was evident that Egan would
rely on Slapnicka, now with the Cubs,
'.Hetty'' Green and Mcmillan for the
slab work, while it was equally GER
tain that Boyle would pin his hopes to
Hollenbeck, Casper and Harmon, his
trio of first string pitchers.
Egan and Rose and Bruggeman for
backstops; Babe Towne, now manager
! of the Sioux City club, and in the
year previous to that a member OF
the worlds champion White Sox, at
first base; Donovan at second base:
Spencer, secured from Cedar Rapids,
at third; Berg at shortstop; Daley,
sold to Cincinnati the same year, in
! left field; House, the Indian, in cen
/; ter, and Kennedy in right.
Boyle had Lizzette and Searles as
catchers; George Clark, now West
e..l league umpire, at first base; Lee
Magee, at the present time utility
| infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals,
at second; George Pennington at
third; Joe Wilkes at shortstop; Cruik-
| shank, now with Seattle, in right
/ field; Curtis in center, and Shour in
| left.
Rooters Show Excitement.
Excitement In Waterloo was at the
| boiling point as the hour for the game
approached. Stores we're closed and
business suspended generally during
the time OF the game Citizens equip
ped themselves with every noise max
| ing device extant and made their
way to the grounds to root for the
home team. The town was baseball
mad and no one seemed to care. Burl-
ington also was we'll represented in
the crowded stands.
Ira Harmon, then at the zenith OF
! his career as pitcher and whose
wonderful work was in large measure
responsible for the high standing OF
the club, was Boyle's choice for the
slab in the initial game and pittec
against him was Slapnicka, Egan's
choice.
The Burlington players were retired
in order in the first inning and Water
loo, in its half. fell upon Slapnicka's
slants and hammered them to every
corner of the field, scoring four runs
before he was relieved by Mcmillan.
In all Waterloo garnered IL hits and
III runs
Harmon, in the meantime, was per
forming In marvellous style Save for
four passes issued his work was per
feet until the ninth, not single hi,
litdfluS DCCu licQe bdD6 lOWue
with two out in that session, poled on,
. a double that accomplished nothing
: save the marring of near no hi
game. Burlington never came chose
: to score
Waterloo Assumes Lead
The positions of the two clubs now
were reversed, Waterloo assuming the
lead which it never again relinquished
during the season. Interest in the
series now reached the acute point
throughout the circuit and in other
cities where games were scheduled
the teams merely went through the
: motions of playing while they watched
the progress of the struggle for the
leadership.
Excitement in Waterloo had reached
a frenzied condition. Men who hat
never before given baseball more thar
passing attention, aroused by The
Spirit which prevailed, acquired noise
making devices and enlisted as root
crs for the home team.
GSdH, rOxy Neu, dS uS IL hIowi
in his own circuit had figured tina
Boyle would use Harmon, his sta
hurler, in the first game, and rathe
than pit his own best bet," Green
against him in what seemed a forlori
hope, he chose lesser light and trust
ed to luck to win preferring to save hi
trump card for another time.
i 1t seemed like good generalship a!
no team in the league had been abl
to hit Harmon with any degree of con
sistency With one game gone agains
him, however, and Waterloo in tn,
lead the next game would PRACTICAL,
decide the championship. If he los
there was little hope, but II the game
was won the two clubs We're on ever
footing again.
Green, Esan's Choice.
"Hetty" Green was the natura
. choice. and there never was a gamer
pitcher in shoe leather. He had pitch