The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-19
.HERR|TES TAKE
FRIDAYS GAME
Hits at Times When Men Were on
Bases Give Second Game Of
the Series to the
cannihals.
WoERTH POLES HOMER
cannibaI Catcher Gets Fourth HON.
Run Of the Season and Starts
the Rally That Wins
the Game.
WoERTH POLES HOMER
BY Char. 4. Ling, Sports Editor, Han
nibas Courier.Post.l

HANNIBAL. Mo-. May 1s.-Hits
came an the right time on Hannibars
part OF yesterday and as result OF
the hve OF the seven swats coming at
opportune moments Hannibal grabbed
the second straight game from Art
Queisser and tribe OF Comanehe In
dams with their camp at Keokuk. Ia.
The game was a pitchers battle be-
tween one ice Sloan and Roy Brown.
the latter having the best of the argu-
ment all the way notwithstanding the
fact that he was Wild. The score was
4 3 to 2.
After being cut of in one. two.
three order in the first four stanzas
and with keokuk leading BY two TO
nix count. the Herrites rallied and
QueisEerss tribe were put to rout. The
first results of the battle were shown
in the fifth inning and following the
clearing away of the smoke from the
Herrites three safety shots. Hannibal
had tied the count. Keokuk tried hard
after the second inning TO shove an
other run across. After walking one
Or two hatsmen Roy Brown would
tighten up and aided by the splendid
fielding of his teammates the COMPANY
commanded By Eddie Herr was in verY
Few difficult positions during the re-
rnainder OF the fray The Herrites
bagged the game in the eighth frame
when the winning run was showed
across the rubber.
Roy Brown started of like a house
afire when he famed two out OF three
men in the frs; frame His wildness
in the second inning resulted in Keo-
kuk pushing brace OF counters across
1t came about in this manner. Jones
succeeding in working Brownie for a
promenade TO the first sack. a NOM
ent later he way forced at the second
station when Hssiy slammed to Brown
Who relayed the pill to O'Mara. Mid
dleton proved an easy out and things
which frightened UP for short time
became dim when Rust worked Brown
for free ticket to first A double
steal was engineered by Rust and Hilly
who stole home while the bail was
thrown to Painter and returned to
Wcerth b. Ed. 1t was good play on
the part of Keokuk and it readily goes
TO show that it pays to take chances
in baseball Boss Queiseer scored
Rust with single That ended Keo-
kuk's counting for the day.
II Was Ladies', Day.
taHiou- ana ~
to drop game. Manager Herr gave
the signal to Louie woerth in the fifth
frame to get on. Louie got on and
went around when he sent the sphere
over the rightneId fence for a Journey
ever the circuit II was Woerth's
fifth four base smack since the begin
ming of the season. One more was
needed to tie the count. Again Eddie
Herr became anxious and babe Joe
Campbell to get down to the first sta
ton some way. A two base smack TO
deep right -r- the way that Campbell
obeyed orders from his superior.
Ollie O'Mara worked the sacrifice stunt
sending Campbell around TO the far
corner Red Smyth then won the
game by placing pretty WALTON into
the center garden good for one base
and sending Joseph home. The Her
rites succeeded in getting men on base
in two Of the final frames but Sloan
worked hard and no more scoring re-
suited
A critical moment in the ninth in
ming caused all the fans to become
anxious After one man was down
Middleton singled to left Chief
/ Queisser put Murray in to bat for Rust
Brownie realizing that Murray is a
dangerous man put something" on the
! ball and the best the pinch hitter
could do was to take long walk to
the bench for he whitfield the ozone.
With two down and men on first and
second Charlie Sloan advanced to bat
and that was about all as Ollie O'Mara
captured his infeld fly.
The score: