The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-19
Baseball Directors Will Ask
the Boosters Club to Help
Organize Club for
Coming Season.
TUMELTY HAS RESIGNED
President Hobbs of the Boost
ers Club Expresses Regret
That Situation is
Serious.


Baseball, according to The directors
OF the Keokuk Industrial Association,
Is dead, but there still remains onel
way out, which will no d.nbt be tried |
before the franchise is turned over to
the league.
This morning, President B. B. Hobbs
of the Boosters Club, male up of the
younger blood in KeokEk's business
life, declared that If the directors of
the baseball association SO wished it,
he would call the members of that
organization together and see il they
could not devise some me;lns of awak-
ening interest in Keokuk baseball.
7 do not believe tat baseball
should be allowed to drop here, by any
means declared President Hobbs,
this morning. II am not fan myself
but can see where the game can do
D great deal to keep Kaokuk in the
public eye, and If it is Within the
power of the Booster Glib to hela
create interest in the city, such as
would make 1t a paying proposition,
Relieve that they would .,ladly do it.
According to great many people.
the Boosters Club Is the organization
that should have been asked to help
the baseball association but, in the
first place. They were organized to
st the city and keep 1t in sight of
public, and their Efforts could be
scted to this line much easier than
Industrial Association.
outs Sterne, of the Baseball direc-
tie, said yesterday afternoon that
all probability, the Boosters would
asked to lend their help. If this
ills, then there is nothing to do but
Iand the franchise owe to the Of
fcials Of the Central Association.
Most of the members of the Boost
ers Club are young men who enjoy the
game and it is thought that they
would show a great deal more enthus-
iaBm in the matter than any other
organization. If they decide to take
hold of the proposition and push il
sSgh, there is no doubt but that
.ticcess would crown their efforts, for
7 they are men who can and will dc
things That has been demonstrated
before. 1t is believed that IL the life
or death of baseball Is put up to their
they will keep Keokuk in organized
baseball
Turnei+v Declines To Serve
Upon the heels of this matter came
the following letter from John Tum
city one of the newly elected mem
bers of the Baseball Association:
Sporting Editor, Gate City:
After carefully weighing the duties
imposed upon a director of the Base
ball Association. find that my bust
ness Will not allow enough time to d.
Justice to the office | do not wish t.
be ,classed as a shirker or one who
is afraid of the senseless criticism
heaped upon these payIess positions
but in justice to myself and the Base
ball Association, positively refuse
j to serve.
JOHN TUMELTY.
Keokuk, Iowa, Dec 18, 1912.
In speaking of his action in declin
Ing to serve on the committee. Nj
Tumelty declared that he was pei
fectly willing to support the gam
and would be one Of certain MA
Ner of citizens to take hold OF III
insure the fans of baseball
.natter what the cost, but that h
eould not and would not take hold {
s. II in the way II has been done in tn
past and depend upon the best wisht
of the public to swell gate receipts
B. b. Hobbs, president OF the Boos
ers, said today that IL it was the wis
OF the members of his club that |
would call meeting for some tin
kwithin the next few days and a,
II Them to consider the baseball stu
II ton. No definite information has v
PREACHED Mr.. Hobbs, officially, that I
directors of the baseball associate
will ask MIN to call the meeting, b
1t Is likely that a formal letter will
forwarded to him soon.
Mr.. Hobbs will confer with some
the club members today and "
probably announce definite date
the meeting, II it is to be held At {
When told that the Boosters wo,
be asked to work out the future
baseball IN Keokuk, today decid
optimiatb' lew was taken by ma