The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-03
Sporting Views
b. TIE Editor


Pennington as soon as the Boilermak-
ers lit in town and will pitch him in
one of the games tomorrow. George
thinks mighty we'll Of Murray and
says that he will make him a good
man. The chances are mighty good
for somebody around these diggings
to feel mighty bad before the end OF
the season for letting Murray go. An
other safe bet is that the grandstand
will be with Art in the game in which
he works tomorrow.
Mitchell had hard time yesterday
and the display Of temper that he
showed was childish and Glenalvin did
right in canning him from the
grounds. Bowling also got slightly
rough and tried to pick scrap out
Of the jumps but was not in the park
long enough to get very far with it.
Both men will probably draw fine
from the president.
The bear stories that are coming
from the big cinder's camp at Las
Vegas are the same stories that have
been .tpld at all the big fights and are
merely the creation of the war cores
pondents' disordered brains. After ex-
hausting all their talk about how the
men are getting ready and how sick
they are, they all finally get to the
financial emo OF the game and predict
big loss for the promoters. There
has never yet been big loss on a
championship battle for the promoters
and it is not likely that this will
prove to be the exception.
Buck Summers is carrying a badly
scraped chin as result of his coils
ion with Hilly in yesterdays game.
The men came together with an awful
crash and for time 1t was feared
that Summers was seriously hurt. but
he finally got on his feet and walked
unassisted to the bench.
Ottumwa is trying hard to raise the
necessary cash to keep the Speed
Boys in Ottumwa for the rest of the
season and subscription blanks have
been left in various places over the
city. Just why the fans there refuse
to support team that has been play
Ing magnificent ball for the past
month and is now In position to
take first place soon, cannot be seen
here. Championships do not seem to
count much with the bugs Of that city.
Hollingsworth is still confined to
his room with bad ankle received in
Sundays game. 1t is thought that he
will be out in few days.
Pepper seems to be the thing that
the Indians lack most just now. They
start off in noisy fashion but about
three innings wear their life out and
not sound can be heard except the
boss yell OF. the old life, boys and
Pat Hilly's yelp from centerfield oc
casionally.
One of the greatest strategists In
baseball, Hughie Jennings. has said
that noise from the players at all
times is one Of the biggest assets thai
ball club can have because il they
are continually showing a fighting
spirit and moving around as If they
were glad to be alive and playing the
game, 1t has marked tendency tt
disconcert the opposing club and
many game has been won through
mere noise at critical times.
Not only are the Indians at fault ii
this respect, but all of the Central AS
4 ISOLATION teams are lacking in life dur
ing a game. The players loaf comm.
in when the sides change, loaf wher
they go up to bat and leaf IN kelng
out. This could be remedied by tn,
managers If they realized the facto
that pepper Is to baseball.
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