The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-20
Sporting Views
By the Editor

The Kewanee Baseball Association
is looking for a new location and
may have a brand new park for the
players to disport themselves In by
the TIME the curtain rises on the
Central Association race next year.
The following from the Kewanee
Star-Courier gives the plans of the
promoters:
How would the fans of Kewanee
like to have the baseball park moved
to more convenient location?
An answer favoring such PROPOSE
ton would undoubtedly be largely in
favor of the plan.
The present park is not ideally To-
Gated. 1t is too far from town ana
because it is necessary to go a mile
and half or more to see the games
and then travel another mile and a
half to get back to town there are
hundreds Of the fans in the city who
would otherwise be regular patrons OF
the games who do not go regularly.
Terminal park is a nice ball park
when you get there but it is too near
Neponset to suit good many people.
Then again the park does not belong
to the Baseball Association. It is
necessary to pay high rent for it ano
in a few years this could be applied
on new park which would go long
way toward paying for a permanent
baseball plant for the city.
One prominent baseball man in
speaking of the subject yesterday
stated that an ideal location for a
new park would be in the west end
addition south Of the interurban
tracks. 1t is believed sufficient
ground could be obtained there to
make good sized park, at very
reasonable cost. The location is ideal.
1t is on the interurban line and Just
beyond the end of the city line so
good street car service could be az
forded. 1t is far enough from the
residence district to draw no com
plant from such a source The ground
is dead level and high up SO it could
be easily drained. 1t would be three
miles nearer for Galva fans meaning
fifteen minute trip to the park from
Gaiva instead of forty minutes. There
are numerous advantages which could
be sited. Street cars would convey
patrons directly to the park entrance,
and the park could be easily reached
by autos and carriages.
There is enough fence around the
present park to build fence at the
west end and the bleachers and grand
stand with some additional materia.
which would give Kewanee the finest
baseball park in the Central.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Sloan, of Nash
vile, Tenn, arrived in Keokuk yes
terday afternoon, enroute to the old
home of Mrs. Sloan in Carthage,
where she will spend the winter. Tod
will try for job on the water power
during the winter and keep in shape
for his next years work in the South
ern league with the Birmingham club.
Tod's" arrival swells the crowd
of Keokuk players, who are wintering
here, Jack Jeffries having slipped in
to the camp several weeks ago. Art
Murray and Pat Hilly are now regular
employees of the Stone & Webster COM
pany and Bill Whitaker dropped into
the village the other day after a visit
with his folks in that dear old ST.
Louis. Means the Wayland boy, who
tried out on the Indian squad last
spring, is also in camp and tanning
bees are being held every night.
Some time within the next fort
night, the people of Keokuk will be
asked to attend meeting of the
baseball association for the purpose
of selecting directors for the next
season. President Griffey has not yet
set date for the meeting but it will
probably be the last week in the
month
Until after this meeting is called
and the directors chosen nothing defin-
tie will be done in regard to the man
agement of the club for next summer,
although it is practically certain that
George Manusch will be given the
place.
OF the officers OF the association,
nothing positive Is known except that
Secretary Sterne will no doubt be
asked to stay, as his experience and
the perfect satisfaction he has given
the baseball public are appreciated
and both players and patrons of the
game want him to stay 1t is quite
likely that the other officers will be
| asked to stay with the ship another
year, but several of them have signi-
fed a determination to get out of the
game and if this is so their places
will have to be filled by new men.
About the funniest thing at the
game yesterday was DR.. Reid who,
when Elder made his seventy yard
run for touchdown, was frantically
waving bottle of witch-hazel and
put his foot into the bucket of water
being toted around by couple of tar
babies. The doctor is some fan.