The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-27
Sporting Views
BY the Editor

Lack OF interference tells the story
OF how the local team failed to score
yesterday Time after time, the backs
would get the ball in the open field.
but instead Of giving the man with
the ball, support, the team would scat
ter to the four winds. trusting to
providence to take the runner through
a field filed with fast, hard tackle1s.
A number of Keokuk fight fans at
tended the boxing show at Quin.y Fri
day night and saw the match between
AID Wolgast, worlds lightweight
champion and Freddie Daniels, of st.
Joseph. All expressed themselves as
well pleased with the affair The
match was decided draw after six
rounds OF tame boxing.
The value Of one piece suits for foot
ball players was demonstrated by
Fairfield yesterday when the Keoktlk
men found it almost impossible to hold
them unless they had full arm grip
upon them. Their hands would slide
off the suit, there being no way to
held the men unless they were tack
led fairly around the body.
A full attendance should mark the.
meeting of the Keokuk Motor Boat
club at the Office of the Decker Man
ufacturing company, next Wednesday
evening, when the plans of the new
clubhouse and the committees for ths
regatta are made public. The officers
are determined to let nothing inter
fere with making the Keokuk regatta
the big thing in river affairs next
summer and all Keokuk citizens are
asked to lend their support to making
it big success.
Griffith showed a weakness at left
tackle for Fairfield, yesterday that
will have to be remedied, if the school
is looking forward to a state champions
ship. Had the eyes Of Captain De
vero been as bright as they ordinarily
are, he could have seen that that was
the only place to strike. The Fair
field backfield was afraid of this hole;
too, and constantly played two OF
their men directly behind him to
stave off a possible assault in that
quarter. Captain Devero's hard work
for the past several weeks is telling
ION him and he should insist on no foot
ball for the team for couple of days.
An unpleasant feature of the game
at Hubinger park yesterday afternoon
was the presence of several young
men, supposedly Fairfield high school
students and rooters, who were under
the influence of some sort of stimu-
lants. They persisted in making them
selves generally obnoxious by trying
to place bet on the game and swear
ling. The later offense was committed
of the KeolSuk girl students and the
Offenders saved themselves from the
wrath OF the men by moving to one
end of the field and keeping very
much to themselves after severe
calling down by a Keokuk man.
The management of the team here
and his helpers could make them
selves much more popular with the
football fans if they would try and get
Il the game started on schedule time.
Every game played here this season
! has been from half an hour to an
hour late, making the game last, in
most cases until well after five o'clock.
From the sidelines it looks as though
there was too much handshaking CO.
ing on, anyway. The members of the
! faculty should wait until after the
game before they ask for introduce
lions, as should the players 1t all
takes up time and some of we poor
workmen have to be on the job Satur-
day night.
at has nothing to do with the game
itself, which was played splendidly
by both teams said a Keokuk man
/ last evening, but it is pity the
Fairfield team could not keep at home
4 the bunch of tin-horn, would-be Sports
who accompanied them here. / mean
4 the party who tried to handle Gig
arettes like the Williams in the cheap
melodramas, and who used profaue