The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-12
.KEOkUk LOSES
70 Nj. PLEASANT
Hard Fought Game Goes to Visiting
Team In Foot BAH Struggle
on Baseball Field
Yesterday.
FINAL SCORE IS TO IA
Jenkins Plays Good Game at Quarter
Doe and kinsinser
Star for the
Visitors,

/ In hard fought game on the base
ball field Saturday afternoon the Keo-
kuk high school football team was de
feated by Mt. Pleasant by a score Of 10
to IA. keokuk played In poor form
and should have won the game If they
had played as they did against Ham
ilton In the first game of the season.
Forward passes failed to prove good
ground gamers for the local team and
1t is at that style Of playing that they
are at their best. The line showed TOT
be very weak on offense and it was
rarely that it was of any assistance to
the back field when plays were direct
ed through the Mt. Pleasant line. .Ien
kins was able to puncture the Mt
Pleasant line by himself for good
| gains on several occasions. and had he
been assisted In the proper way by the
forwards on the Keokuk team the
score might have been written in diff
/ ferent figures.
The Keekuk high school band turn
ed out in full force and helped to make
the afternoon pleasant The band play
ed before the game started and be.
tween the quarters, and made a very
good showing for themselves The
following high school students played
in the band. Merrill, Geiger, Bishop
Holstein, Jewett Fulton. Leonard Mat
less, Gray, Hollingsworth. Davidson.
Marshall Fulton, Kirch, Miller, South,
Bland. Garrison, milestone, Elgin
Sterne.
Mt. Pleasant put over their first
marker In the first quarter when Kin.
singer, their rangey right end, inter
cepted forward pass in the middle
of the field and hot-footed 1t for the
goal post ahead of him kinsinger al
so kicked and the quarter ended the
scure being: Mt. Pleasant, I; keokuk
0.
The second quarter passed without
any further scoring, the ball being in
the possession of the local team the
greatest part of the time. Hufskamp
got away with great punt In this
inning OF tie game The boot was ex.
oeptionally high and looked to be good
for at least sixty yards. Doe, the dimin.
! utive quarter back on the visiting
eleven got away with great end rum
but failed to get across with marker.
In the third quarter Mt. Pleasant
kicked off to Jenkins who returned the
ball fifteen yards. jenkins punted af
4 ter several attempts to get through
the visitors line Doe circled right
end for twenty yards. forward pass
failed and first down was made by two
line plunges.
The Keokuk line held and got the
the line had failed. Hufskamp made
Is yards around right end Jenkins
added around left and Parsons trav-
eled the same route for 10 more. A
forward pass was incomplete. and a
try at the line failed to gain Huis-
kamp made Z yards around left but
was penalized FIVE yards on the next
play for crawling. On the next play
parsons got around left end for a
touchdown. Huiskamp failed on the
goal. Score, Mt. Pleasant, Z; Keokuk,
6. Kirby was relieved by Drummond
and Buss replaced Hollingsworth. Keo-
kuk kicked OFF and regained the ball
after Mt. Pleasant had failed to gain
through the line. Green replaced Cur
y tbs who was injured on the next pay
The quarter ended with the ball in
the possession OF the visiting team on
the Keokuk ten yard line.
with the ball in Mt. Peasants pos
, session on their ten yard line, Keoku;
J held for downs and recovered the ball
Kfnsinger intercepted forward pass
/ IN the middle of the field and got
| away from the field for touchdown
) after a beautiful run. He added an
: other point by kicking goal Score, Mt
Pleasant IA; Keokuk, 8.
) Twenty yards on trick play, an
!. end run OF is more by Parsons and
!, line buck for Is put Keokuk within
], striking distance Of the visitors goal
: and jenkins plugged through the line
J, for the locals second touchdown
Huiskamp kicked goal. Score, Mt
Pleasant. IL; Keokuk, 18. Only once
In the rest OF the game was either
!. team within striking distance of the
1 other goal. with but two minutes lief
> TO play. Jenkins made costly fnmbl,
I when another score for the local team
q seemed certain It was about the onl!
n bobble the Keokuk quarter made. TIT
same ended with the ball near thu