The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-05
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Sporting Views
The team comes home tonight from
By the Editor

The team comes home tonight from
Muscatine.
Esteemed fans. Please remember
that Box No. belongs exclusively to
| the scribes and their retinue.
The biggest baseball opening the
city has ever had should be held here
tomorrow. Good will and silver talk.
| Fred Gosewisch will have to come
across with something better than
this If he expects to remain resi-
dent of Keokuk.
If the boss says nothing doing when
you ask to get off, feign sickness as
a last resort. 1t is not as thinly worn
an excuse as the deceased mother-in.
,, law-in-another-city plea.
Tomorrow will be opening day In
four cities of the letgue Ottumwa
will be playing at Keokuk; Muscatine
at Burlington; Kewanee at Waterloo
and Monmouth at Cedar Rapids.
Showers tonight: Tuesday cloudy;
cooler tonight" is the weather predic-
i ton sent out from the weather bureau
office today Troops will arrive tomor.
row to protect F. z. G. In case it
! rains.
/ President N. E. Justice has appoint
ed Ray e. Garrison official scorer for
| Keokuk, to take the place of Don w.
| Hutchinson, who has left the city to
| become sports writer for the Peoria
I Journal
Mayor Elder will probably do like
wise and issue proclamation naming
tomorrow afternoon as half holiday
Throughout the city the same as the
/ several heads in three other towns of
I the league.
The opening day attendance in
! Keokuk last year was little better
I than eighteen hundred. More than g.
! 500 tickets should be sold for tomor-
rows game If the weather is the real
bug stuff.
Tickets for tomorrow's game will
be on sale at Wards, Seibert's and
Moeiler's cigar stores. The regular
admission will be charged: twenty.
five cents to the park and fifteen
cents for the grand stand.
l We'll & Co. have issued compli-
mentary TO their patrons. neat book
/ let's entitled Facts For Fans" Every
thing of interest pertaining to base
ball. is contained in the hundred
pages. and the vest pocket memoran-
DUN is neatly compiled.
All objections from those who are
opposed 10 having the Keokuk ball
team called the Beavers instead of
the aboriginal term, Indians. may ao-
dress their complaints to the sporting
editor. The waste basket has been
removed
The shoot between the Donnellson
and Gate City Gun clubs was called
on yesterday and the local club shot
for the gold medal of the club. Phil
CHASER won with a score of o. He has
now won the medal twice 1t must be
Won three times before 1t can be re-
tanned.
Umpire Ecton will oficiate in the
opening game between Keokuk and
Ottumwa tomorrow. Ecton worked
out at ottumwa with the Indicator
and has evidently been giving salts
faction as President Justice has had
no complaint about his work
Cedar Rapids turned in and whaled
the tar out Of kewanee yesterday in
the first game by sixteen to two
score This was probably in re:alia.
ton for the walloping the Rabbits got
when they opened with the boiler
makers last Wednesday. The second
game went to Kewanee. 3 to 2.
| C. D. streeter has Sunday school
class of promising young diamond
hopes at the Congregational church
who have issued challenge to the
mems bible class to play a game on
the first Saturday in June. If the
youths will play indoor baseball, the
bewhiskered ones will take the lads
tup. Otherwise, nix
! Four managers are paying and as
many more are warming the stoop in
! the Central The actire anan ara