The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-10
Indian Club is Battling for the Pennant
SPORTING VIEWS

Good morning: seen any rain!
Let's forget Saturday.
Manush switched a little too hard
for the comfort of his children.
Wonder if .Styx'' Seneffs hitting
the old bull on the under lip could
have had anything to do with it. He.
won't get the fifty bones for week
at least SO that couldn't have caused
the disaster in the last one.
Bert House has sold Bentley, one
of his FINGERS to the Detrols Tigers.
The purchase price has not been made
known by the quiet Bert. Bentley IS
conceded by several managers in the
Central Association to be a good one
and it is known for a fact that Man
ush would have liked to get his hands
on Bent" a month age. Dick Rohn
the same.
The SITS claim of Outfielder Madi-
gan has been forwarded by the Keo-
xxx Base Ball association to the ma
tional commission. After months of
controversy and much correspondence
through the mails. the matter comes
to close, passes from the boards
and gives way for something else.
Secretary Louis Sterne is authority
for the statement, recently made. that
the sale OF Jenkins to the Oakland,
Calf. club and lilly and McGafigan
to the coast, has not yet been con-
summated. Partial arrangements for
disposition of these three players had
been made but as yet, nothing has
been heard from the other end.
Of the forty-two pitchers in the
Southern league. Bill Prough is lead
ing the bunch up to. and including
games Of July 2e. The former Keo-
kuk twirler is going the pace of his
life in the south and is hera1ded as
one of the best In that country He
viii no doubt step out of the league
/ this year. Prough has figured in
twenty-six games. he has won seven
teen and lost four this season SO far
as the records In a Birmingham paper
show. Bills pitching per cent Is $40
Crimes who went from Ottumwa to
Chattanooga has won less than hall
his games, his percent being .422.
Nanush did the proper thing In tax
/ ing woITerton ont Of the box Friday
and letting Ed Wahl finish the game
after the firzt inning Jake has not
been going as well rs it was expected
he would when he first joined the
locals.
Tommy Miller is doubtless due to
reach his old batting record again.
He got four hits ont Of five times up,
yegtarday. Msnush seems to have
found his real. good eve too. On
Thursday he got three hits and Fri
day repeated the trick.
4 It is probable that the games here
during the week OF the celebration
and regatta win be played in the
morning. The races on the river and
other events in the afternoon win con.
stitute the program following the din
uer honr and ii is belieFed that the
/ ball park stands can be packed before
noon and the games played than
I Morning practice" viii probably gel
the players out Of bed with the chick
ems. This last relates to fowls; moi
the kind one would think at first
glance.
President Hayden Of the Burlington
club has signed UP two new pitchers
Lombe, right-hander from the Kan
sas state league, and Watson, a try
ont from Kahoka, No, the home o
Ralph Bell
/ Hawk-Eye: Burlington players Tx
! George Manush. He makes noise al
the time he Is playing. but never LETT
loose OF .any rough talk.
It IS a well known fact that Water
loo never did think much Of Keokul
and her ball club, even back in tn
old Iowa State league days whe'
Frank Boyle was managing the clui
3 for the looloos but even now one can
0 not help but feel wave Of sympath,
:, pass over the system for poor oil
Waterloo and her team. This, becaus'
eight games were thrown out by Ne
Justice, presiding authority OF tn
league. as late as Friday morning
Waterloo has played IN bunch o
] lard luck this year. being crippled /;
n 'talf dozen tirn,s by the absence o
regular players and the insertion 0
new ones in the ranks, which work
havoc az followers Of the game know
Waterloo Is not TO be synpathizet
! With because the club was severa
z men oyer The player Iir..ft and as