The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Sporting Views
By the Editor

l
/ The Eagles have organized a club
to represent the lodge and will short
ly issue defy to any and all anna
teur aggregations in the city. Keokuk
will have plenty of baseball this sum
mer while the Indians are away, with
the Moose, Eagles and Power City
clubs playing.
A number of Keokuk fans attended
the opening of the Three-Eye league
I at Quincy yesterday and looked over
the clubs managed by two old Keo.
kuk players, Hackett and o'Leary.
They report Hackett's Quincy club as
lightning fielders but a trifle shy on
hitting, although they were up against
the mastery pitching of Hendrix.
It is reported that Bob Madigan has
signed to play ball in the newly or
ganized Federal league this summer.
Madigan's claim against the Keokuk
association was not allowed by Secre-
tary Farrell, Of the national commits
sion.
The Keokuk club will leave next
Tuesday night and be ready on We'd
nesday to open the Central Associa-
ton season at Ottumwa. Manush il
confident that his sluggers will get
away with two of the three games
with the Speed Boys.
A whist tournament, which has been
going on at Glen Ewers' cigar store
on upper Main street for several
weeks was brought to a close last
night when the high teams played the
last nine games. The teams playing
were composed OF Alex Getz and
Charles Frank against Earnest Scott
and James Echle. The former team
lost the series. although they took
the first four games.
Quincy Herald: March 81 mum
Der of sport writer's gathered at Peo-
ria for the purpose of organizing a
sport writer's association Instead of
forming union and protecting them.
selves, they very unselfshly looked
out for the best interests of the
league and the papers they represent,
ed. It was therefore quite naturaf
that they soon began to fare badly.
Instead of fixing a schedule of prices
for service furnished, they decided
to give every paper in the league afr
the dope it wanted on every game
free OF cost. This would have given
the Three Eye league thousands Of
dollars worth of advertising and
would have increased the attendance
several thousand in each city by keep
ing alive the interest of the fans while
the team is away on the road AS
the league was to gain thereby, 1t
was decided to ask the league TO
double the scorers fee In each city
as the work of furnishing baseball
stories would devolve upon this rep
resentative of the league The league
could not spare the money and as 4
result the newspaper service will be
as unsatisfactory this year as in the
past. A newspaper will spend lot
of money the year round for telegraph
tolls, but few care to pay from 81 to
SO for write-up about game, often
getting stuff that is not worth the
telegraph tolls and which cannot be
used after it has been bought and
paid for. The league may be in a
bad way financially. but the refusal
to meet the request OF the writer's
was nothing less than short-sighted-
ness. The money paid out would have
been good investment which would
have paid big returns. The writer's
do not care particularly, as it re-
lieves those who are the score keep
ers OF a great amount of extra work
To describe all the important fea-
lures of game in from 100 to 200
words and get this story, a different
one to each paper to the telegraph
Offices after the game before getting
home to dinner, Is considerable work
and not easy work either The re-