The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
DODGERS HAVE
A REAL ARMADA.
Brooklyn Has Built an Albright De-
Tense With Her lnfield-As
It Was Year
Ago.
STELLAR MOUND MEN
Rueker, Rason and Allen Going Good
Now That They Have
Got Good
Start
STELLAR MOUND MEN
tBy Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.

IBy Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.1
NEW YORK, May 22-Once upon
time there was decrepit baseball
team known as the Brooklyn Dodgers
that played in an old ball lot shot so
full of holes from the striking batters
of opposing teams that the players had
to hobble over the field like ants run
| ming Marathon over a Swiss cheese.
Then good fairy named Charley
Ebbets came along and built a new
park, all dolled up with a grand stand
that cost much money. This gooo
fairy had been hanging around the
team 10, these many years, but it was
the first new park he had builded.
When other teams came around, as
they are wont to do at ball parks,
these same Brooklyn Dodgers, who
always before had yelped and run
when approached by a stranger or
| even By their step-brothers, the
Giants, from across the Big Bridge,
proceeded to lick the very daylights
out of them.
/ At first these strange, unheard or
doings excited merely s-ornful laugh
ter and the wise ones said it was an
accident. a flashing In the pan, out
with each succeeding team these erst-
while lowly Dodgers licked. the i'm
4 preston began to grow that they
/ were going some, and. miracle of mir
& acles, eighth wonder of wonders they
do say now. and they're serious when
they say it, that Brooklyn may be
4 reckoned with the contenders for the
pennant.
Moral: Why not?
i BY diligently scraping away the
est inhabitants mar remember that al
this stage of the National League
race one year ago the Brooklyn Dodg
ers and the Boston Braves were flirt
, Ing with and had very close &C
: quaintance with last place. Tht
Braves being conservative souls, hav'
r not seen At to change their ways, bu
what the Dodgers have done in tn,
way of iockeying for position durin,
the early weeks of the present sea
: sons scramble has brought deliriou
Il Joy to the heart of Good Fairy Ebbet
and caused all other team manager
> and owners to gnash their teeth Will
awake and see things while asleep.
+ The Dodgers have shown that the
t have built up an alright defense
It With Jake Daubert at frst, Cutshay
8 at second, Fisher at short stop an
n Red Smith at third. team play ha
A. been perfected Cutshaw covers
IS world OF ground at second and 1
that immediate vicinity. In the ou
field the Dodgers have real outfelt
er in Stengel, who Is establishing
\ record as a fence buster this season
: Wheat has not been batting UP to hi
!. usual standard With Wheat goin
naturally there will be another arg,
ment why the Dodgers should kee
going. Hummell. completes a muc
: better than average outfield accor,
~ ing to his work OF this season.
~ One of the faillngs of the Dodger
at one time was their failure to h
, behind Nap Rucker. But Rucker wo
/, three of his first six games this Sc
son. One of the three losses was tn;
~ thirteen inning dual with Old Maste
.s Matty. Rucker has been going goo
after only fair start and Ragon hs
4 been pitching alright ball. Allen
- fast developing into star left han
: er and though he lost some of b
-. early starts he ought to spin alor
~ nicely In hot weather Stack ar
~ Curtis are in pretty fair shape ar
Yingling, Hall and Wagner look req
n ly better than they ever have. Wa
o ner came from New Orleans with
. reputation as good as that carted
- by Demaree now with the Giants.
Behind the bat is Otto Miller, wi
ranks with the best. Then there
Erwin who has caught the new bod
!, er spirit and Is coming along. All
=. all, the bunch from across the bridi
- look pretty good. Washington did
-. after getting a new ball park-that
,t they jumped from humble ones
~ slashing, fighting pennant contende
- almost over night, SO to repef
=, why not Brooklyn"
IL,
no And when mentioning corners al
comebacks, don't overlook the veter;