The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-18
act That He is Not cloutins Due to
the Managerial Worries Since
Opening of the
Season.
TEAM GROWS STRONGER
Heavy HItters Have Not Begun to
Get in Their Work But
the Boss is IN
afraid.

Put George Manush, heaviest hitting
balI player in the G. A. on any team
as a regular man instead of manage
and watch his batting eye return. The
bugs after lamping the three-weeks
old schedule since the opening, firmly
believe that it is due to nervousness
and big supply of anxiety botherins
the bun of the boss that he is not
landing on the pill in 1912 style. The
statement is made without fear of cri.
icism that Manush has worked under
a bigger handicap than any minor
eague manager in the country this
Gear; he got a late start, he picked
nsre or two lemons and yet hobs up
How without having smelled the must
I In the cellar. 1t Is record of which
e may feel well proud, as it is his
sst year with the managerial reins
Yclutched in his paws.
Untiring in his efforts to give this
city a team that will be winner by
the time mid-season has rolled along,
Manush has worked under strain
for month or more. He has had to
watch players; pick new men; select
pitchers; cut down his team to regu-
lation size; build up this department
and that and last but not least encour-
age team work that crab manager
could never accomplish if he lived to
be thousand or so. And all the time
the chief has been playing bali and
watching his own work just as closely
as he has eagle-eyed that of his men
- II is believed that the duties of man.
ager have caused slight distraction
OF Manush at bat which will be re
placed by calm as soon as the team
A shapes itself and playing resumes a
Il more machine-like appearance While
the work of the boss at the stick has
not been scintillating, his fielding has
not been wanting and more than once
he has snatched impossible ones from
the ozone that would have let run
ner score if he had not played the
primary sack as ball player should
,keokuk finished in seventh place
last year. With the outcropping of
latent smuggling abilities, the Indians
will run we'll ahead of that position
when the rag chase shoves itself in
to yesterday about next Labor Day.
There are just two young managers
In the Central who are tearing off
their first year as team heads. Pen.
nington Of Kewanee is the other
George who is making a stab for the
gay cloth and UP to FRIDAY the In /
dams and Boilermakers have been
sliding along for week together, al +
most neck and neck.
1t would be somewhat humiliating
to old Frank Boyle, Dick Rohn or our
true pal, Ned Egan, if Manush or
Penny slid by with the banner. What
would Jay Andrews, NJ D., think if
such thing happened?
Playing Still Loose.
Leaving last Sundays game out of 9
this consideration, the team while
home played knowingly. On the road
this last week it has been just the re- :
verse. OF course the change of two +.
field positions may have had some
thing to do with that and the presence
of several new faces about the palcli
might have Disconnected to cer.a''.
extent, the players who stuck WIZ
the ak fell simple saan = ! +
this is the three error count asaiias.
Jack, the new shortstop, the 1or,as
Burlington infelder making tnres s,t,
,les in Fridays game at Monm ,aat ~
The pitchers are now .ne faith in
danush's worries as ne na sined and
here ~ ava Of them left Al nave E
~, ne.e re ny trial and there Is none
nut vho has pitched an I,,e s' trim me-
= hay'n atepping out Of the ooS to let
lent Of a1s spssh the job. II has been ri
,me one n =. ire other towns how i
ssl, Il has been nseessafy 70 warm Il
[ss sa,,s : mound arti5f Tor the relief Of L
E iDs.,t winter pl
IAN r,,st1 believes more in giving a.
~. decent trtal rather than chop f.
MAJ ~ wslkil.gfa couple of men or -
i 10 ~ NO or three hits in row. - :,
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