The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-12

Boyle has bunch Of real ball play
ers and they are worthy foes Of q |
strong army like that Manush has.
One or two more and Burnham will
be setting pace that will make
some of the others in the league look
sick. He's good man and south,
paw with a brilliant record behind
him. In one Of the northern league
teams two years ago, Dutch helped
to win pennant and In all but the
last game, only one or two hits we're
found off him during any Of the set
tos.
Jack played a handsome game. His
home run was the feature blow Of
the whole works and none was more
surprised than little Newmeyer, him
self when the candy sub catcher polk
ed it over the palings. The Keokuk
receiver had no errors and did even
better than the veteran Hub Hart by
having no passed balls.
Krazy Katz was the champ wailop-
er for the visitors, getting three out
of four times up. He didn't have any
thing on McGaf1gan at that, the
'skooky-ookums' kid OF Manush's
slamming three good singles.
With Whitaker in today, 1t ought
to be cinch. Bill says he has only
one bad ball that slips from his lunch
hook now and then and that is the
one he styles Lizzie" They can
knock her over the fence skirts and
all if I'd let 'em. but they're not going
to see Liz If can help 1T" quoth the
nice little pitcher.
Boyle has good man In Newmeyera
and the lad seems to have found him
self since he visited Keokuk last. The
hurler lost one of the series to Keo>
kuk when here before.
McGafigan played some more big
league ball yesterday. He seems to
know just what ought to be done in
running bases and has made study
of pitchers on the opposing sides
since watching them from the first
game. Now he is on to trick or
two that he can slip to an Indian N
distress or worried.
There were no stolen bases with
Dutch" Burnham in the box. He's
the best in the league with men on
bases trying to steal Once or twice
yesterday when he could have thrown
out man at first he turned suddenly
and caught Muskrats hiking for third.
Pennington was right there every
time and took the putout.
Miller got bat one hit yesterday al.
though he tried hard enough to slam
the ball out. His game in the field
was perfect.
Kline worked in the field without
any trouble He had only two chances
but he handled those well.
Bill Prough, formerly Keokuk
pitcher, won his game on the mound
for Birmingham, yesterday. Atlanta
was the opponent. A dispatch says
Prough pitched good ball.
Art Fromme, the old Quincy pitch
err, hurled New York to victory yes
terday against the Chicago Cubs.
There is some sense to this from
the Muscatine Journal: To put base
ball on as high plane as the great
national pastime deserves, local fan
dom should be fair and Just in its
comments when the local and visiting
teams are playing here. Root and
boost as hard as you can; make
! all the noise possible, but refrain
from abusing the players of the visit
| ing club. Remember that our team is
the visiting team in seven other
cities and when we demand of the
other clubs that our team be accord
| ed decent treatment at their grounds,
I let us be sure that we have given
the visiting teams decent treatment
here. Slogan of the Oakland club OF
the Pacific Coast league.
Just take peep at the following
wonderful little tid-bit of information
the canary on the Waterloo Reporter
. has doped out for us all: Probably
not one out of a hundred fans who
attended ball games regularly have
any idea of the tremendous amount OF
work required to pitch nine inning
ball game. Just to ascertain what a
snap the job is the writer kept tab
on the number Of pitches made by the
three twirlers in Mondays game
Ashley, Blodgett and Brown. 1t will
be remembered that Ashley was ham
mered quite lively by the Bunnies and
was relieved by Blodgett in the sixth.
In the five innings he was on the
slab Ashley pitched eighty-nine balls,