The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-11

KEoKUK EMBARRASSED
"Presidents' Town Favored IN
founded Statement That Hurts Be.
cause This city Has
OFFICIAL.

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As was expected he would be, NJ.
3. Justice of this city, who presides
as administrator of affairs In the
Central Association, has been assailed /
in scornful terms by the Waterloo /
papers. The reason is well known to
be the throwing out of eight games |
Waterloo's base ball club won from
the Keokuk and Burlington teams |
during the month of July
While this attack is going on and
the Waterloo papers are making
themselves look foolish more or less
by the PRONUNCIATION of their feelings,
things have become somewhat embar-
RAISING for Keokuk because of the
/ fact that the outside papers say:
The president is fas0ring his own
town." In the first place that sounds
like SO much rot for 1t is well
known fact that Justice likes Keo-
kuk's ball club no better than and
others in the Central and if the mat
ter was investigated, it would be
found that his love for his bread and
butter" town is great deal less than
it Is for the others. Reservedly, he
has shown this at various times and
If it came to matter of favor" with
him, he would feed the other fellow
the candy rather than Keokuk.
Insofar as Keokuk is concerned,
!, this city would rather see any other
man president of the Central Associa-
: ton. The fact that Justice is resi-
dent and business man OF this city,
does not auger well for the progress
OF local club. although it was fav-
orable and no doubt Just move on the
part of the official to throw out the
, three games Waterloo won from the
Keokuk team while the former club
was over the player limit There is
| no doubt that the head of the league
has mediated fairly in everything that
!. has come within the jurisdiction OF
= his office but If Keokuk is to remain
= In base ball next year and in the
: years to come, 1t would please the
: fans better to see some one besides
= the Keokuk man, president of the
y league. Directors of this and, othel
= years, from time to time have ex
n pressed themselves as in favor of ar
4 outsider being elected to the offics
and it is hoped that this will come t.
RI pass for the good of all concerned ant
that the term presidents town" vii
snot be applicable to Keokuk
q What Waterloo Papers Say.
o. The three Waterloo papers hav,
O taken up the protest matter in tn
0 following views:
oil From the Tribune: "As tn,
O result of fanatic decision renderet
o by President Justice of the Contra
0 Association the eight games proteste'
/ by the Keokuk and Burlington team
II were allowed and the Boosters wer
/ showed from fifth to last place in tn
standings. That standing would b
and is the official but the local fans
% papers and baseball players and d
2 rectors had refused to accept it an
will consider fifth place good enoug
for the present at least
IS, Owing to the conditions SURROUND
ing the decision and the manner i
which the local club has been treate
u by one or two of the league manager
and the executive, the decision wi
sr- be appealed at the next meeting c
the directors of the league and on az
= count of their innocence of the charg
1t Is thought they will change the d,
cision.
From the Reporter: NJ. E. Tustic,
the impartial president OF the Centrs
- Association and a trusted friend {
Waterloo, suffered great mental al
= guish yesterday He says so himse
4 in letter to w. A. Reed. presider
of the local ball club, opened an
n read by the aforesaid Mr.. Reed tn
4 morning
q "The painful missiye that cause
Milton such agony was to inform Wa
0 erloo that eight games won from til
- Burlington and Keokuk clubs ha
been thrown into the ash heap. Til
procedure was about the most pal
full thing the Keokuk man ever e
e. countered II it caused half the a
guish to Waterloo fans as to the pc
0 sonage of the Dam City, an epidem
o OF suicides would ensue.
0 Waterloo doesn't care II JUST,
throws out eight games or 500 TT
o contests were won by eportsmanlil
- methods and the home fans we're So
! fled. The real facts of the matt,