The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-17
DOCTORS PLAY II
! TIE WITH LAWYERS
Game Called Before Close Of Fifth
Inning Doctors Thought They
Had Won the
Game.
STARS ARE DISCOVERED
Frank 5alilnser and Or. Sherlock
Show Unexpected Knowledge Of
Inside Baseball Dur.
ing Game.

L Inc dOCtOrS ana III , lawyers WASH
ed at the ball park yesterday in theil
first game Of the season. The game
lasted fraction less than five innings
| being called in the latter part OF that
round on account OF darkness. No
| body won the game and nobody lost
it. for the score was to Z.
The doctors left the field claiming
to have won the game. The lawyers
left the field saying nothing. They
thought they had lost, but they kept
still about 1t, trying to think up some
way to get around defeat It was all
due to the boy who puts up figures on
the score board. One run was made
In the first inning by the doctors just
at time VIII en- the score-board boy
reached particularly interesting
place in the chronicles Of Diamond
Dick. Instead Of marking up one run
for the doctors he marked up two.
and everybody believed it.
No Use to Play.
Which goes to prove that there
really wasn't any use III playing the
game after all. Nobody knew what
the score was VIII IN they got through
playing-the doctors thought they
had won and the lawyers thought they
had lost They might just as we'll
have fixed it up that way without
playing at ALL Then everybody could
have gone around and given than
their quarters and they wouldn't have
had to 60 clear out to the ball park,
sit through FIVE long innings trying to
look happy. then walk all the way
lack to town just to help the kids go
camping this summer.
II there is any question about play
ing of tie we suggest that they just
play the game on paper. ask every
body to bring around their money and
get the thing settled.
AS for tn game itself there wasn't
much to It. The people in the stands
occasionally laughed. They did It
though. because they thought If they
didn't laugh the doctors would poison
them the next time they got chance
or the lawyers would take all the rest
Of their money away from them.
Two Stars In Game.
There was Just one bright fielding
star Of the game and one bright bat
ting star OF the game. Doc Sherlock
gets the fielding honors. He was sup
posed to play right field. He knew
there would be no balls knocked out
there. so to save the trouble of walk.
ing clear out to right laid he stood
behind first base while the lawyers
were batting. This proves that Doc
Sherlock knows more inside baseball
than anybody in the country. There's
no doubt about it.
Frank Ballinger, on the other hand.
absolutely proved that he knows more
about batting than anybody else in
the world Ballinger knew that IL he
tried to hit the ball when he was
batting that the pitcher might fool
him with n sw-fangled spit ball. He
also knew that II he just held his bat
out It would make the pitcher so ner-
vous trying to throw the ball past the
bat that he would hit it square on
the nose every time. So he did. and
ths pitcher was, and the ball did, and
so did the bat It Just goes to prove
that Ballinger Is the best natural
born batter. in the world and the Fed
erals are overlooking thu best bet
they could find.
Establishes Precedent.