The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-23

| Harry Sweet 10, to our notion, well
lqualified to take up the team at the
place where Abb left OF. Harry not
only is popular with the fans, but he
| is well liked by every man on the
1 team. He is the kind of a man the
players Will work hard to support.
| Sweets record in professional base
ball extends back to 1910 when he
took his first job with the Bay City
| club of the Southwest Texas league.
He played there during that year and
until the latter part of 1911 when he
was given a temporary berth with the
| Galveston club of the Texas league,
playing there until the close Of the
season. That fall he was drafted by
! both the Galveston and Austin clubs
OF that league. Austin securing his
services. He played with Austin dur,
| ing the summer Of 1912, and In 1913
| went to the Clay Center club OF the
| Kansas State league. In the latter
part Of the season he was sent to
! Topeka, in the Western league, and
caught for that club during the end
OF the season. 1t was while he was
with Topeka that Abbott saw him. He
was secured by Abb from Topeka this
spring and has been here since that
time. Harry has been the subject OF
| many comparisons with jenkins,
catcher here last year who was Sc
cured by the ST. Louis Browns.
. Many claim that there is no question
| but that Harry is better man than
| his predecessor. Sweets home town
| is at Mead, Kansas He is rs years
old and unmarried.
! Abbott expects to leave for Topeka,
| his home town, in couple OF days.
He had nothing to say this morning
/ concerning his release as manager OF
1 the club.
Mcintyre, who pitched yesterdays
game, was signed by Abbott Tuesday
Mcintyre was with club in the Wis
c5nsin-Illinois league earlier this sea
son.
| Several members Of the team al
present are in bad shape. Sweet is
crippled by several injuries, the last
being received yesterday when he
was spiked by base-runner coming
in to the plate. Whitaker has not
/ been in uniform for couple OF days
blood poisoning having infected one
OF his feet. Whitley Hensling is work
| ing with a badly bruised hand, while
others. on the club are handicapped by
minor injuries Of one kind or another
/ President Justice left this morning
| for Galesburg where 1t is believed
Egan's club may be located after the
conclusion Of the road trip 1t starts
today. What the outcome OF the con.
ference he is to hold with Galesbure
business men will be, is hard to tell
Galesburg has been in the league be.
fore and its temperance would be
welcomed by every city in the asso-
citation, it is believed.
Despite the fact that there seems &c
be no possible chance Of Rock Island
remaining in the association, every eff
fort to retain the club is being made
by the people Of that city. They have
been much surprised at the class OF
baseball put up by association teams
and say 1t is much faster league
and much better league than the Tri
Lamp organization. The business
men Of Rock Island have sent tele
grams to Chairman Gerry Hermann
John X. Tener. Ban B. Johnson, mera
bers of the national commission, and
to Secretary FARRELL, Of the national
association. Here's what they said:
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.,, July 22.-Or
gained baseball needs all the friends
1t now has or can make. We protest
the decision of the national board de
priving our city of 10000 inhabitants
which has been vacant territory fol
three years, of our national game. The
decision of the national board, al
though in accordance with baseball
law, Is neither just nor equitable, and
we request that you allow the Ottum
wa team to finish the season here"
Signed:
w. s. McCombs as president of the
Rock Island Business Mems Associa
ton.
i H. e. Casted as head Of the $4,000
club.
i B. D. Connolly as president OF the
Rotary club, officers of all the Rock
Island banks and the local clearing
; house association.
Mayor H. NJ. Schrive yesterday af
ternoon also sent message to Chair
man Hermann making an official ap
peal.