The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-08
QUAKER CITY
FANS DESPAIR
Well Known Depths Of oespondeney
Held Phiiadeiphia's Hopes for
Pennant This
Season.
BOTH CLUBS WEAKENED
Athletics and phiIiies Lost Several
Of Their Strongest Hen-
Subs Are All Weas
Men

Men
PHILADELPHIA. March S-The
well known depths OF DESPAIR hold
Philadelphia hopes for psnnzns
This season. Even the most optimistic
fans cannot see themselves standinS
in line for worlds series ducats next
October Both teams hare had the
seyerest shaEe-urs this winter IL their
history and only a miracle can bring
either of them 20 the tape ahead OF
fourteen other teams
The disintsgregztion of the Ath-
leItcs' famous machine is the hardest
blow Philadelphia fans had come 10
LOOK upon q worlds series as an an
nual affair with Phnadelphia-ons
that was theirs BY divine right or
something of that so-t-and the CRASH
that shot the famous aggregation in
10 history shook them to their toes
inhegd Shot 10 Pieces
The justly famous $3.50. h05 infeld
now looks ike thirty cents-some OF
the more bellirersnt even assert the
three should be erased. The famous
Barry to Collins TO McInnis' that
figured daily in the box scores Is gone
Quaker fans began TO sit no and taks
notice when Bender and Plank, the
two men who have brought pennants
TO philadelphia year after year With
their sterling performances, were
gone Then came the Collins deal
Tha, left their hopes stunned bit
more. Before they had time to re-
cover, Frank EaEer. king bee swatter
OF ali worlds series. announced lie
was through That was the FroFeEbial
last straw
Mack is now back where be was fire
or SIX years ago True. he still has
Parry and MeInnis. but the pair seems
like the skeleton OF 4 once solid struc-
ture- The ADDITION OF Larry Lajoie is
going to help some, but the veteran IS
slowing up; he had bad year last
season with the Maps and he is view
ed with some skepttcism- Kopf the
little utility INTEL Ter. viii try 10 MI
Bakers shoes at third. but is woefully
weak. He only batted .1s2 in )
games last season
Still Has OutheId.
Mack had his old outdeld to begin
with aeain-Strunk. Oidring and Au--
Thy. He IS - fortified behind the
plate with LaPr and SciIsng. bU. his
pitching staff should cause him cone
worry Bush. PennocE. WycEoI
Shaxkey. and BrezsIer DO not stack
rn fayoTa5Iy with the Gregg. Wood
] eonare. Collins. AMI Foster coubira-
tons which Eczton beasts Ct. no. tae
Ecotte. Scott, Penn. Russell. Fahe;
-rN TE-f-a
fms rest their hores.
Another thing which IS undoubtedly
rcing TO haze an effect en- the team
That is the absence Ct the four OIL
stars. they are go4n- 20 fee! strange
facing the enemy without them-tAat
old confidence and coc5s-sI-einess that
won them many games isn't going u
be there.
Fhfllica Lost Strength.
The phiiIies are about in the same
Loaf with their feiIow-towasmen- TheT
toe. IS the absence OF old stars gCin'
to be felt Sherwood NaEee, a might,
son Of swat. has gone to BOSTON, ant
his old running mate. Honus LobeTt
will be seen in ! Giant uniform tai
season. Charley Doom has gone /
Cincinnati The pills didn't have
whole lot to start the season witt
last year. thanks to Jim Gilmore
raiding cohorts. but they have les
this season.
killife- behind the hat is all right
he proved that last season. First has
will be Occur ie1 as usual by ! auderu
but that about tells the story of Pa
Loran's !nfield Byrne will be see
at second, but he was not howlin
success last season; for short, theI
IS Martin. who played last year, an
IS about in the same class. Then fl
third. Moran has Milton Stock. secu
ed from the Giants in the Lobert dea
and youngster from the Pacif
Coast league who is reputed to be
conner. He answers to the name
Dave Bancroft. Stock didn't make
hit with McGraw last season and f,
that reason was let go. Bancroft is
recruit
Phil outteId Strong.
However, Moran is fortunate in ha
ing a fairly heavy hitting outf1eld
Haskert, Cravath and Becker I'M
should be able to drive lot o ru1
for him this season if they perfor
in anything like their usual fashion.
Alexander is the big man in Moran
hurting department. He is unquestio
ably one OF the best fippers in Il
National league. Backing him up a
Demaree, Mayer, lineup, Oechege
Rixey. Baumgardner. Madison al
Jacobs. Demaree was an erratic pc
former last season with the Giant
but if he has good season with Il
pills they should be pretty formidab