The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-02

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AUX.
Fort Madison, 5; Hamilton. 1; n
Hamilton.
Results Saturday.
n Hamilton, A; Keokuk, (ten In
Aings); at Hamilton.
Burlington, 8; Fort Madison, s; a
Fort Madison
The Keokuk Indians celebrated the
ECpening of their new ball park yes
lterday by defeating Burlington, to 8
"a crowd of close to thousand fans
witnessed the game, and saw the 10,
scals lose two run lead, then come
from behind, tie the score in the sew
enth and win it in the eighth. The
crowd held its breath, almost, in the
ninth. as Bohlen smacked two bag
ger and then on the next ball started
TO steal third. Brown whipped the
ball to Dickey; Umpire Logan waved
the runner safe first, then out, as
Bohien slid clear over the bag. and
failed to hook his toe into the sack.
II was a fitting opening day for the
new park The weather was ideal
people always talk about the weather
for such eyents-both teams were
playing classy ball, the crowd was In
q happy mood, and the Keokuk Con-
cert band was on the job all the time
They gave a splendid concert before
the game. and at every inning played
some popular song or dance hit As
Bohlen died at third in the last of the
ninth they were playing Aud Lang
Syne The grandstand, brand new
and shining like gold dollar, and
smelling all piney, was crammed to
the roof; the bleachers were crowded
to capacity with the crowd overflow
ing into the field, and the autom bibles
were making a great background for
the outfield, and incidentally making
ground rules necessary. And then
there was the score board, to-, an
honest to John one, out in left field
1t was a real ball game, on real ball
field, before real old-fashioned Sun
day crowd.
infieId Was Busiest
To get back to the ball game, Keo-
kuk gave Art Crimmins classy support
in every inning, and Grim did the
rest. With the exception of that IA
slammed hard, he was unbeatable. In
cidentally, the infield did all of the
work Billy Rae at second base had
eight assists, and Anderson at first
had fifteen put outs. Fry was the
only outhelder for the locals who had
anything to do during the game. In
the eighth inning Masters, Suman and
keenan, knocked sizzling grounders
down to Rae, who threw each of them
out at first He did some fast field
ing on one Of them, as he had to pick
1T up second time, it came so fast
Thomas of Burlington was the first
ITO bat on the new grounds; Rae and
Anderson handled the first assist and
nut out Evans made the first hit
on the grounds, and Venning got the
first hit for the Indians. Art Grim
minis scored the first run on the new
field and keenan, of Burlington made
the first error.
The game opened with Thomas and
Criner going out, Rae to Anderson
and Masters flying out to Fry. Dick
ey went out, keenan, to Suman, An
derson was out on an infieid drive to
second and Finigan hit to the pitcher,
who threw him out at first.
Suman drew a pass in the second.
keenan, let drive with mean one to
first and Anderson and Venning pulled
off neat double play. Broege was
thrown out by Crimmins. In Keo-
kuk's half no one scored Evans got
a single and was sacrificed to second
and stole third. He was stranded
there on Denning's and Thomas eff
forts.
kcokuk's Scores.
Fry went down in the locals half
of the third. Vennfng uncorked a
single over third base Crimmins
forced him at second but beat the
throw to first. Dickey hit to Keenan,,
who chucked the ball into the autos
on the sideline. Anderson singled,
scoring Dickey, who had stolen third.
Finigan famed.
Burlington came back with a ven
geance in the fourth; Criner singled,
and Masters followed suit and then
stole second. Suman hit a double to
left and went to third on the throw
IN. keenan, sent one to Rae, and it
went through him, Suman scoring,