The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-02
THE STARS TRIP.
A Short Review of Their Five Days
TOur.-.A Good Record.

The Stars arrived home last night laden
with victory, having won every game In
which they engaged during their trip.
The victory achieved is not only victory
for the Star base ball club, but also for the
city of Rock Island, who should be, and
are proud of their nine. The ARGUS takes
"a lively interest in the welfare of the
Stars, and thinks it would not be amiss to
give a short review of their tour, which
we append.
The boys left home last Thursday
morning for Iowa City, arriving there in
time for dinner, and were in good trim
when they got to the grounds. They
were surprised TO find that four of the
Cedar Rapids nine were to face them in
the game, but nothing daunted by that
they went to work and beat them by the
nice score of ~ to z. They played rather
loose the first part of the game, but soon
got down to their work and from that time
on there was no question as to whom the
game belonged. There were no particular
features in the play except three base
hit by Bowen, and Hodges good playing
on third.
They left on the $50 train that evening
for Cedar Rapids, where they expected to
have hard game, if the reports eircu-
lated could be believed, but they
were not playing to lose, and they did not
as 5 to 2 goes to show II was a nice
game, and well contested from start to
finish, the Stars making but one error
Much to their surprise they found that
the captain of the Iowa City nine was also
captain of the Cedar Rapids niue. They
were well treated there and started the
next morning for Dubuque, feeling that
Cedar Rapids was nice place and had
used them well The attendance was
light.-onlv one hundred and fifty on the
grounds.
At Dubuque the treatment was bad
They tried to bulidoZe from the start
They came to the hotel and said they
could beat them easy with hands down,
and would show them how 10 play ball
etc, but before the game was over they
were forced to take pointers from the
boys.
| The game opened with the Stars at the
bat Wheelan went out Portner led
off with hit and Hudson followed with
another. Hodge then woke them M with
Il two Dagger Portner scoring Bowen
then showed them another two Dagger,
Hudson and Hodge scoring Hawkins
is little, but he can make base hits, which
he did on this pressing occasion and
brought Bowen IN The four tallies
scored were all earned. They scored one
in the second and four more in tn c
seventh The Dubuques found that Hawk
ms was hard to hit, and only got two
runs in. The crowd was all for Dubuque,
and although the Stars showed them some
nice ball playing. notably double up by
Hudson and Portner. they never gave a
cheer, and at times hooted at them. But
they could not rattle the boys, as that was
the evident purpo1e OF the captain, play
ers and audience The Stars played the
game with but four errors. The attend
ance was large, over eight hundred people
being on the grounds.
The next game was at Mt. Carroll-19
to g. The score tells the story The
fStars had walk away with the nine thai
beat the Clintons two out of three games
Sage and Hawkins were greatly com
plimented on their fine record on the trip