The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-11
THE NINE STARS.
They suffer Defeat at West Liberty
The Game at Museatine.

The Nine Stars, composing the crack
club of Rock Island, were terribly waxed
at West Liberty yesterday They met
the champion team of Iowa, tn ere, and
though they did not expect to win much
of victory, they had no idea of being
scooped as badly as they were. The score
was is to 2 but the Rock Island boys
NAV console themselves with knowledge
of the fact that they were not the first
niue to be severely beaten by the West
| Liberties The latter club has not been
beaten this season, and after their victory
over the Nine Stars. it is safe to say it
will take something other than an anna
tuer uine TO get away with them,
The Muscatiue Journal has this to say
of the game at Muscatine Monday:
No little of yesterdays attendance was
ewing to the fact of its being known that
Mr.. Munger was present to umpire the
game, il being half the pleasure to many
of our best people to follow this gentle-
man in his artistic and rigidly scrupulOus
government of the play
| The game was a repetition of some
others that have been played. The U E..
S. kept to their work in SPLENDID form
up to the eighth inning, scoring three
whitewashes to two against their plucky
enemy, and running up tally of II to s.
then they broke, couldn't catch balls that
dropped into their hands, and even
threw as wildly as woman throwing at
a hen, and the game closed with the first
half of the ninth inning, 10 to IL for the
Rock Islands.
When the L. S. fight their battles
through-holdiDg on to the last three in
nins with the grip they show in the first
six-there are few clubs in the west thai
can stand up successfully against them
This time will come, and the way Il
bring it is not to greet every misplay
of the nine with yells of derisior
as were heard SO frequently yester
day, or to bless the club loudly a
n g at every defeat Considering the
constant shifting that has taken plac'
and the little practice together, the Clul
is remarkably good one, of strong indl
vidual merit. which has been attesteC
again and again on every field While
treating visitors a little more chivalrously
than has been the case, let something alst
, be done to suppress those hoOdlums tina
disgrace the grounds with their yell
every time the home club commit a
error, or make bad play. The follow
ing was yesterdays score;
Innings 123456IS
[. -......-........-.22 / D o.
Rock Island. --.,....-. 80 0 l o . II
The Rock Islands won new compl
ments Yesterday for their admirable spiri
in PLAYING There is not kicker anon
them And Mr.. Munger ingratiated him
self, if possible, still more deeply in til
esteem of Muscatine by his capital umpi
: ing.
l We are at loss to know how Munge
has succeeded in making such DIT
cidedly favorable impression upon tn
people of Muscatine. 1t certainly can
) not be through base ball umpirIng alon
! for his experience in that line of bushes
Is too Grief for that. Some of Muse
tines people must have visited him at h
hotel in Rock Island, and thus becom
acquainted with him. This. couple
; with his acceptable umpiring, hi
brought forth all this praise. 1t is to b
hoped that Munger will not be SO capt.
waited with Muscatine and base ball. tina
. he will forget that he has a family q
: home