Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-21
"HOSS AND ROSS."
The Twin-City and Evansville
Teams Take a Game Apiece.
Yesterday Afternoons Contest and
something That WAS Not ON the
Programme This Morning
Sporting Notes.

About 200 spectators attended the
Twin.Clty park yesterday when the home
team dropped another game to the Hoosier
hustlers. II was cold miserable day to
play ball. but the fans are anxious to see
ball and will wear ulsters to do it. Yes
terday's game, though played under dis
advantages, was fair game of ball up to
the seventh inning when Mutton muffed
pretty pop up, and it was plsiuly visi-
bic that the home boys then lost their
heads for few moments. The visitors
had Collins in the box and Briggs as back
stop. and Browner and Sage composed
the home battery.
Collins. who notwithstanding the con-
di ion of the atmosphere. had almost per-
feet control OF the bsll and struck out ID
men. Browner on the other hand struck
out but two, and VIII lie the visitors got
but FIVE safe hits Of him and he managed
to keep good many from scoring who
had got to base. yet the visitors had no
trouble in finding the ball, and had it not
been for the support given him in the
field. the score would no doubt have pres
scented very different appearance. The
Hoosiers got their first score in the
fourth inning. Weniz hit grounder to
Mutton who threw the runner out at first.
MtQuery hit TO left field and got to first.
Morsrity got his base on balls and Briggs
touched grounder down to Mutton W tho
fumbled it for q moment, but recovered
himself 10 time to catch McQuery
at third, thereby saving himself an error.
Morrison then got groun6er out
past Lynch, who was playing far out of
his position, and MoriaritY scored. No
more scores were made until the seventh
inning. when the calamity uefell the
home team. Higgins had flew out to
Lynch. Collins hit 10 left field, reaching
first and got to second on ORourke's base
on balls. Kurz had fieS out to ODsy
when Wentz popped up little fly to
Nulton, who then had a chance to retire
the side. but at this critical point he let
the bail slide through his hands and Col
Inns reached third. McQuery raped it
oyer the right field fence to two bases and
Collins and 0'Rourke scored. Moriarity
got to first by being hit by pitched ball
again filing the bases, when Briggs put
another corkeT over the right field fence
for bOme Iun. chasing three big scores
ahead of him, which gave the men from
Indiana their seven runs. The home
team managed to avoid q shut out In the
ninth inning by O'Day's hit to left and
reaching second, and Mutton getting to
base on balls and reaching second on
psssed ball, when Dale cracked the
sphere out to centre, allowing O'Day and
Mutton to score, the side being retired by
Hoffman flying out to o Rourke.
One of the weak points of the team is
its batting, but Mana er Sage is o:
the opinion that it will come later on. It,
of course, is a Fact that the batting
in all other leagues has been compare
stiveIy light 30 far this season, and some
OF the best base ball heads in the country
have attributed it to the cold weather, but
the IL league this season has faster men
in the box than ever before, and if our
team wants to be in the push it must
soon begin to play winning ball.
The score of Yesterdays game is sp.
pended.
LII PocE IsLnnd. MoLinI-