Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-16
OUR BOYS TO BE.
Mana .er Sage Has His Nine Nearly
Complete.
Playe RS Beginning 90 Arrive and Ar
rau grments Progressing for the
Opening or the season
The other Fellows.

Before many more weeks have rolled
around the lusty lunged ball crank will be
in season. Half past three o'clock each
afternoon will find him at his accustomed
seat in the grand stand or perched on the
.bleac lers" holding an umbrella over
himself and Just in the range Of visisn OF
the man behend hin. and IS some favorite
FOUNDER Of pig skin Zines her out" to lef,
aeld, he viii rise in his JOY with loud
hurrah, while dozen voices from behind
will ysll in chorus "dewn in front.
Rock Island has had no professional ball
team for several seasons. but there WASH,
game played in Davenport during al
last summer that didn't find q crowd from
this sid of the river on hand and doing as
much yelling Us anybody. 1t has always
been 6 good base ball town when any
thing that looked like base ball nine
struck this place. but the lovers of the
game have been caught more thar
once on "horsey" playing and il
has somewhat dampened their ardor
But the Twin-City management has 9
good team signed as have most OF the
other clubs, and unless all signs fall the
towns who are fortunate enough to be in
the Illinois Indiana league will see some
good ball this summer.
The only thing that is bothering the
msnageme now is the location OF the
grounds, but it is thought that this will
be settled in a day or two, and that they
will be gotten in shape in time to give the
boys few days practice before the OPEN
ing of the season. Our boys open the
season with the ''Distillers" at Peoria,
and if they can take q good drag out of
that club they will then be in good con-
dition to walk into hoosierdom and prop
erly demonstrate that the Twin.Clty boys
are starting out to play ball. 1t has been
decided that il one of the official umpires
is unable to be on hand at game the lea
que director will select three men,from
whom an umpire will be chosen. This
will only be necessary when the official
umpire is unable to attend or after he
has been taken away in the patrol wagon.
The following are the players signed BY
the clubs indies ted by which it will be
seen that the home club has yet two men
to sign:
Twin Cities-Harry Sage. manager and
c.; William 2 lis. C; William Browner.
D.; Al Eaxendale. p; Tim Bailey. Id.
Frank Housman, 3b; P. F. Lynch. 8. g.;
William Dale, |. e.; John Msckey. c. f.
Jeliet-W. j. Murray. manager and C.
Decker, ID; Connors. %; Carroll, 3b
Fisher, 3. s.; Weihl. ]. f.; "Bumpus'
Jones, p; McV!cker. p. and T. f.; Willis
p. rnd +. e.; Sharp. C; Mshouey, 80.
Rockford-Hugh Nicol, manager and
r. f.; Breckenridge. ID; Purvis. ID
Thorpe, 2b; TRULY. 8. g.; Van Alstine. 3b
Wiswell, |. f.; Cassiboin, C. SNYDER, C
Killing. p; Underwood. p; Nicol. p.
Quincy-William WIttrock. manager
and p; Gutenberg. ID; Gillen, 2b; De.
neen. 8 g; Cedar. 3b; York, If; Gosnes
C f; Donnelly. D; W Sommers, C.
Peoris-Trost, manager and C; keenan,,
p; Mays, p; Gragg, P; Wood, %; Tsy-
lor, 30; Jones, C; Miller. p; Gsrvin. 8;
Matthews. II; Connors, CT. frost and
Jones will alternate behind the bat and
on first base, and one of the pitchers viii
work in right field.
Terre aaute and Evansville have no
yet signed their players. but they both
have plenty Of money behind them and
win prob ably have good teams.
aEoUNDERs.
Al Bsxendale, Manager Sages coli
pitcher, arrived last night from Chillics.
the, and is registered at the Harper.
The uniforms for the Twin City's are
being made at the Tri.City Shirt factory
They are dark blue. with light blue trim.
mings, and will have blue caps and belts
to match.
Tim Bailey, the Twin>Clty's stalwsr,
first bssemsn, arrived from St. Louis
this morning, and practiced with the BOYS
this afternoon.
Manager Sage today signed Barney
Mclaughlin. of Lowell, Mass, for second
base. He is q valuable acquisition to
the team.
A fast as the players report they will
be put down to practice each afternoon,
while the morning hours will be spent by
Manager Sage and his men in taking a
morning Jaunt of FIVE or six miles.
Goldner's base ball club, of Davenport,
would like to hear from any club on this
side Of the river averaging 90 years. AID.
dress e. Go'dner. 1874 East Third street.