Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-16
WILL STICK 1T OUT.
The Rock Island Moline Club Still
Ks Hopeful.
VIII Not Disband as Long as There Is
aClub TO Play With-PIsns for
the Future-GOssIp.

the Future-GOssIp.
The directors of the base ball sssocis-
ton held a meeting last night to deter
mine the immediate fate of the local ball
team. and happily it was decided to stay
in it until the last gun is fired.
A meeting of the league directors has
been called to be held st the Peal house
in Moline tomorrow afternoon at which
time the fate of the whole league will be
decided An effort will probably be
made TO get either Freeport or Peoria to
go in with semi-professional team and
play out the season. or else a consolida
ton of the Wisconsin league with the
II. will try to be effected. The latter
would probably be the most feasible.
The home team will be kept together as
long as there is any prospect of playing
out the season, and the grit of the mans
segment in so doing should be rewarded
by liberal patronage at any games that
may be arranged.
The mausgeme nt has decided 10 plaY
benefit game on Thursday afternoon by
dividing the IL men up between Moline
and Rock Island, and filling in with anna
teurs Cunningham and Zeis will oe the
Moline battery, and Bartson and Sage
will be in the points for Rock Island. 1t
will be a good game and should be lioer-
ally patronized by the puslic. In order
to encourage base ball here again it is
- han he
sible support Rock Island has done
well, but can do better, and the benefit
tickets, which will be on sale tonight,
should meet with ready sale. They can
be had at~50 cents each st Thomas drug
store, Wheelsn Bros. Bijou cigar store.
Lloyd s. Stewards, NJ. & Ks, and
Browner's grocery.
BALL NOTES.
Joliet was always Jonah.
Every member of the home team is
favorite. and the boys--yes. and the girls
too. would hate to see them go.
Murray. Fisher, Weihl, Sharp and
Bumpus Jones, Of the Jo!iets, wanted to
60 south, that's why things are thusly.
1t would fool Onion Bill and the rest of
the Joliet ball cranks if the IL. league
would go on without Joliet, wouldn't it?
Some Of the local players are already
wiring with managers needing players in
order to have berths in waiting in the
event of the forced collapse of the league
Let's hope the meeting tomorrow will
end in something being done 10 have the
remaining clubs play out the season.
Base ball is not dead in Rockford, Jack
sonville, Rock Island or Moline.
The Twin-City club went to the base
ball park again this afternoon, and the
game was again forfeited to them by g
score of 9 to o. This procedure will be
gone through with daily while the Jol-
lets are due here.
Since Murray could not keep at the
head of the list of the IL. League clubs,
and McCaull could not by hook or crook
keep him there, these two base bail graces
had no more use for the Ii. league.
The Twin Cities have too good an ag-
gresation of ball players to ignor any at
tempt to get the league in playing shape
again, and it would be pity to see the
team disbanded after whole season has
been spent in getting it together.
The Joliet papers say base bail is dead
in that town. There never could have
been great deal of life there if club
with the brilliant record of the Joliets on
the first pennant contest could not draw
support enough to run them through the
rest of the season.
tits amusing to note with what desper-
alton the Joliet correspondents of the
Chicago papers strive to have the public
believe that Joliet's withdrawal means
the destruction of the league. 1t is bare
ly possible that the league could live
without Joliet. McCaull, or the rest of
the Convict contingent.
The High School nine and the Ninth
Ora !e Nine of "S3" PLAYED q game at
Twin City park yesterday afternoon that
resulted in score of 81 to in favor of
the former Long and Noftsker were the
High school battery while Reidy, Robin>
son Ind Appelquist did the same work
for the .'S3's. The feature of the game
was Spencer's brilliant work in right field
-.'ae did not have an error.
Surprise to All.