Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-14

mark in connection with the management
ID The Twin City base ball club at pres
mi, NO one will now deny. To have
asem 60 out on trip with three high
sssaried pitchers and in the first game to
Dc shut out By the weakest pitcher in the
Exposing team by the humiliating score
N Is to 0. ought to be sufficient
cause for an investigation, and a rigid
Sas at that. From the reports sent out
Eastman was first put in the box, and
hammered until the Hustlers were tired
when Manager Sage conceived the bril>
isn't idea of substituting Paddy Dale,
when they, of course, took heart again
and went at him with a will, total OF
5 hits being made off the two. 1t is
supposed that Manager Sage knows his
business, but it is certainly difficult to see
\ reason for his putting Dale in the box
yesterday with two good pitchers on the
eench9 It is not the purpose of those
Dot connected with the management of
il is right and privilege of those who
Are financially interested and who have
ne reputation of the city as a base
Ssl town at heart to insist that some
move be made that will put the club in
,Aspe to play winning ball. instead OF
waiting for chance games to keep the
team in its standing in the percentage
column.
II has not been long since the Twin
Cities, then in second place, led all clubs
below it by over hundred per cent, but
Boeing five games out of seven with one
ssm sent US down the toboggsn at such
\ rate that the base ball public cries out
stop u.s." which it is the duty OF the
management to do. There is no excuse
Dor the home team putting up the kind of
ball that has characterized the past few
games. The club with few exceptions,
3 composed of good, conscientious, hard
working ball players, who themselves
Saye regulations at stake, and some of
rAom are trying to work up to better
leagues. and it is an injustice to them as
we'll as to the public who are paving for
'he team. to allow mismsnsgement to kill
n both patronage and local pride. The
following is the summary of the game:
2 3 5 7s9
S sos Sf ord ,;;;,; :i, 3-16
Batteries Underwood and Snyder Cushmsn,
Dale and Sage. Errors Rockford I; Rock Isl,
d-Noline, B. Earned runs-Rockford s. Base
Gr--Rockford, IS: Rock Island-Mone, s. Two
aase hlts--Truoy (2l. Higgins (3). Three-base
tfts-- Nicol, IL. NicOl, Home run---U nder-
<Ood. Wild pitch--Underwood.
BASE BALL NOTES.
Wonder If the Rockford fans presented
Paddy Dale with another watch yester-
1s9
An important meeting of the directors
Of the local club is being held in Moline
shis afternoon.
Second Bssenan Corbett, of the late
Terre Haute team, has been signed By
Rockford, and will report there at once.
Pat Wright won gold medal at Jack
sonville in Mondays game for making
:hs longest home run drive ever made Cd
she home grounds.
Every day Manager Sage is getting
Farther away from the top of the list
and If be were deliberately planning to
30 it he could not accomplish it more
successfully.
President Hodges telegraphed Manager
Sage to release Pitcher Cushmsn, and also
Yielders Dale and Hoffman after hearing
Of yesterdays game, and will fill their
places as far as necessary with stronger
men, and it it is possible. get along with
less men.
An excursion from Monmouth and
other points in that vicinity will arrive
here on July 81, and the Alexis ball team
3 DESTROYS of securing a game with an
amateur team here on that day. Com
Aunicstions can be addressed to ]. hi.
Rogers, Alexis, Ill.
The report that President Hodges had
autographed to Rockford, after hearing
me results of Yesterdays game to Lynch
70 assume the captaincy is untrue. as
there is no occasion to depose McGuirk
Who is doing all he can to make the team
win, and is not in the least responsible
for yesterdays bad management, and
lynch is TOO much OF "a gentleman to
want to succeed fellow player under