Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-02
ROCKY AND RAGGED.
Yesterdays Exhibition at Twin city
Bali Park Did Not DO the Game Any
l.Opd Here

Bali Park Did Not DO the Game Any
cord Here.
The management of the Twin City
team decided yesterday afternoon to have
game of ball. but when it came time to
get on the field it was found that through
Manager Sages courtesy O'Day and
Collins had gone fishing. Cunningham
was also absent but he had an excuse,
he having obtained permission to go to
Peoria. After considerable trouble Man
ager Sage persuaded Bsrtson to 60 into
the box, which he did relucts ntly, and in
order to show his displeasure at this
action OF his manager in putting him in,
he put up the worst hszy-gazy game of
ball that has been seen here this season.
The visitors, of course. tried to kill the
dinkY doc balls that he passed up and as.
is often the case, fell down in trying to
do it. Paddy Wright being the only one
who got the ball over the fence. Bart
sons work, while it turned out to be an
enigma for the visitors. was not intended
that way, and it was not his fault that
they didn't lose every ball thrown up.
There is no doubt about there being
science in dinkey-doo pitching. but when
| pitcher tells his manager loud enough
for every one in the grandstand to hear
it that he doesn't intend to pitch, and
shows it by his subsequent actions. it
isn't science by any means, and Mr.
| Bsrtson dropped several pegs in public
| estimation by his wishy-washy playing
| yesterday. You can gain enough about
the game perhaps by the following sum-
mary:
nsss .as4;3;s -nolns::s ! &
| Ba'teries-Bartson ard Sage; Conner and
| Briggs. Base hits-Jacksonvllle, 8, Rock Island
Moline, q. ErrCrs-Rock Island Molines g; Jack
| nors, l. Home run-wright. Two base hit
Hoffman. Three base hit-K'efer Bases on balls
| 200 Umpire-McGney.
NOTES.
| The Jacksonviiles play this afternoon,
and tomorrow's game will be in the
morning so as not to conflict with the
| great turf event of the Davenport Mile
| Track club.
| The sche dule of the Illinois Iowa
league is to be again changed. In the
meantime it has been reported that ar
engagements have been completed to play
Sunday games at Riverview Driv.
ing Park, Joliet. the first game to be
| played next Sunday.
| Umpire Cline, one of the best umpires
in the Illinois-Iowa league, has sent in
| M
stating that he could not stand the abuse
heaped upon him by Rockford in Sun
| days game.
| There is considerable feeling among
| Ryan's friends. both here and elsewhere,
and particularly in Omaha, IS regards the
action of the Magic City Athletic club in
| having hand in the Intervention Of the
| police in order to save the club its
money and to save Wilks when Ryan had
him fairly whipped. Ryan is being
strongly urged to bring suit against the
| club, and it is not unlikely that he will
| do so.
| If the local management wants TO kill
| its patronage entirely it will continue
such exhibitions as that of yesterday
The msu who pays his money to see an
exhibition game is just as much entitled
| to his moneys worth as if he had paid
admission to a championship contest, and
the players under no circumstances are
| licensed to make clowns of themselves
| They are paid good salaries for their
work, and are not their own bosses on the
bal field. The quicker somebody
teaches them this much the better for the
| game in the Twin Cities.
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