Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-17
The score:

wEu plt.h-Bartson. Umplre-Suggs. Time
The result of the other Indiana Illinois
league games yesterday was IS follows:
AT RockfoId-Rockford 7, Terre Haute
5.
At Joliet-Joliet 10, Quincy O.
At Peoria-No game
DIAMOND DOTS.
The Twin Citys are all right behind
the bat
Flynn's long throw from deep centre
was daisy.
Mutton, Zels and Schaub all cracked
out two baggers.
The club has signed Shorty" Hoffman
Peoria fielder.
Jacksonville today and tomorrow and
Evansville the rest of the week.
With a couple of cracking outfelders
and another pitcher the Twin-Citys will
be all right.
Look after your coaching lines Harry,
and compel your base runners to heed
the coacher.
Bartson pitched beautiful game. He
is one of the star twirlers OF the IL league
if not the best
Mackey reported for duty this morning.
He says ne missed the train at Sterling
and was unable to return yesterday.
Sage is the same p opular, good player
of old. He is q credit to the base ball
profession, and Rock Island is proud OF
him.
The local management should decide
what places are weak and fill them-and
not be all summer making up its mind
either
Third Baseman George Nulton's wife
arrived from their home at Peoria this
| morning and will remain here while the
team is at home.
1t is understood that two of the local
players were On a foot Sunday night.
Manager Sage should ascertain about this
| and enforce the proper punishment.
There appears to be two prominent
points of weakness in the home team; one
is the lack of proper discipline and coach
| ing, and the other indisposition to hit the
ball.
In ODsy and Mutton the local club has
two jewels. Both are wide awake play
ers who work for the interests of the team
and not individual records. Team play
ing, not star playing is what counts in
base ball.
| Eighteen hundred people is good
turn out for the opening game. The
management feels grateful for the public
appreciation thus manifested and should
endeavor to merit it by giving good
| gsmes-such as was yesterdays.
The ladies will be complimented with
one day each week when they will be adj
mitted free. The presence of the ladies
is desired at all games and on one par
ticular day of each week the management
will extend the courtesy of free admis-
sion.
| 1t is not the results that make good
game of ball-though, of course, we al.
ways like to see our side win-but sharp,
active playing and an exhibition of the
athletic and scientific pointTof the ma
tional game. I
McGuirk. the new Twin City first base
man. is expected next Thursday. He is
badly needed and should ave been here
before. With proper man at this im-
portant corner the local infield will be all
right. Then with couple of hard hit
ting outfelders, we will be in it with the
best of them.
Davenport did what ought to make
some of the Rock Island ball cranks re.
proach themselves yeste rday. The con-
tingent from that side of the river was
with the Twin City boys and cheer
| ed them from the start, instead
of guying them and encouraging theFvis-
| itors as some Rock Island people were in
the habit of doing when Davenport was
in the ball business.
Left Fielder MsckeY failed to return
from Sterling in time for yesterdays game
as he promised. and Manager Sage has q
fine of $25 awaiting him. The manage
ment has been altogether too lenient in
| handling its men 80 far. Had it enforced
the proper discipline with First Bsseman
| Bailey from the first time he came into
the city, and not chung to him like grim
de 18th to a frozen oyster, even though he
had proven himself unworthy and incom-
| petent, it would have no trouble with
Mackey. The latter is valuable man.
| but he is not so much of credit to the
team but what he should be made to be-
/ have himself. and this is applicable to