Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-16
COMEDY OF ERRORS.
The Game Between Rock Tslaad and Poo
ria Yesterday.

The crowd which went up to Twin
City park yesterday afternoon to see
the game between Rock Island and
Peoria, wanted to see a game of ball,
but what the people saw might be
called ''soOner," or "without a
name" Could you imsgine a rank,
yellow game, with rank, yellow
umpire, then. dear reader, you would
have your Imagination brought into
a reality yesterday. The errors
summed up show five for Rock Isl
and and seven for Peoria, but such
errors! All were costly and of the
rankest and most inexcusable kind.
Rock Island opened with q cipher,
but not SO with the distillers. A
young gent who officiates as coacher
and bearing the appellation of Shat
fer and displaying original work on
the lines. opened their half by hitting
to Harry Sonier and being put out at
first. George Mutton next came to
the bat and received an ovation such
as would swell the mayor of Peoria,
had he been there. George, our
third baseman of '92, dotted his cap
and took his position in the batter's
box. but long, silent Harry hinged
him in the Stats and he went to first.
Seisler hit one to Connors at short,
but Jimmie was too anxious and
chased up after it with the result
that he had an error banked to his
credit. Mr.. Flvnn, of Peoria, was,
as the BARRIERS say, ''next." and he
slammed one at Joe Cantillon, but
Thou, too, Oh! Brutus," say, YOU
should have seen him fight that ball:
well. he should have been given two
errors. but he only got one. In the
first place, he missed making a dou-
BILE play and in the next instance he
failed to throw Flynn out at first.
Verdict Of the crowd: "Conuors'
error was rank, but Cantillon's was
punk. Purvis, Rockford's '92 first
baseman. hit one down to U'Connor,
and Mutton was thrown ont at home.
Well. the next gent up was Della
hanty, a brother of the cracker lack
DELL" Of Philadelphia. and he
pushed out 3-base hit, and
Messrs. Seisler. Flynn and Purvis
Z.
The game was all just like the fore
going, and description only recalls
memories which might better remain
deceased; suffice it to say that the
game, rs well as Umpire Ward, be-
came punk. punker, punkest, and if
there was but several more degrees
to go no doubt the participants
would have run to the end OF the
string. Still, don't think there was
no redeeming features, for that In
dian, Joe KATE. was a warm dish-he
kept the swine-skin and that
wagon tongue of his red hot by
punching out hits.
Beams Boy-Piay.
Beam, the Peoria pitcher. appears
to be man OF about &c summers.
but his actions of yesterday classed
him among 8 and 1O-year-olds. A
few years age the tip foul was an
nulled on account of tricky Mike
Kelly, Buck Ewing and others. This
year the trapping Of infield flies for
the purpose of making double plays
was abolished on account of IBID"
McPhee, Fred Pfeffer and others, but
no provision was made for the con
temptible way in which Beam played
yesterday. 1t was in the sixth in
ming. and katz had been hitting at
terrific rate, when Terrein stepped
off to one side of the plate. and Beam
threw four balls in order not to let
Katz get hit and bring in the two
runs that Zeis brought in a minute
later. Ward, the fellow who in
suited John Ohlweiler on his last
visit here, gave another sample of
his judgment in the sixth also.
O'Connor was called out because the
third strike hit Terrein in the
shoulder. and pretty nearly floored
him. Ward claimed it hit O'Conner.
Here Is the Scora.