Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-06-22
YELLOW BASE BALL,
Is What the Rock Island Club Is Puttiny
up-Othor Cameo.

1t was a great day for base ball,
and the grandstand was crowded yes
terday to see the last game OF the Sc
ries between Rock Island and Jack
sonville. 1t was gala day, but bet
ter far had it rained necessarily,
than to have the people sit there for
hours and Is minutes, and see such
rank, ungainly ball playing. If the
local management intend to have a
ball club here this season, it must be-
gin at once and give the nine men,
who went into the fild yesterday. to
understand that the people want base
ball, and that is what the players are
drawing salaries to furnish. With
the exception of two or three of the
boys yesterday, they played like a
delegation of the lately deceased
CoXey army. Sage and Cantillon
put up about rs gangrenous a game
as it is possible. Imagine, if you
can, a game devoid of even one iota
| of ginger ON the part of the home
team; a game in which all the play
ers shirked their absolute duty
Two days of ragged playing. such as
the past two games, disgusts even
the most lenient.
In the interest of better ball the
management recently put Connors
out into right field, and placed Can
tillon on second. Yesterday the lat
ter put up rs rank field game as Con-
nors was ever guilty of, and added
to this, he was indifferent and abso-
lutely lazy, characteristics that Con-
nors, with all his faults, never pos
sessed. The club needs disciplining.
The men should be hauled over the
Goals, the majority of them for their
field work, and Sage and Andrews
should be made to explain their per-
formances at the bat yesterday-not
that they did not hit the ball, but
that they did not try to. In fact, in the
past two games, Sweeney, O'Conner,
Connors, Zeis and Schicker are the
only players that have behaved them
selves as if they cared whether they
earned their salaries or not.
The Game
The game, if such it can be called,
started at 3:45 with Sweeney at the
bat. He was given base on balls.
| Cantillon was dished the same mess
as was also Katz. Bell Hill stood up
and let Burris hit him, forcing Swee-
ney home. That settled Burris'
| pitching; he was taken out of the
box and Emmerke put in his stead.
Zeis was the first man to bat and he
pushed line hit to right, which
Letcher got, but which Sage did not
watch, and the consequence was that
katz and Cantillon were both put out
making the first triple play of the
season on the home grounds. This
was only specimen of the coaching
done by the home aggregation, and
all of it was SO disgustingly stupid
as to admit of no excuse. For Jack
sonville in the first two innings. not
score was made. Rock Island in
the second was given base on balls.
Sage sacrificed and Connors went out
at first. Andrews came to bat and
made a disgraceful showing. O'Con-
nor had stolen third, and it only took
base hit to bring him home, but
Jay failed to make it; aye! he even
failed to play jacks, for .hrce balls
| IasSCd dLCStlN ONCI ulS uCstu-OHCS
that he couldn't get with step
ladder, and yet he struck at them
and surprised all his admirers. This
he did all four times at bat, and he is
not the only one, oh! dear, no.
There is Sage. and Katz, and Hill,
and Zeis, whose batting was disgrace
full. To enumerate all the ..bad-egg''
plays of that game would require
columns of space, but suffice it to say
that something must certainly be
done before the growing interest in
base ball in Rock Island takes land
slide. 1t is not so much in losing a
game as it is the way in which
they lose. The well deserved drub-
bling is appended:
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