Rock Island Argus., 1894-07-28
LEADERS AGAIN,
Rock rsland Secures First Place In the
Western Assoclation


Nine straight games and leading
the league again is not so bad. is it,?
Yesterdays game was surely a
cakewalk on the part of the locals,
Rourke's aggregation making eight
runs in one inning. and that when
"Silent" had eased up.
The Slaughter.
As usual, Daniel Demeanor Swee-
ney was first to go to bat. He "trun"
a piece o wood over his shoulder and
walked up and soaked de first bail
over de right field fence, but it was a
foul and he had ter come back, and
de next time he lamm"d it he made
it count and he was credited with a
hit, see? Cantillon sacrificed and
Zeis got a base on balls. Katz was
also gifted base because Whitebill
didn't much care about letting Joe
hit. Dad Kreig was the next up.
The bases were full and he must clear
them. Ball one," called out Jack
Haskell. .'Ball two," again he
cried, but Fear let the ball
90 by, and there was lit
tie streak of black and white
seen from third to home, and when
the ball was recovered, Danny Swee-
ney had dotted. There were two
men still on bases, but Bill wasn't to
bring them in, for he was given
base on balls. Up to the plate strobe
youth, whose native home is Squee-
dunk, or. some place near there
This young man has a faculty for
chewing gum. and wearing a deter
mined. sober face all the time. Doc
Sage found him driving wood
wagon in Galesburg. He told Doc
he was pounding brass. but anyway
Doc hired him to hold down the third
corner for Rock Island. As has been
said before, he ''polkaed" up to the
plate, and the next minute there was
crash like that of tree falling in
forest, and the next moment tie
sphere was "connoviating" away out
in the field. and Willie Zeis and Joe
katz were climbing for home, and
Hill, he of the Galesburg wood-wagon
fame, was standing on second, and
Papa Kreig on third. Doc Sage
made a hit. and Bill came home. and
Belldune went to third. Doc stole
second and stayed there when Lynch
struck out, and Sonier flew out to
center. Omaha neither scored nor
mace hit for five innings, but not
SO with Rock Island. Oh, no, In
the second it secured G; in the third,
l, and in the fifth, 3. 1t was in the
third inning that the smoothest play
of the game was made and that by
an Omaha man, too. Danny Swee-
ney was first up and he went up
against that ball like two trains com
ing together. Out into the air it
shot and toward the right field
fence. 1t was good for a hume run.
sure, but Rourke, since his last visit
here, saw the picture of young fel
low on one of Schlitz's Milwaukee
beer kegs, and he secured it and car
ried III around until he found man
that looked like it. He found ;his
man in little Milwaukee German,
who formerly sold weiner-wurst
there and whose name was Johannes
ulrick. Well. this young fellow was
given the right garden to look after,
and well he does it, too. AS we have
said before, Sweeney's hit was home
run sure. but this young German
threw up his mitt and the
ball dropped inside the fence,
but the big pillow went outside.
Danny only got two bases on it, but
Putty" brought him home by put
ting it over the netting for two bases.
That settled the third. The last
half of the sixth will never be de-
scribed. it was nothing but "biff,"
bang" .'bitf," until s big runs
were registered to the Omahas. But
the sport stopped there. for the
Indians didn't make another run.
while Rock Island swelled its total to
Il. The funniest part of it all is: