Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-21

Saturday afternoon the Western
ASSOCIATION league season opened in
Rock Island with Dcs Moines for o.
Ponent. Early in the afternoon car
riages containing the local base ball
management, Bleuer's band and the
Des Moines and Rock Island clubs.
Paraded the streets of Rock Island.
Moline and Davenport, and at 8
o'clock rounded up at Twin-City hall
park. At $50 about 700 people sat
in the grand stand and bleachers.
and saw Rock Island take the game.
The Game.
The game opened with Rock Island
at the bat. and little Danny Sweeney
came waddling up to the plate and
was sent to first on balls. Cantillion
was next up and his neat single adj
vanced Sweeney to third. Then it
was that Joe Katz strolled UP to the
rubber with a stick, full of base hits.
There was no affectation on the left
helder's part: he Just settled himself
and the first ball that was thrown to
him met with a piece of ash in Joe's
hand and away it sailed over the
RICH; field fence for two bases, there
by causing Sweeney to trot home
and Cantillion to go to third. Beldon
Hill next appeared, and the old boy
is full of knots. Maytum slammed
up swift '.inshoot, but ..Belldune-
never moved, and in consequence he
trotted down to first, hit by a pitched
ball. Putty" Zeis came up and
punched out single, and in trotted
Joe Cantillisn. With the bases full.
Jimmy" Connors wandered up to
the plate and was awarded a base on
balls, forcing in katz. Harry
Sage was sent to first in
the same manner, and Hill was
forced in. just about this time
Jones was taken from behind the bat
for Des Moines and put on first. and
Graner was substituted. Lynch hit
down to the third and Zeis was
thrown out at the plate. Andrews
placed, a high fly in right field and
was out, but Connors came home on
The hit. Sweeney came to the bat
for the second time in the inning and
fouled out. Des Moines did nothing
in this half. In the second Rock Isl
and scored one on Cantillion's FUN
bled hit to kipp, Graner's wild throw
and Parter's muff of Katz' fly.
For Des Moines, not one got to the
second sack.
inning for Rock Island. Jay An
drcws smote the pig skin an awful
swipe, and it went away up in the air
and dropped in front of the plate, and
in the meantime the young DR."
was scudding away down the second
base line. Sweeney's hit away out
in center brought Jay home, and
Cantillion put it over the right field
fence for two bases, and, ditto Katz.
Hill went to first on ..cake walk"
and Zeis swiped it down the third
base line, and in came katz, and Hill
went to third. He scored minute
later on Connors' out ON fly.
Sweeney opened the fourth with
a home run, Cantillion flew
out in left, and Joe katz
followed with smash over the same
spot that Sweeney had found. Hill
went to first by being hit with the
ball and was put out trying TO steal
second. Zcis struck out. Dies Moines
in its half scored its first run.
Rock Island rolled up four goose eggs
in the next four innings and Des
Moines got one score in the
fifth and three in the sixth.
but that was all it made.
Rock Island scored two in
its half of the ninth, and the game
stood Is to 5. The score is appended:
Rock Island Des IHoines.
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