Rock Island Argus., 1898-06-06

with three defeats to its credit.
Great ball playing. this. Not man
from this town crossed the rubber
yesterday. Gaze on this row of goose
eggs:
Rock Island ........0 o 0 0 o O-O
Quincy. 90 001 o IS
Batteres-Walsh and Strauss: Parvin and
Lohman. Hits-Rock Island g. errors 3. Hits
Quincy s: errois J.
Saturday we were rolled to the
beautiful tune of 16 to 3. Young and
Babbitt did the pitching.
Games elsewhere: Saturday. at
Ottumwa, Dubuque II, Ottumwa 9;
at St. Joe, Cedar Rapids 4. st. Joe
B; at Burlington, Peoria 2, Burling-
ton |. Sunday, at Ottumwa. Dubuque
4, Ottumwa l: at Burlington, Peoria
10, Burlington 3. The st. joe Cedar
Rapids game was postponed on.account
of wet grounds.
The Rock Island aggregation has
been making pretty spectacle of it.
self since its departure few DAYS
ago. No one expects that every game
SDoult pC Noil, Dut IL ID tN
something aside from hard luck has
had to do with the outcome of the
series in the Gem City. 1t is GER
tainlv not Il ilattering commentary on
Dillon, to whose charge the team has
been temporarily entrusted. He was
given full swing, and if he allowed
any of the players to take advantage
of him he is the one to answer. Rock
Island is yet to swallow horse play on
the part of her ball club. The play
ers, who are considered Just rs capa.
bic as there are in the association
have been treated well. both by the
management and the patrons of the
game here, and if they propose pay.
them back with such disgraceful con.
duet as has characterized their work
the past few days, there is liable to be
a reckoning, and Immediately at that
If they have become imbued with the
idea that they have gotten into an
easy thing. and that the public does
not know the difference between good
and bad ball playing, they are very
much mistaken. and will he forcibly
reminded of the fact if they do not
change their tactics.
Harry Sage will join the team to-
morrow in Burlington. Doc will not
stand for funny business and we are
liable to hear Of some suspender cut.
ting. He has given Rock Island a
winning team in seasons gone by and
there is no doubt that he can do it
again this year. He will first pro-
ceed to revive the team from its state
of decentralization.
Saturdays game at Ottumwa with
Dubuque almost ended in "a riot.
Umpire Lynch put Manager Smith, OF
the Ottumwas, out of the game. Then
there was trouble.
| Ottumwa played its first Sunda,
ball Yesterday.
Phillips has been released by OF
tumwa.
Woodmen Win.
The Woodmen clerks were victor
ious in Yesterday afternoons engage
ment at the Twelfth street park with
the Stag club. 1t proved as advertised
Ia warm game. The score was 8
to $. The teams lined up thusly:.
| Woodmen-Maloney and Sober, 1b
Moran, 2b; Dade, cf; Porter, SIS; Pot
ter, p; Roseniield, C; Larkin, 3b; Hell
penstell, If; Pahl. rf.
Stags-Boggess, C; Darnell, p; Stap.
ley. 1b; Kramer. 2b; Danielson, Sd
and lb; Killmer, SIS; Meyer, IF: Fry,
cf; Haire, If; Tuckis, 3b.
The score:
oodmeh h.''.''...........0 I =.
stays ......-...............2 . o o Is
a fair sized crowd witnessed tn,
struggle. which continued about two
hours. W. II. HYDE ofliciated as um.
pire. Robert G.. Mcfarland. as man.
ager of the Woodmen team, directed
the movements of his colts from the
bench. Bill Lang doing likewise as the
guiding star of the opposing aggre-
CATION. The Stays made brilliant
start and Darnell's pitching was en-
ceptionally fine for couple of in
nings, when the Woodmen boys be.
gan to fall on him like q
ton of brick. Rosenfield made the
star hit of the game in the fifth, lac.
ing ont three bagger and clearing
the bags of three men and tying the
score. This proved a staggering blow
to Lang's lilies. They faded rapidly
They were on the toboggan. At this
juncture Mcfarland turned loose his
foghorn, injected some ginger into
his fellows. and demanded that they
play their best-he warned them thai
there would he a slashing in salarie.
if bad break occurred. 1t was al
eNciting finish. the Woodmen pulling
out with one majority.
There were home runs by Borres.
and Stapley.
In the fourth Maloney caught bal
on the first bounce in the eve and wa.
obliged to retire. Stapley laid up fol
repairs in the same inning.
The Young Centrals will PLAY any
baseball team in the three cities
Team to be composed of member
under IL years of aye. For particu
lars call at 1910 Eighth avenue.
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