Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-22

| from Evansville by the narrow margin
of one score. Opportune hits by the
locals was responsible for the victory.
Evansville. 90 1 900 90 OIL
Rockford ......0 o 1 o o L o ~
Batteries-Payne and Roth, Owens
and Hanford. Hits-Evansville 8,
Rockford 5. Errors-Evansyille 1,
Rockford z.
At Cedar Rapids.
Hits by Elsey. scoring King in the
first and Thompson in the eighth,
won the game for the visitors. Each
run started from base on balls. The
score:
Cedar Rapids. OOo1 100 DOL
Bloomington =. l 90 0 90 %
Batteries mcfarland and Weaver,
McGreevy and Belt. Hits-Cedar
Rapids 5, Bloomington 5. Errors
Cedar Rapids l, Bloomington l.
Notes of the Diamond.
No game tomorrow.
Davenport is to be here Saturday
and Sunday.
Patronize the games. The boys
are playing nice ball.
Davenport's rowdy captain, Smith,
was benched again yesterday for his
IN gentlemanly antics on the diamond.
Terre Haute has three postponed
games to play. Decatur. Rock Island
and Evansville two each. and Bloom
ington, Cedar Rapids, Rockford and
Davenport one each.
The ARGUS has discovered a fight
for the tail end position between Rock
Island and Decatur. At the present
rate Davenport will make both of
them hustle.-Davenport Democrat.
There is no denying that hard luck
has figured in the loss of many games
for the Rock Island team during the
season. Tuesday q batted ball that
would have been hit collided with the
umpire and the runner was out, re-
firing the side with three men on
bases, and spelling one of the best
chances of the game to swell the
score for the locals. Again yester-
day there was more of the same, Hop
kins lacing out liner between first
and second that Hoy, who was run
ming for second, was unuable to dodge,
although he tried to jump over it. and
the side was retired with two men on
bases.
Manager Hayes and Fielder Lou
Lippert, of the Davenport team, are
in Chicago in search of new players.
LipPert was taken along as he is well
acquainted with the players in Chi
csgo, and can readily locate them for
Manager Hayes. A telegram from
there yesterday stated that Pitcher
Wenig, who played last year with
Dss Moines, has been signed, and also
Lyons, an infielder. Both are con-
sidered players of merit. and will be
seen for the first time in today's
lme with Decatur. Several more
players may also be signed before
Messrs. Hayes and Lippert complete
their mission in Chicago. Davenport's
whole zeal seems to be to get a team
that is able TO defeat Rock Island in
the n xt four games to be played with
the club from this side.
Here's intelligent reading from n
Davenport paper: Lets reason this
thing out. The hat was passed for q
little fun this summer. We have had
| it. We were late in the field and at
probable disadvantage in securing
players. In spite of that our team
has kept the warmest of them busy,
and we have never been ashamed of
them very long, We have had sea-
son of amusement that the town has
lacked for a decade. Our long depri-
walton of baseball was because we had
pennant ball here before. We had
teams that the town couldn't afford,
aud went broke in the middle of the
fun. The town has had reasonable
priced ball and we have paid for it.
and we arc going to finish the season.
That's pleasant novelty. Our team
is not as strong as most of tho others
in the league. They have had the
sand, however. to go up against the
best of them as if they thought they
could. When that plant at the park
is all paid for. and the players that
have been hired all GO home with
good clothes, after eating regularly
all summer. it looks pretty prosper
GUS and like piece of good Daven-
port geschaeft. Next year we will
want better team. and now is the
time to GO fishing for players. The
town has showed that it wants ball
by attending steadily in the course of
unbrokeH defeat.
In the Other Leagues.
Chicago. Aug. 22.-League base ball
scores yesterday were as follows: At
Cfncinnati-Chicago o. Cincinnati /; at
St Louis-Pittsburg 2. St Louis 4; at
alphabetically .. Philadel-
phia g; at Boston-New York -, Bns-
ton ,.
American League: At Philadelphia
cleveland q, Philadelphia s; (secOnd
Camel Cleveland >, Philadelphia .; at
BostOn-Milwaukee ,, Boston s; mt
BaltimOre-Detroit q. Baltimore o.
forfeited because Baltimore gave too