Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-03

Davenport at its home grounds be-
fore big crowd yesterday defeated
the team which represents Rock ISL
and in the last game of the regular
schedule between the two by score
of II to .. Wenig was in the box
for Davenport and Rock Island had
no trouble in connecting with his de-
livery, and with any kind of an effort
should have won easily. Milton did
the twirling for the white socks and
despite the sloppy fielding behind
him pitched good ball. Rebsamen sup
ported him splendidly- The Rock
Island aggregation just put up the
'.rottenestr game that it would be
possible to conceive. 1t was simply
scandalous, as can be seen from the
last columns in the taDulated score.
Rock Island fell down at every criti-
cal point in the game and with two or
three exceptions it seemed as il the
whole team had gone ballooniDg-
In the first inning one little hit
netted three runs Mil singled,
Smith hit to Mullaney and was safe
on an error, Mil taxing third Smith
stole second; Weihrauch flew out to
Hoy. Mil scoring; LipPert hit one to
Moriarity and was safe, Smith taking
third; Shannon hit through short,
took second on Hoy's muff of fly
and Smith and Lippert scored; Birm-
ingham few to Hopkins.
Rock Island Gets One.
In the second Rock Island got one.
Tate walked, Mullaney grounded. but
was hit with the ball and was out,
Hoy CHASED, Tate taking third, Hop
kins flew to right field, Tate scoring,
Arthur struck out
Davenport rolled up three more in
the second. One base on balls and
one hit. pitching that is good enough
to blank any team, did the business.
| OF course it must be understood that
Rock Islands 1agrant errors were
present at all times. After Lyons
| flew out to center, Wenig was given
mis- base; Mill hit hard fly to Hop
kins, and after a hard run that usually
certain fielder dropped the bali,
Wenig taking third on the play.
After Smith went out, short TO first,
King hit in left center for a 3-bagger,
and in fielding the ball Hopkins threw
wild to Hoy, who let the ball go
Through him, and King pranced home
Weihrauch died, Tate to Mullaney
In the fourth Davenport secured
lanother. Lyons hit to Middleton and
was safe on an error and also took
second, Wenig was out, Mill walked,
Lyons stole and scored while Mil was
being put out in an attempt to steal
second; Smith struck out.
Three More for IowtnL
In the fifth Davenport was given
three more. King hit to Tate and beat
out the ball, Weihrauch hit to Milton.
who threw to Middleton and instead
of making double play both men
were safe; after Lippert had died
IShannon hit for two bases scoring
King and Weihrauch. both of whom
should have been out. Birmingham
struck out. Lyons singled, scoring
Shannon; Wenig struck out.
In the sixth Mil went out Milton &c
Mnllaney, Smith was given a pass,
King hit to Middleton, who fell al
over the ball and then stuck his face
into the sand; Weihrauch hit to right
field scoring Smith, Weihrauch stole
second; LipPert hit to centre, scoring
IKiug;0 Shannon walked, filling the
bases; Birmingham flew to Arthur
and Lyons struck out.
Rock Island scored the last run OF
the game in the eighth. After MORT
srity had gone out Mill to Birming-
ham, Middleton hit to Lyons and was
safe on an error, Rebsamen CHASED,
scoripg Middleton; Tate and Mullaney
died. Here is the muss:
ROCK ISLAND.