Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-23

Dorner and Badger. Hits-Daven-
port 9. Decatur z. Errors-Daven-
port 4. Decatur 3.
At Rockford.
Rockford-Evansville game post
poned on account of rain.
Notes of the Diamond
Patronize the games.
There are only six more games to
be seen on the home grounds. Take
them all in.
A local baseball philosopher is not
worried because Decatur brings up in
the rear. .'It's q good thing" he
says. There are only two clubs that
attract attention, the leaders and the
tail .enders. No one ever knows who
is between. Decatur Herald.
Pitcher Polchow, who left Evans
vile about week ago to return to
Des Moines, has again Joined the Hoo
sier aggregation, and will finish the
season with them.
The attendance is increasing with
every game. Rock Island is putting
up a pretty article of ball and has
lost the last two only after hard bat
ties and by narrow margins. Terre
Haute did not find any easy picking
here.
Happily the disposition to knock on
the home player if he failed to do the
right thing at the right time is disap-
pearing. Such an unnatural spirit
only helps the visiting club.
The Terre Haute Gazette says:
Louis ID. Smith, president of the
Terre Haute baseball club, says
move is on foot to increase the salary
limit in the Three-I league next year
from $3.50 to $1,000 a month. The
Evansville club is strongly in favor
of the raise. Henry +. Schmidt, ex-
president of the ere Haute baseball
club, and who still takes a great in
terest in the game. says if the salary
limit is raised the league will not last
past the Fourth of July. But whether
the salary limit is raised or not next
year it is time that all records for
close and exciting finishes is to be
broken by the Three-I league this
year. This thriving baseball organi-
cation is now winding up its first
year of existence, and it has been a
remarkably successful and profitable
one. The clubs of the eastern circuit,
Haute and Bloomington and Decatur,
are now playing the final series with
the western teams on the grounds of
the latter. This concludes Aug. %,
when the western circuit teams, COM
posed of Cedar Rapids, Davenport,
Rock Island and Rockford, will play
six games with each other, and the
eastern will do the same with their sec
ton of clubs. The season closes Sept. s
Indications for a still more success
full season next year are very bright.
Already steps are being taken to per-
feet the second years organization,
and il any of the present mem bers
wish to retire, both Danville and
Joliet are anxious to step in. 1t is
likely that the rules which governed
the league this year will be readoI.ted,
although the salary limit may be ex-
tended. ~
The Inconsistency CT the proposition
of increasing the salaries next year is
evident from the fact that it is
the low salary limit that has permit
ted the league to live through the
present season without a single
break. Plenty good ball is being fur
posing the Three-I league.
The Rockford management is sore
over the decision of Elliott and Jones
to jump to the American league az
the end of the Three-I season. Rock
ford figured on selling at least Elliott
to Brooklyn and the papers there say
he has given the club very shabby
treatment.
In the other Leagues.
Chicago. Aug. 23.-League base ball
clubs yesterday recorded the following
scores: At BostOn-Philadelpb!a 4.
Boston ,; at Observation-Disclosures :,
Cincinnati 6: Al BrOoklyn-New York
I. Brooklyn Z; at st. LOuis-Pittsbure
4. st. Louis 3.
American League: At Philadelphia
Detroit ~. Philadelphia I: Mt Balti.
more-ChicagO d. Baltimore =: nj
Observation-Disclosures 3. Washing
ton 4; at BostOn-Cleveland 8, Boston