Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-18

e lsted and then began to cheer the
good work of the visitors.
hnIer's Arm weakens.
In the sixth, however, when Char
ley Miller's arm began to weaken and
Jap Poor out in center dropped a II y
right in his hands with two men gone,
the temper Of the audience changed.
The three runs Davenport made in
this inning put life into the game and
the fans woke up. When, in the
eighth, Davenport made run after run
till the scores began to add up early
equal. the enthusiasm waxed high
and continued to wax till Mil was put
out on a grounder in the ninth with
Carriveau on base. During the last
half of the last inning the suspense of
the Rock Island fans. who were pres
ent in respectable mum bers, was sim.
ply terrific. and Secretary Eddy was
seen to turn pale once.
1t happened after this fashion:
Young, who was first up, hit fly in
to right field which Wiehrauch failed
To handle and he made second. H p.
Tate made a scratch hit, but
the ball was mixed up and every body
was safe. Hoy hunted and Carriveau
threw it over first. Fox tried to cut
Hoy off at second. but the pigskin
went on out into left field. getting en-
tirely away from Flggemeir, and when
1t was captured the bases were clean.
Then link made nice hit went to
second on Littleton's sacrifice, ann
scored on a wild throw after a little
hit by II. p Tate. A fly by O'Leary
retired the side
In the second G. Miller died on q
grounder, Young walked, Harry Tate
survived tumble by CarriveaC, Hoy
hit safe and Young scored on wild
throw in from right. link hit. Tate
was put out trying to get home and
Littleton flew out. In the third Poor
lived on Gallagher's Juggling. Hugh
Tate got three strikes, but the last
one wasn't held, and white he was
being put out at first Poor mad.
third. O'Leary batted one up Gal
lagher's sleeve and Poor tailed Mil
Ter made a sacrifice to first and Young
was hit on padded spot and Mana
ger Tate made a 2-base hit, bring
ing in two more scores. Littleton re-
LiI6O Iu6 Slu6 Oh u SLQdll Out.
links Home Run.
The fourth aud fifth were blanks, but
in the sixth link anne up to the bat
dTst and made a clean home ruu over
the right field fence. This WAS all
Rock Island had coming The nearest
they came to another score was in the
eighth, when Zlnk tried the right fence
again, but Wiehrauch backed up
against the boards and pulled it down
out of the sky.
Ia the sixth Davenport's story be
gan. Smith flew out to Tate
Gallager got the initial bag on Young s
error and took another, and while
Rock Island was juggling with the
ball he scored. Fox sent a safe one to
left and scored when Poor dropped
Egers' fly. Figgemier put a fly in
right where Hugh Tate couldn't con-
veniently handle it and Evers scored.
Morarity put the side out on a
grounder with "FIggy'' on third. Joe
Miller went into the box for the Wis
itors in the seventh and although he
was wild no run was made.
The eighth is a hard story to tell.
Fox walked and stole while Evers was
busy striking out. Figgemier made
a nice hit to left field and took two
while Fox made third. Moriarity
went out on a grounder, but Fox came
home. Carriveau made a 2.bagger
and Figgemier went the rest of the
way around. Mill got ''ferninst" the
ball with his person, Smith prone
naded and Carriveau stole home on a
passed ball. Gallagher hit fly to
shortstop which Littleton almost
broke himself in two to get his hands
upon aud was then unable to hold.
Mil came in and Wiehrauch ended the
suspense by tanning.
Davenport wanted two scores to tie
the game in the ninth. Fox flew out
to link and Evers hit safe to Young
Figgemier went out on fly. but Mort
arity hit and the last score came in.
Mil ended the game with a grounder.
Score:
ROCK ISLAND.