Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-10
many FREAK GAMES
Rock Island Baseball Team Par.
ticipates in Some Pecu-
liar Contests.
FOUR sHUT-oUTs DURING SEASON
While Two are Administered to
Opposing Clubs-.Big
Scores.

Three-l league has participated in so
many freak" games as has Rock Is
land. By the term "freak" is meant
those in which the score was greatly
unequal or which were lost or won in
spite of ordinarily unsurmounta
bic odds. This was probably due
to the fact that the local team
more than any other team in the
lesgue with the possible exception of
that of Davenport. was lacking in the
quality best characterized as equil-
Iorium.
Out of the seasons series of Ill
games Rock Island sustained four
shut-outs and administered two. OF
the former two were from Belden
Hills bunch. one at Cedar Rapids May
81, when the score was to o. and one
on the home grounds Aug. 20, TO
o. At Decatur June 81 we allowed
one run in the ninth and the score
was l too. At Evansville June so the
score was 2 to D. In the first game
of the season at Evansville May 2
Rock Island was victorious 4 to 0,
and Bloomington on the local grounds
beatings that any team was forced to
swallow, the score being 10 to U.
Lose After Winning.
Five games were lost after having
been fairly won. At Davenport May
Is the score was IS to 3 in the sew
enth and it was lost IA to Is. At
Evansville Aug 6 the score was to
in the fifth and at the end it was 10
to z the wrong way. The other three
of this class were on the home
grounds. Davenport beat US June ),
5 to 6 after we had lead of 3 to l in
the middle of the game. Rockford
won 8 to 9 July 3 after we had lead
Of z to 2 in the fourth, and July 10
with a score of to l in our favor in
the seventh Davenport won to 4.
To the above might be added two
games almost lost at the close. At
Davenport May IL we had lead of 9
to o in the sixth and the Reds made
it 9 to s. At Evansville on the Sec
ond trip south Rock Island had it 4
to o in the third and won to 3.
Three times the Rock Island team
pulled itself out of hole by rally at
the close of the game. At Booming
ton June % it was l to D up till the
ninth, when we made it 2 to 1. July
with the score against us 5 to in
the eighth, we gathered up our skirts
and won to 5. On Sept. at Rock
ford the game stood against us 5 to
in the ninth, but we bLtted till 1t
stood to 3 the other way.
Unequal Games.
Among the most unequal games
played were: May Q. lost to Terre
Haute, 4; May IL. lost to Bloom
iDgton, 1876; June 8, lost to Terre
Haute lis; June IL. won from De-
catur, 2; June Is won from Evans
Vile in | hour and minutes g.;
July 5 at Davenport. lost. - 2; July
T. lost 10 Rockford, 8 1; July IL, lost
to Cedar Rapids, Ill; July IA, lost
TO Rock ford, 1876; July ID won from
Rockford, 20-I1; July 20, won from
Davenport. IL 5; July 81, won from
Davenport, lib; July 25, lost to
rerre Haute, 9-2; Aug. 6. won from
Decatur. 1911; Aug z, lost to Deca.
tur, 10 6; Aug s lost to Blooming
ton. 81; Aug. ID. lost to Evansville.
1872; Aug. 20, won from Decatur. TO-
8; Aug 25 lost to Davenport, 12-1;
Aug 81, lost to Rockford. 1913; Aug.
80. won from Cedar Rapids, I'll;
Sept. 2, lost to Davenport, 1872.
Notes of the Diamond.
/ Pitcher Milton left last night for his
home in Pittsburg. Kas.. Manager
Mullaney for Louisville and Left
Fielder Tate for Everett. Pa.
Frank Roth, Eyansville's hard
working catcher. wound up the
season Sunday with home run, Civ
ing him what the Evansville Courier
claims TO be the worlds record as a
home run hitter.
Sam Kennedy, manager of Evans
Vile, was presented diamond ring
by the officers of the association as
mark of appreciation of his success
in pulling the team from the tail end
to a respectable position in the per-
centage column.
Left Fielder Harry Tate has per-
haI.s the best batting record for long
drives of any man on the Rock Island
team. He made a total of IL homers,
% 3-bsggers and "a ? baggers.
The Rockford Three-I league team
was defeated by the Savanna Maroons
at Savanna yesterday by score of 10
to 6.
The Evansville league team de-
feated the Evansville Reserves yester-
day 10 to
Many followers of the game have
been heard to express themselves
favorable to Pitcher Milton for man.
ager next season. Two things could
be- expected of whatever team Milton
might have charge of-the men would
be of good habits and they would
play honest ball.
Norris Silver, North Stratford, N.
H.: Il purchased bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure when suffering
with a cough doctors told me was in
durable. One bottle relieved me, the
second and third almost cured. To-
day am a well man." B. III. Bieber