Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-14


Terre Haute at Cedar Rapids
Frank King, formerly with Bloom
ington, has been signed by the local
management and arrived today to
finish the season here. King will
play at second till Miller is in shape
to go back to his post, which may
not be before the end of the week
1t is possible that regular place
may be found for King in the infield,
although judging from the past eX-
pericnce of the team he will come in
pretty handy utility man.
jack Eyers, Davenport's catcher,
is out of the league for the season,
according to the dictum of President
Sexton. 1t all comes of his conduct
yesterday. Umpire Burrill is officia-
ting across the river and yesterday
Evers took exception to balls and
strikes till he was admonished that
he would have to be good or get out.
Then he began throwing the ball
back to the pitcher with the evident
object of hitting the umpire and fin
ally succeeded in doing so. Then
Burrill put HIM out. After the game
Evers tried to pick quarrel with
Burrill, but the latter avoided trou-
bic. Upon receiving a report of the
affair President Sexton announced
the suspension of Evers for the re-
mainder of the season.
Rockford 2. Terre Haute L.
Rockford, Aug. IL Yesterdays |
game was hard fought one, lasting |
10 innings. Rockford won out on
successive singles by Lippert. Hines
and Morrissey. Hackett was hit hard, |
but good ,ielding kept the score down
Owens pitching was brilliant. Score: |
Terre Haute 100000 OOOO-1
Rockford ..........0 1000 10000 1-2 |
Hits-Rockford, IA; Terre Haute,
o.
Batteries Owens and Thiery;
Hackett and Starnagle.
Decatur 4, Davenport o.
Davenport, Aug. 14.-Decatur's bat
ting in the first inning and the pitch
ing of McGill for the visitors were
the features of the game. Score:
Davenport ..........0 0 o o o 90
Decatur .........4OO OO0-4
Hits-Davenport, 4; Decatur, 10.
Errors-Davenport, 2; Decatur, 0.
Batteries-Kerns, Evers and Arth-
urs; McGilI and Krebs.
Cedar Rapids L, Bloomington o,
Cedar Rapids, Aug. 14.-With good
team work the Rabbits backed up
Miller's good pitching for second
in the present series with
Bloomington. Score:
RanidS q q u q q q 81
Bloomington .......O 0 o 000O0-0I
Hits-Cedar Rapids, 6; Blooming
ton, o.
Errors-Cedar Rapids, o; Blooming
ton, 3.
Batteries Miller and Weaver;
Smith and Walker.
Sinking Fund Proposed.
The following has been addressed
to the Three-I directors:
Dear Sir:-Within one month from
this date we will close the most sue
cessful season in the history of this
organiza ton, and L believe will have
the record of any baseball
league that has existed in this imme-
date territory in the past ten years.
During the present season we have
had forty-six games postponed by
rain, wet grounds or other causes,
and every club has lost two or more
Sunday games, and Notwithstanding
these conditions our total receipts
this year will exceed last season con-
siderably. Every club in the league
is in good financial condition, and we
will finish playing out our full sched-
ule without a break, and without the
necessity of holding mid-season
meeting, a record unequalled among
minor leagues. Since the close of the,I
season last year, have made close
study of the plans on which most |
minor leagues have been conducted,
and / can find only one change that
L should like to see included in our
constitution, and that is provision for
or sinking fund, to be ere
ated by holding out small percent
age from the receipts of all games
played, said sum to be deposited by
a trustee in some hank or saving in
stitution for a certain period of time
and not to be used except in case of
emergency wherein the interests of
the league were at stake. During the
season of 1901 our business in the
amounted to the sum of