Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-24

| 1t was Decatur's turn to accept a
gift yesterday and they did so with
Indifferent grace. They couldn't
help it, however, for Dorner's steadi-
ness prevailed. He is recognized as a
pitcher all about the league and he
fully sustained his reputation.
Both sides erred gravely and often,
Rock Island the more frequently be-
cause chances were accepted that it
were next to impossible to nego-
tiate. The bungling of the visitors
was responsible for three of the runs
of the locals,
Pfeffer's bunch gathered six in the
third inning when Case led the locals
to destruction. Three passes, three
errors, one of them by Case, and two
hits spelled the result which was
read when it was all over. Ten men
came to bat and it seemed that the
session would never end. Then Ora
ham went out and limbered up his
right wing, Barr went out and timber
ed up his stiff leg and both went in,
the former to pitch and the latter to
play short. From that time on the
visitors were let down with what the
boy shot at, although they had some
very rosy prospects once or twice.
LOCALS Could Not Hit.
The game WAS not hopeless one
for the locals at any time, for they
gathered a pair in the first inning
and the difference after the third
would not have been insurmountable
at any time if they could have fallen
on the ball. There was where Dor
nd xk-ith
Indifferent support he played the
game for all there was in it. Two of
Hills three errors were made on
chances that he should not have
taken and the other was in meas
ure divided with Wright. Gragg was
plainly off color on balls and strikes,
both sides suffering at his hands in
about equal degree.
Miller in the first inning exercised
his peculiar faculty of getting on the
base in some old way. He waited
while Dorner was trying to find the
rubber and scored when Krebs threw
over the first baseman's head in
trying to put Donnelly out on a sac
rifice. Donnelly stopped for breath at
third. Graham swated the ball for
two sacks and obtained another
when Wright hunted and was safe.
Wright started to execute steal
and the ball was thrown to Pfeffer,
heading him off. Then he turned
back and Graham tried to steal
home while Pfeffer had the ball. He
was caught at the plate. .iWilliapis
struck out and Wilkinson's, .fy. was
obstructed by Dickey. -
Two More Gathered
Miller lost his franchise on high
one to Middleton in the third and
| DonnelIy had his renewed when Wei
gand dropped his fly out in right.
Jakey Krous dropped Graham's high
one, but the latter tried to take sec
ond base on his nerve and was caught.
! Wright got clean two-bagger to
left bringing the run and then Will
lia1ns put out the side with fly.
Another was coming in the fifth.
Miller cracked out three-bagger and
scored when Donnelly flew to left.
Graham flew in the same place, and
Barr having made an out, the side
was retired.
| 1t was difficult to keep technical tab
on. Decatur's half of the third.
Krebs was the first man up and he
placed a sizzling grounder just in
side the third bag. Hill got his
hands on it but failed to handle it.
Dorner drilled and Middleton hunted
to Case, who threw wild to second,
bringing one run. Weigand brought
another with hit and Pfeffer walk
ed. Krous hit for two and three
runs came in. Then Krouse took
third on Graham's error and scored
on Dickey's long fly to center. Pop
kay made the second out by the
ground method. There was enough
transportation left for Thornton but
it did him no good, for he died on
base when Krebs laid a fly into Will
kinsons nit. The visitors came fear
fully near scoring in the ninth, man
getting to third with one out. Ora
ham struck out the last man. Score:
ROCK ISLAND ABR. H. p. A. E.
Miller, 2b .......... 4 2 ? 3 o
Donnelly, Of ....... o o o
Graham, IS & P...... o 2 1
Wright, Id ......... 4 0 1 10 L 0
Williams. ....... q u b o