Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-05

1GattlSon, ID . O
Kruger. If ........ o O O
Thiery, ..-..... o O
Bufka, IF ....... l o o O
Owens, p .. ? o o. o O
Beedles, p ........2 o o 0
Total ..3 , "a 13 .
Score by innings:
Rock Island. % 3 o o %-5
Rockford MID 900 o . o Ia
Summary: Bases on balls-Milton
g, Owens 4. Two-base hits-O'Leary.
Schiller. Beedles. Struck out-Mil-
ton 3, Owens l. Beedles l. Time
1888. Umpire-Head
Evansville L. Bloomington 1.
Bloomington, Sept. Bloomington
closed the season on the home
grounds by defeating Evansville in
an uninteres ting contest. Both pitch
crs were effective, but the home team
punched enough hits in the fifth after
two men were out to win. Both
teams played sharp fielding game.
he work of Scharnweber, Belt and
Ebert approaching TIE sensational.
Score:
! Bloomington 80 o o = o o o 81
Evansville ........0 O o o o l o OIL
ts-Bloomington. s; Evansville, S.
Bloomington, /: Evansville
Batteries - Barker ana Stoner;
Treat and Cross.
Terre Haute 4. Decatur 2.
Decatur. Sept. "a stupid play by
Middleton in the first inning resulted
in four runs for Terre Haute and
gave it the third and last game. The
feature was Ilale's running catch of
drive that looked good for Il home
run. Score:
Decatur ....1 90 o c 900 ID
Terre Haute ...4 o o 0 0 o 0 OF
Hits-Decatur, ); Terre Haute, s.
Errors-Decatur, i; Terre Haute, 3
Batteries - Dorner and Krebs;
Nickers and Richardson.
Davenport ;. Cedar Rapids 2.
Davenport, Sept D The locals
made it two out of three by winning
an exciting game. \ single by \.
Kennedy and a thrce-bagger by Dahl
quist tied the score in the eighth.
Eyers batted the ball out of the
grounds for the winning run in the
ninth. Score:
Davenport -...-...O o o o @ , o o 1-3
Cedar Rapids 30 o o G o o %
Hits-Davenport, :; Cedar Rapids,
Errors-Davenport, /; Cedar Rap
ids. 1.
-staufrer and Evers; Mil
Ter and Weaver.
Games Elsewhere
Chicago, Sept. 5.-1esterday's
scores recorded on the base ball feds
were as follows:
League: At Boston-Pittsburg o,
Boston 1; Second game PittsbUTg o,
Boston O-nine innings. darkness; nj
Philadelphia-St. Louis g. Philadelphia
-; ut BroOklyn-Chicag l. Brooklyn
U; at New York-Cincinnati /. New
York 3.
American: At Cleveland-Baltimo
,. Cleveland Z; at st. Louis-Washing
ton 3, st. Louis 9: ut Detroit-Phila-
delphia 13, Detroit I; at Chicago-Bos-
ton l. Chicago q; Second game) Boston
II, Chicago l.
Baseball Briefs.
That puts Rockford and Terre
Haute two games closer together
Umpire Head is not hs bad as Col
Inns. but he is bad enough.
Nicors three pitchers, taken to-
gethcr, have put up the poorest eXhi-
Eition that has been given by any
pitching staff here this year.
Williams fills the bill on first as
well as though that were his regular
position. He is as hard worker and
allows nothing to go by default.
While Milton was trif1e wild yes
serday. it was because he was work
ing for the batter all the time. He
was evidently proceeding on theory
born of the experience of the other
games in the series that it was safer
to give the Rockford players bases
than to allow them to begin to hit.
This does not apply to all the teams
in the Three-I.
Davenport has lost it's best pitcher
through knocking. The Leader says:
pitcher Fred Wenig was once n
member of the Davenport team, but
we can no longer claim his as our
Cwn and the knockers arc responsible
for the loss. He has shaken the Dav-
export dust and given rather sud
den farewell to the Davenport base
ball club. Wenig essayed to pitch in
Yesterdays game, and because he
went up in the air, as any pitcher is
liable to do, the crowd roasted him
and he took the rebuke so keenly that
at the end Of the third inning he left
the grounds, and when Manager