Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-05-14

when Mayor Knox followed few APP
remarks by tossing up the
first ball. The ceremonies preceding
the game attracted much interest.
and were of nature that augurs well
for professional ball i'm Rock Island
during the season. many business
houses closing during the hours of
the game.
The Rock Island and Evansville
teams were given street car ride ac-
cOmpanied by Bleuer's band. leaving
the Rock Island house at 1:15. After
the three cities the teams
were met at Fourth and Tween
tieth street, nd n parade formed,
down Second avenue TO
Seventeenth street. where ears were
boarded for the park.
The parade was composed as fol-
lows:
Platoon of Police.
Bleuer's Band.
Rock Island Team.
Evansville Team.
Mayor and City Council.
President Sexton and Officers of the
Local Association in Carriages.
Automobiles.
The teams lined up as follows:
Evansville-Quinn. 2b; Hale. rf;
Schafiy. 1b; Seisler, If; Kennedy. eff;
Hoffman. 3b; Reading. q; Ebert, s.;
Polchow or Terrence, p. Rock Is
land-O'Rourke, 2b: Middleton. ss;
Wright, lii; Graham. 3b; Williams. g;
Donnelly. Of: Hopkins. If; Conwcll.
IF; Nickers, p.
Baseball Briefs.
Tomorrow the excursion under the
auspices of the Musicians Federation
will he i'm the city with
band of 90 pieces. The latter has
been secured to give Il concert at the
ball park Immediately before the
game.
Applications for membership in the
local diamond of rooters are stead
lily coming in. The membership now
reaches near the $50 mark. 1t is
hoped to be able to reach the 800
mark.
The Evansville players arrived in
the city late last evening ON the Pc
oria road. Earlier i'm the evening
Umpires Hogan and Mesmer arrived,
the former remaining here to umpire
the series in this city. and the latter
going to Davenport to do likewise
there.
The parade was all right, but il was
cut off at Market square instead of
looping the loop at Fifteenth street,
as planned.
The Bloomington team passed
through last evening enroute for Ce-
dar Rapids. Dominick Mullaney. who
was with Rock Island. and his friend.
Fielder Thompson, paid The Argus Il
visit. Null says he is fine and dan
dy'' and "every days like a wedding
day"
After Evansville comes Decatur
May II. Is and 10; Bloomington May
20. 81 and %; Terre Haute May %,
"A and p and Davenport May 2S, 80
and 81.
Brady has been taken off the bench
to pitch for Terre Haute during its
games away from home. Cy Swain
has not succeeded in getting into con-
dition and he will remain here. Swain
is a warm weather pitcher. -Terre
Haute Express.
Baseball In General
Chicago. May 14.-Followng are
scores recorded by the base ball eX-
perts yesterday:
League: At Observation-Disclosures
.. Cincinnati "a; ut st. Louis-New
York 3. ST Louis ten innings; at
Chicago-Brooklyn o, Chicago 2; at
Pittsburg-Rain.
American: At CIeveland-St. Louis
3. Cleveland 4; at Detroit-ChicagO 3,
Detroit 4; at MISUNDERSTANDING
3. Baltimore 10-siX innings. darkness.
Association: At Milwaukee--roledO
4, Milwaukee .; at Minneapolis-LOu
vile 4. Minneapolis 3; at st Paul
indianapolis q. st. Paul 4-ten innings;
at Kansas City-Columbus u, Kansas
City J.
WESTERN: At Peoria - Colorado
Springs ,. Peoria 3-eleven innings: at
Kansas City-Omaha 3. Kansas City
3; at Milwaukee-Denver =, Milwau-
kee o; at St Joseph-Rain.
ArtIe Ball Hurt.
St. Joseph, Mo-, May 14.-Arthur
Ball. short stop of the St. Joseph
Western league team. was struck by
lightning yesterday afternoon, and
for time his condition was critical.
The game had been called on account
of heavy rain, accompanied by an
electrical display of unusual violence.
=. bolt of lightning destroyed n
building near the ball park, creating
something of panic among the spec
tators. As the players left the dia-