Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23


Rock Island .........OOO OOO22 81
Decatur .............tOOO OO-1
Summary: Bases on balls-McGil.
4. Two-base hit-Miller. Double
plays Graham-MiHer-Wr Wright, Pfef-
fer-Popkay. Struck out-By Smith,
4; by McGill, ,. Wild pitch-McGnl.
Umpire-Gragg. Time-1:35.
Terre Haute 4. Cedar Rapids L.
Cedar Rapids, July 23.-The pitch
| ing of Vickers almost shut out the
locals. The game was clean and was
lost because of the batting of Miller.
Score:
Cedar Rapids OOOOOOO1-1
Terre Haute 100000 OIL o.
Hits-Cedar Rapids, 5; Terre Haute,
H.
Errors = Cedar Rapids, >; Tcrre
Haute, 1.
Batteries-Miller and Weaver; Wick
ers and Starnagle.
Bloomington }. Rockford o.
Rockford, July 23.-The locals
played miserable game in the field,
which, with Beedles' wildness, gave
Bloomington an easy victory. Rain
stopped the game in the eighth in
ming. Score:
Bloomington ...O3 OOOOO-3
Rockford ............OOO OOOO-OI
Bloomington. Z; Rockford, ).
Errors-Bloomingto 0; Rockford,
Batteries-Smith and Belt; Beedles
and Thiery.
Davenport 3. Evansville L.
Davenport, July 23.-Heavy batting
and superior work in the field gave
Davenport an easy victory over Ev-
ansville. Score:
Davenport % ) o %-13
Evansville 100000 |
Hits-Davenport, Is; Evansville g. |
Errors-Davenport, 3; Evansville, ). |
Batteries-Wenig and Evers; Treat !
and Seisler.
Baseball Briefs.
Hello, Middleton.
Evansville comes Friday.
Decatur is not always that easy.
Davenport has released Shortstop
Hippart.
Left handed pitchers are a terror
to Wright
Bloomington has sold Swi Thomp-
son TO Terre Haute for $125.
Pfeffer's team has materially inn
proved since its last appearance here.
Glance at Miller's record of yes
terday. Three-I league second base
men are making none better.
Big Mullaney was in evidence in
the fight at Rock Island yesterday.
When there is any trouble count on
Mullaney being in it.-Rockford Reg
I'm of he
Western league is now up against the
Illinois river, that body of water hav-
ing risen of late till it is now out
over the ball grounds. The team is
away from home. but will be back
July 20, and if the water has not re-
ceded by that time some of the
games will have to be transferred.
President Sexton went to Peoria this
to see what could be done.
about it.
With Kennedy, Fleming, O'Connell,
Hennesy and Mcfarland appearing
the names on Hills batting
list there is some talk of adopting
the shamrock as a mascot and paint
ing the Rabbits ears green.-Cedar
Rapids Republican. Don't do it.
Rock Island adopted the shamrock
for awhile last season and finished
next to the bottom.
Wallace Dyer, the Evansville Courier
man, says of conditions at Rockford;
Rockford is not a town to support
a winning team. Its people do not
deserve anything better than a tail
ender" club. The visiting clubs al
ways lose money there for il is
great day when 500 people are in the
stands. There are business men on
the main streets who do not know
that there is a ball club in town and
the interest in the team is limited to
about 1000 people. Still Rockford
has pretty park, good team and
always offers good game. 1t is
fact that the park is a long ride from
the city, but still this is no reason
the teams should receive such poor
support.
Evansville Courier: The men will
all come home with growth of hair
on their upper lips. An agreement
has been entered into to the effect
that no one shall shave his upper lip
until Evansville is once more reached.
A penalty of IS will be assessed on
the man who shaves. The entire
crowd including Mascot Tommy"
and The Courier representative, are
parties in the agreement. The latter
two will have no trouble over this
matter.
Brennan was to have been umpir-
ing here yesterday, but illness pre-
rented and Gragg, who was ons.the