Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-01

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in the absence of starnagle, who has
bad hand. Score by innings:
ferre haute .....Oo12 3oO%Ae
ROCKFORD ...........1 00O00OO
Batteries - Terre Haute. Vickers
and Richardson; Rockford, Owens
and Stark.
Baseball Notes.
Never mind that, Peaehy.
Dickey, Decatur's high stepping.
left fielder, gets hit every day-in
the Stats, if not otherwise.
The Rockford papers in speaking
of the Bloomington team seem to
have acquired the Terre Haute or
Rock Islanders venacular, very much
to their discredit. Bloomington
Paragraph. Blood will tell.
Evansville has signed Payne, who
pitched winning ball for that team
last season. doc" will join the
Evas in short time.
Mcfarland of Cedar Rapids has
twirled ten shut out games this sea-
son.
y Terre Haute paper prints the
batting averages of the Huts up to
date. They are so weak as TO lead
one to believe some mistake has been
made in figuring. Walters leads with
1868 and Beecher has hit only .236;
Richardson, .234; and Schlafiy,
.204. DeArmond, the third base
man. has .256. in fifteen games.
The Huts have the champion
weak hitting pitchers of the team.
They look like this: Nickers, $50;
Scott, .O91; Simonton, .O6s; HacEett,
1877.
Schatzke, Evansville's new second
baseman. is said to be terror with
the batZke.
Bloomington is now sorry that Swi
Thompson was released. as the alb
sence of Manager Connors puts that
team in n hole. The management of
the team would give the SIPS received
for Swi. and some more, too, for a
player of his ability. Connors is kept
out of the game by sore eye.
Decatur Review: DonneIly's men
are not hard hitters, but they are
fast on bases, have more life than the
locals showed. Miller's scoring on
his long fly which Thornton misjudg
ed was a fast piece of work. He did
not stop to see if Thornton had it
and he was quick enough to see that
the ball on its return was not coming
true. Donnelly now has mighty
fast infield. in Wright. Miller, Nc
Nichols and Hill, and he has improved
his outfield by the release of Conwell
in right. In Graham, who played
the position yesterday, he has per-
haps the best all around man in the
league. George Wilkinson shows up
well in left, as well as if he had al
ways played il.
Bobbie Cox, of this city, who began
the season as umpire in the Western
league, and who is now calling balls !
and strikes in. the Eastern league,
writes to President Sexton that he is |
recovering from the effects of an ac-
cident that came very near costing |
him his life. He was struck by line
hit. the ball getting him just above |
the heart. He had 10 be carried from
the grounds and removed to his hotel
in the ambulance. The doctor who is
attending him says he doesn't under
stand how it happened that the acct
dent didn't leave one less umpire in |
a..
ing that red sweater.
Never has there been an occupation
so hazardous that someone couldn't |
be found sufficiently brave or reck- |
less, whichever the case might be, to |
accept the chances for the reward Of
fered. So it happens, in spite of the |
to which Three-I league
have been subjected, that yet
another has been found to take the |
place of the latest unfortunate to go |
down beneath the weight of popular |
The new man is Buck
Keith. of Omaha Buck" was due |
to begin his finish at Bloomington
today, where Rock Island is playing. |
His sobriquet has the right ring to
it, but he is against a hard game.
A Rockford dispatch says Nichoi |
has signed ShortstOp Morissey and |
Gleason and Bufka, of the |
Michigan league. They will join the
Rockford team at Evansville. Scharn- |
weber, shortstop, and Conklin, out
fielder, will be released. We thought |
so.
Here are the batting averages of
the members of the Davenport team:
Davis. .351; Jacobs. 800; Evers, PSI; |
Mil, .277; Weihrauch, .272; King, .25s;
Crockett, .243; Smith, .23s; Ruby, PIT;
Thomas, PIG; Morton, 200; Burt. |
100; Reisinger, .1ss; Shannon, .176;
Martin, .169; Wenig. .16o; Holmes,
1853; McCort, $50; Stauffer, $50; Fill
man, .129; Hippert, lab; Alperman,
.115; Arthur, Fill; Thornton, .050.