Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-11

Bcrte, IS . o o.
Weaver, .. % 0 o.
Durham, p .. % 6 o.
Totals ~ 81 ) - Is Il
Rock Island ....3 > 90 90 %
Cedar Rapids 80 90 20 = o o o.
Bases on balls-Vickers, 4; Smith, .;
Durham, .. Three base hits
! O'Rourke, Donnehy, Hill, ConweIl.
Double plays-Shelton to O'Rourke;
Conwell to Hill; Hill to Miller to-
/ O'Rourke. Struck out-Nickers, 1;
Smith. /; Durham, 4. Passed ball
Williams. Wild pitches-Vickers. 3.
Time of game-1:3O. Umpire Mes
mer.
Rockford .. Davenport FL.
Rockford, June IL Davenport
had a great batting streak, pounding
out two-base and three-base hits at
will After the third inning the To-
Gals were never in it. Score:
Davenport e. - o , o > - OIL
Rockford e. ....1 l o > % o. ;
Hits-Davenport, 10; Rockford, II.
Errors-Davenport, /: Rockford, 2.
Batteries-Wenig and Evers; Ora
ham and shannon.
Terre Haute 4, Evansville O.
Terre Haute, June 11.-Evansville
could not hit the ball and played
worse game in the field. The score:
Terre Haute 40 ; l 90 > l 81
Evansville -. 20 o o 0 o o o o 90
Hits-Terre Haute, 10; Evansville,
Il. :
Errors-Terre Haute. .; Evansville,
o.
Battcries-Hackctt and Starnagle;
Terrence and Seisler.
Decatur 3. Bloomington 1.
Decatur. June 1.-THE prettiest
game of ball of the local season was
played yesterday with Bloomington.
Daniels kept the hits well scattered
and allowed no one to walk. Decatur
won the game in the fifth inning on Il
single by Barr and home run by
Krebs. The score:
Decatur -. 80 q o o = o SIS
Bloomington 30 o o.
Hits-Decatur. s; Bloomington, ..
Errors-Dccatur, o; Bloomington,
1.
Batteries-Danicls and Krebs; Nc
Greevy and Belt.
or the Bat.
Tomorrow's game with Cedar
Rapids here will be the last one on
the home grounds till June -, when
the Rabbits will again be here. Fri
day Rock Island goes to Blooming
ton to play off a postponed game
and Saturday a tour of the southern
towns is to be opened at Decatur.
Those long weeds near the fence in
the outfield should he cut. 1t would
be all right for the locals to- bat a
ball into the wilderness and make
home on it but if a visiting team
should do the trick il would be Il
calamity. And speaking of improve
mcnts the management is once more
reminded that the press box, while |
large enough for ordinary occasions, |
* a third too small during a Daven
port series and two or three of the |
late pencil pushers invariably have
to take their chance with the crowd. |
Pitcher Cv Swain was released by |
Tcrre Haute after losing his game |
with Decatur Saturday.
Decatur has released Brady. He
was given a trial both i'm the box and |
in the field and was not an improve
ment over anything Decatur already |
had. so it was decided to let him go.
backstop for the Davenport baseball
team The hard-hitting catcher will
add materially to the strength of the
Davenport team, for he is playing
gilt-edge ball this year. At the be-
ginning of the season he was tied
out by New York National league
team and would have made good had
he not jumped his contract with Ce-
dar Rapids.
The courtesy shown by the Cedar
Rapids players toward their opPon-
ents in getting out of the way to
permit Dial Williams to reach the
difficult foul fly directly over the
visitors bench afforded refreshing
contrast in the dispositions of ball
players. Had some of the teams that
come to Rock Island been in the
place of Belden Hills boys there
would have been an altogether diff
ferent exhibition of character. The
better instincts of human nature are
shown in ball players as in all things,
and the gentleman as we'll as the
rowdy is to be found in the national
game. The public is always glad to
applaud the better trait as well as /
to condemn the other.
NJ. III. Sexton, president of the |
Three-I league and also president of
the Western league, was in the city |
today in conference with Manager
Rowland of the Dubuque baseball
club, with a view of having the city |
taking membership in the tri-state |
organization. says the Dubuque Tele-
graph. Mr.. Sexton states that one of |
the teams in the league has not been |
living up to the rules and that II is |
very probable that a vacancy VIII |
soon occur in which instance Du- |
buque viii probably be chosen to fill
the vacancy. Rowland and Sexton |