Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-28

Hughes succeeded IsbeIl in the sixth,
the latter becoming i'll, and Eastman
went to second. Bloomington bunch
ed hits with Jameson's error in the
third and WON The score:
Bloomington .OO2OOOOO#-2 5 Il
Dubuque OOOO1O-1 9
Batteries -McGreevy and Donovan;
Isbell, Hughes and Smith.
Rockford =, Springfield 2.
Springfield July 2S.-Stupid base
running lost the game to the locals,
aided by their inability to bunch their
hits. Score:
Rockford .......1OO2.O1 1905 II :.
Springfield ......OOO1OO10 O-2 10 5
Batteries - Owens, Calhoun and
Meek; McCafferty and Belt.
on the Bat.
The roofing of the Davenport fans
yesterday when their team Was ahead.
gave an idea to those who heard them
what vast amount of satisfaction.
nay blissful delight, it would give
them should Davenport actually win
from Rock Island. Those Davenport
ers are easily deceived into thinking
they have the game cinched
The irony of fate in baseball is apt
ly illustrated in this. The Davenport
Leader last evening in a note said
when the ball sailed out to Ruby in
the left field lit was just like drop
ping in Il WE'LL" Before most of the
papers readers had had opportunity
to read that note Ruby had paade one
of the rankest errors in his baseball
career, two runs crossing the plate
as the direct result of it,
The Davenport papers say Deller
will get another crack at us today.
From the manner in which DelIer
limped about the field Yesterday he
is not in the best of shape to attempt
to win back his lost laurels
Says the Davenport Leader con-
corning Sundays game: 1T was
heart-rending, nay humiliating and
degrading, the sad spectacle of sun.
day witnessing the 10th defeat this
year at the hands of the Rock Island
club"
The Springfield club will not stand
for any loose work on the part of the
players, when they show an evident
intention to play off. \ Springfield
paper says: "McCafTerty was fined
S25 for his sulky work of Thursday
afternoon. The local baseball man
agement says it will stand for the
team losing games when the mem
hers of the team try to win. but when
they start such capers as those used
by Pitcher McCafferty Thursday they
say the limit has been reached"
The Catalpa Hills Sunday defeated
the South Parks by score of to >.
The batteries were A,ielke and Schof-
err for the Catalpa Hills and Fox and
Wright for the South Parks.
With today's game the home series
at Rock Island closes and the team
goes for tour of the southern end
of the league. opening tomorrow at
Decatur. Davenport will be at home
with Cedar Rapids.
The meeting of the baseball mag
mates To which President Sexton was
called and To have been held in New
York today, has been called off, wire
having been received at baseball head
quarters here last evening to that eff
| feet. 1t seems that Ban johnson
wanted the meeting to be held in Buff
falo, instead of New York. and Pres
| ident L. +. Powers, of the National
Association of Minor Leagues. could
not go to that city. SO that settled it.
and the chance to patch up the agree
ment is lost for the present.
The Standards played in Sherrard
Sunday and defeated the local team
| by the score of % to 6. Hard hitting
! by the Standards was a feature. The
| batteries were Keim and Wilson for
the Standards and Love and Hedberg
| for the Sherrard nine. The Standards
were credited with 80 hits and but
two errors, while SherTard was held
to six hits and made four errors. VIII
liam Donovan acted as umpire.
Some important changes are prob
able in the Western baseball league il
the near future although they have
not been officially announced. Mil
waullee will probably be abandoned
at the end of the season and the
franchise transferred to Sioux City on
Pueblo 1t is also stated that for the
remainder of the season the Peoria
and Milwaukee teams will be eXchang
etE Duffy's team playing the schedule
out as Peoria team and Wilson's
aggregation going to Milwaukee. The
change is slated for next week.
Fred Wenig is again in a Springfield
uniform and played in the game
against Rockford Sunday.
Scores In the Big Leagues.
Chicago July 2S.-Following are The
base bal scores:
League: At New York-Boston IL
New York o; at Cincinnati-Pittsbur
10, Cincinnati 3; mt BroOklyn-Phila
.delphia o. Brooklyn >; at Chicago -
St Louis 4. Chicago 3.
American: At Philadelphia-Wash
ington 0. Philadelphia 3; at st. I1Oui:
Cleveland ;, st. Louis 9; at Boston
New York o, Boston D; at Chicago
Detroit 8, Chicago 3.