Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-23
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The Decatur Herald is responsible
for the statement that Ross Thorn
ton, center fielder for the Decatur
team the past season, has been offer
ed the management of the Rock ISL
and team for another year.
The stockholders of the Cedar Rap
ids baseball club meet today and the
question whether that city will have
professional ball next year will be de
cide6h Some are in favor of dropping
out of the league on account of the
financial showing made by the team
the past season.
The captains who are leading the diff
ferent varsity teams on the grid
iron are as follows:
PennsylVania-End, MetZger
Harvard-Quarter back, Marshall.
PrincetOn-End, Dewitt.
Cornell-Guard. Hunt.
Columbia-Half back, Smith.
Fayette-Guard, Ernst.
West Point-End, Farnsworth.
Annapolis-End. Soule.
Yale-End, Rafferty,.
Cincinnati-Half back, Harry Box.
Depauw-Full back, Brown.
Carlisle Indians-Quarter back,
Johnson.
ALichigan-End, Redden.
Beloit-Full back, Slater.
Haverford-Half back, Thorn.
Bucknell-End. Cockill.
Brown-Tacllle, Webb.
Rochester-GuardC Clark
Swathmore-Half back, Smith.
Minnesota-End,R Rogers.
Chicago-Center rush, Ellsworth.
Syracuse-Quarter back. O'Neill.
Ursinus-Center rush. Trexler.
Northwestern-Tac Fleager.
WILLIAMSBURG back, Peabody.
Purdue-Quarter back, Osborne.
Indiana-Half back. Clevenger.
Washington and Lee-Tackle. Toun-
die.
Marietta-Tackle, Mutton.
IOwa-End, CORTLAND.
ST. John's-Quarter back, Wilmer.
Georgia-Center. Ketron.
Missouri-Tackle, Washer.
WiscOnsin-End, Abbott.
Wesleyan-Center, Gillespie.
Dickinson-End, Williams.
Georgetown-Half back. Hart.
Golden-Full back, Sill.
The life of big league star, says
Napoleon Lajoie, the crack second
baseman of the Cleveland team and
one of the most talked of players in
the history of baseball. lis not all
that il is cracked up to be. It's a
pleasant thing to be a headliner and
have your name printed in black face
type and have nice things said about
you and your efforts. but the thing
has its drawbacks. too. But the
greatest ball player that ever lived
is but human being. He isn't a ma
chine at all. and he is just as likely
to err as any other human. Every
player is liable to have his off day
and it is at such times that the star
is ready to surrender his hard earned
laurels and develop a longing for
home and mother. The baseball star
doesn't dare make single break in
game. He is expected to
do the wonderful every time he
makes a move. He is supposed to
make sensational plays all the time,
and when he does accomplish some
thing out of the ordinary, instead of
receiving the encouragement that
lesser light would get, you hear the
fans say, oh, that's nothing; it's easy
for him. The average spectator of
baseball game expects the so-called
star to make at least a two-bagger
every time he steps up to the plate.
III he only makes a single you hear
something like this, oh. not so much.
Don't see anything remarkable about
that fellow Nine-tenths of a crowd
is roofing for you to strike out, and
if you do the howls of derision are
enough to drive you to the place
where they keep funny people. No;
the life of star player is not all that
it is cracked up to be, especially dur
ing the playing season. New York
Sun.
ST. Louis, Oct. 23.-Avery Kelly Fer
guson, of Memphis. a Jockey. shot
himself through the head in the pres
ence of his brother and little girl.
Monday night. dying from the wound
Tuesday. For some reason the police
did not discover the fact of the sui
eide until yesterday. after the body
had been buried. Ferguson had been
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