Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-20


field in Sundays game.
1t is now practically settled that
some present player on the Spring
field team will be assigned manager
to replace Tebeau, who is determined
to resign. Lyon, the second baseman,
is the choice of all local fans who have
seen him play. The deal to have Belt,
the crack catcher of the Blooming
ton team, as manager, was declared
off this morning. Directors of the as
sociation will likely notify Lyon of
his appointment as manager upon the
teams arrival here.-Springfield News.
Baseball Briefs.
The Bloomington Paragraph says
of the playing of Rock Island in the
first game of the series: The Rock
Island men were of a much more
amiabIe disposition than ON their pre-
! vious visit, and at no time did Capt.
Donnelly show fight until Green let
Godwin's grounder go through him
with Herbert on first. Both men
made the circuit and won the game.
Belt, the bloomington catcher, who
is said to have been engaged to man
age the Springfield team, was at one
time coach of Illinois college at
Springfield. He has had experience as
manager lie handled the Galveston
team when it wen a pennant and was
manager of the Nashville team in the
Southern league when it finished sec
ond.
The first game at Springfield will
be played this afternoon. The final
game of the series with Decatur was
transferred to that town to overcome
objections on the part of the league
management to the sale of tickets
that had been started when President
Sexton reached that city, as means
of helping to raise the fund. The
tickets were sold at dollar apiece.
After the last game of Rock Island
at Decatur. the Review of that city
printed the following comment upon
the luck of the Rock Island players:
.'Peachie Graham on the looks of it
had a bad day, but while he made
one ineXcusable muff his other missed
chances were hard ones that bring
him nc discredit. Callahan and Green
seem to be the unlucky members of
the Islanders team. Green has had
errors after noble efforts to get long
flies and they have come at critical
times, and Callahan has seemed in
the whole series to get the short end
Of it in close decisions"
The Decatur Herald, commenting
upon the first game of the Springfield
series there that was lost tn the Wis
itors says: "Onc of the mysteries of
baseball is the way team like De
catur can play first class organiza-
ton like Rock Island to Il standstill
and then fall down before lot of
castufTs like Springfield"
At Terre Haute they are dcluding
themselves with the idea that they
have a hot weather team. Decatur
fans used to deceive themselves with
the same idea, but they have got over
it. Between that and making excuses
for poor balIpIayers and coddlipg-them
the game has not been helped here.
Ball players should not be pets. They
are hired to play the game and should
be treated as any other employe who
fails to come up to the Standard
Decatur Herald.
Mike birmingham, who played first
for Davenport in 1901. is playing first
for Peoria in the Western league.
Moriarity, who was with Rock ISL
and and Davenport last year and who
was given trial recently by Rock
| ford, has been released.
| The BENEFITS will cross bats with
the Standard ball team tomorrow af-
ternoon. The game. originally sched-
uled with the East End team of Mo
line. was Cancelled by the latter.
Scores In the Big Leagues.
Chicago, June 20.-FOllOwinS are the
! base ball scores:
League: At adelphia-Cincinnati
o, Philadelphia 3; at DISTINGUISHING
u. Boston ..
American: At Cleveland-Bostun >,
| Cleveland 3; at st. Louis-Washingto
! o, st. Louis 4; ut Chicago-PhiladeI-
phia 1, Chicago .; at Detroit-Ncw
York o, Detroit g
Association: At Louisville - Min
neapolis 8. Louisville o; at Columbus
Milwaukee 10, Columbus IS; at Indi-
annapolis Rain; at Toledo - Kan
sas City IS. Toledo o.
Western: At Kansas City - Des
A.oines >. Kansas City g; at st. JO-
seph-Omaha 4. st. Joseph 1; at Pc
Oria-COlorado Springs ,, Peoria -
thirteen innings; at Milwaukee-Den-
yer ., Milwaukee Z.