Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-11


Batteries Hughes and Sullivan;
crangle and Readings
BseuI-s Heat McGreevy.
Bloomington, Sept. 11.-Blooming-
ton played enc Of the poorest games
of the season Yesterday, but after the
visitors had secured a safe lead. tied
the score by a great batting rally. In
the 10th McGreeyy walked one man
and hit. another and both scored on
Hines double. Score:
Cedar Rapids .......2 0 10 l0200 2-S
Bloomington .......O o O032 00-6
Batteries - Beedles and Novacek;
McGreevy and Donovan
Makes 1t Three straight.
Decatur, Sept. 1.-THE locals made
il three straight by winning yester-
days game. Score:
Decatur .3 0001 010O-5 s /
Dubuque ......1 900 1000 4
Batteries Weigand and Krebs; I1ul
and Lobeck.
Notes of the Diamond.
Another double-header is to be
played by Rock Island and davenport
tomorrow rhe first game WI b..
called at O'Clock.
Walter Crum continues TO improve
each day.
James Hackett is pitching great ball
for St. Louis for a man who has been
out of the box for so long.
Terre Haute wallOped Evansville by
a score of 10 to 1 Labor day. The
g Al,
fifth inning.
Jack McFetridge has now lost nine
games for Philadelphia, without 20
solitary victory. That is the record
of the season. Townsend has the star
losing record in the American--one
,ictory and eleven defeats.
Pattison stands well up toward the
top in Rockford's batting column, but
he was entirely off yesterday. Graham.
had his measure and famed him four
times in succession, each time, in
fact, that he came to bat
Big Meek hit outside the first base
line and sought to bluff Cusack into
calling it fair ball. His jumps would
not stand for it, however, and Meek
acted sore throughout the game.
Get your tickets early for the Crum
benefit.
Rock Island and Davenport are
playing a double-header this after
noon.
j. Vance, of Chicago, has been sign
ed to pitch for Rock Island. He is q
southpaw and is to be given a trial
this afternoon.
The Davenport Democrat says:
The Davenport lovers of the sport of
the diamond have chance tn show
their sympathy for its devotees when
they are in trouble. As has been suf1i-
GENTLY told. Walter Crum, the left
fielder of the Rock Island ball team,
Is i'm the hospital over there in conse-
quenee of stopping with his face Il
hot ball pitched by the deaf mute
pitcher of the Davenport team. The
man is improving somewhat, but it
will be some time before he can en-
gage in any active pursuit. and his
baseball days are over. He has a
home at Newcastle, Pa, and his wife
and little ones have come on to Rock
Island to be with him and care for
him. He has very little cash to go on
aside from the fact that the Rock
Island team. with commendable gen
crosby. is keeping up his salary to
the end of the season. In order to
give him a bit of a lift in his misfOr-
tune a benefit game is to be played in
Rock Island Monday, and tickets are
being sold all over the three cities.
They have been placed on sale at the
Hayes cigar store here, and it is
hoped that there may be sales enough
to net round ST 900 for the unfor-
tunate man and his dependent family.
If the Davenport fans turn out as
they should they will buy up the
whole edition of tickets inside of the
week.
Local baseball fans, in view of the
series of games now on with Daven-
port, should heed the timely warning
contained in the following dispatch
dated at DEBORAH, Iowa: Frank
Sunnes, a well-known young man
here, died in a Chicago hospital of an
which baffied physicians.
About week ago he had difficulty in
swallowing his food, which would so
only part way down and lodge. lie
was taken to Chicago and several
made examinations, but
were unable to determine the ailment
or give him any relief. Finally he
Iapsed into unconsciousness and died.
\ local theory is that the ailment
was of a paralytic nature induced by
yelling at a ball game"
''Peachie" Graham has received or
ders to join the Chicago National
team at Chicago Monday Of next
week. Similar orders have come to
Case and Guy Dickey, who
will meet the Denver club of the Wes-
tern league when it passes through
the 18th of the nreSent month