Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-14
1902.


Rockford ........... III 90 30 800
Davenport .. liz 81 81 .455
Evansville ..... 112 ~ TO .420I
Rock Island 49,. Ill 10 GO .405
Decatur ............ 112 50 70 .3IS
The Bloomington Bulletin really made
that statement i'll its issue of Sept. o
and it is not at all improbable that
the fans down in that little village
really think they are going To get
that cup.
But. no, no. Not so. bloomington
has no claim on that cup, and any at
tempt on the part of the Bloomington
fans to capture the Rockford trophy
will be resisted with all the strength
of the vigorous young manhood of
Rockford.
The Temperance Guard Will be
called upon to defend the trophy if
necessary and if they can't hold the
Bloomers at bay. the militia will be
called upon. Patriotic Rockford
won't let that cup go. It's the only one
ever won by Rockford league team,
and it belongs here.
IF the Bloomington scribe will re-
member back a ways, he will remem-
Der that the \. &. Spaulding company
each year presents a trophy of some
sort to the winning club in leagues
using the Spaulding ball.
Last year Rockford chose a cup
rather than a pepnant. as the cup was
more in the way of a trophy. On that
cup was engraved the following:
Rockford Baseball Club. Cham
League, Season 1902. Presented by \.
q. Spaulding & Bros, New York, Chi
cagO. Denver
"That in itself is sufficient title to
that cup, and Bloomington. no mat
ter how anxious the fans may be, will
have to be contentcd to leave the cup
here.
THE Spaulding company will pre-
sent Bloomington With cup or PEN
nant, whichever the management OF
Bloomington's team may select, but
the Rockford cup remains here.
Don't forget that Bloomington.
Bloomington, the pennant winning
town, will entertain the baseball mag
mates of the Three-Eye at the annual
fall meeting which will be held in
Bloomington. The fall meeting is the
annual meeting of the league, this
having been authorized at the st.
Louis gathering last November.
Rockford will send a goodly dele
Cation TO Bloomington. and the local
ball men will be well entertained.
Bloomington will make arrangements
to banquet the baseball men and will
treat their visitors in fine style"
Notes of the Diamond.
Well, winning 90 out of the % last
games played with Davenport isn't
SO bad.
Pitcher Hughes. of Davenport, is
going to stay in the city. He has saw
ed enough money to buy saloon.
TRULY, who has been covering second
base for the pennant winners, was re
leased by Bloomington last Thursday,
not being allowed to finish the season
with the team.
Local admirers have raised n purse
of $3.50 to be presented to the play
ers of the Rock Island team who fin
ished the season. Each of the 13 men
will receive SO gold piece.
The Bloomington Paragraph is au-
thority for the statement that Dav-
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lease of Pitcher Barker Just before
the last series with Rock Island, but
the Bloomington management said
nay. The offer was not big enough.
| Gus Munich eXacted cool 500 a
game for the contests he pitched
against Rock Island. 1t is not unlike
Ily that he received more than that
yesterday, but the Davenport manage
ment is not giving out the figures.
| Jones was sent by Davenport yes
terday to take the place of Munich,
who was to have pitched for Aurora
in game with the Chicago Athletics
in the Interstate league. Aurora won,
though it was through the errors of
the Athletics rather than the good
pitching of Jones, for the Chicago
team pounded him for 16 hits.
Davenport was torn up with rumors
Saturday that members of the team
had been bought up bodily by the
Rock Island rams and the newspapers
made serious effort to trace the
runor down and see if there We're any
i foundation for it.
Some of the younger fans of Daven-
port last evening indulgedi ina weak eel
ebration Of the game of yesterday by
burning some old boxes and some red
fire on the leyee. The thoughtful Dav-
exporters took little part in the dem
onstration. realizing that there was not
much occasion for it. They remember
ed that the Iowans had won only two
| out of 10 in the season and that credit
for those two games must be given
entirely to man who was in no sense