Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-27

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Totals .......... 33 0 6 81 y 4
Score by Innings:
Rock Island .....3 0 o 0 o O O O IS
Rockford .O o 0 0 900 90
Summary: Three-base hit-Lister.
Two-base hit-Pattison, O'Leary, Ora
ham. Bases on balls-Owens, l.
Struck out-By Case, 5; by Owens. B.
Double play-Owens-IIe Stark. Pass
ed ball-O'Leary. /. Time of game
1915. Umpire Mcnamara
Other Saturday Games.
At Springfield - Davenport, SEA;
Springfield, 5-6-7.
At Bloomington-Bl Bloomington, As
4; Cedar Rapids, 3-7-2.
At observation-disclosures, 5-11-3; Deca-
tur, 2-5-2.
Two Players Signed.
| Rock Island has signed Wind and
Hail Now watch the funny man who
sprung pleasantries when Rockford
signed Shour get busy. Wind was in
the game yesterday for the first time
and Hail will be put in in = day or
two. Wind is an outfieldcr and comes
from the Missouri Valley league.
where he has been playing with En-
poria, Rams. Hail comes from St.
Paul and is shortstop.
With the Jumps.
There was remarkably little kick
ing on the work of Umpire Mcnamara
yesterday. In fact, Mcnamara is Civ
ing good satisfaction. When he came
west from the Eastern league and
took the place of Farnham he expect
ed to get place in the Western, as
he was engaged for that league in
stead of the Threc-Eye. There was a
vacancy in the Western and he was
wired to report at Omaha. The mes
sage was sent to Allegheny and he
had gone on to Syracuse and did not
receive the message for three days.
He wired acceptance and started at
once for Omaha. I'm the meantime,
nothing having been heard from him,
Berryhill was called and had the job
when he arrived. Therefore he was
put to work in the ThreeEye.
1t is not generally known that Farm
ham was fined $50 for getting drunk
at the time he was discharged. The
message Diminishing him was sent to
him at Dubuque and he could not be
found. After missing two games at
Dubuque he went to Springfield and
was there notified that he was no Ion
ger wanted. He attached the gate re-
ceipts at the next game at the capital
for $50 wages that he claimed was
due. The Springfield management
was notified that the league owed
him nothing, "A fine of $50 having beea
chaIked against him and bills to the
amount of So in this city having been
vouched for by the league manage
mcnt in advance. Nothing further
has been heard from him.
Jack Brennan. who has been in the
city for several days, reported for
duty in the Western today, relieving
James Darnell. who has been work
ing as substitute.
Notes of the Diamond.
OLeary has a bud wrist and Lati-
mer will be given trial behind the
bat today. Case will do the box work.
Guy Dickey has Il black eye, caused
| by being hit by ball that rebounded
from his bat yesterday while he was
trying to get out of the way of it.
Manager Donnelly was laboring un-
der the disadvantage of bad ankle
: that hampered him in getting about
yesterday.
Davenport was well represented in
the audience yesterday. but it is to be
presumed that the proportion of visit
: ing fans will fall off very materially
for the two other games of the series
1t looks as though that 'hoodoo'
the Davenport papers talk about is
} still in a fair state of health.
, Probably they will say it was an
other case of luck. 1t was, but the
: luck all favored Davenport. 1t ought
to have been shut-out
5 Bloomington continues to win by
one score.
: \ couple of hundred of the specta-
5 tors at yesterdays game were from
Maquoketa, Iowa, and vicinity, and
LaKaff was sent in To pitch out his
turn so that his friends from his
homo town, Delmar. could see him
work. That was enough to rattle any
pitcher.
Latimer. Rock Islands change
catcher, is a peculiar hitter. He uses
very heavy bat and possesses the
unusual strength of arm that enables
him to swing it quickly. He received
"A new bat today that was made to his
order.
The circumstances were particular
Iy trying yesterday for a young pitch
err and LaKaff is not to he blamed. He
might have pulled out had he staid in.
However, Manager Donnclly's course
in taking no chances is to be com
mended
While Latimer's shortcomings in
the field were costly, it should be re-
membered that he is not an outfield-
er, and then his beautiful three-bag-
ger with three on base made up for
it all.
Deller is accounted Davenport's
best pitcher since Hughes star set
1t is seldom that he has received such