Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-12

water was thrown upon him. Farm
ham was sent there from Davenport
to officiate today and new man will
have to be found to act across the
river.
Ready for Davenport.
The Rock Island team arrived home
early this morning. every man in good
condition and ready for the real bar
ties of the season thus far, which
opened this afternoon in Davenport.
From the number of local fans that
went across the river this afternoon
it is evident that the series will draw
well. Through the unkindness of the
weather Rock Island and Davenport
have not previously met this season
except in the preliminary games, and
the utmost interest prevails in the
outcome of the series that will end
Sunday. The fact that both teams
have been playing winning ball of late
and that they are adjoining in the
percentage column will greatly help
tho attendance.
An effort will be made during the
season to play off the games that have
been lost between the two teams. The
local management would be willing
To play here Sunday morning but
Manager Hayes is not. Through
a misunderstanding of the terms of
the schedule it had been planned to
play game here Monday, but it was
found out that Monday is not an OF
day. There will be an opportunity.
however. fer games here July , and
July 6. and it has been decided to
pull off matches in this city.
Balls and Strikes.
Eastman. Dubuque's Indian. was
pitted against Jacobsen. the Decatur
phenom, yesterday. and the latter
had it put all over him. Dubuque
gathered seven hits. while the best
make one little bunt that Thornton
beat to first. jacobsen 5 getting the
bumps quite regularly of late.
Wenig. formerly with Davenport, as
sisted in the undoing of his old team
yesterday.
Rockford has lost three straight
games and of course the umpire has
to catch it. Umpiring for the champs
has been thankless job ever since
they started to slide.
Please take notice of Nandine'S bat
ting record. Three two-baggers yes
terday
All the games but the one Rock ISL
and took were won by one score yes
terday. There was 4 noticeable thin
ming out in the error column also.
Rapids. two 12-inning games being
necessary during the series to over
come them. The Rabbits kept peg
ging away, however. and now they
have so effectively turned the Bloom
ers back it would not be at all sur
prising to see Cedar Rapids on top
within the next few days. Something
of that sort is about due.
Eight of the Joliet players came
from the same neighbornood. near
Chicago. They are a young. ambi-
tious lot of fellows, good players and
hard losers.
Frank Roth is not making much of
hit in the big league. He has caught
IL games for Philadelphia, and is at
the bottom of the catchers in the per
centage column.
The ball patrons of Dubuque are
highly pleased with Umpire Conn.
who is one of the best umpires sthat
has ever been in Dubuque. There is
no danger that he will ever be mob
bed for bad umpiring .-Dubuque
Times.
The Young Americas and the Red
Stars crossed bats yesterday morn
ing and the former won, , to 1. The
batteries were Zimmerman and Tax
man for the visitors and Finkelste elm,
Cohn and Harris for the losers Rim
norman is evidently one of the com
ing pitchers for he famed II men and
gave no passes.