Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-03

Rock Island ......O / 0 o 0 0 o 80
Springfield .......0 DOL Oh
Home tuh-Reading. Bases on balls
Graham, 1; Willis, 4. Struck out
Graham Z. Time-1:4O. Umpire-Dar-
nell -
Decatur 4, bloomington s.
Decatur, July 3.-With two out in
the ninth Bishop hit a batsman. then
gave a base on balls, forcing in the
score that tied and the winning run
came on Netherlands hit Score:
Decatur ..100OO 1O02-4 IL
Bloomington 0UOo-3 IA
Batteries = Jacobsen and Krebs;
Bishop and Donovan.
Rockford 4. Davenport 3.
Rockford, July 3.-Rockford tied
the score through lively batting
rally in the seventh and won in the
ninth on hits by Clifford and Meek.
Giffords hitting was the feature.
Score:
Rockford ....OOOO1 O2O1-4 u 4
Davenport ..O2OOO1'OOO-3 -
Batteries-Calhoun and Meek; Del
Ter and Lobeck.
Dubuque 1 1. Cedar Rapids 4.
fifth consecutive game from Cedar
Rapids by heavy hitting. 1t was. a
one-sided contest and unintcresting.
The score:
Dubuque .......2 O1OO17O%-t1 II 3
Cedar Rapids 10000 ) o
Batteries - Smith and Jameson;
Holmes and Smith
Tomorrow's Caues
Today's game is saved up for to-
morrow morning when Rock Island
will cross the raging Mississippi to do
battle with Davenport on the Iatters
grounds. Davenport has laid off win
ming games the past few days just to
rest up for Rock Island, and the
lowans are inclined to be pretty CON
tident. Rock Island hopes to make a
good showing. and certainly has no
reason to feel alarmed. Case is still
under the weather. and he will proha-
bly, not be put in the game either
morning or afternoon. Smith and
Graham will probably do the box
work. Lewiston, another infelder.
arrived from Chicago last night. and
| Ransom is also understood to be in
the city or Davenport. though he has
not as yet reported to the local man
agement. With this additional help
we will get along very well. The
games will be called at 10 a. IN. and at
3 p. m.
Bobby Cox Makes a hit.
The Shreveport papers are greatly
taken with the work of Bobby Cox.
of this city. who is umpiring in the
Southern league. The Shreveport
Times says: IF President Kavan-
augh will consent to make Umpire
Cox a permanency in Shreveport he
will earn the undying admiration of
local fans. 1t is no eXaggeration to
say that Mr.. Cox is the best umpire
t,that has struck Shreveport this sea
son. 1t would be absurd to say that
he does not make mistakes. To err is
human. But he is conscientious. per
mits no back talk from players and
watches the bases like a cat" The
Shreveport Journal says Cox is the
| first umpire that has given satisfac-
ton there this year. The town is
considered exceptionally hard on UNI
Pires.
Notes of the Diamond.
Decatur has beaten Bloomington
II games out of II played so far this
season.
Decatur papers are claiming that
Kuhn is better first baseman than
Mullaney.
Hunkey Hines while in Rockford
| was asked by some of the directors of
the local club what was the trouble
with the Rockford team. Hines reply
was terse: Too many ice wagons. The
/ Rockford players average 100 pounds
/ and when one gets on a base it takes
| four hits to score him"
In the sixth inning Bloomington
claimed Mcfarland out at second.
Corners took Umpire Conn down to
the base and said to Smith, "Now tell
| him about it." Il never touched him. =
said Smith. Such baseball honesty,
ESPECIALLY in Bloomington ball play
err, is paralleled.-Decatur Herald.
Now for the first time since the sea
son began all the teams are above the
400 mark. The result of yesterday s
contests reduces Bloomington to 10
points above Decatur and ties Cedar
Rapids and Rockford for third at, 500
with Davenport precariously holding
second at $40. Rock Island put
| Springfield in the bottom hole. The
Three-Eye teams are making the best
contest of any league in the country
and no one is a certain pennant win
i ner.
Darnell umpired yesterday in place
of Lewinson, who is temporarily dis
abled.
| Graham and O'Leary appear to work
together perfectly as a battery. It's
combination that ought not be dis
| turbed.
The Brooklyn National league team
has recalled Vickers, formerly with
Rock Island, who after a brief exper-
fence in fast company this year went
to Holyoke, Mass. With the latter
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