Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-21

ly. Truby's triple in the fifth with
the bases full was the feature. Score:
Bloomington 30 3O06O2O 81 IS
Davenport .....O 13140OOO- 16 3
Batteries-Barker Smith and Dono-
van; Huges, Jones and Lobeck.
Decatur 1s, Rockford L.
Decatur, July 21.-Decatur found
Calhoun and Killian easy propositions.
Score:
Decatur O241O24O%-13 IS 0
Rockford 1000 OOOOO-1 5
Batteries-R. Walters and Krebs;
Calhoun and Meek.
ROckfOrd's SpasmodIc Addiction.
The sickly rash that breaks out on
the baseball fans in Rockford when
ever Hugh NicoI and his coterie of
boosters get bumped a few games has
again become manifest, and the little
band of spectators that constitutes
the enthusiastic fans" of soc town
are about ready for the baseball pest
house. About all that is left of base
ball in Rockford is the memories of
the days of Spaulding and a few 9th
ers whose names were known to early
lovers of the game and the dope man
who fixed up a column of stale stuff
for the Chicago Sunday papers which
he culls from the exchanges about
two weeks old. They play more base
ball in the newspapers in Rockford
than they do in the ball park, and it's
a good, easy bet, judged by the gate
receipts, that a baseball game in
that town is not half a. attractive to
the average citizen as hurdygurdy
show or a merry-go-round. There
never has been an umpire in the
league that suited Rockford more
fhan one or two games at time, and
from the terrific holler that goes up
one might think that the whole coun-
tryside was engaged in nothing but
attending the bah games, when in
fact, visiting team doesn't take
enough money out of the town To
make a decent contribution to Il sal
walton army meeting. In spite of all
this however, and Notwithstanding the
fact that every fall the most promin-
ent and influential men in the town
talk themselves black in the face.
making promises of how they VIII
get out the attendance next year, the
Rockford crowd is always the first
to jump on an umpire, no matter who
the unfortunate individual is. and kick
up noise and fuss enough to get the
whole circuit in a broil. Then the
papers up there fume and fret and
find fault with the league, and the
Rockford correspondents of the Chi
cago papers denounce the way things
are run and do their hest to put the
whole league in disfavor with the
baseball public, and do other SENSE
less things that don't come with good
grace from a town where member
ship in the league has been hanging
on the ragged edge for several sea-
sons and whose fans are known as
fault-fndcrs from Galena 10 Cairo. As
Il matter of fact Rockford has had no
worse .umpiring than any other town
in the league. and every umpire Of
floating there was first tried out
here. If any city has right to com
plain it * Rock Island. but like the
other places aside from Rockford. it
submits To Inconvenience for the
good of the circuit, but any old time
that you step on Rockford's toes Il
wall goes up that might wake the
dead.
If the Rockford newspapers will
quit taking foolish powders every
time the home team strikes bad gait
and instead of having day dreams
over the past glories of Rockford in
the baseball world, get down to bust
ness and encourage the people to go
to the games and have baseball win
or lose the patrons will have less in
digestion and better taste in their
mouths when they wake up in the
morning.