Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-05-23
BIoomIngton 2. Rockford o.

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Batteries-Weigand and Krebs; Dill
Ter and Lobeck.
-fr bloomington 2, Rockford o.
Bloomington, May 23.-The cham
pions were forced to eat humble pie
the third time, being impotent with
the stick, while Bloomington punched
enough hits in the seventh to win,
Herbert and Cassidy singing and
TRULY getting double
Much feeling was created by col
lision between Smith and Hess at sec
Ond in the sixth, the former trying to
steal. Smith was seriously hurt. The
| crowd gave Hess merciless scoring
for alleged dirty ball playing.
But tive hits were secured off Smith
and none off McGreevy. who took his,
place The fielding was again on the
superlatNe order. Third Baseman
Brown was released and Pitcher Me
Cafferty has jumped the team. At
tendance, 400. The score:
Bloomington ..OOOOO02 - 6 .
Rockford ........OOO OOOOOO--0 = o
Batteries Smith and McGreevy;
| Owens and Stark.
Joliet 2. Dubuque 6.
Joliet. May 23.-In "A game repiete
with features Dubuque won from
Joliet 6 to ,. The visitors punched
their hits and gave O'Day perfect
support. There were three double
| plays, one a remarkable exhibition in
! the eighth by the JOliets. two men
being retired in play in which every
player on the infield participated one
or more times. Moriarty put the ball
over the fence for a home run and
| Carr batted 1000, four successive sin
giles. Bewer made a phenomenal one
handed catch in the sixth robbing
! Lyons of two-bagger and the JOLT
cts of a score. Score:
! Dubuque .........O O02 , 90 &c o
Joliet .......OO OOO1O-2 ,
Batteries-O'Day and Jameson; ku-
bitz and Reading.
! Some of the Dope.
With another fall taken out
of the teams that have been
leading the league by Rock
Island and Bloomington. and the
walloping of Davenport by Decatur,
there is another change in the per-
ccntage column and Decatur goes to
| the top for a period of glory. with
Bloomington putting and sweating 5
points behind. Rockford. 50 recently
the champions and apparently easy
leaders. are in fourth place.
The race has reached an interest
ing stage aud Rock Island has nothing
to be ashamed Of. True, we have been
below the 800 mark the greater part
ofsthe time, but the teams that have
] hpp At ha Enf
lead to what they have taken out of
poor Dubuque. Davenport. Cedar
Rapids and Rockford have each play
ed two series with Dubuque. and out
of the 10 games Dubuque has won
three. Those Is games cut up among
the three have more than kept them
in their places. On the other hand
Joliet has broken even with Dubuque
in two games and the other three
teams have not yet met the tailcnd-
ers, Rock Island playing the first
game with them today.
| Assuming that either of the teams
would have beaten Dubuque in the
same proportion of contests, which
seems safe, it would look as though
Rock Island logically ought to be
classed ahead of all the northern
teams with Decatur and Bloomington
| favorites in the race.
New Player Signed
Manager Donnelly today closed
terms with J. Callahan, utility man.
who will join the team tomorrow and
will probably be put i'm the infield at
once. He played last year with the
New York State league, where he
was member of the Albany team
that won the pennant last year.
or the Hat.
Guy Dickey welded a wicked willow
yesterday afternoon. Three hits in
four times up and if he had't tried to
bunt who knows but he could have
made it four.
Vandine got the hand yesterday.
Five hard chances came his way and
he handled them all. That double he
pulled off with the assistance of Dick
ey was certainly Il corker.
Gill out in left literally robbed
O'Leary Of a three-bagger in the fifth.
With "A man on third and another
run very much desired. Dannie crack
ed out the hottest kind of liner be
tween the center and left. "A three
bagger!" yelled the fans ecstatically.
But Gill by straining every nerve got
there just in time to poke his mitts
in front of it.
The Decatur management will not
get another man in the place of Whit
kow. the left fielder who was drown
ed Tuesday Instead III. Walters will
switch from right to left and Wei
gand and Martens, the pitchers, will
alternate in the right suburb.
OF the Bloomington players four
have batted over the 300 mark so far.
They are Mullaney, McGreevy, Smith
and Goodwin. Mullaney has made a
remarkable record in the field With
1913 putouts and 10 assists he has not
made an error and his fielding average
is accordingly 1000.
President Smith, of the Terre Haute