Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-30
GETS NEW PLAYERS
Manager Donnelly Adds Three
Additional Names to
His List.
PITCHER, CATCHER, oUTFIELDER
Reporting Orders Issued to Mem.
bers of Clubs of the
League.

Three new players have been added
to Manager Donnelly's list to report
in this city week from next Thurs
day. They are, Frank Schieberg, of
Milwaukee, pitcher; Charles
Schmidt, of Arkansas, Il catcher. and
Edward Powers, of Cairo, an outfield-
er. This gives the local club some
thing over twenty men, part of
whom, however, may be dropped be-
fore the date for reporting arrives.
| tOwing to the fact that the Rock
| island aggregation will report earlier
I than had been. intended in the first
place there will be time for num-
Der of exhibition games and the man
agement is endeavoring to arrange
FOR something to fill in the time be-
tween April 10 and 16. 1t is expected
game Will be played at Peoria with
the Western league team of that city
April ~. Manager Donnelly viii be
here April s.
Released for Good of Team.
In spite of the fact that friends of
"Rowdy" Kinlock, the fast outfielder
want him to remain with the team
this season, it will be impossible for
him to do so, because the drafting
season in the Three-Eye is now past
and the Bloomington directors have
no more right to try to get him than
they have to take any other player
from Davenport. He viii have to sign
a contract and play with Davenport
till they release him, or not play
professional ball this year. Manager
Corners says that KinIock was trad
ed for the good of the team, and
that Kinlock himself frequently ask
ed to be released or traded, as his as
sOciationS here were not for his best
good. Kinlock is one of the fastest
tielders the league has ever had, and
Davenport, after trading as good a
man as Victor King for him, would
ask big price to let him go.-BIoom-
ington Paragraph.
Orders to Report.
! Reporting orders have been issued
by the clubs of the Thrce-Eye and by
the end of the week the players of
a majority of the teams will have as
sembled.
Dubuque's team will be the first in
the field. getting together at Madi-
spend two weeks with the state uni
vcrsity team. \ number of the De-
catur candidates viii line up at Terre
Hautc April 3, where two cNhib-
ton games will be played April and
6. The Others have been ordered to
appear in Decatur April 6. The Rock
ford players. twenty in number, will
be on hand April and on the follow
ling day begin series of games at
Beloit, Wis, with the college team.
remaining there ten Gays. Blooming
ton and ,Ioliet's talent Will assemble
about the same time and Belden Hill
has notified his Cedar Rapids aggrega-
ton to appear for practice during the
first week of the month. The Rock
Island and Davenport players Will re
port April 10. This is the earliest
the clubs of this league has ever been
called out.
! Kruger has sent in his contract to
Rockford and has thought better of
jumping to the California outlaw
league.
Diamond Notes.
Bloomington expects to be there
with the goods this season. The man
agement realizes that the team was
not what IL should have been in the
matter of morals last year and there
base been a general Earring up of the
rowdies. The Phantagraph says:
| "Only two of the men on the Bloom
ington team have ever been known to
empty the crock of suds to excess,
and they are expected to reform after
their old associates have been re
moved from the neighborhood. There
are seven of the Bloomington team
with a batting average for last sea
son of over 800.
Practically all the money neces-
sary to save the franchise of the Joli-
ct baseball association has been sub
scribed. and the fans of that city
have again taken TO the discussion
of the members of the team that has
been signed by Manager Tebeau and
who arc already beginning to report.
The exhibition games scheduled at
Decatur so far are as follows: Chica-
go American league team, Tuesday
April Z; Milwaukee team, Sunday,
April IL; Chicago National league
team, Tuesday, April "A; Decatur
team, Sunday. April 10; University of
Illinois team, Tuesday. April IS. The
Decatur players are: +. a. Krebs, w.
Wright, Walt Miller. b. Method, Al
jacobson. Fred Piper. II. Walters, a.
J. Walters, John Hanlley, Carl France,
r. Thornton. Pat O'Connor. William
Weigand. J. Mertens, j. Desmond.
Ben Wellenkemp, f. ID. Olmstead,
Henry Gass, Tony Wittkrow.
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