Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-23

g RoeisfSfd Score:
ROCKFORD .,......OO2 o3OOO0-5 6 2
Decatur .03OO1OOOO-45 o
Batteries Graham and Meek; Fo-
ley, Wright and Krebs.
Springfield IA, Cedar Rapids 9.
Springfield. July "a Springfield
batted Petty, Cedar Rapids pitcher,
out of the box il the second inning.
The game was walkaway for the To-
Gals. Score:
Springfield .....67O01O0O*-14 Is 0
Cedar Rapids .20O1O12O0- 6 ~ 4
Batteries = Walsh, Hagerman and
Belt; Petty, Hines and Hansen.
Change Catcher Signed.
Cliff Lattimer, a new change catch
er, arrived today and joined the Rock
Island team. Lattimer was with
Brooklyn in the National league last
year and this season has been with
the Denver Western league team.
Notes of the Diamond.
Clinton Martin, left fielder for
Bloomington, was released yesterday.
Rockford has signed O'Brien, AN in
fielder, of Cleveland, Ohio, late with
the Providence team of the Eastern
league.
The Davenport Democrat says
Bloomington is the hardest PROPOSE
ton in the league, always barring
Rock Island.
y meeting of the Decatur baseball
association was held Monday evening
and arrangements were completed for
a game with the Pittsburg Nationals
Monday, Aug. 3. Springfield is due that
day but the game with that nine was
put off so that the champions can
play at Decatur.
The Bloomington Bulletin says:
"Conners says that the umpire bait
ing at Rockford is largely due to a
big lobster at that place who is al
ways the first to denounce the refer
ec. 1t. was this chump who seized
the water bucket and drenched Peters
and who also led the assault. To the
disgrace of the Rockford team. they
permitted this poor excuse for a man
To take the bucket and drench the
umpire. The spectacle of several
hundred-men and boys after one man
is also disgusting to lover of fair
play, and there will be no regrets
around the circuit if the Rockford
team Losses its franchise just because
of such actions. There are limits to
endurance even in the ThreeEye
league. There have been assaults up
on the umpire in Bloomington in
seasons gone by, but none of the char
acter that climaxed at Rockford this
season. No one has ever struck an
umpire here or thrown water upon
him. except in the case of a player,
and il is to be hoped that there never
will
Rockford comes today for three
games and then we meet Davenport
here Rock Island has beaten Daven-
port seven times i'm succession on the
grounds across the river and but
once here this year and that in an eN-
hibition game before the season open
ed. There seems to be no good rea-
son, however, why we cannot beat
them as well on one side of the liver
as on the other.
When Petty pitched here against
Arthurs last Saturday he won his
game Yesterday Springfield made IL
runs off his delivery in the first two
innings, while Arthurs won his game.
There ought tn be some satisfaction
for the latter in this.
The local management has wired to
President Sexton of the Three-Eye
league its protest against the signing
by Rockford of Second Baseman Tom
O'Brien. of Cleveland, formerly of the
Eastern league. O'Brien appears with
the Rockford team, and Rock Island
AYERS prior claim to him.
Scores In the Big Leagues.
Chicago, July 23.-Following are the
base ball scores:
League: At Extraordinarily =,
Boston 3; at st. LOuis-Cincinnati Z,
ST. Louis s; at Philadelphia New
York . Philadelphia 3.
American: At Cleyeland-St. Louis
o. Cleveland Z: at Misunderstanding
delphla 3, Washington /; at New York
Rain.
Association: At st. Paul-Indianap-
oils ., st. Paul =: at Milwaukee-CO-
iumbus =, Milwaukee ;; (second game)
Columbus o. Milwaukee .: at Min
eapoIis-LOuisville 3. Minneapolis 4;
at Kansas City - Toledo Z, Kansas
City g.
Western: At Omaha Peoria o,
Omaha 1; Second gameI Peoria z,
Omaha 8; at Des Observation-Disclosures
Z. Des Moines o; at Denver-Kansas
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