Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-06-25

each played on three teams this sea
son and there are many similar in
stances. Evidently the Three Eye
managers haven't much confidence in
leach others judgment
Dummy Hoy, best known for his
long career with the Cincinnatis, is
reported TO have amassed a fortune OF
$4,000 out of baseball and proposes
TO go to Honolulu TO invest his money
in sugar refneries. Another forcible
reminder of the old saw that silence is
golden.
Billy Dineen threatens to take from
Cy Young the honor of being the Bos
ton Americans premier pitcher this
year. according to the latest reports
Dineen has won eight out of nine
games to date, while the rail splitter
has won five and lost four Looks as
if age was beginning to tell on old Cy.
The Sioux City Western league team
is to be badly shaken up. Jay An
drews, the former Rock Island player.
has resigned as captain and manager
and five new players will be taken on.
Walsh. who left this city last night.
being among them. A desperate eff
fort will be made to secure winning
team.
The fans at Dubuque are giving
Hunky Hines some bad moments these
days. They think their team ought to
win all the time and have little APP
probation of the splendid baseball
manager Hines has given the town.
Their team has won a large majority
of its home games and only falls
| down when away from home.
Had / known said Elliott, that
cincinnati would be loaded up so
heavily with good pitchers l would
never have agreed to join the Reds.
had five chances and l selected Gin
cinnati. Both the Boston and New
York Americans wanted me. No man.
no matter how good he is, can pitch
winning ball when he is used only
about once in every nine games. ]
haven't shown my true form here and
never can unless | get regular work
1t is torture to sit on the bench and
if I'm to leave here | want to go to
a team where | can have an Opportun-
ity to show what l can do More than
one enthusiast thinks the Reds are
suffering because of a glut of slab tai,
cnt and the stars are not getting
enough work to keep them on winning
edge.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The feat of putting a ball out OF
commission by a powerful swat is set
down as an unique one in the batting
record of the mighty Napoleon Lajoie.
1t happened during a game in Cincin-
natl in 1899. and a report of the time
says: Larry Lajoie, the terrific bat,
ter with the Philadelphia team, hit
ball SO hard in Mondays game that
he actually broke it. Ii was the third
inning. Lajoie Strengthened out on
the first ball pitched. He met il
squarely and pushed his weight
against it. The ball went at a terrific
rate of speed and struck the center
field fence near the top with re-
sounding whack. The ball caromed of
the fence, and before Elmer Smith
could field il Lajoie was on third. The
ball was thrown to Umpire Burns for
inspection. He examined it and threw
the ball out of the game. The awful
jolt that Lajoie gave it broke the rub
Der on the inside. 1t was knocked lop-
oANCh cAlh as lO lOAiS5tl ~ AOi pay.
Jack Glasscock. the great shortstOr
of baseballdom, who was a candidate
a year or two ago for manager of the
Rock Island team, is pronounced by
many men who have played against
him TO be the meanest man that ever
played the game. They can all come
and CO." said Jimmy McAleer. in a fan
ming bee, but | don't think the game
will ever see another player-in Ger
tain ways-like John GlaSscock. He
was. distinctively, one of the oldest
characters who ever played around q
diamond, and the duplicate of Pebbly
Jack has yet to show. GlaSScOck was
a great shortstop, a good batter and
the meanest player who ever wore the
spikes. He wanted to win so bad that
he would do anything TO stop the op
position. Some of his tricks were
lalapaloozas. If the umpire was look
ing the other way. he'd throw a hand
full of sand in your eyes. If you slid
into the base, it was right into his
spikes. blocking off the bag like a barb
wire fence. When he showed the ball
against you, it was for business pur-
poses and you knew all about it, But
the IIlchS ne was pest III were JTlCkS
that were almost impossible to see
AS you turned the base he would wan
der accidentally across your path and
you would instinctively slow up to
avoid collision. The fraction of
second thus lost generally meant a
putout at the next station. If you
went on ahead he would take a pinch
at your trousers as you passed. That
little nip would throw you off your
stride and unbalance you to such an
extent that you would fall an easy
victim to the man at the next stand. |
who would be waiting with the ball
GROCER Is CHARGED WITH
ABANDONING HIS FAMILY |
Mandel HarNliif a grncnr ON Soc