Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-21
DUST FROM THE DIAMOND

| of Davenport early in the season.
The Black Caps baseball team of Mo-
| line was defeated by the Blue Suits of
Rock Island this morning by a score
of 20 to i at the First street ball
ground.
The place to start the wedding out
| is in the outfield. and it should not
stop until il gets around far enough to
| include every member of the team who
has deliberately failed TO do his duty.
The Rock Island ball team has been
kind and considerable enough to take
a game from Rockford, for which most
laudable enterprise the people of Rock
Island beg to express their humble
gratitude.
Charles Holm, q stonemason work
ing at Fortieth street and Seventh ave
nue., Rock Island. was overcome by
heat at > this afternoon. He was re-
moved to rs home, 709 Third avenue,
Moline. in the ambulance.
The team will be at home tomorrow.
Then let the wedding out process begin
as speedily as may be. Teach every
man responsible for the deliberate loss
of games away from home that such
! practices will not be tolerated.
The pitching staff of the Rock Island
team is all right, and so are some of
| the others. but the pitchers in partic-
ular have done the best they could un
der every circumstance while on the
most disastrous trip.
a new umpire named Reddy went
on duty at Davenport this afternoon,
succeeding Lobeck, who was sent to
| Dubuque to relieve Beardsley. Boards
| ley has received his blue envelope. for
which let us all feel thankful. The
wonder is he was tolerated so long.
Purtell, the little player who cover
ed short for a time during the early
| part of the season for Decatur has
| been sent to Cedar Rapids to join the
| team. He will cover third. McGilli-
gan, the eastern player, who was Sc
cured for third has not come up to
| expectations and if the arrangement
in the league that is now being con
templated occurs he will be sent to
| Rockford.
! The Davenport police team has been
pTacticing also. Tuesday evenin:
| there was a game at the Davenport
| park between the police and a team
captained by Butch Eggers, the latter
having in his lineup the Dittmer boys
and Ives, the professional, and at that
| the cOpperS won by a score of 16 to u.
| Here in a bunch for the local blue
coats to not let the green's grow I'M
! der their feet
A dozen games honestly won cannot
| n on HichnnnStINy
| A played who lays down on his team
away from home, and deliberately per
mits the other side to win, is OBJ
| tanning money under false pretenses
when he draws his salary The local
management should see to it that no
member of the Rock Island team gets
any money in this way. The members
of the team who have been throwing
games away should find to their sor-
row that they have been throwing
| their own salaries away at the same
| time.
Manager Miller has been punished
! for his reprehensible conduct at Cedar
| Rapids, and doubtless is as sorry now
as any that he let his temper get the
| best of him. But regardless of what
Miller does, there is no excuse of other
members of the team going into a
| conspiracy. The manager is not hired
| to please the other players, and there
will be no tolerating of misconduct
on the part of any member on that
score. The players who have started
out to teach the local association a
lesson should be taught lesson them
selves before they are through with
this thing.
The way to discipline the men who
| have been in any way identified with
the conspiracy to throw down the
Rock Island team is not by dismissal,
| but by uspension-benching without
pay for the remainder of the season.
Round headed ball players will be
taught by the local management-it
that local management has any re-
spect for itself-that they cannot play
horse with Rock Island. The incident
concerning the antics of certain men,
bers of the team away from home
should not be closed until every man
in any way connected with the con-
spiracy is punished. The boys have
had their inning now let the associa
ton have its inning.
No one has been able to get within
striking distance of Lajoie, the boss
batter of the American league. He is
almost up to the 400 mark and jogging
along at an easy gait. Keller is at
the top of the New York batters and
Dougherty is showing a steady ad-
vance. with his batting constantly
growing better. Seventeen men are
hitting 800 or better. OF these the
Athletics have no less than six.
Cleveland four. New York two. Detroit
two. st. Louis two, and Boston one.
The Athletics lead in team batting,
Cleveland second. Dunkle and Town
send, with perfect records, lead the
pitchers in the field and Sugden heads
the catchers. LaChance tops the first
basemen and Griminger the third base
men. Lajoie leads at short and three
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