Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-05
PLAYERS ON DECK
Thornton Expects to Have Strong
Team to Meet paVen.
port Sunday.
NUMBER OF BOYS CONE TODAY
Oes Moines Hears Some New Dope In
Regard to Western Presi-
dency.

daily. Manager Ross Thornton SAYS
that practice in earnest will com
mence Thursday morning, as he in
tends to put up strong team to play
with Davenport Sunday.
OF the pitchers Womach is the only
one that has reported. but Lundin.
Hagerman. the two Clarks, Lakaff
and Guam are expected to- be here to-
DAY or tomorrow. CatChers Smith.
Bandy and Camp will be here today.
while Moore will be here within "a
week.
OF the infielders Williams. Haas.
Coy and Andrews will arrive ON the
18th. Nandine. Livingston and Selmer
are already here. and Lister. Shields
and Rebscher will show up some time
today.
Charnier and Thornton. of the out
field bunch. are here. Lally is expect
ed today and Jones viii put in an APP
pearancc on the 14th.
Some Of the boys were working out
at the Twelfth street park this after
noon.
Send Your Name In.
II will not be the fault of the fans
the hOfk lSldlt dSSOtluAlRii bbtS
not have a good name for its team the
coming season, for they are sending
them in by the scores To choose from.
Another batch came to The Argus
office today. Only Il few more days
and the nominations will he printed
and then the voting will commence.
In the meantime do not forget to-
send i'm the name you think would be
the proper one. Can't tell. it might
he just the one that would hit the
public fancy. If il receives the high
est vote and is adopted by the ASSOC
citation you see all the games on the
local ground from the grand stand
free of charge.
Hermann Makes Decisions.
Cincinnati. Ohio. April 5.-Chair-
man Hermann. of the national base
ball commission. announced three de-
cisions Yesterday. The first concerns
First Baseman Frank Dillon. whom
the Los Angeles club desires To use
until his case has been passed upon
again by the commission. As the
original decision of the Dillon case
awards him to Brooklyn he cannot
play elsewhere until his case has been
passed upon again.
The claim of the Shreveport club
for S317 and the Spokane club for
$500 advance money paid Frank
Hulseman, outfieller. was allowed.
and the Chicago American league
club, which drafted him. was notified
to see that the amounts were return
ed in order tn retain Hulseman. He
l.. r 4 l..
Louis Americans.
Near to q Big job.
TIE Des Moines Register and Lead
er attempts to tell baseball secrets
as follows: president Sexton came
in Yesterday morning and left the
city last night after conference
with {. Ii. Myrick and other mem
bers of the local club. When asked
what he intended to do if the West
ern league had accepted his resigna-
tion at the meeting here a few weeks
ago. President Sexton was somewhat
reticent. but finally divulged the
whole scheme. You see, Harry Pull
liam wrote to me that he was think
ing of resigning the presidency of the
National association. Following that
| received letters from number of
club owners urging me To take Pull
liam's place. But Pulliam's friends
got To him and induced him TO stay.
I am glad that Pulliam did retain the
position. for he is mighty good man
to have at the head of the Organiza-
ton. My plan was to sever my con
nection with the western and if pos
sible go To the big association. 1t is
fortunate that I did not let loose
here aS matters turned out after
wards The presidency of the Ma
tional brings n salary of $500 Il
year. Had Pulliam dropped out Sex