Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-06-22
DUST FROM THE DIAMOND.

Rock Island had six stolen bases.
| Davenport had one.
1t is estimated that a total of 10000
people saw the games of the Three
Eye league Sunday.
With McKenna and Hughes out OF
the running Rock Island ought to
make it three straight.
Rock Island goes to Savanna to play
an exhibition game with the team OF
that place Friday. Savanna is the
| home of Pete Lister.
The Davenport anvil chorus was
present. 1t played a few airs at the
expense of Haggerty after he made
those two errors at second.
Davenport has signed another pitch
er to try out against Rock Island. His
lame is Myers. He has been playing
| with Waterloo in the Iowa league.
Herman Long, manager and captain
| of the Toledo American Association
| team. upon his own request, was given
lis release. His arm was in such
| shape that he was unable to play.
Decatur Review: Louie Gruebner
said this morning that he had asked
| ;Or his release but he would not say
Why. Louies friends, and they num-
Der every fan in town, wish that he
would reconsider and get in the game.
Features of the game were sensa-
tional catches of flies by Thornton and
ives. In the fourth Thornton pre-
rented a score and a triple by picking
one from Ruby's hat. He had to run
D.; Df hx
after it. He received an ovation from
the audience.
4 number of new uniforms have
| been purchased to fill out the set in
| place of some of the old ones that have
been lost or destroyed. The new ones
| are all right except in the matter of
the monographs which constitute one
If the really pretty features of the
| blue suits. The new design is a very
| 'tinGy affair. however. and is scarcely
| iisCernable from the grandstand.
John Walsh. taken on by Rock Isl
md for a trial at short, halls from
| Virginia He was en- route to Sioux
City. where he expected to secure a
| place, when notified that he could ac-
| Cept terms that had been offered him
| by Rock Island. Donovan another
man. having beaten him to Sioux City.
| Donovan had his first trial with Sioux
| City yesterday. losing the game by
throwing the ball into the bleachers
and letting Denver score four runs.
| During a game of baseball at In
diana, Pa, between the Johnstown
Amateurs and the Indiana Normals,
| George Thomas, catcher for the John
| owns, was almost instantly killed by
| being hit over the heart by foul tip.
| Thomas was a draughtSman for the
| Cambria Iron company, and his young
| wife. who witnessed the accident from
the grand stand, was Frustrated. She
| is reported to be in a serious condi-
ton. Thomas and his wife. formerly
residents of Cincinnati, were both
graduates of the Cincinnati Univcr-
sity.
| President Charles l.. Miller. of the
| Bloomington baseball association tells
of some of the difficulties that the di-
rectors of that city are meeting with.
He writes to the Paragraph as fol
lows:
| Editor Paragraph: | regret very
much that your paper should take the
stand il has in the last two issues re
garding our ball team. In Saturdays
| issue you blame the management for
not having McGreevy in uniform. Nc
Greevy was not in uniform for the
| following reason: In Thursdays game
he was hit in the eye by d ball. The
| swelling which set in nearly closed
| the eye and it would have been i'm
| -. l.; I
he been in uniform. Mondays issue
| states that the directors at a meeting
released certain players and that Bar
ker and Bishop were slated to go. Be
fore you allowed anything ike this to
go in print it was your duty TO inquire
Of some one in authority in regard to
| il. The directors have had no meeting
| and there has been no thought of dis
missing either of these pitchers. In
| fact, we think in Barker. Bishop, Nc
| Greevy and KinsClla we have the best
staff OF pitchers in the league and
with an infield and outfieId as at pres
ent we can give any of the other clubs
a battle. All of the directors are bus
| mess men and neglect their own af-
| fairs to a great extent to have the
| sport represented in our city. We are
| the only directors in the circuit who
sell tickets and work to keep the ex-
penses down. and if there are eight
other men in the city who will take
the team and guarantee us baseball
| think the present eight directors
would be willing to let them have it.
as all the benefit they have received
| from it is an assessment of $50 each
at the opening of the season.
IF our misfortune is over and we
Fan keep the team together. which
We have been unable to do on account
! of accidents. ! think VIC can prove
to the public that We have as strong
ball team as there is in the league
and that all the talk about a cheap
team is rot, as we have not got one