Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-13

marched on the grounds. Then it de.
velOped that the. were CITIZENS Oi
Bradford dressed IN female costume.
Ii seems that SOT1C time ago there was !
a game between tIC cIcrt,S AMI anoth-
or organization at Bl5 ford, the latter
team beIng called the SaratOGaS. As
q joke Oh the CiCInS jsc SaTatOSaS
entered INTO correspondence VII
them, dating their NAL from fal-oti
towns. ana representing themselves 10 /
be a team OF ladies'. The clerks Gag
erly jumped at the bait and adycr
tised the game in good shape. The ,
result was the largest crowd that
Bradford las had foS ball game this
year But when the ruSe was discoV |
ered MAN. left the grounds and de |
manded their money back. Farmers
who had left their work in the fed |
were particularly wrathy.
James O'Rourke. an inGclder from |
Chicago who has been playing n the |
Northern league. WAS signed by Day |
export tn take DUnIe s place but fail |
ed to SHOW up at Rockford where he |
was ordered to report. Fred Nieman |
of Chicago has been signed as extra
catcher in place of Benson. also re-
leased Smith who joined the team
at Springfield was found below the
average and was passed up.
]. Ed Grille, a baseball authority, |
president of the American association |
and sporting editor of the Cincinnati |
Commercial Tribune, has this to say |
OF minor league baseball: From the |
standpoint of the spectator baseball in |
the minor leagues is much more enjoy !
able than major league baseball. In |
the minor everybody is hustling. The |
young players are ambitious and trying
to get to the top, while the older ones
have been with the big fellows yearn
to get back, and consequently have
an incentive to work hard. The result
is these games are much more inter
esting than those played in the ma
jor league as a rule, because the ma
jority of the players in the major
leagues know that they can go no
higher, and consequently they lose in
terest in their work and de- not inject
the spirit they should in the game
Chicago papers hearald the signing
by the Chicago national league club
of Edward J. Groth, considered 10 be
the best baseball pitcher in WisC0n
sin" According to report, he will be n
given trial either this fall or in the
spring. Perhaps he will. but if there
is anything in the national baseball II
association agreement Chicago will get II
permission from Decatur before it does
any trying out of Mr.. Groth. Decatur
has his contract, signed, sealed and
delivered also recorded. II will be re
membered that Groth. who halls from
Jacobsens neighborhoOd came TO De
catur early in the season and pitched
turn to kenOSna to fill an engage
ment and did not come back. He
gave as his reason that he did not be
Iieve he could do his best work this
year, but next season would be able
to. However. he continued pitch i
ing great ball in Wisconsin and has
much attention. Joe Cantil-
ion saw him pitch a game and i'm
mediatcly signed him. Groth told him II
he was already under contract to De l
catur and suggested that Cantillion |
write TO Decatur about il. whereuDon /
NantilliOn did war dance for he is |
not on friendly terms with the Decatur
and knew efforts TO get a
'avor would likely be useless. Deca-
,ur will make an energetic protest in
Groth's case. 1t has his contract and