Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-11
EACH WINS A GAME
Rock island and the Commodores Are
Playing the Rubber at Park
This Afternoon.
LOCALS TAKE SUNDAY GAME
Bunching Hits on COnOver In First and
Fifth Innings-FIOw IL HnP-
pened.

Hank Walters, the tanned giant who
takes care Of left field for the Com
modores. tried to break up the game
at the Twelfth street park yesterday
afternoon in the ninth inning, and had
| there been a couple more who could
have hinged the ball as hard as he did
nc might have succeeded. Hank led
off in the closing round with a three
sackcr that he would have attempted
20 stretch to homer had not his
wind been about exhausted when he
arrived at station three. Hank lifted
the pill away over in the southeast
corner of the park. This caused Lun-
din TO put on additional steam. and
the next three men were retired with
out hit.
The Islanders recovered their bat
ting eye yesterday, winning the game
through punching hits on Conover. the
former Senator, in the first and sixth
innings. McDonough played first, and
guarded the position to nicely. &C
ceptng several difficult chances.
There was slight change in the bat
ting order that seems to have been
for the better, Blakey. whose long
suit is said to be in sacrificing. follow
ling Thornton, Miller and Ially NOV
ing into fifth and sixth places. respect
lively.
/ Ovation for Miller and Thornton.
Miller made his debut in the man
aSerial harness, and was warmly re
ccivcd, and the big Sunday crowd. just
to show that it had lost none of it's
admiration for Thornton. applaudcd
him every time he came to bat
And Thornton showed his heart was
i'm the team as strongly as it was when
he was its manager by playing with
the energy and spirit that have charac-
terized his work during the whole sea
son, and which have earned him the
good viii of all the followers of the
entire circuit.
Thornton led off in the first inning
by teasing Conover until he issued
him transportation. Then Blakey adj
vanced him with a sacrifice, and he
crossed the plate when Vandin0
swung for a triple. Van tailed on
McDOnOugh'S single. Miller and Lally
flied to Swacina in center The other
two scores came in the sixth. After
VandinC had grounded TO Kuhn, Nc
DOnOugh hinged a hot one to MCGilli-
gan, who made a brilliant stop. but
spoiled il by poor throw to first the
ball rolling over towards the bleachers,
allowing the runner to take second.
| Kuhn, fearing McDOnOugh would make
| for third, hurried the ball to second,
and pegged wild. the sphere going into
| left. McDonough reached third and
scored on Millcr'S hit. Miller stole
second and third while Lally was fly
ing out to center and registered on
Smiths single. Smith was tagged
trying for second
Pulls Out of Dangerous Hole.
Lundin pitched himself out of a
dangerous hole in the second inning.
But one was gone and the bases filled
when ConOver came to- bat, and lifted
long fly in center, allowing Hank
Walters to score. McGilliEan then
famed. But one hit was gotten in
| this inning. an error by Miller. who
| missed fire after a pretty stop in an
effort to put out H. Walters at sec
ond on r. Walters gTounder and Lun-
din hitting Krebs, causing the trouble.
The eighth was the only inning in
which Decatur got two successive hits
| off Lundin, but these were not fruitful.
The tally in the ninth was the result
of rather peculiar play, Walters COM
ing in from third on a fly to Miller
who caught the ball a short distance
off from second.
Hank Beats Rail- Home.
Kohley likely did not reckon cor
rectly on Hanks proclivities as a foot
racer. and held to the ball for the pur-
pose of drawing the runner far enough
away from the base TO catch him. But
KOhley waited just a few seconds too
| long. Hank taking. it seemed. no more
than four steps, having limbs not I'M
like those of a giraffe. and reaching
the plate before the ball was in the
hands of the catcher. The score:
ROCK ISLAND, ABB. r HPA f
Thornton. CT 1900. l O o
Blakey. If ...... o l o
Vandinc. Sd 1890. 1 l = o