Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-13
SCRAP TALK Is AIR
Philosophical View of the Baseball
Situation is Taken by
Rockford.
DISMISSAL is LOOKED FOR
Only Best Wishes For Future of the
League-WiII Have Game
Just the Same.

The Rockford Star takes a philo-
jophical view of the baseball situa-
ion, indicating that the people there
realized that the Three-Eye league had
,arricd the city about as long as it
was endurablc from a business stand
POINT. The Star says:
Rockford is out of the Three-Eye
league. The action of the other mem
jers of the league as expressed in the
irst vote at the meeting at Springfield
yesterday did not come as a surprise
to those who had been following the
baseball world during the past few
weeks, and it was only with a hope
hat something might turn up to head
off the enemies of this city that held
up the weak spirit among the fans.
The outcome was predicted about tho
middle of the season. and Rockford
IN stepping down and out gives over
20 new club the position occupied
by one of the birth places of the game.
Points Ia Past Record.
Rockford stands today way at the
top of the ladder. and it can look
backward and point with pride to the
record that has followed in the wake
Of it's various clubs. Some of the ia
nous ball players of the day will sit
and look to Rockford, Illinois, and
say that is the place / learned the
game" The National league has some
Rockford talent connected with its
greatest games the American league
holds in it's makeup some of the best
players in the country, and they have
been in the list that points to this
city as home" The Three-Eye
league in its few years Of history can
not say aught against this city. and
those who brought about its defeat
did it through what is termed base
ball politics." and it is known that in
this organization, the same as in even
the smallest municipal organization,
there has been politics.
Are No Hard Feelings.
The citizenship of Rockford Will not
take the turn down TO heart. it will
not make a move to stop the upward
progress of the league and not one
of the eight teams to make up the
organization will be more loyal to the
association than the Forest city which
is now outside the breastworks. To
those who have accomplished the
dOwnthrow of the city there will be
no hard feelings. The future will
spring the penalty for the mismOve
if one there proves to be.
There is history connected with the
overthrow of this city that was not
studied by those clubs that voted to
put the town out. Rockford began the
season in adversely, one followed an
other until it came to the plain fact
that Rockford and it's early manage
ment was at lOggerheads; the citizens
would not patronage the game and it
| was a question as to whether a change
| in the management was preferable to
the throwing up of the franchise.
Fail to Increase Attendance.
The citizens generally rallied around
the directors when the appeal for as
sistance came and the necessary mon
ey TO buy the franchise and carry on
the club was forthcoming. Since the
change there was not a noticeable in
crease in the attendance. but there was
change in the sentiment. and had
the same been true all the season
Rockford would have been one of the
best rather than one of the lowest in
the way of attendance.
Baseball is not dead in Rockford