Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-06-23
ANOTHER BATFEST
Neighbors From GlucoseVille
Drop Second Game by
Score of 10 to s.
M'KEHHA IS FINISHED AGAIN
Essays to be Avenged and Lasts One
InninR-Myers Exploded, Ruby
Pitching Out Game.

HAD not CdpI. DdI.- w lIlidihS NAiA
ed Jesse Ruby in from left garden
to relieve Pitcher Myers in the sixth
inning likely it would have been neces-
sary TO have called the game of yes
terday afternoon at the Twelfth street
grounds with Davenport on account
of darkness before the ninth inning
was completed.
In the seventh and eighth innings
the locals not having to go to bat in
the ninth, Ruby held them down to
three hits. and no run. Rock ISL
and had gotten plenty to win, hav-
ing a lead of half dozen until Moore,
the Authenticated catcher. who was
sent to cover left when Ruby was
called to the slab, lifted the ball over
the fence on TO Twelfth street, and
added two runs TO the Davenport
column.
But still the visitors were four
shy. That was all they could rally.
The score was 10 to- C. Both teams
hit the ball often, but Rock Island
clouted it the hardest.
MrKennn Seeks Revenge.
Jimmie McKenna, smarting under
the bombardment he received Tues
day, essayed the role of avenger, and
at his own request was permitted to
go in against Rock Island yester-
day. When he passed the first inning
without allowing a man to reach base
| il was thought he had pulled him.
self together and would even up for
the cruel treatment that had been
administered him in the game of the
preceding day.
McKenna was short lived. Lister,
the first man up in the second, con-
nCcted, and then followed a rain of
singles sandwiched with a triple by
Blakey. Not during the present sea
son has a pitcher been given such
pounding. Eight hits were made. and
but one man was down when McKen-
ma voluntarily walked to the bench.
After Lister hit Vandine and Smith sin
gled, Blakely tripled, then there were
singles by LiebhaTt. Thornton, Miller,
and one more by Lister, the locals
having a bat around. Myers, secured
from Waterloo, in the Iowa league,
was substituted, and retired the side.
causing Vandine to fly to second and
retiring Smith on a grounder to third.
Myers was effective in the third, but
it required but one more inning for the
Islanders to get on to his curves, and
in the fourth they fell against him
for two triples and a double, earning
two more tallies. In the fifth, after
Myers had passed Smith, who was ad-
vanced by Blakely's sacrifice and per
mitted the runner to score on a wild
pitch, he was told to crawl into his
blanket. and Ruby was summoned to
stay the slaughter.
Walsh Has Bad Time At short.
The first score for Davenport came
in the second, Walsh. the new expert
ment at short, starting the mischief
with two errors that placed Ives on
third. He was brought home on
Swalms single. Alperman drew his
customary slap in the ribs. but died on
a double with Swain while the bases
were filled when McKenna drove down
to Vandine at third. Three more hits
by Dunn, Ruby and Williams brought
two scores. Davenport added tally
in the third on a two-sacker by Jacobs,
who made third on a passed ball, and
scored on Swalm's long fly in center.
Visitors Have BeInted Rally.
The two runs secured by Davenport
in the ninth came after two men were
down. Dunn leading off with a base
hit. Leibhart was not using the steam
he displayed to such effective advan-
tage during the early stages of the
session. and Moore, after narrowly
missing fair ground with a line drive
swung Squarely on the snoOt of
the sphere and showed it
sizzling over the left field fence. Lucki-
ly. there was but one man on base.
Here is the story in figures:
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