Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-13
LAST is SHUTOUT
Liebhardt Tries to Duplicate His Per
Torrance of Friday Against
the Commodores.
HOLDS THEM DOWN TO TWO HITS
Hardy Asks 20 BE Relieved In Middle of
Game, But Mcfarland Orders
Him to Go to Work.

Llebhardt yesterday AFTERNOON trleu
10 repeat his performance of last Fri
day, when he held Bloomington with
out hit or run, and came within an
ace OF seeing his hopes realized. He
was successful in preventing the score
and the clean hit did not come until
the ninth inning, when Hank Walters,
the chief trouble maker for Decatur.
connected for a base. The hit that
Swacina got in the fourth was a
scratch and can be chalked up to I'm
pire Beardsiey.- 1T was a hot grounder
/ to Vandine at third. Van made neat
stop and with one of his terrific shoots
to first had the runner cut off, but just
after he planted his foot on the base
Lister allowed the ball to roll out of
his hands. The throw was not perfect,
Lister having to reach out to pick the
| ball off the ground, but at that he had
he runner. and the latter should have
| been retired.
some Sensational Fielding.
| Liebhardt was wild at times. passing
! four, but he was effective with men on
base. and was well supported, despite
| that five errors are credited to the
team behind him. Features were the
| fielding of Thornton, Lister and Tho
man, the former robbing Swacina out
of double in the sixth inning, bring
| ing down the ball after long run to-
| wards the right field. ThOman, the
new catcher, got the hand for pulling
down a foul off Hank Walters bat in
| the fourth inning that he had to chase
after behind the visitors bench. In
the sixth Lister backed over almost to
the bIcachcrS and spiked a foul from
! Kuhn's bat.
Two new men were in the game,
| Thoman behind the bat and Hill at
| short Hill has been playing with the
| Spauldings at Chicago, and looks good,
notwithstanding he made four errors
on his first appearance. One was due
| to his becoming confused when Miller
| called to- Vandine to take fly to the
/ infield in the third inning. The other
\ three were on wild throws. Hill field
| cd clean every ball knocked TO him
and he had an even dozen chances
and figured in the scoring, drawing a
double in the second inning after two
linen were down. Two errors, made
by Gruebner and Kuhn. and hits by
Hill and Liebhardt, brought Rock Isl
and's two scores.
Hardy AfrnId of the Cars.
Hardy. who won Saturday from
Rock Island. was sent to the box AGAR
yesterday. and pitched giltedge ball
and would have made it interesting TO
, Liebhardt had he received bette
support, Gruebners messing of Lally''
, groundcr allowing Rock Island its frs
and only opportunity to tally during
the game Harry-that's Mr.. Hardy:
first name-was taken with a severe
attack of cold feet in the fifth inning
after BIakey had landed on him for
single. and requested Manager McFar
land to permit him to go to his blanket
, but Monty wired back from the RICH
pasture in his fiercest basso profund'
for the little fellow to pull in his yeI
low sign and go to work. Harry blush
ed a real red. then smiled. and Obeye
{ his superior. and behaved his nices
through the remaining innings, allow
ing Just one more hit Harry doubles
had a bunch that Rock Island had
swatting bee on tap. and he wished t
get out from under before the pyrC
{ technics were touched off. but subse
J quent events proved that he had bee
handed a bum steer.
Plenty of Chances to Score.
Decatur had men on bases in six il
nings In the third inning Roxy Wa
( ters reached third on two errors a
: short. but the next two men up wen
{ out Then Liebhardt passed McGill
gan and Gruebncr. filling the base:
( but all Mcfarland had was a bounde
to Miller. GruebnCr being tagged Z
| second. ending the best chance tn
visitors had during the game. In tn
I eighth Blakey dropped Gruebner's fly
but cut off another chance to score h
) throwing the runner ont when he a
. | tempted to steal second. The next tw
| men up were famed.
4 Gabby Patsy Famed.
j O'Connor-ga bby Patsy-the Ia,
: man up in the ninth. when Roxy Wa
! tiers was on third. struck out. RoN,
Z who had gotten on while his hi
! brother Hank. who had connected. va
I being put ont AT second. went aroun
Ito third on Thoman's throw to catch bin
( stealing. second not being covered. an
the ball rolling into the field. TIL
Z score:
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