Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-18
FINS FOR 1905
Three Eye Baseball League
Closes Another Success
full Season.
ISLANDERS FINE SHOWING
Land High in Percentage Column
and Distance Cross River
Rivals.

The ThreeEye league season OF 1906,
in which Dubuque gets first honors, by
n peculiar coincidence ends with both
Rock Island and Davenport in second
place-but there is quite difference
between the relative positions of the
two teams. Apart from the fight for
the flag the rivalry that exists on both
sides of the river-entirely in the spirit
OF sportsmanship-ha been the fea-
ture of the game since the Three-Eye
league was organized. Ii is of the
same feeling that has found Decatur
and Bloomington. Dubuque and Cedar
Rapids and Peoria and Springfield ar
rayed against each other, ana that was
true of the relation between Terre
Haute and Evansville in the early
days of the league. In the struggle
for club supremacy between Rock Is
land and Davenport. the Islanders
have had decidedly the best of ii up to
the present time. In the five years
of the leagues history. Rock Island has
finished above Davenport three times.
and Davenport higher than Rock Is
land twice. Two years ago Rock Island
took 16 out of Is games from Daven-
the performance this season, winning
IA out Of is.
DnNenpOrt's Small Comfort.
That Davenport has been equally, IL
not more anxious to get the best of
Rock Island has been shown every
time the teams have met and on the
few occasions in which Davenport has
triumphed this year the demonstra-
tons on the part of the Davenport en-
thusiasts have been amusing When
the first game was won. July 3. king"
McGreevy. who did the pitching was
crowned king of Davenport. and when
he got away with his second in Rock
Island later i'm the season, he was de-
clared the best pitcher in the Three
Eye league. OF the four games that
Davenport took from Rock Island
throughout the season. McGreevy pitch
ed two and Baker the other two. And
not one of them could he regarded by
any baseball expert as a pitchers vic
tory. In every instance. the games
captured by Davenport were thrown
away by Rock Island. This was true
of the one July 5 when Sweeney. who
had one of his few bad days alone had
errors enough To lose any game. 1t
was so of the two games given to Day
export on this side of the river. and it
was true of yesterdays game across
the river Errors were responsible for
all the runs Davenport got. The same
factor may have figured in some of the
games Rock Island won from Daven-
port, but taking IL as a whole. the gen
eral results of the season IS play be-
tween the Islanders and the Riversides
afford a fair criterion to base judg
ment on the relative merits of the two
teams. and any Rock Islander may
take TO himself the comfort OF saying
thai had all the teams in the league
been as easy picking for Rock Island
as Davenport has the Islanders would
have made the greatest finish OF any
team that made the race for a baseball
flag.
But Rock Island is not in the least
puffed up over its repeated conquest
of Davenport. on the baseball diamond,
Notwithstanding that It has pictures OF
parades through Rock Island headed
by familiar Davenport fans had condi-
lions been reversed. Its disposition In
the matter has been purely character
,stic of baseball. which comes nearer
to arousing the patriotic impulses.
locally speaking. than any form of di-
version
No III Feeling Here
And now that the season is over,
Rock Island while disappointed in
not carrying off first honors. is with
out i'll feeling toward any other city in
the league, and withal is fairly well
contented with the results, both as to-
1contlnued on EIxhth Paee1