Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-04-05
TWOGAMES TOSOx
comiskeSites Administer prub.
bling to Decatur and
Peoria.
CoMMoDoREs LOSE 10 TO 3
MANAGER NicoI is Handicapped in Fail
ure of Players to Be On
Hand.

Decatur. Ill, April Sit was fun for
he White Sox and it was fun for the
crowd which braved the icy north wind
yesterday to see Manager Jones and
his bunch play rings around the locals.
The score was 10 to 3. At that the To-
Gals made a fairly good showing.
The local fans expected defeat, but
when "Ducky' Holmes faced Hardy in
the first inning and famed out, there
vas roar and whOop which beat any
yell Altrock ever let out, and he turn
ed out some eloquent examples him.
self. Jones was an easy out, and then
the trouble broke loose.
Green smashed the ball for two bags
and scored on Davis single. That was
the only Chicago run in the game that
could accurately be described. The
nine runs which followed were the re-
suit of a combination of hard hitting
by the Sox and wild fielding on the
part of the locals.
4 good share of the runs were due
to Swacinas inability to face the sun
in left field. and five of the hits given
the visitors were caused by his losing
sight of the ball. Holmes, Sullivan
and Tannehill led in the hitting,
''Ducky'' getting a home run and Tan
nehiil getting two singles and two dou-
bles.
The first run scored by Decatur was
due TO two-bagger by Swacina while
Altrock was in the box and a single by
OConnor The other two runs in the
ninth were due to a triple by Syfert, a
wild throw by Davis, and tumble by
Jirgs Donohuc. Owen. Altrock and
Smith officiated in the box for the Wis
itors. and the first named was the most
effective.
The fielding feature of the game was
a catch by Jones of a fly from McFar
lands bat 1t certainly had the ear
marks of a three-bagger when it start
cd. but Jones went back to the fence,
and with a spring in the air brought
1t down.
Have Smuggling at Peoria.
Peoria, ILL.,, April 5.-Playing on
wnd-swept field and before small
crowd, the White Sox tourists" found
it an easy task to defeat the Peoria
Reds by the decisive score of 16 to 2.
for Chicago, now is managing gave a
spectacular exhibition of hard batting,
five cleancut home runs, a
triple and Il two-bagger. These, bunch
ed in with several singles and some
clever base running, yielded the large
crop of runs. The bulk of the heavy
stick work was credited to Mcfarland.
Dougherty, Walsh, Clark and PfSter
son. Mcfarland, in addition to a clean
home run, succeeded in scoring a three
Dagger and single, while Tom Dough-
erty scored two home runs and a sin
gle
Peoria il handicapped.
Peoria was forced to put a patch
work team in the field, for only a few
of the regular men on Manager Hugh
Nicols string have reported, but, not
withstanding this handicap, the Reds
gave flashes of first class ball playing
With an even break in luck. there is
no reason why Nicol cannot put to-
gether a winning combination before
the opening game of the Three-Eye
league season.
Other Exhibition Games.
At Philadelphia - Athletics 3, Phil
lies 4.
At st. Louis-Cardinals Is. Browns 5.
At Urbana-Minneapol Is, Illinois s.
At Lafayette, Ind.-Purdue Z Ander-
son 6.
Players Work at Park.
All of the players of the Rock Isl
and team are expected to arrive in
Rock Island by Friday. Birch Cum
mngs, the catcher, arrived last even