Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-08-02
islanders Take First of the Sc
ries From hunky
Hines.
HAS AN EXCITING FINISH
Tie in First Half of Eishth-lsIanders
Take TWO More in Their Half and
End the Agony.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Dubuque at Rock Island.
Davenport at Cedar Rapids.
Bloomington at Peoria.
Decatur at Springfield.

Every little bit helps" and the Isl
anders, figuring that some of that
help might as well come from Du-
buque. did the stunt with scores yes
teTday. Hines aggregation getting
away with 8. The hitting was light on
both sides with the exception OF the
three-baggers of Wanner and Sweeney,
only seven each being made from
Lundin and Haviland. The mighty
Buelow and Reagan, the home run
pair who executed the wonderful hit
ting feat in their first series here, were
unable TO do anything with Lundin
Buelow managed to get a single his
fourth time up and Reagan sent up
three infield flies and then struck out
saliva Artist.
HaviIand. one Of Hines saliva ar
fists. worked for the visitors. and al
most spit his head off. 1t is the only
ball he can throw, and the habit has
become so strong with him that 1t is
hard for him 10 refrain when he is field
ing and about to throw TO base. While
he held the number of hits down, Wan
ner and Sweeney both Strengthened out
.three-baggers.
Lundin' played his everyday game
working steadily throughout the nine
innings, giving his only pass in the
ninth
Shaub appeared the first time IN the
Island City park, and showed up well
as an Outtielder. making two fast
catches. Mcconnell was in the game
,ft
Opens With Three-Bagger.
Wanner opened the meeting with a
three-bagger. A pass was issued to
Carlisle. and Shaub hit one down to
Hughes. Sweeney was next up and
handed one TO Hadley. which was FUN
bled. Wanner crossing the plate and
Sweeney reaching first. Sweeney stole
second, and Carlisle took advantage of
the opening when the ball went down
and a double steal was successful
In the third Hadley threw low to
Buelow, and the first baseman dropped
the ball allowing Carlisle TO get on the
base. 4 three base hit By Sweeney
gave him opportunity to complete the
circuit
One on Luck.
The first score made by the Du-
buquers was on the good luck of get
ting the benefit of a clearly erroneous
decision of Umpire Lynch in the sixth.
Thiery hit one down the left field line
that was easily a foot outside of the
third bag. but the umpire called il fair.
the runner went to second, and, al
though in the judgment of the crowd
he was caught there he was held as
safe. hit by Hadley scored him In
their half of the sixth the Islanders
had good chance of scoring, two hits
being made before any were out. but
Dubuque got out of the hole by getting
Shaub at the plate and Sweeney at
| third.
Tie In Eighth.
Two in the eighth for Hines men
tied the score Owens singled to right
field and Haviland to left Thiery sac
rificed and Lundu was In front of one
from Hadley. Davidson hit one down
! to Vandine. which was fumbled. and
| Rusty Owens crossed the plate. a sin
gle by Buelow brought in HavilanI.
One to Go On.
In the eighth the Islanders broke the
tie and took one to go on. Carlisle
singled and Sweeney hit long one
out to centerfield, which was dropped
by Reagan. allowing Carlisle to score,
and Sweeney TO get to second. A
cracking single by Lister brought
Sweeney in.
The score:
ROCK ISLAND. ABB. X. H.. PO.A. E
WanneT. 2b ........ l l ; o
Carlisle. Of ...... 8 3 0 0