Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-16
PLAY POOR BALL
Errors Give Davenport the First
Game of the Season
Yesterday.
is CLOSE FINISH AT THAT
Islanders Get the Wrong Kind of Start
Hitting Brings Scores in the Sixth
and Eighth Innings.

In a long and slow game the Daven-
port boys succeeded in beating out
Rock Island at their park yesterday af-
ternOon, with score of to D. For
the greater part of the game the Is
landers could see nothing but "23's".
and it was not until the sixth inning
that they had a look-in. They fumbled
missed 'em entirely and did every
thing but get the ball in their pockets,
meanwhile the Kennedy bunch was pill
ing up scores. In the fourth inning
they had six, but their counting end
ed there. Before the monkey business
came to a close five errors had accum
ulated, while the Davenporters had but
one.
Quit Lakan.
Wilson was in the box for the first
four innings, and when Lakaff went in
there was nothing more doing. There
was nothing wrong with Wilson's work,
but everybody back of him seemed to
be buffalOed. Six hits were counted
against him. but these could have been
cut down if the rest of the boys had
been in the game.
Davenport started scoring the first
sacrificed. Harrod hit for two bases,
scoring Ruby and he came in on Burg's
single. Wanner dropped the ball al
lowing Burg to reach second and a
single by Fischer advanced the runner
to third. From there he stole home.
Errors Add Two.
Vandine fumbled one from Brugge-
man and an error by McClelland gave
the runner second base, Curtis scoring
him with two base hit. After two
were out in the third Roland handed
a wild one to McClelland making Ow-
ems safe at the first station. The run
ner stole second and scored on another
misplay by McClelland in handling one
from Bruggemann. Ruby made the
last count, in the fourth inning. His
single was followed by a sacrifice by
Curtis and a long single by Ramey.
Hits Bring Runs.
After five long innings without get
ting more than in sight of the home
plate, the Islanders landed on Lelivelt
and made two scores. Wanner put one
down between the third baseman and
the bag and Harrod helped some with
his error in handling one from Van
dine. A single by McClelland advanc-
ed both men and clean one over the
first baseman by Roland brought them
in.
In the eighth McClelland started the
ball rolling with a single TO right field.
Roland was given a pass and Lakaff
was given first base while McClelland
was being caught 1T third. Gray came
along with a long felt want to left
field, scoring Roland. Carlisle's three
Dagger scored both Gray and Lakaff.
D. this time Davenport was badly
frightened as the Islanders were only
one behind. Visions of those ninth in
ming finishes came before both players
and rooters as Johnny Wanner came
up in the last round and pounded out
a clean single. Vandine was next with
a long one to center field, but it fell in
a well Then came lucky finish-for
Davenport McClelland put one down
to Evans that was on the cannon ball
order, going on line about three feet
from the ground The pitcher caught
it like he would football, with his
arm and body. and hardly knew he had
it. He came to in time to catch Wan
ner, who was well off to second, and
it was all over.