Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-15
HANK TO CLINTON
Deal Announced by Which Is
lander Becomes Manager
of Independents.
WILL WORK LOCAL COLTS
Provides Regular Place as Backstop
for Ens-Mcconnell to Repor.
March %.

Announcement was made by Presi-
dent Sexton of the Rock Island Base
ball association today of the completion
OF deal with Clinton by which Hank
Walters is given to the Independents
OF that city as manager. In return the
upriver team is to take care of num-
Der of Rock Islands youngsters and
give them needed work. Chief among
the latter will be Eng, last years
change catcher, who has shown all the
marks of conner, but whom the team
cannot well carry this season with Nc
Conneli as the regular backstop and an
emergency man in the person of Red
nlond at first
Chance for Eng.
If Eng were on the team he would
be given little to do and so would not
have opportunity to develop very rap
idly. At Clinton he will be the
regular backstop. 1t is plan
ned for Eng to exchange with Il
fielder part of the time and thus get
work in the infield, where he formerly
played. While he is good catcher he
would be more valuable TO Rock Is
land as an infielder and his general
chances would be better At Clinton
also, he will have better chance to
find his batting eye Eng has been
consulted in this matter and is thor
Oughly in accord with the plans made
fer him this season.
Who of the other colts Manager
Walters will be asked to take at Gin
ton will not be determined till Man
ager Mcconnell arrives, which a letter
received from him today states will be
the 23d of this month. All the players.
however, will first report here.
walters All Right.
Walters writes that he is in his old
time condition this spring and as an
xious to get in the game as ever. lie
makes no objection to going to Clinton.
saying that whatever the Rock Island
management thinks best he will do,
feeling, as he does, deeply under obi
cations for the manner in which he
was taken care of at the time of his
injury last summer.
Hank is admittedly q good ball play
er and an old head who knows all the
ms and outs of the game. He is a
valuable man on any team for the man
ner in which he encourages and advis-
es the other players, and it is believed
that he will be a success as Il manager.
He will probably play first base for
Clinton
Gossip of Game.
The name of F. J. Spencer appears
in the lineup of the Newark, N j.,
team, printed in a sporting paper re-
Gently. Evidently Newark is confident
of holding Spencer in spite CT Peoria's
claims.
Despite his emphatic declarations
that he would not sign with the st.
Louis Regulars, "Cy" Swain. the ex-
Dubuque pitcher, is nevertheless with
the squad, trying to convince the man.
ager of that team that he can throw
some"
Cecil Weisenberger. the brakeman
twirler who was part of last year with
the Peoria team, and later officiated in
a Senatorial uniform, gets trial this
year with Minneapolis.
Outfielder Ben Caffyn, who has COW
cred a section of the cabbage patch for
various teams in the Three-Eye, and
played good ball for Des Moines last
year, has been traded by Cantillon to
Oakland, Cal, for one Bill Dunleavy.
Ed Leewe, the Commodore's new
manager, has evidently taken his turn
ut telling pipe tales, as he is quoted
as saying he cleaned up 10000 appli-
cations for places on the team before
he left home
Decatur would keep Thornton anoth-
er year, but Thornton has decided
there is not enough in it for him to
give up his present occupation. AS no
one seems to know just what Thorn
toms present occupation" is, the fans
will have to take his word for it.
President Peckham, of the Iowa
league, has officially announced his
staff of umpires for this year. which is
composed of r. p. Hampton of this
city, E. r. Long of Londonville; Ohio,
Joe Miller of Cleveland, and Maurice
F. Dainty of Rochester, n. Y.