Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-25
FROM THE DOPE BOX

The Boomers again in two games
tomorrow, the first beginning at 2:15.
Paul Davidson has been drfated by
Manager McAleer of the st. Louis
Americans. Goodbye. Paul.
Brooklyn was unable to get a single
hit off Weimer in the second game of
a double header at Cincinnati yester-
day
Peoria has purchased two pitchers.
Robert Farrell and Deetle Moran.
from the Vincennes team of the Kitty
league to report next year.
ID. f. Keller has settled with the
Davenport ball club by paying up his
subscription of 800 and the suit
against him has been dropped
Somebody rubbed rosin on the balls
when Swain was pitching down at De
catur the other day and the Dubuque
artist refused to go on with the game
until other balls were substituted.
Frank Klinkhammer has succumbed
TO the AK. Manager Buelow having no
room for him after taking on Big Ed
Hughes. Nobody yet knows how the
latter got back into legitimate base
ball.
Bomar and Schneider are said to
have been traded to the Columbus
team in the American association, the
news coming in a dispatch from Mil
waukee What the consideration is is
not given out
Now the Central league proposes to
call the bluff made by some of the
Three-Eye dopists that this league is
as fast as that in Indiana and Ohio
They suggest a pOSt-seaSOn series be-
tween teams of the same respective
positions in the race in the two
leagues
Next Monday at the Island City park
a benefit game will be played for Al
bert Spanton, the Rock Island first
baseman, between the Rock Island
team and the Independents of this
city SpantOn, though now out of the
hospital and recovering slowly from
typhoid fever. will be unable to sup
port himself for several weeks.
But nine more series after the pres
ent one before the end of the season.
Rock Island has yet to visit and enter
tain the other three teams of the
north end of the circuit Tuesday we
go to Davenport. and judging by the
positions of the two teams, the re-
suit of the three games may have an
important bearing upon the race down
in the second division.
Peoria Journal: Circuit papers are
mistaken in the idea that Peoria is
counting berth in some bigger and
faster league. The Three-Eye this sea-
son is giving the city the fastest base
ball of its career and as the attend
ance indicates. the fans are more than
satisfied The only ambition that is
entertained is the replacing of a weak
sister or two with some others of great
er patronage possibilities. in order that
the present high class game can be
maintained
Joe Zalusky was given his release
today. He is a first class backstop. |
but he has been unable to hit. getting
but three singles since joining the
team. With Forney back as change
catcher. there was no place for the |
former Knox college man. Harry Nc |
Kee was also taken off the payroll and |
will return to his home at Michigan |
City. He is still under contract for |
next year. Rock Island still has 1G on |
the payroll
President Holland of the Three Eye |
league. arrived in the city this after |
noon to investigate the local umpire |
question.
Time changes ideas and conditions. |
There are a lot of things which the up
to-date young woman of today does
which are good for body and health.
She takes HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. Tea or tablets. 35 cents. T. H. !
Thomas pharmacy.