Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-24

Peoria at Dubuque.
Springfield at Clinton.
Bloomington at Cedar Rapids.
Daylight robbery as bold and unmis |
taxable as any that ever came to puo-
lie notice in the game of baseball here
gave Peoria three runs and enabled
Donnelly's bunch to 80 away with the
last game of the season yesterday.
Daub was the perpetratOr He called Swa-
Gina safe at second on an attempted dou-
bic steal i'll the fourth, Davidson going to
third, and three runs were the direct
result. Had Swacina been retired it
would have made the second out AMI
Egans popup would have retired the
side. Davidson was given the long
end Of another decision in the eighth
by the same official and another run
resulted.
Rock Islands chief satisfaction Law
in the fact that Red Nelson was for
the second time during the series
batted out OF the box. Nelson thought
he could turn the trick yesterday that
he failed so signally in "Wednesday BIZ.
he saw his mistake after two singles
and two Dagger had registered two
| scores. He raised the white flag and
| the Indian, Eastman, went to the
mound. The big chief had not mus
tered sufficient courage TO appear ii
the Rock Island grounds since a mem
orable occasion two years ago when
he stood for fearful drubbing. He
had a reputation to win back and "a
worked as few Indians ever work. ii
was all il his control. which was per-
feet. But two hits were registered o*
him in eight innings and there was
never the ghost of a chance to scora.
Deserved IL Shutout.
| Big Frank Lakaff tOiled on the hill
for Rock Island and with proper SUP
port and a square deal he would have
made it a shutout But his backing
was a trifle wabbly on one or two i'm
portant occasions and there was no
square deal from Daub.
Swain stung a safe one in the first.
went along station on Kearney's sac
rifice and ambled the rest of the wa
on OLeary's two sacker. Dan to3G
third on Vandine's hit and officiated in
Ia successful squeeze with Wanner
Warmer and Berger were out
There was nothing doing after tha,.
though Vandine led off with two bag
ger over Davidsons head in The
sides chances. Van being caught al
the plate.
/ Peoria went along till the fourth
with no prospects worth speaking Of
Then Davidson dropped a fly just out
of reach of the infield and BeweT ad-
vanced him on grOunder Swacina
took pass and with Egan at bat 4
double steal was pulled off. O'Leary
/. saw Davidson mad too big a start t.
catch him at third and threw to se?-
ond. Wanner handled the ball. which
arrived in ample time. the throw be
ing perfect Wanner stood ready e
, tag his man two or three feet up th1
line and did tag him just as Swats
started to slide. 1t was no use. how.
ever. Daub. who had been following
Davidson trotted back shaking his
head and it was all off. Had he been
anxious to make an honest decision he
would have hustled back TO second tC
, see the play at close range, but he
seemed determined to award it to Pc
, oria even before it was made. Egan pop
iped out to Berger, but DOnnelly dropped
one about two feet too short for Kear
ney to reach and two scores came IL
That tied it up and Peoria Went
ahead when Berger errored on WOlf's
grounder and then threw badly to first
Eng got it on the bounce and muffed il
and before he recovered possession
Donnelly had crossed the plate from
second
Peoria counted again in the eighth
Thiery and Davidson leading with
; Thiery tailed on Swacina's fly thai
was caught by Kearney
II Escorted from Grounds.
! When the crowd was leaving the
I park a none too friendly bunch gath
cred around Daub and jeered him to {
finish, though no violence was offer
I ed. Detective Cox escorted him from
\ the park to be on the safe side. Score
r ROCK ISLAND ABB R. II. p. A e
\ Swain. IF ....... 4 l l 0
I Kearney, If ..t 3 0 0 0
] O'Leary. ..... 4 1 1 0
\ Nondina oh 4 q q -
D Wanner, 2b ........ l o 0 6 2