Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-05
WILSON WAS BEST
Rock Island Pitcher Led Three
Eye League in Batting With
Percentage of .314.
OFFICIAL AVERAGES ARE OUT
Wanner at Top of Second Basement
Islanders Second in Team Fielding
and Fifth with the Stick.

The official averages of the Three
Eye league are alleged to have been
mailed to the various towns from Pres
ident Hollands office at Bloomington
last night Extracts from them appear
ed in this mornings Chicago papers
and the Bloomington Paragraph OF
This morning contained them in full.
No copy of the figures had reached
Rock Island this afternoon and those
presented on this page of The Argus
are reproduced from the Bloomington
paper.
The surprise of the season is the
batting of Christy Wilson, the Rock Is
land pitcher, who is given percentage
of .314. placing him at the top of the
IThree-Eye hitters. He played in 81
games. Not another player is above
the 800 mark, Swacina of Peoria, now
with Pittsburg, and Doyle of Spring
field, now with Ne WORK, being second
| and third, respectively. Among the
| Islanders Swain is second, 22nd in the
list. with 252, O'Leary third and Hines
fourth.
Pitchers All stand High.
The official figures do not give Scott
of Rock Island the honor of leading the
pitchers. as had been supposed. He
Islands fourth with a percentage of 1872,
playing in IS games. Campbell of
springfield with Is games is first with
7G9: Eastman of Peoria in % games,
Springfield with IS games, third with
1871. Howard of Rock Island was sixth
with 70S. playing in "a games. Neal in
lbs games has .G79, Wilson in &c games
.G15, and Lundin with % games, .60l.
Jones of Dubuque pitched nine games
and lost them all.
Among the first basemen Cameron OF
Springfield III 10 games leads with .991 ;
lOLeary of Rock Island is second with
800. Tighe Of Rock Island fifth with
1856, and Hines of Rock Island sixth
with .9S5. Eng's percentage is .9S2.
| Wanner of Rock Island leads the sec
Ond baseman with 500, Genins of Du
buque, French of Clinton and Egan of
Peoria following in order.
| Vandine In Most Games.
Among the third basemen Bower OF
Peoria leads with 1872, BIausser of Ce
dar Rapids and Herbert of Springfield
following. Vandine of Rock island
stands fourth with 800, playing in Is:
games. the greatest number of any
player.
Raymond of Peoria heads the short
stops with .92S, Scharnweber Of Spring
field being second and Berger and Cool
of Rock Island tying for third witt
926.
i Corners of Bloomington heads the
regular outfielders with 800. three 9th
, ers who played out of their position:
or were in but few games having per
, feet records. bowers of Rock Island i!
well up in the list with .959. Swain
percentage is .954, Cooks .933. ant
MuTphy's 1927.
Among the pitchers, Scott of Rocl
Island, together with Roach of Peori
and Persons of Decatur, have peTfec
records. OF the other Rock Islam
pitchers, Wilson fielded .9G5, Neal .95S
] Lundin 952, and Howard 937.
81 Leave Cntchers Out.
Il For some reason the records of tn
J backstops are not given. Rock Islam
is fifth in team batting with an averag
of .225, Peoria leading with .234. Il
! club fielding Peoria is first with SO
! and Rock Island second with $50.
The poor showing of the batters ma
he placed to the credit of the pitcher:
) Never before have there been no 80
: batters among the regular players, an
!; tncver before have the club average
( been so low. The Rock Island twirler!
5 it should be noted in this connection
showed up by far the best of any i
) the league, and the local infield ha
the best general average.