Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-09
Rock Island and Clinton Each
Set Half Stick in Last Dou-
bile Header.
HITS PUNCHED ON HAvEL'K
Wilson in Form in Second Contest
Which Is Called at the End of
the Seventh Inning.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Rock Island at Clinton.
Dubuque at Cedar Rapids.
Peoria at Springfield.
Bloomington at Decatur.

After losing the first of double
header to Clinton yesterday afternoon
Wilson was sent in to twirIthe second
game and he won it easily. The con-.
test was cut to seven innings at the,
request of both teams before the game
opened and at the end, of that time the
visitors had three hits to their credit
and not single run The champs,
On the other hand, piled up figures
in both the run and hit columns and
won by score of to 0. Havelik
was on the mound for the Clintonites
and his spit ball looked good to the
champs after one inning had passed.
Lundin came up in the second in
ing after Cook had been put on the
The ball went down the right field
foul line and hit the fence Kirsch
had merry chase after it and he got
it just in time to keep Lundy nailed
to third Berger followed Lundy's hit
with single that resulted in the first
run of the game.
Amass Three More.
After that there was nothing doing
until the fifth when the champs went
after Havelik once more Three love-
ly hits. sacrifice and a base on balls
spelled three runs and the game
looked easy from that time on. Eng
started the good work with a single
over first base and Wilson laid one
down that moved Gus to second.
Murphy lined out a beaut and chased
Gus to third while he went to second
himself on the throw which kept Gus
from reaching home. Stark got free
transportation which filed the sacks.
Two runs came in on Novacek's dou-
BILE to left field 1t was a peach of a
hit. going just along the foul line out
of the reach of everybody. Stark
went to third on the hit and came
home when Cook was thrown out at
first on grounder In the next in
ming the fun continued and three
more hits were harvested which pro-
duced two runs. There was one gone
when Wise was passed and through
the courtesy of Havelik in overthrow
ing Buelow in an attempt to catch
him off first he went to second. Eng
followed with his second hit of the
game and Wise went to third. and by
drawing a throw allowed Gus to reach
second. Wilson knocked a high foul
and two were gone. but Murpy picked
| out one that looked good TO him and
when it was thrown back into the
| field Wise was walking to the bench
Stark also found one that suited hin
and his single scored Eng. which
ended the scoring of the game.
stark Pulls on Double Play.
The feature of the game was the
double play which Stark made all by
himself. Grogan was on first wher
Reitz knocked a hot liner at Stark
which Claude caught. Grogan made
a desperate effort to get back to the
sack but Stark hurled himself head
long at the bag and reached it will
his hand which contained the ball ana
the double play was completed 81
nicely that even Grogan failed t
register a kick.
Wilson's pitching was the big fea
ture of the game. He had the Clinton
bunch looking for the bali all th'
time and when they did find it it wen
up in the air making a put out easy
| Three hits were all dle had with hin
and when they were carefully distrib
uted among the visitors the rest hat
do without anU