Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
TWO TO ISLANDERS
Professionals Take Indoor Baseball
Games, Defeating Arsenals
and EIks. \
FIRST PLAYED HERE IN YEARS
Contests at Rink Prove interesting
and indications Are Tri-city
League Will Be Popular.


the fans of the city yesterday with
two interesting games played on the
spacious floor of the skating rink, and
from all indications the game is a
conner and will fill long felt need of
the baseball bugs who have to sit
around the radiator and look at the
sporting notes in the papers in order
to survive the winter. While at neith-
er game was there as large crowd
of spectators as the game deserved,
those who were there were enthusiast
tic about the possibilities of the game.
The evening game was between the
Elks and the Islanders, and the Is
landers proved a little too fast for the
younger players and won the game by
O. score of IS to 23. 1t was nip and
tuck all the way along the route. For
the first five innings the Elks had it
on the Islanders and the score was in
their favor. but the last three rounds
proved their downfall and the profess
| SIGNALS ran in enough tallies to cinch
the game.
Eight on n Side.
The game was played with eight
men on each side, as the islanders
were too few in number when the roll
was called. There were nine of them
in the game in the afternoon, but Lis
ter, being an Elk and on the Elk team
withdrew, and Howard, who played in
the afternoon, did not put in an appear
Ianno Tho ElIyc wQra ,nt in, fu1l force
and the difficulty was finally settled
by Tighe withdrawing from the Eli
lteam and going over to the Islanders
which put the two aggregations on ar
equal footing as far as numbers were
concerned.
The score by innings was as fol
lows:
Islanders ......... 1861 72 -,
Elks ............ 522072 Az;
The Islanders linup was as follows
Wilson, p; Swain, f; Murphy, Is; Van
dine, 3b; Mcbride. 2b; Wanner, rs
Tighe, 1b; Eng, C.
Elks: Lister, lib; Anderson, 3b
lSalzmann, C; Carse, Is; Souders, p
Smith, 2b; Adams, rs; Duffin, f.
II Plan with Arsennls.
In the afternoon the Islanders play
ed game with the Arsenals and woI
from them by score of 16 to Is. The
game was fast one from start to fin
fish and number of double plays were
made The Arsenals were expected b.
many to take the measure of the pro
fessionals, because they were alread.
familiar with the game, but the Is
landers rose to the emergency an,
took them off their feet in the frs
] flew innings and gained a lead which
won them the game. The lineup o
the Islanders was practically the sam
as in the evening, except that Liste
played first base and Howard was Il
the game in the outfield. The Arsena
team lined up as follows: Thomas, 2b
} l.. Donaldson, Is; Stewart, rs; Duffy
lib; C. Donaldson, 3b; McTighe, p
,Adolphson, C; Essenwein, RI; Oh
weller, If.
q All the men engaged in the game
I showed considerable proficiency col
sidering their lack of unfamiliarit
with the rules and there is no don't
but that with a little practice til
3 teams will be able to put up fas
( game. The newness of the game cau
3 ed some funny incidents to arise. 0
one occasion in the afternoon an a
3 senal man tatted the ball against tn
z ceiling and it remained on the top
q la beam. Mcbride instantly secured
q long stick and prepared to knock
. down to resume play. Lister place
y himself under the ball and warne
q Mac to knock it down easy SO that h
q could catch it and put the man on
q He did catch it and then failed to Sc
y why the man should not be called on
Z The incident caused roar of laught'
3 from the spe ctators which continue
q long afted the game had been resume
al. Another rule which bothered IL
lleaguers was that which says TO
balls do not count strikes as they
in baseball. Murphy was continual
thinking he batter ought TO be o.
when in reality he had but one stril
on him.
Too Quick In Stealing.
Swain, Wanner and Murphy had
be sent back to bases several times
ter it seemed to them they had stole
Ell base. The rules require the bas
"a runner to remain on the sack until Il
o. ball has reached the catcher and tn,
II IL were used to going down with Il
OF pitchers arm" which, while very ST
20 cessful, was not allowable. Because
~ 1.-THE fun in the game and its close rel
II ton to outdoor baseball there is
reason why the game should not pro
a winner, and the tri-city league will
all probability have a prosperous Sc
son. The managers of the teams we
to hold business meeting yesterd
= morning at the armory in Davenpo
ISL but as some of them were unable to