Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-18
After II Grueling Rounds Rock
Island and Cedar Rapids
Quit and Leave Town.
HAD TO CATCH EVENING TRAIN
Good Many Reasons Why Visitors
Were Not Shut Out, Principal
One Being Lundins Muff.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Rock Island at Decatur.
Clinton at Springfield.
Dubuque at Bloomington.
Cedar Rapids at Peoria.

In stubborn ARRAY yesterday after,
noon Rock Island and Cedar Rapids
quit with honors even after II rounds.
the legal limit when train time ap-
proaches and both teams must get out
Of town. The score was and and
had stood thus since the fifth, when
Umpire Mcfarland, at the solicitation
Of the home management. put an end
TO the futile struggle Immediately
after the whistles had blown for quit
ting time.
1t was Lundin's fault and Billy
Meals fault and the umpires fault
and the fault of several others on both
sides of the rumpus that Rock Island
did not win. 1t was Lundin's fault
because he dropped a fly after two
We're out in the fifth that let in the
only scores of the Rabbits. 1t was
Meals fault because he neglected
chance to nip off man at third when
a double steal was attempted and half
of it accomplished in the same round.
It was the umpire's fault because he
made Rock Island do things over
again after they had already been law
fully accomplished. 1t was various
other Rock Island players fault be-
cause they failed to hit with men on
base and it was the fault of various
members of the Cedar Rapids team
because they did not make their err
rors at the right time to do Rock Is
| land any good The visitors erred
often enough. but only one had any
thing to do with scoring a run for
Rock Island and the tally would prob
ably have been made anyway. On the
other hand. Rock Islands only mis-
play cost two runs and the game.
| Earned "a shut Out.
In reality Neal earned a shutout
fairly enough Though he was raped
oftener than Malicot and had better
support than his opponent he was
tight in pinches every time. At the
same time he had almost perfect con-
troll. passing one man purposely and
another being walked after he was
fairly struck out
| Rock Islands score in The third re.
suited from a three Dagger by Murphy
and an error by Sours at short. Neal
was already down and Stark was
amidships but Cooks roller retired
the side In the fifth Cedar Rapids
went one to the good. Simon flew tC
Murphy and Collins lifted a high one
back of first that nobody could quite
reach. Lundin fielded it slowly ant
the runner took chance and made
, second on it. Sours went down easil!
and after three that looked fairly gOo(
had been called balls Stark signaleC
for a wide one, deliberately passin:
Brown. Malicot looked easy an;
would have been ordinarily. He sen
J a fly out to right. Lundin ran bacl
I after il but apparently lost it in th
sun. The ball bounced out of hi
ri hands. he made another lunge an,
\ grabbed it again. again lost it ant
\ finally went 10 the ground in a las
and unsuccessful lunge. Both Collin
and Brown crossed the plate. Davi
= went out on grounder.
In Rock Islands half it was tied o
a pass TO Murphy, hit by Stark, sacr
flee by Novacek and a bingle by M
Bride.
Often Ready to Score.
Ri After the fifth hardly an innin
Z passed but one or both sides had me
in position to score had there been
Z hit, but in every case the pitching wa