Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-22
Bloomington Goes Away With
Rubber as a Result Of TWO
Rank Decisions.
TRIPLE PLAY, GINNING GAME
Though Grounds Were. Fine After
Shower Champs Were Not Given
Chance to Fight 1t Out.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria at Rock Island.
Decatur at. Cedar Rapids.
Springfield at Dubuque.
Bloomington at Clinton.

| A triple play, or one that was al
lowed to go as such by Umpire Stick
lney, by the Boomers, robbed the
champs of their only chance to win
yesterdays game There were three
men on base and no one
ont when Eng lined low
lone to Goodwin who picked it off the
ground, turned like flash, touched
third and threw to first From the
grand stand the ball appeared
to have been trapped and Man
ager Cook protested on this ground.
but after debate of some length his
jumps ruled that three men were out
and Rock Islands chances of resum-
ing the lead were gone.
The game was only six innings long
but it was full of interesting plays.
Rain threatened all through the open
ing and in the sixth inning it finally
lfell Time was called and at the end
of the half hour required by the rules
the umpire decided that it was still
raining and he called the game off.
He was right according to a strict in
depreciation of the rules but with the
little rain which had fallen and the
ifact that it was only coming down
! at the rate of one drop per minute he
would not have been criticised by
even the opposing players if he had
i allowed the game to proceed. He
didn't, though, and SO the game went
down in the lost column without the
champs getting chance to tie it up
again, which they might have done
as Salisbury had just been forced out
of the box and Davidson, his success
scr, was pretty wild.
4 started Off Right.
i The Islanders opened up in the first
inning with a pair of hits which, aided
by an error by Melchoir, netted two
runs. Murphy burned one over sec
ond and Cook made first on the error
of the second baseman. They each
advanced on passed ball by Wilson
Il Then Swain laid one just over short
where no one expected it and the two
lothers scored. t
4 The visitors got one of them back
in the third on a scratch infield hi
by Melchoir and pretty single by
Long. Melchoir completed the circuit
on the drive of Long, the throw tc
the plate being Intellectual. In the
next round they went after Scott ant
landed on him safely for three hit.
which, coupled with the fact that one
man was hit with a pitched ball, net
ted three runs. Kuhn and Wilson hit
Snyder got hit and then Goodwin
cleared the bases with beautiful two
Dagger to left field.
The champs seemed Yin a fair wa.
Ito get them back in their half of tn,
inning but Godwin's play put them tt
the bad. Novacek cracked out sin
gle and Berger laid down bunt AM
then beat it out While Novy was SAT-
!, at second. Mcbride followed with
hit that filled the bases. Sails
\ bury lost sight of the plate and passe
\ bowers, thus forcing in a run En-
X followed with the disastrous drive L
Y Goodwin. Eng's unlucky hit was off the de
n livery of Davidson who took Sails
q bury's place after the latter ha
passed bowers.
ri One More in Sixth.
Z The champs failed to cross the pa
y again in the remainder of the shor
Z game, but the Boomers added on
Nlmore to their string in the sixth Wi
q son started the trouble with a hit bu
Vlwas forced out at second while Davit
Z son reached first Orendorff knocke
" lout a single that put Davidson on tn
Mlfar corner and then a double ste;