Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-27

Lift fell back for a place kick. His
never failing boot did the work and
the bali sailed squarely between the
|uprights amid the wild cheering and
waving of colors by the spectators.
He also tried another place kick early
in the half from the 40-yard line, but
missed the goal posts by about four
inches. The ground gamers for the
| local team were Lift, Brennan, Smith
Trimble and Roche When time was
called for the game the Clinton play.
ers cfeered heartily for the Islanders
and they in turn were given hearty
cheers. They proved good losers.
The Lineup.
The lineup in the contest was as fol.
lows:
Rock Island-Beals, Smith and Kit
tflsen, ends; Brennan and Frey, tack
| les; Duncan and Christensen, guards
Benson, center; Kelly, quarterback /;
Trimble, Lift and Smith, halfbacks
and Roach. fullback.
Clinton-Christy and Shufelt. ends
Stuart and Shaft, tackles; Dutton and
Delaney, guards; Steele, center;
Stoik and Wells, halfbacks; Bufing.
ton, quarterback; and Wells, fullback
Referee, Siler, Clinton Umpire
Ralph MacManus, Rock Island. Head
linesman, Earl Fraser Rock Island
Timers, LamDhere of Rock Island and
Croan of Clinton.
Moline Wins From Davenport.
The question of tri-city supremacy
will remain undetermined this year as
the result of the defeat which Moline
administered to Davenport in the an.
nual game yesterday afternoon in Mo.
line. Davenport had the better of the
argument in the first half of the game
and the score seemed to indicate a
sure victory for them, but the Moline
boys came back strong in the second
session and won out. 1t was a very
exciting game throughout and both
| sides were supported by enthusiastic
rooters
Moline put the ball in play by kick
| ing off to Davenport, who, being fay
tored by the strong wind from the
west, resorted to punting tactics which
soon placed the ball well in Moline's
territory. Moline became anxious and
was off side continually, and finally
found themselves in possession of the
ball on their own five-yard mark. wy
land attempted to punt out from be
hind the goal line, but the pass wa:
poor and he touched it down and /;
safety counting two points for Daven
port was scored. Soon after the kick
out Davenport punted to Moline afte
being held for two downs, and wheI
| Woodyatt failed to get the ball
Schmidt of Davenport picked it up ant
scored touchdown He then kicked
goal and Davenport's total of eigh
points was reached. All the first hal
was played in Moline territory.
Win in Second. IS
/ The second. .half was all rMoline's
latter few, exchanges of punts afte
the kickoff, Wyland tore off a 100iyar
run for a touchdown, and after that
was easy and two more touchdown
| were added. Hart kicked one of tn
goals out of the three and the Molin
side of the score was 16.
From the fact that Moline and Roc
Island tied in their annual game an
Davenport was beaten by Moline, TIL
title of tri-city champions will have t
be divided this year.
The remarkable showing which Roc
Island has made however. makes thi
almost as acceptable as real victory
land every one of the followers of tn
lgame in this city is well satisfied
coach Powell has done a wonderful
lpiece of work in making the team
which represented Rock Island whel
the material with which he started
considered Most of the men wer
lgreen at the game and of light weight
but he rounded them into form an,
made one of the best working ma
chimes out of them that the high Schoo
has had in many years. With what i
left of the squad this year and the new
material, Coach Powell will undoubt
eddy make another team far more pow
erful than the present one.
| ,Maroons Defeat GeneseO High.
| The Maroons of this city went up
notch yesterday. when they defeated
the Geneseo high school football team
in a game at Accommodation park a
lGeneseo. The score was IL to 0, tn
goose egg belonging to Geneseo. Mos
high school teams are prohibited iron
contesting with unaffiliated teams. un
der the rules of the Illinois Higl
School Athletic association. But Gen
eseo could secure no better match TO
the day, and the Maroons We're take
on, to the regret of Geneseo now.
Use the New Style.
The Rock Island boys INDUCED il
the open style of play, and resorted t
a number of trick plays. They had tn
Geneseo boys completely puzzled al
through the game. The Maroon BAG
6eld composed of Thomas L. Robt