Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-21
Hard Hitting Characterizes
Second Game of Series and
it issOne-Sided.
ISLANDERS LED ALL THE WAY
Visitors Would Have Gotten Scarcely
Smell Had Not Wilson Eased
Up in the Eighth.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria at Rock Island.
Decatur at Cedar Rapids.
Springfield at Dubuque.
Bloomington at Clinton.

The champs yesterday bested the
Bloomers by the score of 9 10 5. The
game was slow and there were no es-
pecial features other than consistent
hitting, in which Novacek shone par
ticularly, unless two stops of
hot grounders made by Mcbride could
be SO styled. He had to hustle for
both of them and the result was that
his throws TO Novacek were a little
of and the runners got there safe
thus making hard luck errors for Mac
His hitting, however, was feature
that entirely offset the errors. He
got three hits out of four times up,
che of them being a two Dagger to
the left field fence. Murphy was also
There in the getting on problem, bat
ting at the rate of 1000 in three times
up, being passed twice.
Start in second.
The first inning of the game passed
without a run for either side but the
Islanders squeezed a pair over in the
second round. Novacek reached first
L
second by Berger, who beat out the
| throw TO first and was safe. Mcbride
stepped up with a hit and Novacek
| was caught at the plate. The Bloomer
tackstop tried hard to hang one on
Berger who was on third, but the ball
hit Joe and bounded off and he and
Mcbride tailed bowers followed
4 nj ttx,-
/ home.
i The next inning saw two more runs
Tor the champs. Free transportation
was given TO Murphy and Cook, put
ting them on first and second, respec
lively. Al Swain went out at frs
Tut the other two each advanced /;
4 tase and were ready to amble home
OH Novaceks grass cutter owe
second
I Bloomington got one run back il
the next inning. Mcbride robbed
Goodwin of hit by having an erro
charged to himself and then Goodwin
differed second and advanced to thirt
when Mcbride repeated his stunt b.
stealing hit from Melchoir Kuhl
, came up with dinkey hit over tn
infield and Goodwin scored. Kuhn
cut at second retired the side.
SI Bunch FOur i'm Inning.
Il In the fifth round the champs pu
, ON their batting clothes and wen
latter Pitcher Jokerst and made a tota
) of four hits and three runs, Murph
I hit over second, Cook followed wit
} a scratch hit in the infield and the
( Roth went up one on Swalm's on
, Novacek repeated his. hit and the sam
Murphy and the manager scoring
Berger reached first while the visi
ors were retiring the new first sacke
8 ct second and after stealing to tn
half way station went to third on NJ,
Brides single. McBride's hit was nc
Ola clean out and Snyder thought h
saw chance to throw him out {
first. Kuhn failed to handle tn
throw properly. however and Berge
crossed the pan with another run
5 Mac retired the side in a vain effol
( Ito steal second.
!. In the seventh both sided added
run to their, score. Murphy came Il
with a hit, was sacrificed to secon
lhy Cook. stole third and came hon
on the long fly that Swain put o,
Into right field
The visitors got their run on a pa
LOT hits by Snyder and Orendorff aft,
Kuhn had been sent 10 first by bein
hit with a pitched ball. p
Wilson Eases p.
In the eighth Wilson let down
little, thinking the game was safe. ar
before he recovered base on ball
1.-TWO two-sackers and a single had chase
in three runs. Christy tightenedup aga
il the next inning and three fly bal
were the best that the Boomers cou
" get from him. In the Islanders half of Il
N Eighth Berger and Mcbride bo
N doubled and---Joe scored. The ne
NJ three were easy outs though and Il
W scoring ended. The score:
W ROCK ISLAND ABB. R.H .POA.