Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-21
JOE CANTILLoN
MAKES A VISIT
Former Rock Island Ball Player and
Members of Party on Way
to Hunt in South
IN COMlSKEY'S CRACK LAUNCH
Promises to Bring His Washington
Team to Rock Island Next
Spring.

of the Washington American league club
and a member of the Rock Island team
I'm the Western association in 1894.
paid visit 10 Rock Island this morn
ing. He came on board the White
Sox, the launch of President Comiskey
of the Chicago White SoX. With him
were Otis Clymer. outtielder with the
Washington team. Jesse Tamehill,
the Washington pitcher, and Tom
Lynch and Tim Gleason, Chicagoans
and friends of Mr. Comiskey The
party are on the way south to spend
the winter hunting in the vicinity of
Hickman, Ky. Mr.. Cantillon hunted
e. Casteel, and some of the others he
knew well while playing ball here
He made number of hurried calls
to friends about town, including The
Argus, and at noon the party was dim
ed at the Harper by M. Fl. Sexton and
Charles McHugh, the latter having
been head of the Rock Island associa-
ton when the team of 1894, of which
Cantillon was member, won the
Western association pennant. Cantil-
Ion recounted the days of that eventful
year, and said that no pennant winning
team was ever treated better than the
one of that season, when Mr.. McHugh
gave each member a suit of clothes.
| He recalled the list of team members,
speaking with particular fondness of
Harry Sage of this city, then manager,
and of Belden HILL the third baseman,
now the Cedar Rapids manager. Dur
ing the conversation Cantillon promis-
ed TO bring his Washington team here
before the opening of the season next
year to play Rock Island, Just to show
the old town | have not forgotten it,
| he said
The White Sox, which is a gasoline
launch fitted with As horse power en-
CINE and equipped with every conven
fence for a party of nine. left Dubuque
several days ago. President Tom LOT
tus of the Three-Eye league was a
member of the party at that time and
remained on board for three days
/ leaving to hunt deer in Wisconsin
Mr. Comiskey will become a member
of the party at some point down the
iriyer.
II Not Afraid of Night Riders.
Mr.. Cantillon was asked by an Ar
gus representative if he had heard o
the killing of Judge Taylor and Cap
tain Rankin at Reelfoot lake by nigh
riders and of the rumored danger t.
himself and companions if they at
tempted TO occupy their camp in tina
region from the same source. He SAT-
all he knew of the matter was wha
he had read in the newspapers, blu
that he did not anticipate any trouble
and expected to go into camp as h
has done in other winters. Mr.. Car
tillon, Mr.. Comiskey and others own
large tract of land on Reelfoot LAX
that they are keeping as hunting an
fishing preserve. According TO report
it is the owners of clubs similar t
I theirs whom the native fishermen az
Z cuse of having caused the passage an
enforcement of stringent laws prOtec
I ing game and fish in Tennessee, an
tIlcIG ID SOlllt SiOtlllu 1tdi tIdI- III
! night riders may try to wreak vel
geGnce upon the baseball magnate
along with the others. However, M
Cantillon seems to entertain no fear
: on the subject.
Mr. Cantillon wore full fiedge
hunting outfit, out of the depths {
which when occasion suggeste
he dug a roll that looked as large &
the bat lhGi Danny Sweeney used
lug up to the plate. In getting at tn
q inside of the mass of green's he pulle
q out two diamond pins that made ii
i spectators blink-all of which is fu
s Their evidence that Joe has prospere
= and waxed fat in his old age.
iii ScOrn Sandbars.
The party left early in tt
y afternoon, expecting to stop
Muscatine tonight Their boz
II draws three feet of water, but I
to this point no trouble had been e
& perienced with sandbars. Asked if l
had good pilot, one that knows Il
channel Mr. Cantillon replied:
don't know about that, but 1 do kno
we've got one that don't care a blar
what part of the river he is in So
is assumed that the perils of the riv
below here have few terrors for Il
White Sox c-ew.
The navigators carried away nul
Der of remembrances of bygone day
which were dumped on the boat