Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
ISLANDERS IN
A JOLLY ROMP
Score Stands 13 to 1 After
Geneseo's New Park Has
Been Opened.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE
Henry County Town Does Itself
Proud i'm Entertainment of the
Visiting Delegation.

When a team scores 13 times in one
game, it is said to be a sign of hard
luck, and the hard luck is principally
the property of the team which failed
to score the 13 points. That was the
case yesterday when the Islanders in
vaded Geneseo to aid the newly organ
lied team froms that city to open up
its ball park in fitting manner. The
Three-Eye leaguers from this city
romped away with the gravy on a
platter 13 scores one way by one lone
score the other way. Tighe's men
found the amateurs easy picking, and
had the manager cut the players loose
earlier in the game, there is no telling
what the score might have been at
the finish. He held his men in check
until the very last round and then
babe them see if they could make
more than one or two scores in an
inning. The result was the five scores
were forced over the pan as the re-
suit Of four hits, three of which were
for two sacks, and an error and a base
on balls. At that, the GeneseO boys
put up a good article of ball for anna
teurs in their first game.
Three Pitchers Used.
Tighe used three of his pitchers dur
ing the nine innings to give them a
sort of workout for the heavy work
which begins tomorrow. Neal led off
on the mound and the one score which
Geneseo tailed was made at his ex
pense and partly with his aid. Loves
of Geneseo poled a safe one in left
field which would not have been a
safe one had it not been for Berger's
ambitious desire to get everything
that he could touch. Joe was deceived
by the wind, which caused him to
think that he could get under il, when
in reality it belonged TO Mcbride, who
could have taken it easily With
Loves on first, Billy Neal threw one
over Stark's head in trying to catch
him off the sack, and he went to sec
ond while Stark was hunting for the
ball among the crowd MANNERS out
at first sent Loves to third, and he
came home on hit by our own Billy
Jacobsen, who was used by Geneseo
in the outfield big Bill cracked one
out over Vogels head. which scored
the one lone run for the Geneseo team
Hardin and Webster, who followed
Neal for three innings each, held the
Henry county aggregation to but one
hit and not the semblance of a run
In the three innings which Webster
twirled only 10 men came to bat, and
it looked mighty much as though the
ninth man was passed purposely in
order to let Billy Jacobsen come as
the last batter for the Geneseo team
Hardin held the same record as Web
ster, except that he allowed one of the
10 men who faced him to get a hit
Billy Neal allowed II men to come I'll
in three rounds and three of them go
hits off his delivery.
islanders Score mt VIII.
The Islanders seemed able to rur
scores over the pan whenever the!
wanted to. With the exception of thu
second and the seventh. they score,
every inning. In the first inning fou
singles by Mclean. Stark, Murphy ant
Mcbride scored two tallies, and an
other was added in the third on hit
by the last two named above. In In
fourth Novacek, who had replaced Me
loan in the second, and Murphy eacl
doubled after a pass, and two NOR
runs were annexed In the fifth il
ming run was scored by the local
without hit being made. Berge
drew free transportation and went t
second when Vogel was hit by a pitcl