Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-28
TICHE HAS COMERS
Davy and Cominger, Secured
from Mansfield, Are Prom
Using Men
SHOULD MAKE GOOD HERE
Former from Troy, Home of johnny
Eyers and Is Professional
Basketball Player.

Mansfield, Ohio, Oct 26.-(Special
Correspondence.)- 1.-TWO of the best
players in the Ohio State league as
well as individual stars of the Mans
field club were secured by the Rock
Island club when it drafted Shortstop
Jimmy Davy and Pitcher Marshall
Cominger. Both players are of good
minor league caliber, and there is abb
solutely no question here but that they
will prove valuable players for the
Rock Island club during the season Of
1910.
Shortstop Davy had a very success
full season during the past year, al
though he slumped during the closing
weeks of the season, after he had
batted at a 300 clip almost the entire
season, he finished with an average
of 265 and was the best hitting short
stop in the Ohio State league He
made total of 129 hits in 4S7 times
at bat, according to the unofficial fig
ures. He led the Mansfield club IN
number of hits made. and was one of
the most feared batsmen in the circuit
as he was a dangerous man with men
On bases.
Good Anywhere.
If Davy should fail to make good
with Rock Island at the short field po-
sition, no better player could be car
ried for the utility role as he can play
any position except behind the bat,
and he has never been called upon 20
assume the big mitt When he first
came to Mansfield, when the Interstate
league disbanded in the season uf
1907, he joined the club as pitcher.
He was one of the most consistent
twirlers. and took his regular turn ON
the mound until the last five weeks If
the season, when he started to play
the short field position. Bonnie Jew
ell, the star shortstop of the club, VINO
was with Wheeling in the Central
league during the past season and
who has been drafted by the st. Louis
Nationals, jumped Mansfield and Dayy
volunteered to play the position. He
did SO well that he was called upon
to play the position regularly during
the past season, and worked there all
during the season with the exception
of one game when he was called upon
to do mound duty when several of the
Mansfield pitchers were being pound
ed to the four corners. While far from
being a star in fielding the short field
position, he has shown a steady de-
velopment. He is fast, but is prone
to slip up on the easiest of fielding
chances
Not StrIkeout PhenOm.
AS pitcher, Davy showed consider
able class. He is of the type of twirl-
ers who strike out but few batters,
but win their games He was invaria-
bly, scored upon during the first few
innings, but after that could be relied
upon to hold down his opponents dur
ing the remainder of the game. Most
of the games which he lost were won
by his opponents in the opening
rounds. He mastered the art of keep
ing the opposing batsmen knocking
puny flies or grounders, and many of
his games were few hits affairs. His
best performance for Mansfield was n
thinning game against the Lancaster
club with "Red" White. who was with
the Boston Nationals during the past
season, as the opposing slab artist.
But four hits were secured off his de-
livery, those coming in the first five
rounds. In the last nine innings but
20 men faced him, a base on balls and
an error being responsible for the only
two batters who reached first base in
those innings.
Davy puts in the winter as a pro
fessional basketball player, he being
ranked as one of the greatest players
of the indoor game in the east. He
has played with the famous Glovers- |
vile, n. Y, five, professional cham |
pions of the United States. and with |
Attleboro, Mass. and Paterson, n. j.
His home is in Troy. n. Y.
First Season for COminger.
For his first season in professional
baseball. Marshall Cominger made an
excellent record and developed into
one of the star twirlers of the league.
He worked in "a games, winning -
and losing IL, for percentage of .542,
which was higher than the percentage
of the Mansfield club at the close of
the season. Most of his defeats came
in the early part of the season when
he was not going very good. He has
a splendid curve ball, and relies to a
great extent upon it in all his games. II
He ranked ninth among the low-hit
twirlers OF the league, pitching two