Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-06
RECK is HEAD
OF BALL CLUB
Rock Island Association In An
nual Meeting Chooses
Officers.
YEAR IS SATISFACTORY ONE
Tighe to Re Again Offered Manage
ment-Grass Diamond Next
Season.

The stockholders of the Rock Island
Baseball association held their annual
meeting at the Harper house last even
1 ing and the business of the season was
gone over and directors for the coming
! year were elected. The old board
with one exception. was reelected, and
/ the following directors Will be in
charge of baseball destinies in this
! city next year: f. O. Van Calder, W
H. Reck. l.. NJ. Casteel. James Me
Namara and S f. Parker. ImmeI:-
ately following the stockholders meet
ing the directors met and organized
by electing w H. Recll to succeed Mr..
Van Calder as president. Mr.. Van
Calder. who has had the honor of be
ing the second president to guide the
fortunes of a penning winning team
having declined reelection, although
urgently requested to remain. S. f. Park
er was chosen vice president and l.. NJ.
ICasteel was reelected secretary, but
upon his refusal to act. on account of
business reasons. the place was lett
vacant until the next meeting of the
board
iit lNItll VI O'NlttdtN i. W. ' 81
teel showed the finances in salts
factory condition and the attendance
most encouraging. reaching in the
neighborhood of 10000 during the
season.
VIII Have Grass Diamond.
The most popular Improvement
which will be made will be the soddiny
of the diamond. so that next year It
will be covered with grass in most aP-
proved big league style. The grass
diamond is much faster than the dit
diamond and has several distinct ad-
vantages over it. In rainy weather
when dirt dia:nond is a sea of mud,
the grass diamond is in fairly good
shape, and they are very few games
postponed on a grass diamond because
of wet grounds. Then again there IS
no dust to cover the players and every
one in the blcachers when a puff CT
wind blows across the diamond, and
this latter fact is one that the fans
viii greatly appreciate. There will
be several additional improvements.
such as repaintinG the outside fence
and rebuilding the grandstand and the
pumphopse
Want Jack TiGhc Again.
The question of next years team
was one of important moment
before the meeting, and it
was the sense of the directors that
Manager Jack Tighe be secured TO
take charge of the team again next
year. The directors were asked to get
a definite answer from Tighc as to
whether he will assume charge again
next year. and in case he assents. he
will undoubtedly be engaged. The
stockholders appreciate the fact that
there is a popular demand for TiShc
as manager next year. and if it is in
their power they will see that he is
back on the job
Can Release Grounds.
Representatives of the syndicate
which owns the ball park assured the
that the park can be re
leased for another term of years.
though the rent will be higher on ac-
count of the increase in value of the
land due to the paving on Ninth street
The matter of releasing has been both
cring the directors for some time as
they feared that the land on which
the park is situated would become so
valuable with the constant rise i'm the
price of property that the syndicate
would want to cut it up into lots and
dispose of it.
1t was altogether one of the happiest
gatherings in all respects the local
baseball association has held in all its
history.