Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-07
.'itches No Hit came Until the
Ninth Inning When Stark
Broke Up die Hoodoo.
GAMES TIC MORROW.
Rock Island at d 9enport.
Dubuque at Ce "a Rapids.
Bloomington al recatur.
Peoria at Sprir q ED.
GAME; IONDAY.
Rock Island dubuque.
Cedar Rapids at Davenp ri.
Springfield at Peoria.
Decatur at Bloomington.

For eight Ions innings the Islanders
battled with Pa Shaffer's Prodigals 81
the opposition lot yesterday afternoon.
| only to be trodjen upon and given the
small end of 4 TO contest The
score tells in measure the nature of
The game, but does not spell the fact
hat Blondy Parkins, the premier
slabbist of the Prodigal staff. held the
top notchers for seven full innings
without a MAJ reaching first base. nor
does it signity that until the ninth in
ming the islanders seemed unable 20
solve his delivery and were unable To
connect with the sphere for safety.
1t was left to Claude Stark, who was
out of the game until the ninth inning,
TO step to me plate and shatter Nv
Parkins' vain endeavors to pitch no
hit contest. This came in the ninth
and had no Eng been called out on
close decision at the. plate, the IS
landers would have escaped the cal
Gimme.
Only Chance in Ninth.
From the Initial inning it seemed as
though the crippled Islanders were
doomed to defeat and the efforts Of
Chrisiy wilson and his assistants prov
ed futile TO dispel the hoodoo which
appeared to hover over the Islander
camp. In the fifth inning Wilson mot
with a slight mishap that augmented
his injury and he was forced to retire
in favor Of Neal When Neal took the
and Parhins' two Dagger at this time,
brought over two more TALES for the
| Prodigals After this eventful session
| Neal settled down and twirled good
ball.
The ninth inning proved to be the
only one in which the locals had any
| Show against Parkinst defense. After
two extra men had been tried out in
an effort to land a bingle, Claud Stark
was taken in off the coaching line and
IN less than minute had hung up the
only hit Of the game for the locals.
Eng, who had preceded him to first
on free pass, was moved a peg by
this feat and in reaching third was
given the attention of the entire Prod
| lgal array OF pennant chasers He
| finally lodged on the coveted sack only
after being tagged by Nye, who fell
down at the same time and dropped
he ball A double play at this juno
turc cut off the chances. Murphy, in
endeavorinS TO bring Eng over the pan.
spilled hoj one to Teddy McGrew,
who scoopcd it out of the dirt and
caught Murphy at first and Shaffer
with heave got the ball to the plate
i'll time to shut off the one tally which
Eng was carrying with him. Berger's
Srounder to Shaffer closed the oppor-
lunity to the Islanders.
Score in Second.
| The first taIies for the Prodigals
were brought over in the second inning
when Ohland's drive. followed by an
error by Mclean who endeavored 10
land Nye's short fly, and another hard
drive by Elmer Smith brought both
Ohland and Nye across for scores.
Again in the fifth the Prodgals broke
loose and ran over two more scores
through the agency of three bingles.
Nye reached first on his safe one %
center, was assisted around the pegs
ny Smiths sacrifice and Shaffer'
grounder over third and scored on Par
klns' two Dagger to left center. Shaffer
VINO had worked a steal for second,
| also came III on this swat In the
hnth Davenport brought over another
tally to complete the quintet after
Two were down. Geyer poked the ball
INTO right field with sufficient horse.
power behind it to send it rolling into
the fence and before Jacobsen could
corral 1T, Geyer had anchored on third
From here he was rescued by War
FINDERS single through short. The
lscore: