Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-31
CROWD
SEES US WIN
People Packed Into Davenport
Ball Park Like Sardines
in Can.
GAME is OURS FROM START
Twelve Healthy Swats, with -Four
Prodigal Errors Make Many
Iowans Sorry They Went.

Rock Island at Dubuque.
Cedar Rapids at Davenport.
Bloomington at Decatur
Peoria at Springfield.
settle yesterdays game with Daven-
port as it did the day before, butt
just about the same amount of time
was spent in the operation, due TO
the kicking tactics pursued by Man
ager Schaffer of the Prodigals who
objected to everything that was done.
The local team walked away with the
game in a handy manner with score
of 6 to ). Twelve hits, almost half
of which were for extra sacks,
of the Prodigals, and but one on the
part of the Islanders to aid nine
scattered singles in getting Daven-
port TALES, tells why the score stood
as it did.
1t is true that the new umpire,
Beers, hailing from Kewanee, was a
little off on balls and strikes, but
uClt Davenport hdu any MIN SOhi-
ing on that score is hard to tell, as
they were the principal benefactors
therefrom. The jumps had Webster,
who was on the mound for the Is
landers, sweating all the time on ac-
count of the holes he was put into
by the balls which the indicator hold
er persistently called on him when
I no han ha of
the pan nicely. The one really close
decision which Beers made on the
bases was in favor of Pa Shaffer' S
aggregation, when in the minds OF
many of the Davenport fans, it ought
not to have beenso. Still the PretZels
kicked and kicked and after the
| game the mob swarmed out on the
| field and made threats of violence tC
| the umpire.
Ours From start.
The game was the Islanders from
| the very start. The first of the six
runs was made in the very first in
! ing after two men were down. Me
loan hit safely over second base and
promptly stole second. Mcbride
drove out a mighty swat into the
crowd in left field and on account OF
the ground rules he had to be content
with two sacks on what is ordinarily
a three-base hit for Clyde. The hi
sent Mclean in with the first score.
| Davenport eyened up the score il
| their half on pair of hits one OF
| which was on the scratch order, bur
the Islanders jumped right back into
| the lead in the second innings by run
ming another score over the plate
| Vogel opened with hit and Gu:
sacrificed him to second. Then came
Webster with hit something lik,
McBride's only few feet shorter anC
! Otto crossed the pan while Web jog
| ged along to second base and waited
| for the ball to be returned to the dia
mond
| In the fourth another run wa!
added in almost the same way as thC
preceding one. Vogel opened with f;
single and Gus repeated on the sac
rifice stunt. Again Webster poled 4;
hit and Vogel was safe at third. Ther
| Murphy drove one to Fleet who wa
in the Prodigal pitching box, and Vo
gel was caught between the plate ant
third base. Reitz, however, won thu
i plaudits CD of the crowd by fun
4 bling the ball when it was thrown t.
him and Otto registered his secont
italy. Davenport succeeded in addin:
another the same round. Webster
!, walked two men in succession ant
i then two hits scored Il run. With tn,
bases full and only one down tn,
\ German yelled for a home run wheI
Smith came to the plate but his of
fering was a short one to Web VIII,
i threw to the plate thereby forcin,
one man, and Eng's quick throw t.
first ended the inning with a nea
double play.
Count Two I'm Seventh.
The lucky seventh was very un
lucky for the Pretzels. Mcbride
double, Stark's single and ReitZ's er
ror were productive of two runs fo
the Islanders and then the Prodigal
came up and went down in order
The scoring ended with the two run
induc ny TIRE 1SidhueiS III INC Sc'cHtI
although the Davenport team starte
out to make things hot for Webste
in their half of the ninth. With on
gone, OhIand and Russell drew single
in succession and the crowd began
take notice and hope swelled up
many bosom, only to be crushed GU
as Russell was caught at second o
Skaters grounder and Smith wa
struck out by Webster as a fiittin
conclusion for the game. The score