Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-03
TAKE IT AWAY
FROM I0WANS
Islanders Invade Davenport
and Walk Off With a
q to 2 Game.
cHRlsTY KEPT EN- BITING
Two Passes. Sacrifice and Pair of
Hits i'm First Inning Undoing
of MIR. Fleet.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Cedar Rapids at Rock Island.
Davenport at Dubuque,
Peoria al Decatur.
Bloomington at Springfield.


Davenport at Dubuque,
Peoria al Decatur.
BloominetOn at Springfield
The Islanders took crimp in the
cbestv PrOdigalS and incidentally
broke up their winning streak. by
defeating them in the game in Dav-
export yesterday by score of 4 to
y. Christy Wilson did the work for
the locals and he made the Daven-
porters look like a lot of mikes .
Had il not been for an error by Ber-
ger in the fourth inning, there would
have been a Shutout to Wilson S
credit. and il is more than likely that
he would have held them to not
more than three hits. The error,
which was responsible for the two
runs which the PrOdigals made. took
little of the snap out of Christy
and he did not work quite so hard
as he was pretty sure of winning the
game and he did not want TO hurt
himself.
Bill Fleet twirled coed bah for
the Prodigals and allowed the Is
landers six hits. but his own Wild
ness in the first inning and errCGs
behind him made six hits great
plenty 10 win the game. The first
three runs of the Islanders came in
the initial inning. when Fleet passed
both Murphy and Berger Mclean
l., t,b
moved them within scoring distance
and after Swacina had made a fruit
less effort which ended in a foul
Mcbride came to the plate with his
favorite bat and delivered the goods
as he has done many time before
and just what we expect him to dc
many time in the future. His hit
was clean single into left field on
which both Murphy and Berger cross
ed the plate and Mac went TO second
on the useless throw home He
scored from there a minute later
when Kelley drove another single
into lett field.
Stnrk il Clever.
The fourth of the Islanders runs
came in the fourth and was the re-
suit of some clever work by Stark
Claude drew hit over third base
when there were two men down, and
with Nogel at the bat he stole see
Ond in most approved style. Not
content with this he waited until
four balls were thrown to Otto and
then proceeded to steal third. Then
the double steal was attempted and
| it worked to perfection, as McGrew
muffed the short throw to second and
| both runners were safe. That end
ed the scoring for the Islanders. and
| they rested during the remainder OF
| the game and allowed Wilson to keel
the Prodigals from tying up the con-
| test.
The two runs of the Davenporters
came in the fourth inning after the
| locals had piled up their fourth run
With one man down. McGrew hit {
nigh one to short left, Berger butteC
| in on Mcbride and the ball was
muffed Lefty Geyer found one Of
Christy's curves to his liking and he
( pd'Itt IL nearly 10 5tiie JAIN renee
scoring Rietz and landing on thirt
himself. Warrender followed with {
| drive out to Mclean who made a gooI
| try after catching the ball to throw
| GeJer out at the plate, but it wa:
| useless and the second of the Prod
igals' runs came in. Christy had ths
Davenporters at his mercy for the
remainder of the game and the score
ended as it $1,000 in the fourth in
| ming. The score: