Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-24
SCORE IS CLOSE
Greenbush Team Defeats White
Sox by Single Tally at
Watch Tower.
HOMER HELPS WINNERS
Centrals Again Defeat Crack Thorn
bloom Tigers of Moline on
Latter's Diamond.

The Greenbush team and the Whlte
Sox played 10 inning game at the
Watch Tower grounds yesterday after
noon and the former won out by mar
gin of one point, the score being 10 ID
10. The game started off like pitchers
battle, but both teams began hitting
towards the end and the affair turned
into a smuggling match Lanes home
run with two men on the sacks and
Meyers three Dagger were directly re-
sponsible for the victory of the Green
bush aggregation. Humes and Stader
formed the battery for the winners and
Stapleton and Sage performed for the
White Sox.
The Greenbush team is scheduled for
a double header next Sunday afte"-
noon The BettendUr. team will be
met in the morning and in the after
noon the Smoke House team of Daven-
| port will play against the locals on
| the Watch Tower grounds.
Centrnls Put Tigers TO Rout.
For the second time this year the
Centrals of this city defeated the
Thornbloom Tigers of Moline on the
latters' grounds Ehe game was play
ed yesterday afternoon and the score
was II to II. The Centrals' fielding
became lax toward the end. and this
almost lost the game. The Centrals
started Off in the first inning with two
runs due to several hits. The Tigers
came back in the second with two,
while in the third the Centrals scored
lone more. In the fourth the Centrals
got two and the Tigers one, while in
the fifth honors were divided. each
team getting two. In the sixth the
lCentrals got one and the Tigers two.
In the seventh Briggs, who had been
kept for weeks for this game, was
knocked off the slab, four runs being
IScored by the Rock Island team Pc
terson, who took his place, kept the
ICentrals from scoring in the last two
innings. although he was hit hard. In
the eighth the Tigers got one, and in
the ninth it looked as if they would
tie the score, the Centrals' loose field
ling allowing three runs. Larson pitch,
ed good game, but his support was
poor. The Centrals lined up as fol
lows: Rosenfield. If; Juhl, IS; Collins
Of; Ohlweiler, 1b; Means, rf; Larson
lip; Banmbach, 3b; O'Neil, 2b; Bulger, c.
| Benefits Trim Durant.
The BENEFITS went to Durant, Iowa
yesterday and defeated the Durant
regulars 8 to 1. Myers for the locals
famed IL men while Leverich, the ex
Islander, famed 8. The local team
was given royal reception while in
Durant, band concert being one OF
the features. The score by innings:
R. ii. E
Durant :. 0OO00100-1
Benefits ..00020 1OO6-9 Is :
Batteries-Leverich and Lindberg
Myers and Kuschman.
| Next Sunday the BENEFITS play n
Colona and Monday meet the La Wales
at the Watch Tower diamond.
Boys Play.
The Twenty-fourth street Slugger.
defeated the Junior Centrals on the
reservoir diamond Saturday afternoon
II to 4. The batteries were William
Whistler and Nathan Harris for the
winners and Will Smith and Joe Col
lier for the losers.
EdgingtOn Bests AndaIusin.
Edgington defeated Andalusia on
the latter's diamond yesterday after
noon s to s. Alderman Martin Nc
Nealy of Rock Island officiated as UNI
pire and escaped the wrath of the
mob