Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-21
Fast Garden Work and Timely
Hitting by Islanders is Du-
buque's Downfall.
TALLY 6 TO 2 AT FINISH
Neal is Master of Situation With Per.
feet support Except in Eighth
Three Doubles Made.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria at Rock Island.
Bloomington at Davenport.
Decatur at Dubuque.
Springfield at Cedar Rapids.


Springfield at Cedar Rapids.
The fast fielding Of the Islanders
coupled with their timely hitting prov
ed the undoing of the Dubuque aggre-
CATION yesterday, and the Islanders
won the contest by score of to ..
Neal was doing the heavy work for the
Rock Island team and he was master
of the situation ut all stages with one
exception. The exception resulted "a
the two runs which Dubuque managed
10 have chalked down to their credit.
Seven hits were made Off Billy's deliv-
cry but his support was such that two
hits each inning would have had little
effect upon the final score. Three
lightning fast double plays were easily
the feature of the day. and all of then
came at times when Billy needed some
thing of the sort to boost him out of
his troubles. Berger, Vogel and Swa-
Gina figured in these feature plays, th2
latter making one of them unassisted-
Find Ray Early.
The Islanders located Pitcher Rav
early in the game and it was not hari
10 see after that, which way the game
was going to end up. In the third
round, two hits netted the local three
runs, mainly through errors by the Wis
itors, but the ability of the Islanders
10 get hits when they were needed was
conclnsively shown. Vogel opened
the inning by securing free transpor-
tation to first base. Billy Neal sac
rificed himself and moved Otto 10
second base. Murphy hunted one .
Ray and the pitcher threw TO third
base to catch Vogel. Vandine dropped
the ball. however. and both runners
were safe. Berger poked Que past Lee
chen and scored both Vogel and Mur-
ply Swacina followed Joe's hit with
4 good solid poke into left field and
Berger went TO second base He then
pulled off a delayed steal that would
have done Murphy honor and landed
on third. ''Swats'' drew a throw to
next pitched ball and Berger let out
for the plate. They had him there,
but Nunamaker dropped the ball after
tagging him and Joe was safe. Thus
endeth the first lesson.
Hits Galore In the Fifth.
After wasting two nice hits in the
fourth inning. Ray was gwen another
shock in the fifth round in the shape
OF four hits. which Noted three runs.
Swacina opened the inning by getting
his second hit and Mcbride attempted
TO sacrifice, but made it hit by fast
running. Airing who covered first
base on the bunt, missed the throw 10
catch Mcbride and ..Swats" went from
second 70 third. Mcbride stole second
and Kelley was out at first base on 4
grOunder to second. Jacobsen brought
Swaciua home with single in right
field and with Mcbride on third he
tried to steal second The Dubuque
catcher made. bluff of throwing to
second, but instead he threw to the
pitcher and that individual was so De
wildered by what was going on. that
he dropped the ball and Mcbride came
home Vogel drove in Swacina for the
third score of the inning, by banging
one on the nose for two sacks.
Dubuque Scores Two.
In the eighth inning, the Islander:
were so far ahead that Billy Nea
eased up. little and the resul, wa!
that two runs were made by the visi
tors. Nunamaker was passed to frs
and Ray followed with hit Taylor
out at first moved each of the runner
mp notch and Lerchen's hit owe
second base when two were down
brought in d pair of runs. After tina
Billy got back on the job and Their
was nothing further doing. The score
ROCK ISLAND. ABR. Fl. P. A.