Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-13
STRONG TEAMS
TO MEET AGAIN
Moline West Ends and East
Ends Come Together Tomor-
row for Second Battle.
A BIG CROWD IS EXPECTED
Victors in First Contest Will Have
Hard Time to Retain Their
Laurels.

The West End and the East End
football teams of Moline will meet
again tomorrow for the second time
this year. The game will be played
at Athletic park in Moline and win
commence at o'clock If the weather
is fair a large crowd is expected to
turn out, as the game will be one of
the best of the year on the dope which
is handed out from both teams. When
they met several weeks ago crowd
of 1000 people turned out and all of
them were satisfied that they had
seen one of the fastest football games
which was yer played in Moline be-
tween Independent teams.
West Ends, Have Best Record.
So far this year the West Ends have
the best record of any team in the
state, and their claim upon the state
championship is much stronger than
that Of any other aggregation. The
East Ends succumbed to them in the
first game they played this year by
score of II to 0, but the teams were
apparently evenly matched, and if the
East Ends have strengthened their
team since, as they claim to have done,
the game tomorrow ought TO be ex-
tremely close, and it may be that the
tables will be turned on the West
Ends. The latter team is not in as
good shape as it was for the previous
game, as several of the men are on
the hospital list. They will all be in
the game, however, as far as is now
known, and they will play to retain
their laurels. The victory of three
weeks ago was the first one which the
West Ends have ever tasted at the ex-
pense of the East Ends, and, for this
reason the East Ends are all the more
anxious to win from the West Ends in
the game tomorrow.
PoOria Wakes Up.
The Peoria Socials, with whom the
West Ends played a tie game earlier
in the season, have finally found it to
their advantage to plead with the
West Ends for another game on the
grounds that it will decide the state
championship. Ever since the tie and
up until the game with Spring Valley
the West Ends have been trying TO ar
which has not fallen before them this
year, but the Peorians fought shy and
absolutely refused to play either in
Moline or in Peoria, or in a neutral
town after the close of the season.
After defeating Spring Valley by
larger score than Peoria did, the West
Ends decided to rest their claim to
the state championship on comparative
scores, as they had defeated both
Spring Valley and the East Ends by a
larger score than the Peoria Socials
had succeeded in doing. The Moline
teams claim has been admitted as
good by most of the teams in the state,
and now the Socials feel that their
only chance of breaking into the lime
light is by doing what they refused to
do earlier in the season.
No Word Received Here.
Accordingly their manager has caus-
ed the Peoria papers to print the news
of his having challenged the West
Ends to a game for the state cham
pionship. AS yet the West End man
agement has not received the chal-
lenge, and it is doubtful if he will con-
slider it If he does, as the dates which
were held open for Peoria for three
weeks have finally been filed.
The game tomorrow has no real
bearing on the state championship, as
to all intents and purposes the East
Ends are out of the running.