Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29
GAMES MONDAY.

GAMES MONDAY
Davenport at Rock Island 1.-TWO
games).
Cedar Rapids at Dubuque 1.-TWO
games). :.
Springfield at Peoria 1.-TWO games).
Decatur at Bloomington 1.-TWO gamesJ.
A most unfortunate and deeply re-
GREETED incident married yesterdays
game with Dubuque. Umpire G. c.
Bush assaulted Manager Jack Tighe
after calling him out on strikes
| in the last half of the ninth in
lining. and the two INDUCED in
rough and tumble in full view
of the crowd until separated by the
players and the police. Bush was ar
rested and hurried away from the park
Iby Mayor McCaSkrin. The local man
lagement declined to prosecute and he
was later placed on car for Daven-
port and told to git" The game was
! not finished and apparently stands as
no contest. President Nj. II. Sexton Of
| the Three Eye, who saw the incident,
| Immediately gave Bush his walking
| papers and he will not been seen here
again.
| When the game was abruptly termi-
mated the score stood to in favor
of Dubuque. At the beginning of the
ninth in was 2 to 0 in favor of Rock
Island. But Lakaff, who was pitching
for Rock Island, lost the plate at the
beginning of the ninth and a series Of
weird plays, with some hits gave the
i visitors what seemed a safe lead.
Il Primed for Trouble.
1t was easy to see from the very
!, start of the game that Bush was
lprimed for trouble. He opened the
ball in the first few innings by render
ing several off" decisions, and when
the crowd showed him their disap
proval by cheering for the player who
was the victim of the poor umpiring
he turned toward the grandstand and
Expressed his opinions in very nasty
manner. In the sixth, he called d
, strike on Wilson when the ball went
, away inside of the plate. Wilson sait
nothing but drew a line with his bal
, where the ball had passed him. Jumps
didn't like that and Christy was as
sessed five on general principals. L
cost Christy another five when ne
smiled at the umpire after he reached
first safely.
Glasses Stark OF Lot.
This rubbing it in on Wilson wa
4 M hnr 60 h. =,
: treated Claude Stark a minute later
8 Stark was on the coaching line at thir,
base and as there were no runners. OF
the bases he was forced to keep still
There is ne rule. however, which say
that coacher cannot cut ND all tn
capers he wants to as long as he doe
nothing wrong. Accordingly Claud
was supplying fun for the fans l.
Rfcarrying on his mock deaf and dunn
= conversation with Tighe who was o
4 the other side of the diamond a
soon as Bush saw thin, he ordere
Stark to the club house and Stark wa
< compelled to go, although he had don
9 absolutely nothing that gave the TN
3 pire right to send him there. JAG
g protested but to no avail He the
3 got in the game himself. taking Stark
g place at first
= Tackled Wrong Man.
3 In the ninth inning when Jack cam
g to bat with one out, he got two fou
e and then Bush called him out on I'll
6 next one, which was an out curve an
s went wide. Manager Tighe was just
g fled in kicking and he did So He W.
s starting for the bench when Blu.
g called him vile name, threw off h
s mask and started after him. Jac
y dropped his bat and grappled wit
g Bush who chenched with him aft,
e striking the first blow. Bush
G strength which has made him feart
6 by most of the players with whom
z has come in contact this year and
s the years past was of on avail again
& Tighe, whose anger and resentme
s had been thoroughly aroused. and
x about two minutes. Bush was hapj
8 that the crowd which had surged o
x on the field succeeded in separatil
g them. Mayor McCaskrin was on O
x scene and caused the arrest of Blu
9 and had, him taken to the police ST
:. ton at once where he was held for
N time and then given orders to g,
~ which he did
1t was most disgraceful end {
the game, but there IS no one w
s, could blame Manager Tighe in t
least, either for the protests which
made, or for the Way in which no :