Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-30

a base on balls. and Streeter was hit
by a pitched ball, which filled the
bases. 1t looked dubious with the
much touted Mcclure at the bat, but
he was easy for Christy who made
him hit at one close to his hands, and
the result was that he was thrown
out at first by otto Vogel. Again n
the seventh. the bases We're filled with
a hit by Johnson, an error by Mcbride.
and base on balls, but once more the
mighty Mcclure fell before Wilson and
drove an easy one to Berger, who
threw StTeeter out at second base and
ended the inning During the nine in
nings, oniv four clean hits were Sc
cured off Wilson and one scratch hit
was made. With one execution. not a
single hard drive was poled by the
visitors and the one exception was "A
line drive to Stark who doubled the
runner at first and retired the side
Christy's work was remarkable when
the great heat is considered.
introduced to Newcomer.
The Islanders faced a new man on
the Springfield pay roll and one who
may look pretty formidable to most If
the teams in the league before the
season is over The newcomer is one
Maloney. not from the Emerald isle,
however. buJ from Chicago. where he
has been playing semi-prOfessiOnal ball
and making good. He was effective
against the Islanders in all but two
innings, but in these two rounds he
was landed on good and plenty. In
the third inning. Wilson opened with
a two sackeT down the left field foul
line and Murphy followed with a sin
gle which drove in the Islanders first
run The rest of the runs came in
the sixth inning and they were the re-
suit OF some good hard bumps After
right field and had been retired. Me-
loan poked Texas Lacquer over sec
ond base and reached first He was
then led into trying to steal when Ma
loney wound up for delivery but ne
was caught between bases when the
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the plate 1t was really .balk. but
the umpire failed to call it such and
SO Mclean had to fight for his life like
"A rat in gutter. He put up game
exhibition. however, and finally reach
ed second base when Bell made an
overthrow to Steiger Jacobsen was
the mex man with the willow and his
Offering was a drive TO Mcclure who
made a futile attempt TO touch Mclean
as the latter slid into third. The re.
suit was that both men were safe
With two men on the sacks. Mcbride
hit the ball squarely on the nose and
it sailed out so far into left field that
Streeter was unable to run fast enough
to get under it, When it finally came
down near the Brown Beauty sign,
two runs were in and Mcbride WAS
hiking for third where the coacher held
him. Kelley followed with hit be
tween second and first and Mac scored
the third run of the inning Stark
made the second ont of the inning
with a arounder TO Bell. and then Otto
Vosel gave his batting average lift,
by hitting one almost 10 the back field
fence which was good for two cush-
ions. The two Sacker drove in the
fourth run of the inning and Wilson
decided that his side had enough for
one iuning so he proceeded to strike
out and end the misery which Dick
Smith felt
Ease Up for Rest of Way.
Wit ChriSty working nicely and the
game safely tied up. the Islanders were
easy cn>Mr. Maloney in the next two
innings anH>nO more runs were made
and tn score ended ; TO 1. Here it is: