Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-01
FOR THE
PENNANT NEAR
Three Eye Clubs Will Get to
Going During the Coming
Week.
OPENING I'm ALL CITIES
Rock Island and Bloomington Picked
OPENING I'm ALL CITIES
Rock Island and Bloomington Picked
to Make Good Showing-Much
Depends on Pitchers.


The coming week will see the in
auguration of hostilities in the Three
Eye league. Next Thursday Qet us
hope the weather will be warmer
them the first pennant games will he
played, with Rock Island at Cedar.
Rapids, Dubuque at Davenport, Peoria
at Bloomington and Decatur at Spring
field. Saturday, two days later, the
teams will switch and the other four
towns will have their opening, Cedar
Rapids being at Rock Island, Daven-
port at Dubuque, Bloomington at Peo-
ria and Springfield at Decatur
Tri-city fans will have the advantage
two openings, one at Davenport and
one at Rock Island, and see half the
league in action, all within three days.
Never before has there been such
uncertainty as to the relative merits
of the Three-Eye teams at the opening
of pennant race, for never before has
| there been such a shakeup in manag-
ers and never has there been so much
new material In the exhibition games
played this spring, little real dope Is
| to be had Rock Island and Davenport
are the only teams that have fairly
contested within the circuit, and visit
| ing teams that have played in more
than one city have been affected to
such an extent by circumstances that
| there is little chance for comparison.
We Look Strong on Paper.
On paper Rock Island and Blooming
ton, with practically the old teams.
look the best Assuredly, Rock Island
has a stronger aggregation than last
season and the players are in good
form
| Davenport. with practically a new
team, has shown up well and under
Pa Skaters leadership may be relied
upon to be in the race all the time.
| Peoria and Springfield have almost
entirely new teams and are unknown
quantities. but both have experienced
men at the head, and it may be taken
as settled that if there are any serious
flaws in the early part of the season
they will be rsmedied.
| Decatur has fast bunch and Man
lager Fred Moore has been doing a lo'
of hard work He claims to have
taught his men some inside baseball
during the spring practice that viii
| spell results later on.
/ Dubuque has not had much of a tes
so far, but. Judging by the character
of men Manager Plass has been re
leasing he must have something prett!
good left
i Cedar Rapids, as in the days of Bel
den Hill is a mystery. The Rabbit!
have had trouble in holding their owl
with the Central association team!
they have met, and seem due for ;
slow start, but the league has learned
to expect them to come from the rea
after the season is a few weeks old.
Fast As Ever In Field.
1t is conceded that the league ha
not lost in fielding ability by the Gu
in salaries to $1,000 per month, wher
they were from $4,000 to $500 las
year Some of the teams, nOtabl
Rock Island and Bloomington. are fig
ured to be stronger with the stick thai
in 1905
Probably more uncertainty exists II
regard to pitchers than in any othe
department, for there are many es
periments here. If the recruits TO
box positions come up to expectation
the race will be tight one