Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-09

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q. Hit by pitcher-By Carmichael, 1.
Umpire-Malicoat
Diamond Dust.
1t was simply awful for Daven-
port. but awfully simple for Rock Is
land
Four games out of five from Dav-
enport in one week. If we can't get |
all five four will do.
Saturdays attendance was the big |
gest week day attendance ever re
corded in the league, being abort
$500
Today and tomorrow the Islanders
are at Dubuque and Wednesday we
open series of three games with
Davenport here.
Parkins put few bets on hih.self
yesterday, which didn't help the sit
uation for him, either during the
game or afterward.
Oh you naughty. naughty Island
ers Don't you know that if you beat
Davenport so often, the Prodigal
stockholders will go broke?
Murphy's work in center was one
of the features of the three games,
In every contest he pulled off one of
his running catches in most approx
ed style.
The Davenport correspondent OF
the Chicago papers who announced
that Wilson was knocked off the slab
Friday stated yesterday that Parkins
was not feeling we'll when he started.
No doubt of it. The feeling he had
was an ominous foreboding of inn
pending disaster.
Life is not worth living for several
rabid Davenporters now. Not only
did the Prodigals lose three straight
to the Islanders but the idol Parkins
was also shattered at one fell swoop
Said one heartbroken ex-fan What
the use of having a ball team if it
can't beat Rock Island
Needless to remark, there was no
bonfire on the north side of the creek
last night nor on Saturday evening.
There was nothing over there but
weeping and wailing and crashing
of teeth and many of the mourners
had to come to this side for the Pc
culiar kind of consolation their sys-
TENS required.
the Chicago papers failed to make
note of the pitching of hardin and
Lakaff in their respective games and
yet this pitching was really the feat
ure of the last three games. The
Argus on the contrary, gave Parkins
credit for pitching a magnificent
game of ball on Friday.
After the first inning of the first
game Saturday, Pa Shaffer became
sick and he was not in evidence for
the remainder of the game. He took
a chance and got into the second
game, and because it was close he re-
Trained from getting sick and stuck
the contest out, although he had an
other severe attack after it was all
over.
One Davenport fan made the as
sertion that the Islanders were not
playing on the square. He said it
had been fixed for Davenport to take
one of the two games on Saturday
and also the game yesterday and that
the Islanders didn't stand by their
agreement Imagine the Islanders
fixing" game with Davenport or
anybody else.
Hardin owned the city Saturday
night, but he is of modest nature
and could not see that he had right
to take it. Big Jack Tighe and the
rest of the boys whom he has saILer-
ed together came in for their share
of praise also and most of the Is
landers are richer by a few simoieOns
as a result of the two games, as the
men who won money on their play
were not slow to share up.
If the Davenport correspondent of
the Chicago papers had only thought
of it, he would probably have said IN
his story of yesterdays game. that the
Parkins who was knocked out of the
box in the fourth inning was not the
same man who pitched on Friday, but
was his twin brother 1t will never
do to admit that it was the same Par
kins, pitching the same kind of ball 20
the same men, and that it was simply
case of Parkins getting his
And now the Davenport ex-fans eX-
plain the three successive defeats os
Saturday and Sunday by saying that
the members of the PrOdigal team
were all out on loot Friday night.
Goodness me, will Davenpo' : never
learn that there are times when a
game is lost because they have bumped
up against a superior team. which
makes the losers qp)ea: 10 have some
thing the matter VIII them
Wise played cracking good game
at second base and swatted the ball
hard. He made five hits in the four
games he has played and two of ,hem
nave been for extra sacks. In Sat-
urday's double header he made four
mus Tor six bases and each time he
drought men home with the bingles.
an made two errors out of 81
onahces during the series which
~heh all rs said and done. is mt on
pad as we do not expect him 70 to1,,
ING position like Otto vogel would
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