Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-10
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Ball Diamonds Kept Busy Yes
terday Afternoon and Sat-
urday.
LAvELLES LOSE TO Y. & MS
Elks Win at WatertOwn-Benne
Trim Silvis on Pitching of
Myers-Othcr Games.

The Young & McCombs baseball
team met and defeated the team rep
resenting the LaVelle clothing store,
in hot game yesterday afternoon
in South Park. The field was in
pretty bad shape and both teams
were enabled to pile up enough runs
to win an ordinary game, the final
score being IA to 10. The winners
presented a patched up lineup on ac-
count of the sickness of several of
their players, but even at that, the
LaVelle's were unable, to win out.
The score by innings was as follows:
Y. & NJ. ....3 G. 2OO2 O-14
LaVelles ......0 2 2 0 l 0 90
Batteries: Engstrom and Norman;
Brien and Westling
-Elks Trim WATERFOWL
The Elks team of this city found
Watertown's independent team easy
picking when the two aggregations
met yesterday afternoon. The final
result was l to l against the Water
town team. The losers used two
twirlers in their endeavors to stop
the locals from scoring but it no use
as the runs piled up in a hurry at
the finish. The score by innings was
as follows:
Elks .....0 l | d l 3 3-11 10
Watertown 90 0 0 90 / O.
Batteries - Anderson and Gregg
Applequist. Carlmark and thinner
man.
"White SOx" Win One.
The White Sox, newly organized
team played and defeated the Rock
! Island Centrals, yesterday afternoon
The game was played on the South
| Heights diamond and was a close eX-
the victory by the score of ) to .
on superior work in the field and al
bat. Stapleton and Sage formed the
battery for the victors.
LanndaIes Defeat West Ends.
The Lanndales and the West Ends
played a game on the West End dia,
mond and the former team won by
a score of IA to 8.
Davenport Schools Play.
The Davenport high school team
found the team from Marengo easy
picking Saturday afternoon and took
them into camp by a score of IL tC
4. The Davenport boys We're fast
on the bases and they hit the bal
hard. The score by innings:
Davenport -. .0O2 COS 6 0 Oil
Marengo % 0 0 OO2 0 O.
| st. Ambrose college took a trim.
ming at the hands of ST. Joseph
| school Saturday, the final tally being
s to 0. Taber who twirled for the
victors proved a puzzle to the st
Ambrose boys and % of them swat
ted the atmosphere only. The score
| by innings was as follows:
st. Ambrose % 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O-C
ST. Joseph's ..OO123 O11O-S
| SiIvis Proves Easy.
The Silvis team proved no match
for the BENEFITS of this city who
played them yesterday afternoon al
the diamond in Silvis. The fina
count was 10 to 4. Myers who twirl
ed for the local team was chiefly re
| sponsible for the victory. as he STRUCK
out 8 men and allowed but five hits
The BENEFITS managed to pile up 1 !
hits in the nine innings.
AuEustana Continues Winning.
The Augustana college baseball team
defeated the Greenbush team Saturday
by a score of 10 to 5. Humes replaced
Lane for the Greenbush team in the
latter part of the second inning, how
ever, and held the college men dOwr
to only two runs during the rest Of
the game The score follows:
Augustana .....4 100000 *-10 8
,,Greenbush 230OO0-5 6
Batteries - Ekblad and Johnson
Lanes, Humes and Stader. Umpire