Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-29

| Howard, RI ........2 =
Lakaff. D. .....2 l l o
Totals ..23 Z S#14
#Berger out; hit by batted ball.
whites ID
Grays ...........0 2 1 o.
Two base hits-Berger, Kelley, Lis
ter, Jacobsen. Three base hits-Mc-
Bride, Lister. Stolen bases-OLeary.
Jacobsen, Airing, Lister. Bases IN
balls-On Webster. /; off Lakaff, 1.
Wild pitch-Webster. l. Base on dead
ball-OLeary. Struck out-By Weo-
stcr. 1; by Lakaff, 8. Time of game
100. Umpire-Earle.
Old Stars Looked Good.
The fans had not forgotten the faces
of Dan O'Leary, Pete Lister. Dow Van
dine. or in fact any of the old men
who participated in the game, and they
were given rousing hand when first
they made their appearance at the
plate to bat The old time quartet,
O'Leary behind the bat, Lakaff in the
box. Lister on first and Vandine on
third, certainly looked good, and it
old days. Lister showed very plainly
that he has not forgotten how to hit
the ball since he left the Islanders, his
two bingles for five bases being one
Of the many features of the game.
The old stars were helped out in Sc
curing a full lineup by the presence
of Ted Anderson. the local boy who
played with Quincy in the Central as
sociation this year; Dutch" Airing.
the second sacker of the Dubuque
team, who happened to be in the city,
and Jacobsen and Wise from the regu-
lars.
Berger Given Present.
When Joe Berger took his first turn
at the bat. Umpire Billy Earle ordered
the game stopped and announced that
he had been requested to ask Mayer
McCaskrin to appear on the field. The
mayor was there in minute and the
crowd was soon given the information
that Joe Berger had taken to himself
wife earlier in the day. 1t was news
TO most of the fans and for a time
they failed to get the drift of the
mayors talk when he began telling
how Joe had that day made a real
home run. not a sacrifice, or a single
hit. Mayor McCaskrin spoke highly
of Joe as a baseball player and a ma ],
and expressed the hope that he and
his bride would live long and happily
Then in the name of Joc's teammates
he presented him with purse contain
ing $50 in bright. rosy gold. Joe was
embarrassed and was I'M
able to do more than humble his
thanks.
Field Events Interesting.
The field events which were pulled
off Immediately at the conclusion OF
the ball game were very interesting
to the fans and the ball players them
selves. The fungo hitting contest was
first on the program and there were
five entries. Lakaff, Wilson. Hardin,
Webster and Jacobsen. After making
two bum ones, Big Bill got against one
and drove it from down near the flaS
pole up almost to the grandstand AMI
won first price over Frank Lakaff by
a narrow margin Bennett, the furTier,
donated a pair of his finest dress
gloves as a prize i'll this contest, and
the Hub Clothing company gave a suit
Of pajamas for the second price.
The next event was running bases
against time. Mclean. Berger. Jacob
sen, Wilson, Vogel and Stark tried
their speed, and Berger was accounted
the winner, his time around the circui,
being 1925 seconds. Mclean appar.
emily had this event won and. although
he went around at his usual speed,
the stop watch in the hands of the
timers registered II seconds, which in
dicated that mistake had been made,
but Paul did not care to run it over
again and Berger was given the prize.
of pair of trousers from
the Beal Tailoring company. Jacob |
sen was second in the race, and he re-
ceived the second prize, box Of
cigars donated by J. p. Sexton.
Hardin Wins Long Throw.
George Hardin demonstrated in the
long distance throw that few Lall play !
ers have wing such as he has. Only
.hree men were entered in this event. |
tut all of them were consider good |
at tossing the ball long distance. and |
most of the fans thought that Jacob |
sen would defeat both Hardin and Joe |
Berger. the third entry. Hardin SUI
Drised them, however, by tossing the |
ball distance of 334 feet against the |
strong wind which was blowing. AMI |
Jacobsen and Berger fell short of this |
distance by many feet. George won |
he prize, a fine umbrella, donated By |
L. S. McCabe & Co. Jacobsen took |
second place.
Berger surprised everybody in the |
punt and run contest by defeating Paul |
Mclean. The first time they tried IT |
hey tied and this made it necessary |
o run il over again. On the second |
rial Mclean trippcd ard got a poor |
start. while Berger followed with per
ect start and beat him to the initial |
sack by one-fifth of second. The |
ime of the winner was So seconds. |
The first prize was a fine hat from La
velle, the clothier. and the second
'rize was fancy pipe donated by the
3ijou.