Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-05
AR WARMING. UP
Prospect Of Going Against Davenport
Already Stirring Blood Of the
Fans.
REMEMBER OTHER SEASONS
Are Anxious to See If Jack Tighe Can
Find the Hocdoo That Figured
So Strongly in Past.

With the return of Davenport to]
the Three-Eye league, the old spirit
of rivalry has taken possession OF the
fans of that city and Rock Island, and
prophecies as to the outcome of the
games between the two teams are al
ready on the market. 1t has always
proved that the race for honors be-
tween Rock Island and Davenport has
excited more interest locally than the
question of the winning of the bunt-
ing. In point of number of games won
Rock Island has usually had the edge
OH Davenport, even in seasons where
| it had TO be admitted that the team
from the other side of the creek was
really the better of the two.
This was shown in 1903, when, al
| though Davenport ended up in advance
of this city in the percentage column.
| the team from there had to submit to
J 1G drubbings out of the IS games play
ed with Rock Island Rock Island
seemed to have the Davenporters buff
| faloed that year, for up until the last
two games Davenport was absolutely
helpless when they ran up against the
local ball tossers. Time and again
they apparently had the game won up
until the last inning or SO, and then
the Islanders would wake up, and
lwhen the smoke cleared away the
smile had been taken off the Daven
Iporters' faces Rendered desperate by
1.-THE repeated drubbings, Davenport i'm
ported Gus Munich, Chicago semi-prC
pitcher of pretty high class, for the
last two games. and he was able tt
turn the trick, and the ambition of the
Iowans for the season was realized
inasmuch as they had succeeded il
winning a game from this city
HoodOO Busy Again.
Again, in 1905, the Islanders got the
hoodoo to working properly and once
more Davenport had to see PRACTICAL.
all the games played between the tw'
teams go to Rock Island. There wer'
! Is games played in 1905 and Rock Is
land took away the long end of tn
score in IA of them. This fact was
II big, figure in Davenport's withdrawing
tfrom the league, which took place a
the end OF the season. 1t hurt tn
l Davenport fans to think that no mat
ter what happened they could coun
: on two things as settled-that is, tina
2 the sun would come up as usual in tn
& morning and that the next game wit
Z the Islanders would be lost. Beside
3 beating the tar out of Davenport tina
Slyear, Rock Island took swat at mos
!, lof the other teams in the league, an
!, came within an ace of landing at tn
? top of the heap. They finally woun
< lup in second place, and it was an a
2 lmost assured fact that had they ha
!, Davenport to battle with in the las
< series of games instead of any othe
8 city in the league, the rag would
( all probability have floated from til
3 pole in this city during the followin
< season.
y VIII Tighe Have 1t on EN-:
ri While Jack Tighe is not counting c
& the aid of the old. time hoodoo whie
8 this city seems to have on Dayenpor
x nevertheless he is expecting to win
& majority of the games from DavenpoI
q as, in fact, he is expecting to do fro
& the rest of the teams in the leagu
3 This year Rock Island and Davenpo
4 are both putting up some stiff CLAIM
g as to the quality of their teams col
x pared with former years, and it
9 more than possible that if all they s;
x is true, the old rivals will have som
& thing more to battle for than a me
q majority of the games played with Il
& other; they may have the ownersh