Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-06
NO PITCHER and
RABBITS LOSE
Put Third Basema4l Chase ca
the Job and He Is Landed
Upon Almost at Will.
SUPPORT is NOT THE BEST
Islanders Present Badly Patched
Lineup-Gus Eng Put Back
i'm the Game.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Rock Island al Davenport.
Dubuque at Cedar Rapids.
Bloomington al Decatur.
Peoria at Springfield.


Bloomington al Decatur.
Peoria at Springfield.
The Islanders and the Rabbits
played a farcia contest yesterday af-
ternoon at the Island City park. and
the locals won by a score of to 3.
The poor old Dummies did not have a
regular twirIer to use in the box
against the ISLANDERS and it would
probably not nave mattered much, as
the score would have been a big one
any way from the quality of ball the
visitors exhibited. Third Basemen
Chase was the man selected to bear
the brunt Of the battle for the Rab-
bits and Chase got his in the first
few minutes of play. He was very
kind to the Islanders and after one
man was out. he gave Berger base
on balls and hit Mclean with a pitch
ed ball and Swacina followed with a
drive into right field which slipped
through Clemens and two runs were
counted.
The team batted clear around in
the second inning, every man getting
"A chance To make a hit. Only two
of them succeeded in swatting the
ball safely, but one received a base
on balls, one was hit by the would-be
pitcher TWO were safe as the result
of errors and two sacrifice hits were
made. netting in all five runs. After
getting seven runs in the first two
innings. the Islanders made sport of
the game and did not try to rub it
in. as they have no i'll feeling towards
the crippled Bunnies. The eighth
run was annexed in the fifth inning
when Kelley hit safely to center and
Eng followed with a three Dagger to
the fence. Eng's hit was really a
single, but Pitcher Carmichael, who
was holding down the center field
job, mIsjudged the ball when il
bounded and failed to even touch it.
The final run came in the eighth
round and was the result of Murphy
hit, his stolen base and Meloan's hit
down the right field foul line
Visitors start BriskIy.
The visitors had one lookin at the
game before the Islanders came to
bat for the first time and after that
1T was all over but the shouting. In
the first inning, three hits were made
off of Lakaff. two OF them being in
held hits which Stark, who was play
ing second in the opening round, was
unable to field in time to throw the
, runners cut at first. Stark also made
an error which was responsible for
one OF the two runs which the Bun
MES secured in this inning His err
ror consisted of wild heave to first
base in fruitleSS endeavor to get
man there. The ball went past
Swacina and the runner went to sec
ond and a man who was third came
home. Mcbride was moved in from
lett field to fill the breech at second
base during the remainder of the
game and while Mac was little rus
ty' he showed that he has not for
gotten all he knows about the inlield.
The third and last run of the Wis
ltorS came in the sixth inning after
two men were out. Saillard received
base on balls and Clemens laid one
out INTO left center which was good
Tor three sacks and one score. He
tried to make homer out of il. how
ever. and was nipped at the plate
The Dummies seemed bent on scoring
IN the final round when clean single
and two scratch hits were secured af-
ter two men were down. DeConly
struck out. however, with the bases
iull and the game ended The score