Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-28
FINDERS
ARE EASY MONEY
Islanders Take Muscatine Ag-
gregation Into Camp in the
First of Two Games.
THE FINAL SCORE is II TO l
Bob CoucElman, the New TNvirIer,
Makes Good-Hunter and Slat-
terry Bump the Ball Hard.

! With ideal baseball weather once
more after layoff of more than Two
weeks. the Islanders celebrated yes,
terday by trouncing the new Musca-
tine aggregation which Lew Walters
| has gathered together. At the end of
the slaughter the score stood IL to 1,
and in fielding, batting, base running
and general all around playing the
score just about represented the com
parative merits of the two teams as
| they appeared.
| Tighe's men were just bubbling
over with ginger and the way they
cracked out the ball, ran the bases
and fielded was good to look at Willie
Hunter, he who covers mot figura-
lively but literally right field, was
the star of the day, his work being on
the whole sensational. He secured
four hits out of five times. up, scored
twice, and distinguished himself gen
orally. Slattery was second on tie
team as hitter, his efforts resulting
in beautiful three Dagger and a nice
clean single.
Everybody Right.
OuiSlue VI lllSSS IWO anu tue pIICu-
ers, there were no stars on the team,
or rather they were all stars. for
every one of the recruits worked like
Trojans. Manusch looked mighty
good in left field and at bat, while
Callahan performed as of old. Davey
made the only bungle for the Island
ers, his muff being on a hard hit
groInder. Jacobsen did the back
stopping and did a good job of it.
while Kelley and Voge1 each earned
their share of the applause.
Pitcher Bob Couchman, secured sew
eral days ago from ST. Paul, made his
debut as an Islander and made good
from the very start. The big fellow
had everything up his sleeve and in
five innings as many of the Pearl
Finders" (short for players on the
Muscatine aggregation in the North
ern association swatted in vain at
his elusive benders. Two hits were
garnered off Fob and both of them
were so stingy that it seemed almost
a shame to count them. They re-
suited in run, however, thanks to
lucky circumstances.
Frank Lakaff twirled the last four
rounds of the contest and while he
allowed three hits of the same va
riety which were made off Bob, he
kept the visitors at a safe distance
from the pan.
How Islanders Scored
Timely hits combined with costly
errors were responsible for the scores
made by Tighe's men. In the second
inning three hits were gathered off
of Big Chief Andrews, who was toss
ing them up for the Muscatine bunch,
and two errors were made which
helped in letting four of the home
crowd cross the platter. Kelley.
Couchman and Hunter did the hitting
in this session, Hunters offering being
a three-sacker.
In the fifth five runs were made as
follows: Hunter led with an infield
hit, Manusch sacrificed and was safe
on the error of the first baseman, Hun
ter as usual going to third on the sac
rff1ce. Callahan worked the squeeze
play and was safe at first when the
catcher's heels shot into the air as he
was trying to make a hurried pickup
to get the speed f1end who was coming
in from third Davey forced Callahan
at second, but was safe himself
After he had stolen second, Jacobsen
poked one between first and second
which scored both baserunners ahead !
of him. Kelley flew to left, but Stat
terry poked out his three-sacker and |
brought Big Bill home, after which |
he came home himself on a wild pitch. |
There ended the agony
The other two runs came one at a |
time in the sixth and seventh and |
were the results of hits coupled with !
errors. The score of the game: