Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-12
Tighe Men Indulge in Booting
Match and Sacrifice Chances
of Taking Both Games.
sLATTERY SECURES HOMER
Clears Bases and Gives Home Team
Edge of Two Scores-Saturday's
Contest Goes 10 Rounds.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria at Rock Island.
Springfield at Davenport.
Danville at Waterloo.
Bloomington at Dubuque.


baseball game was played yesterday
afternoon at Island City park, tie cham
pions finally going down in defeat be-
fore the Senators by a score of 10 to 3.
The contest was one of the kind that
causes heart failure. While it is wrong
to say that it was good game, it can
truthfully be said that there was some
thing doing all of the time and that
the teams were pretty evenly matched.
Pug Cavet was on the mound for the
Islanders, and opposing him was the
elongated Grover Laudermilk Pug
really had it on the other big fellow in
thousand different ways, but errors
played such prominent part in the
visitors run getting that there was no
beating them.
Start OF Well.
The champs jumped into the game
with considerable vim and at the close
of the third round the score was to 0,
with every indication that the Spring
field crowd was due for a dreadful
beating. The fates had willed it other
wise, however, and after the fourth it
was anybody's game, and finally the
visitors. In the second inning OLeary
hit back of short, and the ball dropped
safely, thanks to the strong wind
which blew it away from Blausser.
Slattery bunted TO Laudermilk and the
tall fellow hurled to second to catch
Dan, but the throw was high and both
men were safe Kelly hunted and
moved the runners up a peg. Then
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O'Leary scored. Ir the next inning
Callahan walked, Davidson sacrificed,
Manusch hit, O'Leary hit, and Kelly
hit, and three men counted 1t looked
like easy pickings, but then came the
catastrophe.
Visitors Tie The Count.
In the first half of the fourth the
making of errors commenced and be-
fore the side was retired four men had
tailed. Lotion hit to right, Schaller
grounded to VogeI and a double looked
certain, but Voget erred and both men
were safe, one on second and the other
on third. Novacek grounded to Snyder
and Heinie drove his man back to third
and then threw the ball over Stats
head, letting one man count. Johnson
took a bump in the ribs, and the sacks
were filed, Will no one down. Collins
hit to right and two men crossed the
pan, and there were still two on the
circuit crowding the plate. A passed
ball at this point let another come in,
and then Pug took matters in hand and
retired the side by striking out three
men in succession.
Becomes "A See-Saxv
After the fourth it was q see-saw
game. In their half of the fifth Spring
field scored one man when Schaller
was hit and given base Novacek
followed with a drive to left field,
which got through Davidson, and one
runner scored. The Islanders came
back and more than evened it up on
home run drive by Joe Slattery. David
son and Manusch opened the inning
with hits, OLeary sacrificed and Joe
hit one deep into right over the field
er's head The bali bounded in under
the water tank and by the time 1t was
brought back Stats had scored, 1t be-
ing the first home run of the year on
the home grounds for the Islanders.
Four hits by Collins, Bell, Mcclure and
Laudermilk in the sixth counted the
visitors another tally, and the score
was to g. In the seventh Manusch
lived on an error by Bell and O'Leary
drove him home with a double to left.
Make strong Finish.
With the game nearly over and the
home team nicely in the lead, the SEN
ators, fate, and several of the Islanders
got busy and four runs were made in
the two closing rounds. with the result
that the DOWNSTAIRS won the game.
In the eighth Bell was safe when Stats
failed to have his foot on the bag
Blausser bounced one down the third
base line and Kelly stopped it just as
It got into foul territory. Harry held
it on the ground to show it was foul,
but Carruthers ruled it fair, and the
batter received credit for hit. Nc |
CURE hunted to Pug, and the big fell |
low erred on 1t, and the bases were
filled, with no one down. Laudermilk |
tween Snyder and Kelly. Heinie got |
hold Of it. but it eluded his grasp and /
two men counted Lotion bounced one |
slowly to Snyder and the best the |
Dutch twin could do was to get the |
runner at first, letting another man
score That gave the visitors lead
of one run. and they increased it by an |
other in the final inning on a hit by |
Collins, sacrifice by Bell, an out at
first, and McGuire's hit. The Island
ers were unable to tie things up in
their half of the ninth, and the game
went by the boards. The score:
ROCK ISLAND. ABR. H P. A. E.
Callahan, CT .........4 1 o 2 0 1 /
Davidson, II .........4 1 o o 1
Manusch, RI .........5 3 1 20
OLeary, ..........4 2 10 4 oil
Slattery. 10 .........4 1 1 8 L
Kelly, 3b ............3 O.