Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
POOR SUPPORT
To Be REGRETTED
Attendance at Island City Park
is Not What the Associa-
ton Deserves.
CLUB OWNERS FAITHFUL
Have Given the City First Glass Base
ball for 10 Years at a Finan-
cial Loss Many Seasons.

ROCK island led the league last year
In attendance and while this years
Showing is far in advance of that in
many of the other cities in the cir
cult and there is no question but that
the required aggregate will be reached
yet it is a source of regret that the
lovers of baseball in Rock Island are
rot taking the interest in the game
tkat they should. There are several
things that the fan who has been lax
in attendance should take into consid-
eraIion. In the first place there is
the home association which has kept
baseball III Rock Island continuously
for 10 years. In the entire Three-Eye
league there are only three of the cities
which originally made up the circuit,
Rock Island, Bloomington and Daven-
port, and the latter dropped out for
two years on account of poor attend
ance. Rock Islands steadfastness is
pretty good evidence of pluck on the
part of the home association as well as
loyalty on the part of the baseball
patrons.
Money Has Been Lost.
Further than this, the men who have
kept baseball here for 10 years, have
Will lose money this year, and lots of
it, but they will be in the running when
the season is over and ready to take up
their burden again when another sea
son rolls around. They deserve all
the support that can be given them.
Despite the fact that the team isn't
at present a serious contender for the
pennant. though the same can be said
of several other teams as Springfield has
he'd on tenaciously to the lead gained
in the early part of the year, it must
be considered that at the opening of
tie season there were few who imag
ined that the depleted pennant win
ners of last years aggregation would
land out of the second di-
vision. Nevertheless, Tighe's team
has been in the first division
practically all of the year and most of
the time. as it is today, it has been
fighting for second place, always with
q chance of winning out in the end.
Does not that also make the team and
the association worthy of the best of
support?
Have Good Team.
The pennant should not be the only
thing contended for, for if it were,
there would be seven very much dis
appointed cities to one that was salts
fed and baseball would cease to be
the great national game. A good,
hard fighting team with the
same kind of baseball is what is wanted,
and that is what Rock Island has. The
association is presenting it at loss of
money. The season is nearly over At
the beginning of another season it is
probable that a new league will be
formed and in all likelihood the COM
psn ny in which Rock Island will find it.
self will be determined by the attend
a1ce showing made by the patrons this
year. The people are not prepared for
a cheaper and lower class of baseball
than the Three-Eye league has been
for the last 10 years and 1t
is I'D to them to indicate by their at
tendance-by their support and loyalty
IL the Rock Island baseball association
which has been in the league from
start to finish, and won two pennants.
their determination that Rock Island
shall continue in the league which has
always presented first class ball.
Wake up We fans and go to all the
rest of the games here this year.