Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-12
LOSERS TO DUBS
in FIRST ROUND
Cominger's Wildness Costs
Rock Island Another
Game.
DRIVE BRINGS TWO SCORES
After Which Islanders Struggle
vainly to Overcome the
Lead.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Rock Island at Danyille.
Davenport at Springfield.
Waterloo at Bloomington.
Dubuque at Peoria.

Cominger's wildness in the opening
round gave Dubuque game yesterday
which otherwise belonged to the ISL
anders The Miners profited by the
big fellows inability to get the ball
over the pan and got three men on
the bases, two of them on walks and
one through being hit with the sphere.
Then Cominger managed to throw one
right over and the result was disas-
trous, as the ball was hammered out
by Lerchen into a two-sack drive and
two men scored on it. That was suf
ficients as the Islanders were able to
make only one run during the remain
der Of the game, and it mattered not
that Dubuque failed to do as well, for
their two runs doomed up as big as
mountains when it was all over.
No Timely Hits.
A good clean single would have won
the game several times for the Island
ers, or at least would have put them
in a fair way to win it The oppor-
tune hits were not forthcoming, how
ever, and five men died on bases,
three of whom at least could have tai
lied had there been even a suggestion
of safe crack. Five nice clean hits
were secured to six made by the visit
ors and yet that one timely drive of
Lerchen's was worth more to his club
than all the Islanders hits put to-
gether. The only hit which was of
any use to the Islanders was made in
the seventh inning by Slattery and it
was the means of bringing in the ISL
anders' lone run. O'Leary led off with
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Bower and Stats followed with a drive
into right center which allowed Dan
to reach third. Stats hung between
first and second and drew throw
there after the ball had been sheaved
home to stop Dan from scoring Then
Stats played tag until Dan got a
. chance to come home from the last
corner. There ended the whole works.
Pitcher Wild mt First.
Taylor, the first of the Dubs to come
20 bat, was put on first base by being
hit in the ribs with a pitched ball.
Reagan waited for four wide ones and
Reaga awaited for four mide ones and
got on. Bower tried for hit, but the
result was a popup to O'Leary. With
two down Cominger got wild again
and passed Daringer, filling the sacks,
and then there was a cleaning when
Lerchen landed on straight one and
knocked it out between Manusch and
Callahan where neither could touch
it. Two men scored and the third was
held back only by quick return of
the sphere. Mol famed and ended
the inning, but the mischief was done,
and despite the good work of Comm
ger the remaining eight rounds the
game was lost.
Still on Color.
The Islanders showed some signs of
the same kind of ball which they en-
joyed so much Tuesday, but they made
no attempt to equal the record they
set at that time. Kelley's error was
almost excusable, if an error ever is.
Kohl and Ochs each made a bungle
that was pardonable. Their bungles
came on high flies which they dropped
after everyone had heaved a sigh OF
relief thinking there would be no op-
portunity for their being missed.
Neither bungle was costly, however,
and the team would have won the
game had it not been for that unfor-
tunate first inning. The score:
4