Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-02
HUNTER DOES IT
WITH HIS HICKORY
Rock Island Fielder Brings
AL Of Six Scores Secured
by His Team.
GETS TWO THREE-BASERS
Feasts on Cooks Twisters and Dis
tillers Finish One Run Behind
Opponents.
GAMES TOMORROW,
Springfield at Rock Island.
Peoria at Davenport.
Bloomington at Waterloo.
Danville at Dubuque.

Bloomington at Waterloo.
Danville at Dubuque.
Every one of the champs who were
able to don a uniform yesterday was
called upon to get into the game
against Peoria and the result was a
hard won victory after an up hill fight
The count was 6 TO and the game
was just as even as the score indi-
Gates, although in the early stages the
Distillers had all the advantage.
Two batting rallies, one in the fifth
and the other in the sixth. coupled
with the ascension of Peoria's twirler
did the business for the Islanders and
gave them the second of the series
with Manager Rowans high salaried
bunch. Rock Island had four pitchers
In the game before it was over but
none of the three who occupied the
mound was knocked out of the box or
had to be removed on account of wild
ness. 1t was simply strategy on the
part of Manager Tighe, which worked
in great shape. Lakaff opened the mill
and pitched six innings in good style,
although four runs were made off nm.
In the sixth, with the bases full, It
came Franks turn at the willow and
while it is possible he would have
knocked out another homer as he did
last year against Davenport, Tighe
considered it advisable TO put in q
surer hitter, and Jacobsen was :ruc-ed
out. That made it necessary Iol
Queisser to take to the box and he
lasted until the ninth inning when the
last man was up. This happened to
be a left-handed hitter and as ii was
imperative to prevent this man from
getting a hit in order to win the game,
Tighe showed Pug Cavet into the
breach and the southpaw pitcher <re-
tired the wrong-handed batter by an
easy grounder to Vogel, and the game
was won.
How 1t All Happened.
The visitors started out to make
every hit count and it seemed that
whenever a safe drive was poIed, cir
cumstances so united themselves as
TO always turn it into a tally In the
first inning Johnson walked, but was
caught at second. whereupon Moore
drove one over first base for three
sacks and Rowan squeezed him home.
In the second Smith walked with one
down and Meyers base drive to right
field became a three-bagger when the
ball took nasty hop which carried it
clear over Manusch's head. Smith
scored on the drive and Meyers came
home on Asmussen's fly to deep left
on which Hunter made quite a SEN
sational catch but had no opportunity
to throw out the runner.
In the fourth Cuthbert doubled to
left, reached third or Smiths death at
first, and scored on a scratch hit by
Meyers. The last of the visitors five
runs came in the seventh inning after
the score had been more than evened
up and it did not count in the game
other than to make it closer. Meyers
poled his third safe one, stole second
in daring style: in fact, so daring that
everyone but Umpire Eckman decided
that the runner was out by at least a
yard, and came home on a wild pitch
which Queisser let slip.
Make Hits Count.
Up to the fifth inning the Islanders
had made only two hits and neither
of them added anything to the score
column, but in the fifth the music
started and hits were piled up and
made to count for scores. Vogel led
off with a walk and after Lakaff had
skied to left, Hunter poled one into
center that had the three-bag sign on
it and VogeI scored. The speedy
Hunter came within an ace of trying
for home on the drive and he would
have came close to making it. IL was
not necessary, however. as Manusch
followed with hit over second base
and Hunter came home with tally 2.
In the next inning Slattery opened the
ball with a merry bingle between |
Rowan and Smith which the latter /
nearly turned into a putout. Kelly's /
out at first put Stats on second, and /
them came the ascension. Kohl /
scratched a hit when three Peorians /
did the Alphonso-GastOn act on his /
high one back of short, and then a /
bum peg to second by Cook let Stats /
reach third. Then Vogel walked and .
the bases were crowded.
Hunter Cleans the Bases.
1t was at this juncture that Jacob
sen came into the game to bat for
Lakaff The Peorians pluc!leu up cour-
age momentarily when they managed !!
to get Slattery at the plate after Kohl
had fcolishly got caught between sec
ond and third and forced Stats off the
bag, but their hopes were SHIRT ltFed,
for Jacobsen waited for the wild ones
to accumulate and he got on and once
more the bases were filled. Hunter
was up and he delivered the goods
for the second time in the game. His
three-sacker down the first base line
brought in three runs and practically
won the game. Then he scored him
self with the sixth and last run when