Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-27
COPPERS READY
FOR THEIR CLASH
Rock Island Policemen Show
Great Form in Final Rehear-
sal for Ball Game.
HITTING is scANDALoUs
Talk of Putting Net Over the Park
uled Tomorrow In This City.

The cops who are to represent Rock
Island in the policemen's baseball
game tomorrow, spent two hours yes
terday afternoon practicing for the
ARRAY and at the end Of that time the
critics who had watched them pro
nounced them in sufficient trim to wal
lop the Chicago Cubs or the Pumpkin
vile Sluggers. To say that the cop
pers were right is putting It mildly
In the field they ate everything in
sight, including much of the grass. and
at the bat nothing got by them. They
struck at everything. 1t was feared for
a time that practice would have TO be
abruptly ended, as several OF the star
sluggers took to hammering the ball
over the fence just to keep in practice.
This worked all right until the small
boys in the neighborhood got wise and
then the balls disappeared. and out of
several dozen which were taken TO the
park, only two were on hand when the
police quit for the evening.
F1y-bob Billy McNealy, who Is to
hurl 'em over the plate against the
Davenport aggregation was the prin-
cipal hit-'em-over-the-fence batter He
seemed able to do it whenever he
chose. although Krebs, Pearson and
Bennett were close rivals for the swat
ting honors.
| How the Front VIII Look.
The Rock Island beat walkers have
had a great time selecting a team due
to the large number of candidates who
applied to the captain for chance.
The wedding out took nearly the whole
week and last night It was practically
decided that the following peelers
would be in the line: Krebs, catch;
McNealy. pitch; Nielsen. first base;
South, second base; Bennett, short
stop; Gable, third base; Pearson. right
field; Kinsley, center field, and Cur
name, left field. This is mighty for
midable lineup, as any crook in town
can tell you, and it ought 70 make
profound impression upon the Daven-
port coppers when they come over to
give battle. It is understood that the
latter already have had considerable
of a scare thrown into them, as the
game which was played five years ago
by the two organizations happened to
be brought to their minds.
Locals Had n Ringer.
On that occasion the local officers
slipped one over on the Germans by
running in a ringer (not arresting him,
mind you). 10 do the pitching. He sim
ply bewildered the Germans and they
came I'D and retired in regular one,
two, three order until about four H.
ings had passed. Then the ringer,
who had begun to excite the suspicion
Of the corps of Davenport detectives.
all OF whom got on his trail. gave the
snap away by hitting the ball over the
back fence. That was too much for
the Davenporters. They threw down
their gloves and threatened TO arrest
the Rock Islanders unless the pitcher
was taken out of the game and anoth-
er man put in who showed less ability.
The locals stood pat, however. and
the whole Davenport bunch OF coppers
could not prove that the man was a
ringer, and he was allowed 10 continue
in the game though not as a pitcher.
Are Well Frightened.
Remembering what happened to
them five years back the Davenporters
have stipulated that they will not
stand for a man who isn't dyed-in-
, the-wooI peeler, and It is expected that
each man will have to show his star
before being allowed to play. The Wis
itors' wishes on this matter, however,
will be strictly complied with and only
real cops will be engaged in the game.
The same thing will be true on the
; Davenport side.
The game will be called at Q O'Clock
and 1t is expected that there will be
large crowd on hand. Several hun
dred tickets have already been sold
and it is thought that as many more
will be disposed OF at the gate. The
price is rs cents. The proceeds are
, to go into a fund with which to buy
| the city an auto patrol Of most APP