Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-15
SCHEDULE CALLS
FOR LONG SERIES
Local Association Favors Max
ing Four Trips Instead
of Three.
DAVENPORT WANTS FOUR
Other Six Cities in League Apparently
Want but Three-Only Six
Games Here in June.

The schedule drawn up for the
Three-Eye league by Wilson Boring of
Decatur and which was printed in The
Argus last evening, does not meet with
the approval of the local association
in one important respect at least. The
schedule calls for but three swings
around the circuit, whereas the Rock
Island club favors four. Mr.. Boring in
his statement accompanying the draft
of the schedule says that only one city
asked to have the four trips, but Dav-
export made the same request that
Rock Island did, so that makes At
least two which stand firmly for the
four swings around the circuit
Series Too Long.
Although the arrangements which
Mr.. Boring has made for the opening
and the closing of the schedule are
very good and entirely satisfactory,
and the same can be said of the holi-
day games, his plan of having but
three trips to play the 40 games
makes the series too long-that is,
there are times when a city will have
TO go nearly a month with only a few
games and then turn in and play a
stretch of from 20 to "a games in 4
row. During the month of June the
present draft of the schedule gives
Rock Island only six games. three with
Waterloo and three with Dubuque.
After this dearth of baseball comes %
games, with only one break of three
- -,
ii. Aug. 10 there are bur five games ut
Island City park. and then for a
month. or until the close of the sea
son. there are only six days when
there is not game at the park.
Others Suffer Also.
It would seem from a glance at the
schedule that other cities besides
Rock Island would ask TO have the
extra trip included. If Dubuque should
happen to have a second rate team 1t
would find itself up against it with
2S games to play at home in the last
% days of the season. Bloomington
has about the same thing TO contend
with earlier in the season, as it has
81 games scheduled on the homo
grounds in a period of II days. and
for two weeks before and for two
weeks afterwards the Boomers will /
De on the road. All the clubs to !
greater or less degree face this same |
situation, as all of them have long
series when they will be at home and |
hen they will practically disappear |
'or several weeks during which time /
heir fans will follow them only by
aIpo-ra Objc -pnOrtS
Fans Should BE Considered.
Ii is the belief of the local assOcia-
ion and the Davenport club as we'll.
hat the baseball public should De
considered in making out the schedule
md that arrangements should be made
O have the team at home at frequent
intervals but not for long stays. If.
Is Mr.. Boring states, six of the eight
tubs favored making the schedule in
'Iude three trips. he cannot be blamed
or the state of affairs which this has
brought about. but it is up to the other
lubs to think the matter over and
zee If they can afford only three trips
The expense connected with each trip
S of course no small item, but it is
elieved that the shorter series would
esult in larger patronage and that in
he end the league would fare better
and that the baseball pub
ic would be vastly better satisfied.