Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-25

the Western league, Vice President
]. T. Hayes of the Three-Eye
league and ]. H. Freedman and
Harry D. Burton OF the Spald-
ing house in Chicago. Behind them
came the mayors of the tririties.
George W. McCaskrin, Rock Island:
Andrew Olson, Moline, and Alfred
Mueller Davenport Then came sew
eral cars containing President P. H.
Martin and directors of the Waterloo
club and a number of Waterloo fans
who came down to witness the cere-
monies and the game. Then followed
the Rock Island officers and directors.
The remainder of the cars contained
the players of both Waterloo and Rock
Island and a number of dyed-in-the
wool fans.
The parade was formed on Nine.
teenth street. 1t started at 2:3O and
moved south to Third avenue, where
it turned west to Seventeenth street.
There it went south again to Fourth
avenue and thence east to Twentieth
street. down Twentieth to Second ave-
nue. and west to Sixteenth; out Six
teenth to Third and then west to
Twelfth, where it turned south and
headed for the ball park. At the ball
park the parade broke up, the guests
of the club going into the grand stand,
the players TO the field and the band
placing itself where it would be handy
for the grand march to the flag pole.
Pennant Is Raised
After both teams had practiced for
a short time, the clubs fell in line be-
pany with the band, the mayors, the
visiting baseball notables and the club
officials to the flag pole in the north
west corner of the field, where the
pennant lay stretched out on the
ground waiting to be hoisted to the
breezes. The honor of raising the |
pennant had been assigned 10 Mana !
ger Jack Tighe and the four Islanders |
still on the team who were on it last |
year. They were Stark, Lakaff, Vogel |
and Kelly. They hauled away with a |
will and the championship banner was |
soon floating at the top of the pole. /
This ceremony over, the march back /
to the diamond was made. AS the /
parade broke up ex-President F. o. |
Van Calder came out from the play
ers' bench with a huge floral horse
shoe and amid the cheers of the fans
presented it to Manager Jack Tighe,
who was standing on the coaching
line.
Mr.. Van Calder complimented
Jack Tighe upon his achieve
ment in winning the second pennant
in the three years he had managed the
Rock Island club and expressed wish
that he might do 1t again. He paid
to the Waterloo aggrega-
ton and said that In case Rock Island
failed to win the bunting the fans here
would as soon see it in the possession
Of Manager BOyle'ssteam as any other
In the league Each of the Rock ISL
and players was given an American
Beauty rose and the visiting players
were given white carnations, the donor
being H. H. Hensley, the florist, who
also made the horseshoe given TO
Tighe by the admiring fans of the city,
while happy Claude Stark received
special bunch of beautiful favors from
friends.
Mayors McCaskrin and Olson then
made their appearance and the Rock
Island executive toed the slab and
threw the first ball of the game which
Mayor Olson caught like a veteran
and then the game commemorative
the islanders went into second place
as a fitting climax of the days doings.
At the New Harper last evening the
directors of the local club dined the
visiting guests and the mayors OF the
three cities Ex-President F. 0. Van
Calder made a few remarks on the
winning of the pennant but except for
This the affair was entirely Informal.
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