Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
ISLANDERS FIND
kANKAKEE EASY
Hit the Ball Hard and Pound in
Plenty of Runs to Win
Sundays Game.
FINAL TALLY IS 7 TO I.
Visitors One Run Is Presented to
Them-Pitchers Couchman and
Clayton Deserved Shutout.

The baseball aggregation from Kan
kakee furnished the Islanders with
little pickings yesterday afternoon and
a good sized crowd saw Tighe's men
romp away with a victory by a score
OF to 1. The game was easy for the
islanders all the way through and had
It not been for an error by Manusch on
an easy fly the whitewasn brush would
I nave been applied to the visitors Big
Bob Couchman did the hurting for the
champions of the Three-Eye league
aud he did it to a queens taste Just
az he did the last time he was sent out
on the firing line. He allowed six hits
In as many innings, but they were
scattered out all along the route and
no runs should have resulted. The
big fellow had something all the time
and yet he did not seem to be exerting
himself in the least. He made mighty
good impression among the fans. Jack
Clayton, the recruit from Indianapolis
secured from Manager Carr, finished
the game after Couchman was with
drawn, and he. too, did very well, al
lowing but two hits and giving no OPP
portunity to score.
Islanders Hit Hard.
Five of the dozen safe wallops which
the Islanders made were for extra
bases and the feature of the game was
.s-~the hard timely hitting of Tighe's re-
cruits. 1t seemed within their power
to make hit any time one was needed
to score a man and very few base run
ners persisted while waiting for a
chance to move up. Kelley led with
the stick. two of his three hits being
singles and the other feautiful three
!, N.l1, sa,0l1
made two bingles and O'Leary and
Kohl were the only ones who failed to
connect safely Kohl was in the game
by virtue of Hunters absence on &C
count of the illness of his mother.
Mrs. Hunter was reported as dying
and the speedy outfielder was anxious
1y awaiting news from home and was
in no mood to play ball.
Score in Five Innings.
The Islanders managed to push men
over the platter in five different
rounds. showing that they were work
ing consistently and not merely profit
ing by batting rally. In the second,
with one down, Kelley banged out his
three-sacker and Slattery poled a. beaut
in right field which brought him home,
Vogel swatted the atmosphere thrice |
in winning the game by lining out a
double into right field which scored
Stats. Callahan secured double in
the next round, but was caught at
third trying to make q three-sacker
put of it, and Davey's single, which
followed, was wasted. In the fourth
Kelley ambled, took second on a sac
rifice by Slattery, and came home on
a twO-baSe drive into left center by
Vogel In the fifth Kohl went clear
to second on a bad peg from third, |
when he grounded one in that direc- !
= ton, and two sacrifices in a row by |
Manusch and Callahan scored him. |
The run gathered in the sixth was the
result of nit by Kelley, a stolen base !
and the second of Otto Vogel's two
sack drives into left The sixth and |
seventh runs were tailed in the sew
enth inning. Manusch picked four /
wide ones, Callahan beat out an at
tempted sacrifice, Davey and O'Leary |
each sacrificed, scoring Manusch, and |
Kelley singled, scoring Callahan.
Visitors Given One.
The visitors owed their score to an |
error made by Manusch' in the sixth !
round after two were down. AS the |
Davenport scribe would probably write
it, Manusch was expecting the ball to !
be hit into right field and was not pre-
pared to catch fly driven directly |
into his hands, and the result was that
a surprised Kankakee runner found he /
was safe after crossing the plate as /
matter of form. Except for this little I
Joke of Manusch's, it was clear sailing /
everywhere and no one made anything |
that looked like a bungle. The box /
score of the game follows:
ROCK ISLAND ALB. R. H. P. A. E.
Kohl, IF ............4 L L 0 |
Manusch, If ........2 L !
Callahan Of .........4 OIL