Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-03

The champs came within an zee yes
terday of striking the gait which led
them to the top last year and as it
was they exhibited enough of the old
time form to give them to vic
tory over Manager Dave Rowan's Dis
til1ers. This gave the Islanders the
deciding game of the series and sent
the Peorians to Davenport with only
one victory out of three games played
at Island City park.
Tighe's proteges cut out the errors
which have marred their play ever
since the beginning of the season and
outside of possibly two or three plays
they performed in gilt-edged manner.
hitting the ball at opportune times
and taking every advantage accorded
them was the means whereby the
game was placed on the good side of
the column. Although the score seems
to indicate that the game was close,
it was never really in a dangerous way
for the locals. Excepting in the sixth,
when the two runs of the visitors
were made, Cavet. who was on the
mound, was most effective, and in ad-
dition made two corking good hits.
Get TO Mercer Early.
Mercer essayed to do the slab work
for Rowan s bunch and while he did a
very creditable job in many ways, it
was not good enough to prevent the
Islanders from winning. Hunter
showed his speedy bail could be hit
hard. even though his long fly was
captured in deep center. Manusch
looked them over carefully and was
rewarded by being passed. Callahan
bumped one down to Cuthbert at sec
ond and the Peorian Dobbled it, letting
both runners reach their bases. Then
they pulled off a beautiful double steal,
each man moving up sack. Stark
did something usually passed up by
the Islanders; that is, he dumped
slow one down the first base line and
allowed Manusch to. scamper home.
He did better than that, stopping in
his tracks and preventing Rowan from
touching him, delaying him in this way
long enough to let Callahan move to
third What matter that he was not
fast enough to get to first after
throw had been made to third, he had
successfully worked the squeeze play
and moved two men along the bags.
Slattery brought Callahan home with
a single to left field and the scoring
for the round stopped.
Another Squeezed In.
The third and last score of the ISL
anders was made in the third inning.
Hunter walked and went to third when
Manusch drove one to the back fence. !
The drive looked at first as though it
would come down in the fielders' hands
and this is all that prevented Hunter
from coming home on it. The ball
sailed on and on, however. and Hun
ter finally cut loose when it was too
late to complete the circuit. Stark
repeated his sacrifice stunt and Hun
ter came home nicely. Mercer, who
fielded the ball, threw to catch Hun
ter. but in addition to the throw being
in vain, it was wild and went through
the catcher. This caused the coacher
to send Manusch in, but he was caught
at the plate by a foot, thereby saving
the pitcher from being charged with
an error and cutting down the score
of the islanders.
Pug Has One Bad Round.
Cavet's only inning where he was
in danger. and that was not his fault, |
was the sixth. In that round Rowan |
led with a hit and Biltz received the |
gift of a base on balls. Jacobs |
grounded m Kohl who caught RiltZ |