Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-16
Islanders Are Near
Defeat in the Second
Game of the Day

For six innings of the second game
it looked as though the Islanders were
going to lose because of one bad in
ming in which Pitcher Dick lost con
tro! of the ball and gave the enemy
a run as a result of one stingy little
hit having been made off him. This
happened in the sixth inning. Mclean
led with a hit to left field after one
was down and then Dick awaited. He
threw four wild ones to Hickory John
son, and after Chapman had slied to
left, he threw eight more of the I'M
tanned variety. four to Bell and four to
Blausser, putting both of the visitors
OF the circuit. The issuing of a pass
to Blausser forced Mclean over the
pan after he had been driven clear
around the circuit from first base.
After that Dick settled down to solid
ground again and the visitors, with
the exception of Pitcher Baudermilk
found him exceedingly difficult to con-
meet with safely OF the six hits made
by the visitors off Dick, three were
poIed by the lanlly twirler, who made
a perfect record for himself in this de-
partment of the game.
Fast Base Running Wins
The Islanders owed their victory in
the second game to their own ability
to hit the ball and then cover ground
on the circuit. In the first six innings
of the game only one hit was made
of LaudermiIk, that being a double
by Callahan in the third after two
were down, In the seventh the storm
broke and it whirled Laudermilk into
the air and kept him up for two in
nings. With one down in the seventh
and the score 1 to 0 against the ISL
anders, Slattery poked one through
TIE infield for his second safe hit of
the game. O'Leary grounded out via
third base and Stats went to second
Then Kelly rolled one slowly towards
Bell and managed to get to first so
fast that Bell refrained from throwing
it after fielding it, as he realized it
was a hit. Stats stole second and
Snyder filed the bases by waiting for
four wide ones. Then Vogel duplicated
Kelly's feat. He rolled one down to-
wards short and beat the throw to
first while Slattery scored with the
run that tied up the count. Dick
might have won his own game right
here, but his fly was captured back of
second base and the side was retired.
The winning. run came in the next
round, however, and fast base running
was again the chief factor. Callahan
hit safely to left field and Davidson
laid down a sacrifice bunt which Nc
CURE flelded to first. Callahan saw
that third was momentarily uncovered
and he raced for that station Nc
CURE and Smaller were also headed
for the bag in an instant, but Callahan
beat them there and had accomplished
the rather difficult feat of making two
bases on an ordinary sacrifice hit
Laudermilk was clearly disconnected
and Manusch took advantage Of this
and poled an easy one In his direction.
The elongated pitched f1elded the ball
all right and whirled to throw home
in case Callahan was making for the
plate. but as there was nothing doing
in that line he turned again and
gasped to find that Manusch was near
1y to first. going as only he can go.
He hurried his throw so much that
he got It low and it slipped past Chap
man and both the islanders moved