Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-07

For the second time in two days.
the islanders and Prodigals battled
against each other at Davenport with
the score tied until Umpire Eckman
got hungry and decided to call the
game on account OF darkness. That's
the way the third game OF the series
with Davenport ended yesterday
leaving the score at the end Of the
18th inning and 8. Frank Lakaff
did the-twirling for Rock Island and
except in three innings he was all
the candy. Nelson, on the other
hand, had Il on the Islanders except
In the third inning, and although
they hit him at times. he managed
to keep the safe pokes scattered out
SO that no runs resulted. The drop
ping Of a line drive gave Davenport
a chance in the fifth inning to tie
the score, and after that the Prodi-
gals succeeded In keeping the Is
lande-s away from the plate. al
though they could not get near 1t
themselves.
The Islanders scored all three of
their tallies in the third inning. Vo-
gel opened the round, but was chas-
ed to the bench when he expressed
difference of opinion with the UNI
pire as to the fairness Of a strike
which was called on him and which,
incidentally, was about a foot inside
of the plate which is commonly used
by umpires to determine which
throws are strikes and which are
not The jumps brooked no objec-
lions to his views and Otto had to
take to the tall timber. Jim Davey
took his place and started something
by getting a walk to first Lakaff
fouled to the catcher, but the lat
ter evened up by a bad throw to
first, enabling Jim to go to second.
Then Freddie Ochs, on whose hard
luck in placing drives we extended
a little sympathy yesterday, located
one safely in right field and DaVey
made the first score of the game.
Manusch followed with an infield hit
which put Ochs on third, and after
stealing second he scored with Ochs
on Callahan's nice drive to left.
OLeary followed with long drive
to Geyer and Callahan got the sig
nails twisted and went to third be-
fore he found it was not a hit. and
q double play resulted. The Island
ers' best chance to win the game af-
ter this came in the ninth round
when Callahan hit safely and reach
ed second with no one down. He
died there, however, as O'Leary, Kel-
1y and Slattery failed to advance
him.
Many Are Walked.
In the third inning Hickman and
Coveney walked. Nelson was acredit-
ed with a hit as the result of Davey's
failure to cover first on bunt, and
then the jumps allowed Ohland to am
BILE, forcing Hickman. Hilley struck
out and Eddie Kohl retired the side
by a brilliant piece of fielding, some |
thing about as classy as he pulled
of Thursday when he practically
prevented the game from going into
the lost column. With the bases full, |
he jumped into the air and grabbed |
a liner off Geyer's bat, using his bare
hand, and then threw to second and |
made a double play.
The other two scores of the Prod |
igals came in the fifth inning. With |
one down, Ohland singled, as did |
HilIey, and there was man on |
third and one on first. They pulled |
off a successful double steal and
Ohland scored Then Geyer lined |
one to Davey and Jim dropped 1t and |
barely picked it up in time to get
Geyer at first. Had he held on a /
double play would have resulted, as
Hilley had gone to third.
Irby followed with a timely bingle |
and tied the count and it remained |
there until the 18th, when the game
was called. The score:
ROCK ISLAND. ALB. r. H. P. A. e.