Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-10
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Peoria Management Wakes Up
to Find Indianapolis Has
Sold Smith.
ONE OF DoNMELLY's DEALS
Appears to Have Been a Verbal I'm
Outstanding That Does Not
Show in the "Poipers."

One of Frank Donnelly's deals has
gotten the present Peoria management
in hole When Charley Carr, mana
ger of the indianapolis club, visited
the city the other day he informed
Manager Rowan that he had sold Fred
Smith, who played with Peoria last
season and was counted on to hold
down the. third corner this year, to
Birmingham. Rowan looked up the
records and found that Peoria had os-
tensibly given Carr $3.50 for Smith
and that he had signed a reserve con-
tract. Manager Carr. however, assert
ed that the understanding with Don
nelly was that the player was to re-
vert to his team at the close of the
season. There the matter rests at
present. Peoria will make a fight to
keep Smith, and inasmuch as the deal
by which he was secured seems to
have been straight on paper, ought
to win out before the higher authori-
ties.
Smith was the only member of the
Peoria team who played in every game
last year. While he was not especially
brilliant as fielder. he was some hit
ter and showed good deal of promise
at the third corner, where he was
placed near the close of the season.
Warmed Over.
A picture of the champion Islanders
is to be seen in the issue of the Sport
ing News of this week
Ted Sullivan, who has practically
decided m
of the Clinton team in the Northern
association, has opened an Office at
Chicago, where he will for the present
act as a broker in players That is,
he will run an employment agency
for the purpose of furnishing men to
minor league managers. Ted ought
to find the field a profitable one, but
the effect upon the Clinton team is
problematicaI
1t begins to look as though the eff
forts of Clarence Rowland to save
baseball for Aberdeen in the North
western league have been vain, after
all. After he had secured the consent
of the Pacific Coast league to retaining
a second team in Portland to play
with a Glass A aggregation was away
from home another row was started
and the indications are that the Du-
buquer will lose out, after all.
Danyille is a remarkably dry town
on Sundays, Doc Childs says. and he
ought to know, for he was there last
Sunday and had to travel four miles
outside the city limits to get a drink.
Childs took options on Boucher. Nc
Namara and Ruby for his Decatur
club. He will get the three for $500
provided he can raise the money this
week If Mcnamara is secured he
will be made manager.
One Edward Kelly. a catcher who
was with Easton, Pa, in the Atlantic
league last season. has signed with
Davenport. He has been playing BAH
several years in the east. and while
he has never done anything to cover
himself with glory, he has had expert
ence enough to warrant a trial Mana
ger Shaffer thinks. NJ. c. Ennor. a
school teacher of George, Iowa has
also attached his name TO a ProdigaI
contract. He will be busy at his reg
ular vocation till June 1. after which
he will report and try out his pitching
arm
Manager Mccarthy has at last
landed Sam Foster. the big first base.
man last year with Decatur Sam
could not be found when contracts
were originally sent out and there was
much anxiety. as Danville had no other
candidate for the first sack. William
who has been pitching among
the Independents in the southern part
of the state, and Lyman Johnson Of
Ogden, ILL.,, whose experience is much
of the same kind. have also hooked
up with the Cannonballs.
Northern association city scribes
are declaring that Cedar Rapids is 20
be the eighth member of the circuit.
after all They say the deal is being
worked quietly. to avoid arousing Bel
den Hill, who is hostile TO any alliance
with the Glass d organization. Bust
ness men. however. will furnish the
sinews of war for the new club, it is
said
Charley Carr of indianapolis also
did business with the Peoria team He
secured a contract for a new outfit
for the Distillers. The color scheme
this year will be the same as last. the
travelling suits being gray with black
trimmings and the at home suits white
with black caps. socks and trimmings
Manager Buelow of the Dubuque
team has purchased Pitchers o. Akers
and S. F. Glass of the Jacksonville, |
H.. Central association team last sea
son.
LITTLE DOUBT AS TO