Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-02

Yesterday afternoon at o'clock,
the sun went down in Davenport
Precisely at that hour a long. hard
fought game went TO the islanders
to 1, through the failure of the
Prodigal players 70 cross the pan
while Frank Lakaff was on the fir
ing line for the Islanders. 1t was
the third straight victory for the
team from this city and is scarcely
surprising that the sun did go down
in the Davenport baseball world at
that hour. Furthermore, the team
went down in the percentage column
when the fans were confident that
things would again be evened up.
Till the eighth inning, the Islanders
were in the lead with a single run.
Then the Prods sent four across the
plate. Hope and hilarity filed the
hearts OF the pretzel fans. 1t was
short-lived, for in their half of the
ninth, the Islanders made three runs,
enough TO tie the score. The game
travelled along till the 18th stanZa
was rounded out. The end Of that
inning showed the Islanders were in
the lead with a single run. Hope
and hilarity were then pushed back
out of the hearts of the pretzel fol-
lowing, and despair, black and dis
nal, entered in.
GONDISG RESPONSIBLE.
To Manager John Gonding, may
the victory be attributed, for at all
points OF the game, he showed that
he had the goods and that he could
deliver In the first place, his head
work was superb and it won the
game. Then his pegging was classy
and to the mark. Furthermore. he
hit twice. His first bingIe scored the
first run of the game and his second
bingle-a double-scored the last
and winning run of the game. How
ever. the players aided him by put
ting up fine article of ball all the
way through and the fans are glad TO
give them credit for another vic
tory.
LAKAFF AGAIN.
Crabb and Woods were the Oppos-
ing slabmen till the runs became too
numerous. Then they were both re-
tired in favor Of left handed twirl-
ers. Frank Lakaff supplanted Woods
and he held the Prods helpless dur
ing his service on the mound. Yoka-
homa Nelson. who went down to de-
feat on the day before. replaced
Crabb in the ninth. and so the Is
landers took great pleasure in re-
peatins the dose. Lakaff worked in
fine form and received good support.
Nelson was not so effective and IT
was an easy matter to defeat him.
II was in the fifth inning that the
Islanders took the lead with a single
run II looked like a mountain for
the Davenport aggregation had not
crossed the pan in dozens of innings.
But in the eighth inning-after go
ing ~ innings without a run-they
sent four runs across. They had the
lead Then the Islanders came back
in true style in the ninth and then
won out in the 9Th. II was indeed
cruel after they had finally managed
10 score. 70 tie the score up and then
win the game. making the scores for
the pretzels count for naught
KELLY HAS THREE HITS.
The first of the islander runs was
scored by Kelly, who had three hits
in four chances. He hit hot one
10 Bromwich. Luckily the fielder
was able TO touch the ball or it would
have gone 10 the fence. Snyder sac
rifced Kelly 20 second and Gonding
AZ second and Bethuld forced Woods
st the same station The rally in
the ninth saved the game. After
Davidson was out, Wooley hit TO
center and then Slattery v as retired
on a fly 70 center. Crabb hit VQgel