Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-05
OBESITY WINNER
IN ANNUAL FIGHT
Luck, Billy Atkinson and SO of
Leans Triumph for the
oleaginous Players.
FINAL SCORE is II TO 7
Big Smoke Manuel Has Real confia.
sration-canedy Quits Because
Of PeeVishness.

Luck, pure unadulterated, eighty
eleven karat luck. eight-ninths of the
Lean team, Frank Brough's artists
cravat, fireman shirt and nobody
knows whose trousers, together with
a little sprinkling of Billy Atkinson,
triumphed for obesity Saturday after
noon in the annual game between the
Fats and Leans. When the smoke and
Glamour of battle settled over the
grassy Islander park, there stood the
score in figures gruesome, announcing
that the oleaginous warriors had cross
eG the platter IL times, while all the
scrawny boys could do was TO drag
themselves around the circuit seven
times. That ever fateful-to-somebody
seventh proved the undoing OF the
cmaciated nine when the pitch
er Ralph ID. MacManus, blew up
in a little cloudburst that resembled
a Kansas wind storm. Till then, the
Leans were on the long end of the
score and the Fats were at Macs mer-
Cy. Big Smoke Manuel was switched
from behind the bat onto the mound.
But the Leans were the under
dogs and the Fats had no mercy in
their scant repertoire. Ana so with the
FIVE scores CLEANED III the seventh,
four of which came earlier in the game
and two which Manuel presented, the
Fats awaited onto victory and the
Fl o. ..
the merits of their team.
ERRORS STOP BOX SCORE.
II was an impossibility to keep
track of the movements of the ball
wallpapers during the game, for their
moves were many, while the accom-
plishments were few. AS a matter of
fact, there were few hits on either
side, while the number of errors and
bases on balls looms up in the dou-
bic column. That is why the players
prevailed upon the scorers to refrain
from attempting a box score. As
impossible as il is TO give
that box score, so is 1t impossible TO
tell Of all OF the antics of Billy Akin
son, the rotund HEAVIER who secured
his training in the days of Cap Arson.
BUSTER PEEyED WIGGLER.
As had been announced. Canedy
started TO pitch for the Fats. And he
just started. true to schedule In the
second round. he blamed the other
g. cmbcrs of the team Tor laying down
0u the job and he quit right
dead on the spot. But the Fats
Kept on playing. Billy Atkinson, the
pitcher whose reputation was sewed
up tight in rs, came TO the rescue, and
is a mighty good thing that he did.
II spelled victory for the Fats. He
twisted parabolas around the oppos-
ing batsmen's heads. and he cut a
few gyrations with his Santa Claus
shaped form. He was handicapped
somewhat because he had TO throw
them 20 the same place all the time,
for slim Mixer. one of these boys who
has 20 have a valet tie his shoe laces
was catching for the pursy boys (d'ye
get that "pursy" word) and he
couldn't stoop over 10 land a grounder
albeit he was on the job otherwise. As
We have limited, Billy is a veteran al
the game In fact. ne is so veterinat
cd that he does not use a glove on
either OF his mitts.
He's got steam. though. attest the
skin which rubbed of OF the ball and
OF Of Freddy Muellers ribs when the
Mueller person and the ball collided.
MacMauus served for the shrivelled
shrimps on the Mound and he began
20 plan on an enlargement for his last
summer straw and about the time that
the seventh inning rolled around and
ne was sim ahead. And now he has "a
plan all over again. After he had
walked four men and Don lost ar
easy fly which let in four runs
Big Smoke Manuel climbed up
on the upheaval OF dirt, Did
he have any smoke? GadZooks
they had 20 carry a bucket of water
out 10 him 10 put out the FIRE AND