Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-14
TO SETTLE OLD
SCORES At LAST
Electrical Contractors and Job.
bers Will Stake All on
Ball Game.
FEARFUL CARNAGE CERTAIN
All the Mysterious Forces of Their
Calling to Be Invoked in Dia-
mOnd Battle.

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The stunt which is now occupying
the limelight before the Illinois cleo
/ trical men is the ball game between
the contractors and the jobbers, which
/ is TO be perpetrated at the Twelfth
street park tomorrow afternoon II is
very likely that some 80 additional
/ policemen will be secured 70 keep
/ the peace, as both sides are threaten
/ ing their opponents with humiliation
at the point OF an AK or baseball bat.
/ Ed Kearns of Chicago was slated to
head the jobbers, but candidates for
/ the team preferred charges Of graft
/ ing against him. claiming that he was
trying 10 tax each man on the team
four bits in order to pay his car fare
| back TO Chicago, and. as a result
! kearns was deposed and George Bar
rett, the demon verbal vaseline shooter
from the Clark street Rialto, placed on
| the job. The jObbers will wear uni
/ forms. consisting of white overalls and
/ pink socks, while the contractors will
wear blue Oyeralls and assorted socks.
kEARNS FIRES 4 SHOT.
/ Before his deposition. Kearns made
the following statement: My men
/ Will win. There is not a man on the
other side that can even shoot a fair
: hand az marbles. Our slabbist, one
| Harry Russell, is none other than the
/ renowned "Rube" Peters Of the White
SoX, who by special dispensation at
the hands of Charlie Comiskey, Sc
cured leave of absence. This talk of
our bunch having ringers is a distor-
ton of facts and cuts me deeply. Rus
sci is a great admirer of the bright
lights, so why shouldn't he be con.
| sidered an electrician? have secured
| w. H. Pendergast of Rockford to act
as pinch hitter. He batted over 400
last winter in the crap shooting %eries
at Mussey's."
COLLINS COMES BACK.
w. J. Collins of the contractors
made the following statement:
AT last the day of reckoning is nigh.
The abused, downtrodden contractors
are about 10 come into their own.
Starting with Ben Franklin. the sup
! ply men have welded the padded
stick. We are now about to reap our
| revenge. We will escort the culprits
to the field of carnage, said field be-
ing the league grounds, and before
their own friends and admirers and
fellow conspirators, we will engage in
mortal combat.
We will crack a base hit off their
shtns for every dollar they have ex-
torted from our humble members. and
we will strike out one man for every
instance wherein they have robbed us
by raising the cost of material every
/ time the wind changes. After the bat
tie, the dead and wounded will be laid
side by side Immediately behind the
home plate, and a suitable service will
be conducted BETTING the occasion
and parties interested. After this the
funeral cOrtege will march on board
the battleship Davenport and inter
ment will be made in mid-ocean. about
four miles below Rock Island, so as to
assure the residents no further trouble
from the Forty Thieves"
IlNEt l. bE TEAMS.
The respective lineups follow:
COntractors.-Collins, p: Bornholdt,
c.; Downs. SIS; Murphy 2b.; Schaefer,
3D.; Blumenthal, c. f.; Tanner (capt.
and mgr, h.; Bierdeman, |. f.. and
Stapp, r. f.
Subsututes-Naron and Krieder.
Ambulance-Van Nyes and Gibson.
/ Doctors and Surgeons-McGinnis
and Jackson.
Jobbers lalias swindle sheet oner-
atorsD Tom Ensley. 3b: Frank CRU
sell, r. f., Bert Muckenhaupt, 2b.:
/ Charlie Dubski, SIS. Bill FindIey, c. f
Ed Kearns. c.; Dewey Newman. l. f.:
/ Dick Wildheur, C. +. and D.: George
Barrett Cmgr), p; Harry Russell. D.;
Arthur Setter, lb.; p. Il. Nicholas.
&b, and r. f.; Perry Boole. chief coach.
( DR.. Frantz, medical advisor: H. Rem.
ington, treasurer and fiscal agent.
Charlie Brown, trainer. George Lore
ing, box Office: Leroy Mills. score
/ keeper: Dick Woods, publicity. Pat
| Lyons, transportation: Frank Gathers.
water boy, and Ralp Everson, bats.