Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-08-16
By PAUL SRUNER.

When It comes TO hill climbing, the
rambling Pretaels easily outclass any
thing that ever showed promise at the
annual Algonquin burr wagon contest
Could Napoleon Bony-part, prize Alps
trotter. have Witnessed the perform
ance Of OLeary's athletes at yester-
days matinee, he would have heaved
an elongated sigh and switched his
position in me sarcophagus~ And the
boys did IL without the aid of an al
pinestock. After old man Syferts trail
ing Boomers had hammered Donley,
the eXpectoration expert, for a quar-
tet of markers right at the kick off,
the Blue Hose gang waded into Marks,
tied II up in the seventh, and coppul
in the ultimate stanza. The count
was "a.
sLAP-STICK SCENE.
By way of excitement Daniel
OLeary, Sox pilot and all around
monologue artist, INDUCED in a bit
of light and airy persiaage with
"Busher" Kuepper. the guest backstop,
in the third round. There was no
blood shed. although for a time things
looked ominous.
Kuepper was feeling decidedly ches-
~ after his gang had accomplished
the hitherto unprecedented feat of
scoring four times in one game, and
also in one inning. When the Orion
Celt ambled to the platter, Kuepper
attempted to unload a line of verbal
gol he
Davenport boss before the grandstand
collection of breads
You haven't got a chance to cor
this old game" quoth Keupper. Look
up. look up"
Don't get gay with me, you busher
or I'll cram this bludgeon down your
throat came back O'Leary.
PEACE RESTORED.
The words flew hot and heavy, anC
Daniel poked Keupper on the mash
with the business end of his Wagon
tongue several times, advising him tC
close the dining room, curl up on tbs
bench and expire.
Jimmie Sullivan, esteemed arbiter
finally interviewed and the storm wa!
over Had Kuepper removed his tools
and showed fight, it is likely that tn,
Bloomington flags would today b.
draped at half-mast.
Con Donley was perked at the enc
of the sixth. Roddy Hendrix of thu
wounded shoulder acting in the capaC
ity Of successor. Roddy held th'
Boomers to a pair of blows durinl
tg hrfa al al M
friends. Kelly and Lister, were yer.
much there Kelly grabbed a single
and Lister doubled the order. II wa
large and salubrious afternoon al
around.
RAD GETAWAY.
The Hose started OFF on the wronl
hoof at the tap of the gong. Jack
son rolled a puny grounder in from
OF the platter. OLeary heaved L
first, but Holke allowed the agate Z
slide through his mitts. Donley the
became rambunctious and hit Graf
in the stats. making two on. Hart
ford laid one down, advancing bot
men a notch. Lucas slashed a ground
er at Bromwich which was too war;
for successful handling. and one ru
dribbled over. Vinson then made
loud noise with a triple to the cente
field fence, cleaning the paths.
Pete Lister kept up the work b
sizzling daisy cutter over the secon
cushion. counting Vinson. Kelly han
mered a hot grounder TO the shoI
field. which Koepping speared after
sensational dive. tossing TO secon
while still lying full length. Kuel
per ended IL with rainbow to RICH
That was all for the visitors.
MARKS FADES.
Marks started out like house afr
whiting three men in the first inninl
He weakened from that time on, how
ever, and the ice was broken in III
Fourth. With one gone, Brownie
drove three-sacker 10 the cente
field pallisade and counted on passe
ball Two more came in the fiftl
Keeping singled to center. OLear
beat out an inheld hit. sending n
Elgin Dutchman 10 third. Otto score
on Donley's blow TO right. BeckC
laid down a sacrifice. putting o'LeaI
on the far corner. and Donley Just or
station westward. Carrigan hit
warm one 20 Marks. who allowed u
Pill to get away from him. OLear