Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-26
BY PAUL BRUNER.

With q cold weather stage setting
and the footlights dimmed. the DAY.
export Blue SOx were gently tapped
on the COCO By the aspiring Decatur
ties yesterday afternoon by a score of
2 TO l. O'Leary's hired hands had
plenty Of chances 10 tuck the game
away in their bat bag, but Ty Cobb
base running minus Ty Cobb results
and failure 10 connect with the pill in
the crises good word produced what
is known in Mr.. Webster's lexicon as
DEFEAT. spelled with capital let
tiers, accent on the penult as in dill
pickle. Hendrix, the king pin twirler
Of the Tri-Ork wheel. was a trifie off
his feed. He found himself continual
~ in the hole. and seemed 10 lack his
ordinarily superb control. Boss
O'Leary was surrounded with a halo
OF inky gloom an when the tide was
turning against his brave warriors.
HIS vocabulary would hardly have been
received without expurgation in polite
Baptist circles.
HOPES ARE BLASTED.
The SoX threatened to tie up the
score IN the ninth inning, and came
awful close at that With tho count
20 l against the home boys. the
crowd began to grow noisy. when
Clemens staggered TO the plate with
grim determination inscribed all over
his map. The best Bobbie could do
however, was a feeble one TO the
pitcher. Neer likewise died via short
stop. 4 final thrill was injected into
the tumultuous mob a moment later
when Carrigan lambasted a clean sin
gle to center. The crowd roared so
Justify and so we'll that Dyer went up
in the air. passing Coleman. With
men on first and second and but two
out, there was chance to win.
OLeary trotted out Barnes and began
10 warm him up and the crowd roarcd.
Yanking Hendrix out Of the fray.
OLeary sent in big Peters TO bat for
Roddy. Peters is Bob Coleman's I'M
derstudy. and some swatter also. Pc
tiers had two and two and or the next
ball pitched. smoke the pill with that
big hickory club Ca--igan and Cole.
man, rounding the bases at a 6O-mile
gait. made a wild dash for the plate.
but Lynch. the Decatur third basemar.
dashed in on the grounder and winged
IL over TO first. beating the runner by
half step. and the game was over.
KoEPPING HERO.
The SoX glommed their lone tally
in the third spasm. After two lives
had been snuffed out. Coca Cola Reed
stopped n swift one with his ribs. am.
bled TO first. and promptly sneaked
TO second. Tiny Otto Koepping. who
halls from the Fox river valley dairy
district. fouled on 2 couple and tae1
lined soorchinC drive 10 left field for
two sacks, sending Reed over the plat
ter. Flaharty ended it with three lus
ties.
The visitors came right back in tbs
next round and evened things up
With one down. Lynch waited for a
quartet OF wide ones and beat II e
second when Hendrix unbottled a wild
heave Biltz hammered q clean one
TO left garden, sending Lynch TO third
and allowing himself 20 land on the
keystone sack. Flanagan poled q
long hy 20 deep right, and Lynch beat
the throw TO the plate. Blake skieC
10 + AaudENNs
ALSO ANOTHER.
That other run came in tho mex
round. Duggan, first up. singled anc
then started for second base. Cole
man heaved the pill wide and no one
was there TO grab It so that the run
ner reached the second station easily
while Carrigan was claWing the Pill
out OF the center field dandelion bed
Hendrix then settled down and famed
the next two, but Scherer spilled. tn,
beans with a hit 10 short. sending II
the winning tally. German died
Bromwich TO Neer.
The Sox got a swell start In III,
sixth but there vas nothing doing
Pat Flaharty, who was No. !, sta-teC
out with a clean single TO right gar
den. Bromwich hit one TO short ant
Pat was cruciied al the keyston,
sack. Al landing on first Clemen:
likewise lift TO lhort. German TOSSING
the pill TO second IN time TO fore
Bromwich. In attempting to make /
a double, Blake threw the pill wa!