Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-24
THREE-EYE LEAGUE.
GAMES TO-DAY AND TOMORROW.
Danville at Davenport.
Bloomington at Dubuque.
Quincy at Springfield.
Peoria at Decatur.
BY PAUL BRUNER.

Three rousing and prolonged
cheers. Pass the nabiscoes and the
iced tea, Clarice, and give them any
5-csnt rope in the joint On with the
joy-let the dance be unconfined. Ev-
erybody celebrate, for the Blue SoX
Won a game yesterday without bat
ting long after the golden sun has
found its final resting place beyonc
the blue ridged western hills and
father has locked the front door for
the night. Yes, strange as it may
seem, Davenport won a game without
playing 3S6 innings, and they did it
SO easy that it was just like beating
a pair of fours in the limit. Danville
took the count, to !, with the mighty
Connie Walsh, foreman-manager or
the rubber. And the lad that slipped
IT over on the guests was none other
than Paul of Tarsus Crouch, the juve-
nile slabbist Of The Pretzel aggrega-
ton.
1T WAS EASY.
These heart-disease, nerve-destroy-
ing, gruelling pitchers ducls have al
most become a habit at the Davenport
ball park, and the scenario change
was as welcome as the cool wave.
Connie Walsh is the manager Of the
Danville gang. and his sense of pride
would not permit of his chasing him
self TO the water cooler when things
became warm. Hence he stuck it out
Although only denied for seven blows,
four of them were of the extra cush-
ion variety and came mostly when the
runs were needed. Kid Crouch en-
tertained in the most approved fash
ion, and besides holding the chesties
TO five segregated swats, caused five
braves-count EN-, five--to Whit the
undulating breeses contiguous to the
platter.
DRAW 4 LONER.
The boys who hail from the home of
Uncle Joe Cannon grabbed Il tally in
the first stanza, but sad to relate, that
was all the JOY they drew during the
entire matinee Breitenstein, who was
No. l in this chapter, ambled to first
when Crouchs right arm answered to
the call of the wild and refused to
make the horsehide behave. Otto Vo-
with his abdomen and hobbled to first
with mingled feelings of anguish and
joy. Falk laid down a neat sacrifice
and both men advanced a rung. Kay
lor, the hard hitting little right gar
dener. was there in the crisis and
damned the pill to deep right garden
so far back that Breitenstein scored
easily after the catch. Wallace poked
a dinky single along the third base
lire which chased Nogel TO third, but
the little Dutchman was marooned
there when Staley bumped to Crouch,
TIE II UT.
The Pretzels made ii a horse apiece
in the third. Big Peters, who has
blossomed into stardom since Cole
man blew. stepped TO bat with = brand
new yellow war club and smote the
pill on a line to the southeast palli
sade. winding up at the keystone with
a flourish. Crouch famed. Reed
popped TO the catcher. making two
gone, and IL looked as though Big
Pete was doomed TO perish in mid
ocean, when Koepping bumped one &c
Third Baseman White, who very kind
ly heaved the pill over Dick Staley':
knob. Pete ran all the way home and
Otto got rs far as second. Flaharty
ended 1t with a bur, > TO Nogel.
THEN SOM; MORE.
The Sox also grabbed a pair in tht
next stanza After Bromwich hac
grounded out to his opponent, Glen
ems caught one on the business por
ton Of his stick and sent il clear Il
the centerfield fence for a three bag
ger. Neer then drove an elongated
skyscraper to right garden, and Glen
ems ambled homeward after the catch
Carrigan got a life when our frient
White again bungied, and prompt,
stole second. From this vantage poin
IL was very easy for him to dribbl
over the cash register when Peter
lined the pill into left garden for
two sacker. his second of the day
Crouch ended it by taking three luS
ties.
Although Davenport threatened Il
some of the succeeding irllugs the
failed 70 push over another tally, an