Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-26
BY PAUL BRUNER.

Tdul VI ldIsus NIOuCH, lue lo-Stdl-
old Pretzel twirler, and leading juve-
nile athlete Of the Tri-Orb circuit,
earned a Carnegie medal yesterday
afternoon. After jumping into the
fracas of the preceding matinee and
attempting % show up the Wild Man
OF Borneo, the bean-pole athlete came
back yesterday and with deadly &C
curacy moved down the opposition by
use Of his famous whistle ball. In the
pinches the Peoria aggregation had
just about as much chance of getting
TO him as William Jennings Bryan has
OF deserving the chautauqua platform
and the grape juice precepts. Billy
Meidroth's I'M. leaguers appeared sick
before Paul's bewildering slants, and
an even dozen of them punctured the
ozone and retired to the water bucket.
The score was to ..
NEW FACES.
The Distillers presented an entirely
new front for the edihcation of the
natives, and owing to the absencesof
Bertillion data, score cards were in
great demand for purposes of identif-
cation. The gang seems to be going
along quite pert under the stage man
agement of rabbit" Fountain, and we
opine that they will not be occupying
the cellar position when the Septem-
Der roll is called. The boys have all
kinds OF pepper and seem to be har-
monizinS o. X.
CROUCH IN FORM.
Opposed to Lanky Paul was Mister
Malloy, another exponent of the moist
ball Malloy hurled a lovely game all
the way, and but for hobbies in the
defense, should have gotten by much
better. For FIVE innings Crouch held
the DistilleTy City boys to one lone
some bingle, same being accumu-
lated by one OF the old guard. Flack
DiStng this listless period. eight visit
ing braves famed the breezes, and for
a time It was considered advisable to
excuse the outfield for the remainder
OF the afternoon.
FIGHT FOR PUT OUT.
The I'M recruits failed to get close
70 the sizzling pill for a time, and
chances were so scarce that a near
riot developed in the fifth inning when
Flaharty. Koepping and Neer almost
went to the mat to decide which
should pick onto Yelle's measly pop up
back Of the first cushion. Neer was
finally elected, after considerable dis
cussion. and glommed the horsehide
amidst wild cheers and applause from
the Sox bench. Dan OLeary added
word Of commentator by yelling.
81 ,fA -ba
ficult chance"
GET AWAY LOVELY.
The Pretzels broke the ice in the
second stanza. Patrick Ignatius Fla
harty was wounded and ambled TO
first, trotting 10 the keystone a mo-
ment later assisted by Carrigan's neat
sacrifice. Malloy failed to get 'em
over for Neer. and that party walked.
Armed with a new yellow bat 'Lessgo"
Peters leaned against one, sending IL
on a line 10 the left garden. With
Flaharty tearing up the paths like a
midnight taxicab driver, Flack
grabbed the pellet and heaved to the
platter. Yelle was standing back of
The rubber and while leaning forward
20 make the tag. Pat slid under him
and was called safe Neer ran all the
way TO third during the excitement
and scored on Crouch's clean blow to
center.
The Distillers shifted the goose egg
scenery in the sixth. Rabbit Fountain
hammered a single into center and
vas sacrificed TO second. Flack then
dumped the pill against the right field
boards. and before Flaharty could dis
sntangle IL from the weeds, Rabbit
vas over the register and Flack was
resting on third. But that was all
BOOTS NUMEROUS.
Punk work on the infield handed
he home boys two runs in their half,
and without anything that remotely
-esembled a bingle. Becker waited
or free transportation and was bunt-
I'd 20 the keystone by Bromwich.
Flaharty then hit a high one along
he right field line. Regan reached
he locality all right but dropped the
ball Beck ran to third an6 Flaharty