Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-25
BASEBALL UNDER
/ THREE-EYE PRExY
Tearney's League Run on the
Old Time Rough House
Plan.
DAN o'LEARY INTERVIEWED
Blue Sox Boss Pulls Chicago Alder
man over Goals and Condemns
His Management.

| cross Clarence Rowland, manager OF
| the Peoria team, and that Rowland is
| more in control of the league than the
head official himself. is the assertion
made by Manager Dan OIeary of the
Davenport Blue Sox, in an interview
with reporter of the Daven-
port Democrat, following the re-
cent series with the Distillers
in which pop bottles and vile
language filled the air. The Peoria
fans are condemned by the Blue Sox
boss, the police are criticized. and
President AL Tearney and Rowland
are among those given severe raking
over.
Here is the dope as handed out by
Boss Dan:
Umpire Has No Chance.
can umpire has no chance over
there. AS soon as he makes a dect'
sion the people jump the fence and
flock out onto the field. He has no
chance to get away unless he jumps
over the back fence.
"The other day Bert Graham was
hit by pop-bottle thrown by fan. ]
saw the man who threw the bottle
and grabbed his arm and told po-
liceman who was standing nearby to
arrest him and would appear against
him in the morning. All l got was
laugh from the bluecoat.
mot only did he fail to ar
rest, but the police were un
der instructions from the chief of
police not to arrest anybody II we
asked them to. When Umpire Brown
was arrested and taken to the police
station in the patrol wagon they gave
him the laugh and Brown heard the
chief give an officer instructions.
eff Dan O'Leary tells you to ar.
rest anybody don't do it. was what
Brown heard him say. j told Bernie
Smith of the Star that Rowland was
president of the Three-Eye league and
not Tearney, and meant 1t. When
Tearney came over there Rowland
told him that Peoria was the backbone
of the league. He did this to influ-
ence his decision on the protest II
we hadn't played that game they would
not have let us leave the park Five
policemen were stationed around our
bench yesterday.
Fans Are Rough.
ION the play that forced a man at
the plate Umpire Eddinger ruled the
Peoria runner safe. 1 asked him why
and he said because Simpson did not
have his foot on the plate, when
could see plainly that he did have it
there. When Graham came up to bat
in the game that Timmersman pitched
lrTz.. Er-rk ha1I -fo<I.<
at Bert's head. He hit him with the
next ball and Bert went down to first
telling him few things. But he
dared not go far for the bugs would
be out after him. They throw rocks
and pop bottles on the grounds at the
visiting players without police inter
| ference.
Peoria had no claim to protest that
game. The play was as regular as
any other and Graham did not hit
| Timmersman as they claimed. There
were men on first and second and
they were playing for sacrifice
| Simpson called for a waste ball to
draw the man off first and he pegged
down to Otto, who came in from be-
| hind to take the throw. They caught
Timmersman between first and second
and Wentz and Koepping started to
run him down. The other runner
started for home and Wentz threw to
Simpson.
"But Harry saw 1t was too late and
threw to second to catch the runner.
Bert had come in to cover the bag
| in the play and he grabbed the ball
and tagged Zimmerman. The umpire
ruled him out That was all there was
to the play and Graham did not slug
him. In spite of this Peoria people
made affidavits and sent two men to
Chicago to see Tearney about it.
wired Tearney about it, but instead
of answering he told Umpire Brown
to get statement from me. Why
didn't he come to me directe He was
in Peoria yesterday but did not see
him. / did not know It until after
wards"
No Right to Protest.
According to the rules OF the game.
Peoria had no right to protest the
game on the error OF judgment, If
such was the claim.
Umpire Wright, who made the de-
cision, was escorted from the grounds
and the next day they would not let
him work. He was ordered to leave
and Tearney sent Eddinger over to
work.
OLeary says that President Jones
of the Peoria club admits that ne
knows nothing about baseball Jones
was struck and knocked down by a
fan Sunday when he tried to pacify
the crowd during the Decatur game
In this game, 1t IS said. Beatty was
ruled out at third, when the throw
heat him by six feet. and the crcwd
s,,,~,,,.a cnto the f,eld and started ait