Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-03
IN THEIR ELEMENT
WHALES WIN PAIR
Chicago Federals Celebrate a Rsinv
Day by Going to the Top of the
Percentage Column.
CRAwFORD's BAT BUMPS THE sox
Even Hitting and Clean Fielding Char.
aeterize Game-Cubs Take the
Third Straight.

their natural element. water. thu
Whales swan home TO victory in both
games OF a douhle-header with the
BufTeds at weeghman Park YESTERDAY
winning the opener, to o, and five.
inning afterpiece, to /. incidentally,
the Chicago Federais landed in the ron
berth in the league, as ST. Louis trim
med Newark twice in the double stan
"a in the east while the Tinker mon
were cleaning up pair
Rain held of until the third inning
OF the second game, when it began 10
slant down. Umpire Johnstone kent
the braves at it, however, and the But
feds finally switched Knapp for Wood
man, who issued the pass, which. mix
ed with two errors by Downey. q bit
and sacrifice in the production NJ
two runs, broke up the game. The
fifth inning was played, but It had no
effect on the final outcome.
Some 5000 shiveriug fans witnessed
one of the best games PLAYED at
Weeghman Park in the opening event
hits being fewer than cushions in the
25-cent bleachers. "Toots" Schulz.
erstwhile Yankee, delivered the pellet
successfully for the Bufaloes for. seven
rounds, but he broke in the eighth.
when five hits and two sacrifices in
iected some righteousness into the
atmosphere and banished all suspense
from the contest. They also cost four
runs. Score OF first game:
R.HE.
Chicago ......-000 O0O04 - s 0
Buffalo .-.--..0 90 0O00O-0
Batteries - Hendrix and Wilson:
Schulz and Allen
Score Of second game;
Chicago .......2o1 o-5 3
Buffalo &C.. 800 1 Il I 8
Batteries Mcconnell. Brown and
Fischer; Knapp, Woodman and Allen.
Crawford's Bat Does It.
Chicago, Ill, May 3.-Wahoo Sans
mighty mace crashed another bet for
the Tigers yesterday, sending Eddie
Cicotte. knuckIe-ball expert, down TO
his third straight defeat. Stepping to
the fore with a triple in the opener and
a rollicking swat in the sixth the griz-
zled Mr.. Crawford slammed over three
of the markers that lattened Row
lands White Sox, + to 3, in the wind
up OF the set at Comiskey park, and it
was a murky, gooey matinee after the
third inning.
Sixteen thousand water-logged Sox
constituents took issue with Rowland
in the sixth when he sent the webbing
Cicotte back at the BengaIs after five
timely clouts, a wild pitch and sscri-
fee had given the south siders a one
run margin in the third round for Ed
die was pitching under heavy handi-
cap on the clipper sod and his spit
ter" looked none too good.
With the rain pelting down making
the ball sOggy and slippery Cicotte dug
his own grave by passing Witt, lead
OF man in the deciding period, then
wild-pitchsd the Tiger to second. Cobb
then combed his second single, Witt
pausing at third and TyTus pulling up
at second on the throw in. Here's
where Faber should have been pressed
into service. but the slaughter con
tinUed with Crawford clouting a clean
drive to center putting Witt and the
Georgian over the dock
Rowland then derricked the veteran
and introduced Faber for the approval
of the Jungaleers. VeaCh bounced
hot single off Weaver's paws, but the
rioting was checked when Schalk
made a great, one-handed catch OF
Kavanaugh's foul and jacobson forced
Crawford. hitting to Weaver. McKee's
liner went to Fourier. Faber toyed
with Jennings troops in the next two
rounds then made way for pinch-hlt-
ter Demmit in the eighth and Wolf
R.HE
Chicago ......OOO3000O0-8 9 0
Detroit 80. ...1O1O 02O00-4 9 D
Batteries-Cfcotte, Faber, Wolfgang
and Schalk; Dauss and Mckee.
Third Wins for Cubs.
Chicago, May 3.-Playfng the third
chapter of their series with Pitts
burgh, the scene removed to Chicago
and new face appeared in the east
the Cubs, fresh from q conquering two
weeks road jaunt, won their third
straight game from Pittsburgh yester-
day. Z 10 / Like on Saturday, when
Standridge took the hero role, Jim
Vaughn, tall and husky, occupied the
front seat in the spotlight's glare fof
James and his southpaw shoots nea
the Pirates to three hits, two Of them
infeld scratches.
Five innings passed before Vaughn
saw his chances OF a no-hit victory go
glimmering with an infield tap toWaIu
short. a blow that would have been
ielded cleanly on better baseDah
lay. During these FIVE rounds James
lished up about the classiest exhipi-
.;o,, of bic carea- as q CuD He diu
not give base on balls and the ohs
.wo men 70 reach first were GiosoH
md McQuiIlan and errors gave them
heir chance Score:
R.H.E-
chicago .o402O0
Pittsburgh 80 0 0 0 20 0-l
Batteries-yaughn and Bresnahan'
Mainaux and Gibson