Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-08
BY CARL ED.

The first double header m the Rock
Island yard this season was 5000
affair. Marks, assisted by hard MT
ting on the part Of his mates, won
the initial tilt for Rock Island. 10 to
3, but Beck threw away the second
game TO the Mules, the count beng
5 to 5. with the Islanders on the short
end. Two thousand fans sat patient
" while the teams performed for over
four hours.
In the first fuss the local sfuggers
found Gentleman" Keller's sfants to
their liking. garnering IS hits, which
came at opportune moments when bin
giles meant runs On the other hand,
Marks held the Mules to nine swats.
resulting in three runs in the fifth
and sixth, his only bad innings The
Islanders wasted no time. Ereweln,
who has been going ike a fiend both
at the bat and in the field for the past
two days, singled to center with one
down, and Biltz followed with safe
one in the same spot The two then
manipulated double steal and scored
on CIayton's HIT to center
In the third ETIewein walked with
one down Biftz was safe on keller's
error and the pair pulled another dou-
Bile steal Clayton skied to BOssoloni
Chubby" Stocker doubled down the
first base line, counting Erlewein and
BiltZ. In the fourth Cerny led off with
a hit to center Munich died on an in
field roller. but Marks singled to left
al F.
scratched a single through second
base and Erlewein damned a triple to
the f1agpoIe, counting Wolfe and
Marks
The Mules saw the home plate for
the first time in the fifth frame Krue-
ger was safe on Erlewein's bobble and
he counted on Seiffert's double. In
the sixth Hannibal added two more.
Bossoloni doubled to left with one
down. Nye hit a two-bagger in the
same spot scoring him, and Nye
counted when Munich let a third strike
on Kruger get by him. In the sew
enth Erlewein started the fun with d
double Biftz responded with sin
gle. scoring Fritzie. and Heine scored
on Clayton's hit In the eighth Munich
=
ror. and was sacrificed to third by
Wolfe, scoring on Biltz's infeld out.
Mispiays Lose Second Tilt.
The second game differed from the
first in that hits were fewer. A wild
heave past third by Beck, which re-
suited in two runs, won for the Mules
Although George held the visitors TO
five hits he was wild, passing FIVE, and
his walks were costly. In the first
inning Nicholson walked, stole second
took third on Beattv's out and scored
when kayior was put out, Erlewein
TO Lister. The Islanders came back
with two runs FrleWefn walked with
one down and scored on Nye's error
Bfltz singled and was caught at sec
ond on Cfaytun's tap. Stocker walked
and Zeine counted on Listers hit to
center. IN the second Nye walked and
scored on Krueger's first double In
the third Warning was safe when Erie
vein juggied his grounder Nye hit
to Cerny, who caught Waring at sec
ord. Nye then stole second and scor-
ed on KruegerAs second double
The Islanders knotted the count IN
the seventh. when Wolfe singled and
scored ON Friewein's triple Fritzie
was retired trying to take home on
the hit
In the fatal ninth Beck got himself
IN bad by walking Nye, the first man
up. Kruger hunted roller down the
first base line and Lister fielded it
cleanly and tossed It to Erlewein It
nught to have been an easy out. but
Frftzie dropped the pill Seifert hunt
ed toward first Beck snatched up the
ball and tagged Seiffert out. In try
ing to double Nve at third he threw
past Stocker, and both Nye and Krue-
ger scored. Two runs without hit
Scores of the two games follow: