Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-21
LISTER SECURES
PROMISING THIRD
Stacker FOR CLUB
Joe Timlin, st. Louis, Last Year 4.
Western League, Accepts Term.
With the Islanders,
MAKE PLANS FOR HOSE BAyorrr
Tri.City Fans Invited to Attend RI,
Spread In Moline April 1O-Bloom.
ers Land Blueiacket

Chief Peter Lister of the islands.
is not overlooking any bets in inAe,s
material. Today he announces add
ton of Joe Timlin, a St. Louis hov
who will try for third. Timlin he.
accepted terms with the local cluh
and a contract has been mailed him !.
Joe played last season with WIGHT,
In the Western league and Ia a sea.
soned performer. Lister now has =,
hand two men for every position i,
the infleld, and should be able TO -.
lect fast base gang from this list q,
hopefuls.
A committee from the local cIub
consisting Of DR.. Eli Bradford. Tom
Haege and Otto Seidlitz, appeared he.
fore the Rock Island city commission
yesterday to ask for construction q,
additional bleachers at the Island ci,v
park and for new chairs for the grand
stand. Four hundred of the old chair,
at the park have disappeared or have
been destroyed. The matter was r..
ferred to a committee consisting Of
Commissioners Murrin, Juhl and
Liedtke.
All 1Skarat ball fans in the tr,.
cities have been extended a cordia,
invitation by the Moline Three-Eve
baseball club to attend a banquet to
be rendered the first team Of the Chi
cago White Sox at the Manufactur
ers' hotel in that city on the evening
Of April 10 at 1880 o'clock Invita-
tons have been extended to Charles
A. Comiskey, owner of the White Sox;
Clarence A. Rowland, manager; NH,
Sexton, Rock Island, president Of the
National Association Of Minor
Leagues; A. R. Tearney. president Of
the Three-Eye league; Dr. Eli Brad
ford, president of the Rock Island
club; Dick Lane, president Of the
Davenport club, and Mayor NJ. R.
Carlson, president of the Moline club,
to speak. Axel Kohler will preside
as POSTMASTER.
Tickets for the fan feed will cost
$3.50 and are soon to be placed on
sale at the following places: Rock
Island, Klove Bros cigar store; DAY.
export, Blackhawk cigar store; Mo-
line, Manufacturers hotel cigar stand,
Peoples National bank and Coleman
& Schultz.
The White Sox first team plays in
Davenport April 10 and in Moline the
following day.
Manager Hughes Of the Pillow boys
announces he has accepted terms
with W. H. Sapp, pitcher, who halls
from Eldon. Iowa. Little Is known
Of Sapp's ability, but he will be given
tryout. At a meeting of the Moline
directors, held last night, A. A. Box
man was awarded concessions at the
park for the coming year, his bid be-
ing the highest among seven. Perry
kemmerling was named groundkeep-
er and is at work at the park today.
The proposed exhibition games with
Geneseo on April 2 and will not be
held, as the Geneseo team will be un-
able to get into shape by that time.
The Moline players will report for
initial practice about April 8.
Boomers Snare Blueiacket
The efficiency of the Bloomer pitch
ing staff was increased by so per cent
| by the announcement of the signing
Of James Bluejacket, the sensational
Fed hurler. Blueiacket was one OF
the best pitchers in the league when
he leaped to the Feds. He played last
year with Brooklyn and was released
this spring.
Manager Darringer OF Bloomington
is planning to assemble his baseball
colony about April 10, with about 70
or 80 players on hand. Darringer Is
dickering for a strong backstop
President Shannon Of the quincy
club is going to have no wet GROUNDS
this season if he can avoid 1t. Inc
league park in that city has been per-
fectly graded and a new drainage sus-
tenn installed. In addition to no!
Kuhn, Manager Castle yesterday an
nounced the signing of another eaten
err In the person of Cy Lingle, lor'
| -, o,,,- Nth Co5or ponds and in tl8