Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-25

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OTHER OPENING GAMES.
Rockford at Davenport.
bloomington at Hannibal.
Peoria at Quincy.
Final arrangements have been COM
pleted for the start of the Three-Eye
league season in Moline tomorrow,
and as the Islanders meet the Plows
in the opener the affair will be a joint
one An auto parade is scheduled to
leave the Moline park at l o'clock
sharp. The line of march will be di
rectly to Rock Island. The local play
ers and rooters will be picked up at
the Rock Island house, where the local
autos will fall in line. The process
sion will then proceed to Moline
through the principal streets in that
city, and then to East Moline and back
TO the grounds. Notes band of Mo-
line will head the parade.
The game at the park will be start
ed promptly at 3:45. AS Mayor Mar
tin Carlson is absent from the city
Mayor William McConochie of Rock
Island has been secured to pitch the
first ball The pill will be. caught by
President C. P. Skinner of the Moline
club.
All local fans who wish to ride in
Hance at his office in the Safety build
ing as soon as possible. Howard
Klove has been delegated to secure
autos for the parade.
President A R. Tearney is sched-
uled to arrive from Chicago at noon.
He will participate in the parade at
Davenport and then come to Moline
park for brief visit before boarding
an afternoon RATHER for Chicago.
The game itself promises to be hot
ly contested. Manager Hughes will
hurl his best bet, Hold Eller, White
SOx graduate, at the Islanders. Lister
decided this morning to pitch Big
Boy Marshall, in staging Rock Is
lands comeback into the Three-Eye
after an absence of four years. Mar
shall did stellar work against Moline
Sunday and should come through with
a victory in the opener. Dick Staley,
the Hume, Ill, tonsorial artist, will be
seen back at his old station for Mo-
line. Lister switched his batting order
at the last minute, placing Erlewein
second on the list and Sargent was
dropped to seventh place. Lister an
nounced today that he had released
Harold Howe, catcher from Morrison,
Ill. With Munich and Vance on the
Job, Howe had little opportunity to
stick, Manager Hughes has dropped
Pitchers Nelson, Jahnke and Ukey,
and he signed one new hurler, Root
Of Augusta, Ill.
Over the Circuit.
A stronger team this year than the
one that won the pennant for Moline
last year is claimed by George E
Hughes, manager of the champion
Plow boys. Everything, however, de-
ponds on some one of my recruit
pitchers showing he can go for US
said Hughes. The 1916 race looks to
me like the hottest the Three-Eye has
ever had, every club appearing strong
er than year ago, and all better bal
anced"
With the stage all set for the open
ing Of the Three-Eye season in Daven- !
port tomorrow, Manager Dan OLeary |
OF the Blue SoX announced today that !
he expected to develop one of the fast |
est and hardest hitting clubs in the |
league with the material now avail |
able. Interest is high because of the |
presence Of clubs in the league in Dav-
EXPORT, Rock Island and Moline. The
players who will open the season
against Rockford are: Pitchers Jack
Poole, John Carroll. Carl Timmers-
man, Abner Gould, Dan Adams;
catchers, Lee Mills, Gerald Cox, Dan
O'Leary, Joe Brock; infelders, Elmer
Duggan, Otto Keeping, Jack Conger,
A. l.. Ward; outfielders, Nealon Lynch.
Ray O'Brien, Bert Graham
Rockford Men Hard Hitters.
Rockford April 25- Rockford's
L III team lIdo DttH StTbIRIUpH- |
ed considerably. according to Howard
Wakefield, manager. although he ad-
mits there is yet a position or two
subject 10 change soon Rockford led
the league IN team-hitting last year
and this season has on its list six
men who batted above the 290 mark
last season. The infeld will be the
same that Wakefield had on the
Springfield team in 1914 The club
roster follows:
Catchers-Oscar Olson, Sam Bren-
egsn.
Pitchers-HaroId Carlson, Richard
IrselIa, Orville Selby, Arthur Stiles,
hanson McManus.
First base Howard Wakefield imam
.ger).
Second base-EdWard Holloway
Third base Sylvester (Jimmy)
3roeD.
Shortstop-Fred Kirsch.
Left feld-Glen Trainer, Il