Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-27
Hold Filler Blanks Neighb0rs, But is
Touched Safely Seven Times
During the Contest.
M0LINERS GARNER II HITS
Chilly and Wet Weather Puts Program
for Lid Lifting Even On Blink
Only 500 Attend.
GAMES TODAY.
Rock Island Mt Moline.
Rockford at Davenport.
Peoria at Quincy.
Bloomington at Hannibal.


of the Three-Eye league 1916 season
by beating the Islanders by to
count Hughes best bet, Hold Eller,
erstwhile White Sox graduate and
spitballist. BANKED Listers hopefuls.
but he yielded seven safe blows. Ten
hits were secured off Marshall in eight
innings, four OF them being on the
scratch order. Miller replaced big
Boy" in the ninth and was touched for
one hit by Davis.
To Dobbins. Moline's speedy catcher.
goes credit of driving in the first run
OF the season, locally speaking. Mo
lines second marker came through an
error by Sargent.
To the weather man goes the credit
of putting the entire opening program
on the fritz" An auto parade was
held before the game, leaving Moline
at lis, but not more than seven cars
were in line, including truck on
which rode Notes band. The process
sion proceeded through Rock Island,
Moline and East Moline, before return
ing to the Moline park at o'clock.
The few fans, officials and players
who participated in the parade were
chilled when they reached the park.
The infieId was in bad condition from
the intermittent rains through the
night and morning and an effort was
made to dry up the gumbo around the
catcher's box by burning gasoline tat
81 cents a gallon)
When 3:45 rolled around scarcely
500 fans had passed through the turn
stiles and the program was called off,
Jumps Becker gave the signal and the
game was on. with Jerry Eddinger
presiding on the bases.
Rock Island got a man around to
second right off the bat. Wolfe
scratched an infield hit and was sac
rificed by Erlewein. Biltz went out
on a tap to Eller and Clayton walked,
but Stocker flied out to center With
the exception of pass issued to Pet
tigrew, Marshall retired his opponents
in one, two, three order.
Pete Spills the Beans.
Rock Island should have had a score
in the second, but the big chief him
self spilled the beans. Lister led off
with clean single to center. He was
caught off first a moment later by
Dobbins when he slipped in the mud
and fell in trying to get back to the
bag. Sargent and Munich followed
with safe hits and had Pete been on
the bags he would have counted Two
hits, one of them a double by Dobbins.
failed TO register run for Moline in
this frame.
From the third on Eller frightened
up and the Islanders never had a
chance. Wolfe rammed a single in the
fifth, but was ntpped on double play.
Lister led with single in the seventh,
but was caught off first again when he
slipped IN trying to get back to the
bag. Biltz led off with a screening
double In the ninth, the ball going
clear to the fence, but Clayton, Stocker
and Lister were retired without a hit.
Islanders Choke Rally.
The islanders choked a Moline rally
in great shape in the third. Falk
started the noise with his first single
and was sacrificed to second. Petit
grew drove a hard roller at Stocker.
Lee made move to toss the ball to
first, outguessing Falk, who started
for third. Ray was run down between
the bases and Pettigrew was retired
when he tried to take second on the
play. Hughes and Moore singled IL
the fourth. but no runs resulted. Eller
started the fifth with single, but was
nipped off the bag In the sixth
Hughes led off with a safe drive. He
was sacrificed to second and took third
on Staley's out, scoring a moment
later on Dobbins' single to right In
the eighth Hughes scored again when
Sargent let Dobbns' bounder get by
him. The score: