Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
PLOW BOYS LOSE
THRILLING CAME
TO ISLAND TEAM
Contest Is Punctuated by Home Run
and Effective Base Stealing at
Critical Points.
ROTH TEAMS PLAY KKR0RLESS
Pitchers in Hard Battle. With Beard
More Wild Than Marks-Both
Relieved for Last Inning.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Davenport at Rock Island.
Moline at Rockford.
Hannibal at Peoria
Quincy ut Bloomington.

Islanders and Plow boys, combat
ing at the Moline park yesterday aft
ernoon, staged a fierce battle, full of
thrills, strained situations and heady
ball playing II was anybody's game
until the last man was out, and re-
suited in an Islander victory put over
In the ninth inning, 6 to 5. 1t was an
errorless exhibition, punctuated with
a home run, good pitching and effec-
tive base stealing
MoIine's first run was effected by
double steal, with Falk and Ihr1g as
the principals, the former going to sec
ond, and the latter scoring the run
A home run by Davis was spectacular
In its beauty, and gave the fans thrill
because it tied the score
Beard whose exhibition Sunday had
given the Moline fans considerable
confidence in his ability, began the
work for the Pillow boys, and while he
was somewhat wild the Islanders were
not able to negotiate in large amounts
until the seventh inning, when two
Dagger and a pair of singles were effec-
tive for a pair of runs. After couple
Of hits in the ninth, Beard was dis
placed by Shears Marks pitched eight
innings for Rock Island and had good
control, the fourth inning being his
worst, when Moline clouted out a dou-
bic and three singles
Three Innings Without Run
The game ran three innings without
a score. Beard had shown evidence
of a lack OF steadiness in walking the
first man up in both the previous in
nings. He repeated the performance
in the fourth, beginning with Biltz
Mcbride advanced the runner, and
wild pitch put him on third. This was
the first article that had the real color
of a run that had thus far appeared
Lister was given a pass and ErleWeln
sacrificed. Vance was awarded base
on balls, the third of the inning, and
the bases were full a hard hit ball
from Ward, properly placed, drove in
Biltz and Lister. a fly-out by Marks
ended the session.
The two runs put the odds against
the Pillow boys, but not 50 strong that
the situation was depressing. They
went through the fourth without a
chance. but in the fifth Ihrig hit
grounder to right center and was ad
vanced by a single by Dobbins. Beard
hit an infield fly to Marks, and Falk
hit one down TO Erlewein who touched
IL to Dobbins as he grabbed at the sec
Ond bag With Hughes at the bat,
Falk and Ihrig executed their double
steal, which resulted in Moline's first
run.
Rock Island had blanked a couple of
sessions when Davis appeared as the
first man up in the sixth and hit one
squarely over the score board for four
bases, evening the score. That was
the only one of the inning, Marks put
ting into action a double play, unas-
sisted which took the heart out of fur
Their play. Staley attempted TO ad
vance Pettigrew, who had gone down
on base on balls, but it went in the
air to Marks, who beat the runner to
the first bag
Take Another Lead.
With tied score in the seventh and
two men down, Hollocher started
trouble for the PloWmen by sending
one to Ieftfe1d with good speed. Bay
advanced him, but used another point
OF the compass for his field of opera
ton, HolIOcher reaching third The
Islander general stole second, creating
an exceedingly happy situation from
the Rock Island standpoint but less
comforting necessarily was the real
ization that two men were out, and
Biltz came 70 bat in a pinch of the
pinchiest kinda tied score, two down
and two on bases. Happily, (from the
Islander standpoint understand). he
produced a twO-bagger that set Rock
Island two pegs ahead
But, the Pillow Boys reasoned that
they had already overcome a two-pOint
lead once, why not again? So saying,
they went to it in the eighth inning
Falk hit q clean two-bagger to the
left field. Hughes hit q fly to Erie
vein, and Davis was given q pass. Pet
tigrew hit one down the third base
line, scoring Falk. Staley scored
Davis with a single and Cerny likewise
brought in Pettigrew. A double play
from Ihrig ended the excitement, and
when the accounting was made, Moline
was one run in the lead.
1t was in this situation that the Is
lander batters approached the ninth
inning with some determination. With
one out Marks hit to centerfield for
enc base. Hollocher put one in left,
advancing Marks TO third. Bay was
up, but at this point Moline called for
a new pitcher, installing Shears.
Then Bay called Munich into the pinch, |
and he hit TO right, bringing in Marks
and evening the score. Mcbride
picked out two-bagger, scoring Hol-
locher, the winning run.
Moline failed to jar anything loose
In their half of the ninth. Seaman
pitched that inning for the Islanders.
The score:
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