The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-24
TO WEISS
ELDS RLoI|s
1o-1 PlSIllE
By Bruce Copeland.

By Bruce Copeland.
y raexes" weiss ran out Of luck
afrdsy and those Molinish pillow
sS.ia rounded the old apple all
;srr ~ ball orchard until Douglas
- reechosd with the cadences OIL
~ svsts CLEANED from the luck
51n ~weegee," netting the visitors
Ss enms by the comforting margin
II n to /.
j. ~ rsme was not 10 poor ~ It
- on paper. At times the L.
1850 lapsed into lethargy when
1rssate snap Judgment was lack
SI il the matter Of chscking runs
= - plate. No 1t was really what
- might call a fair game to see,
Snapite the fatal fifth that yielded
Plows seven runs on eight sin
|as. Z couple Of errors. etc.
4 However, 1t was pitiful to see
Aktie "Weegee" toiling on the
npund with the hits buzzing by
m bees for the nearest clover
itch. "Weeg" started like house
Ore but the Moliners trained their
uytinguishers on him after the Is
I1uders had grabbed a run in the
third and. thereafter, Rock Islands
chances went with the ascension.
Faithful On Deck.
A couple OF hundred fans, includ-
nc the Moline faithful, were on
md to see their pets after their
attended tours over the Tearney
circuit. A couple of hundred 9TH
ess might have attended II Old Sol
hadn't beat down upon the dia-
mad like a jazz band with their
en1outs open.
The melee started with all the
tar decorations of pitchers bat
tle. The first two frames were null
md void. Then it happened that
Vill Glockson, first up in the third,
Ought q high iushoot on the grain
I'd slammed the horsehide kimona
Il the ball, the debris coming
Iown in center field. Red Dixon
dropped a pretty bunt for a sacri-
~, but "Weegee" swung like
dizzy sparrow and sat down after
three attempts. Franka da Murph
hen bounded a single OF the shins
Il "Jew Boy" Ray, and Lii Brer
Glockson counted from the midway,
With first run of the fray-an>- the
FLANDERS only one.
Sniff! sniff! Sniff!
Still. this might have been enough
to win IL the Plows had been bat
ny in the fourth, fifth and sixth.
lust delete, or otherwise censor.
those three fantastic frames from
he festivities and imagine that the
Islanders COPIED, 10. / say, boy,
istch another round like the last
one. Cicero, wouldn't it have been
! dream?
!. But, divvil dose. the fourth.
u and sixth came, saw and
passed poor Lii "Weeg" SO mon
Jttrously that the vest pocket edi-
\ ton Of the venerable Hans Wag-
ner that We were awakened from
our midsummer afternoons dream
By the popping Of little base hits
Ger the lea.
Awakening of "Weegee."
"Weeg" had tipped three flapper-
tight frames from the beginning
without a blush. When along
came the fourth, Elmer Benson's
boot of Aitchisons easy roller
night also have awakened "Weeg"
nom his deep and undisturbed 81
ia, for, thereafter, six singles in
row and a lost outfield hit by
Aclnery, were cleaned by the testy
Flows before "Weeg'' was able to
~ whether he had arrived afoot
q On horseback.
But 1t didn't take the little south
Nv long to discover what allied
me hver after the guns began to
COL. After Benson's boot on
Aitehison, Runser. Strasbaugh.
Aa9news, Deufel (triple). Sholly
ana Lord hit safely, without . sim
sls out
SWees' Checks Deluge.
ay strove to lay down a bunt,
- Weeg" tipped him a slow one.
~. seeing chance to cleanup.
lung nightly, but the blow fiz-
80 weakly into the box and
veg pegged the first assist Of
" inning.
aack tore of an infield hit and
- tsam had batted around. Aitchi-
~! second effort was a single to
NaI "Wees" faltered a moment
- passed Runser. Then you
.soeid have seen the little one
asen and fan Strasbaugh and
a1sd Il.
suiel dropped one safe In CEN
y me sixth. Sholly singled
sy to left and DEUEL. took
~ ana Shelly second when Dix
~! ssed Purpura's throw to the
DEUEL. scored and Sholly
% third on Lords martyr loft
.ufpura. Then Ray grounded
e brer Norman and Sonnis
popped to McInery.
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