The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-13
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LEAD T0LONE
RUN AT FINISH
Rally by the Bensons I'm the Ninth
Brings Game to a 10 to
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Vile found itself clinging to a peril
Gus lead at the finish, despite that
they got a l0-run start on the Is
landers In the first two innings.
The score was 10 to g. A rally
that melted four runs in the ninth
and LEFT two men 10 pass away on
the paths, brought the Islanders
within a hit of q tie and probable
victory. The fans who stuck to the
finish almost died from the sus-
pense.
The contest produced almost ev-
erything in a baseball way, but, be
1t said, the good features far over
Swallowed the bad. There was an
abundance of fluky base hits for
both sides, some real blows, sew
eral instances of exceptional field
ing, and good and bad pitching
Herb Miller looked like choice
sirioin steak spread before group
of famished athletes in the inning
and one-third he managed to stick
to the box, from the manner in
which they greeted him. A half
dozen hits were collected off his
delivery in the second inning be-
fore Boss Benson could get Lefty
Ross warmed up as relief. a sin
gle and home run that wiped the
bases clean greeted sir" Russell
almost before he realized where he
was, but thereafter the young
southpaw made 'em like it. He
BANKED the Evas for the rest of
the distance. permitting only six
more hits
The god OF luck remained by
Ziegler's side almost to the finish,
but, under the stress of excite
ment in the ninth, faded from the
scene With him went Ziegler. who,
in eight and two-thirds innings,
had issued no less than II passes
and two that Umpire George
Hughes missed In came Cotriss to
face Aftermath with eager runners
on first and second. and one out
needed to save the game for his
predecessor. Was Cotriss equal TO
the occasion? He was. Badly
sent up nice fly that was gath
cred in, only too gladly, by Short
stop Johnny Mann.
If Ziegler had not been so wild
the Islanders probably would have
outdistanced the visitors easily As
it was, they very early acquired the
habit of waiting him out, and wher
he managed to get one over with
the count two and three the effort
usually went for naught Zen so
the esteemed Mr.. Ziegler presented
the Bensonites with no less than
three tallies via the force route
Still, there were times when a hit
at such a period would have has
tened Ziegler's departure.
- Carleton Chops" Lord was the
batting demon of the afternoon
" Taking advantage of five chances
al the plate, Chops" hammered
out as many safe blows, one OF
which was a double In his last
effort, he laid down a hunt and beat
1t out without drawing a throw.
Benson ran second with three out
OF five, one in the final inning scor-
ing two.
Given TIVE in First,
TWO runs scored by Evansville
in the first inning were nothing
more or less than contributions.
Murphy provided the start by boot
ing Bashang's easy grounder. Then
Lord mussed up Mann's sacrifice,
and while he was attempting to
recover the ball from between his
legs, BashaRg raced all the way 10
third. Bashang counted on Ores
sets infield out. At this juncturc.
Longboy'' Kelly put the sphere
over Bill JOhnson's head for a
triple, scoring Mann. The Island
ersl settled down long enough TO
retire the side. Kelly was thrown
out at the plate by Lord, after
nelding Leonard Coles grounder,
and Martin flied out to Tate.
The AwfHI Second.
The second inning, from the
viewpoint of both clubs, was a YER
liable nightmare. Eleven Evas
faced the pitcher in their haff.
while Rock Island came back and
sent ten men TO the plate before
the third out could be registered.
The EFas assembled eight hits, one
a home, for eight runs, during the
session, while the Islanders got on
ly half as many OF both
TIE begin with, Speraw led off
by doubling to center field. Patter-
sons single to left put him on third
ziegier singled TO center, scoring
Speraw. Bashang singled. scoring
Patterson. A blow to center by
Mann counted Ziegler. Gressett
rolled to Miller for the first out
Kelly singled, scoring Bashang
That was the finish of Miller. Ross
pFaRced out, only to have L. Cole
mt his initial offering safe to right
field, scoring Mann. With two on
Martin crossed up the league by
driving the pill over the left field
tence. completing the score of eight
SperaV, up for second time Of the
inning, grounded out, and Patterson
flied TO Murphy.
Aftermath and Lord singled In
open the Islanders second. After
= Newell struck cut, Tate Scratched
hit down to first that filled the
bases. Hopes were sort of dinmed
when Ross whitfield for the second
out Murphy, however, induced
ZleSfer TO pass him, the act per-
hitting Aftermath to jog home
benson singled to left, scoring Lord
and Tate. Johnson and Cole
walked, forcing in Murphy. Up
came Aftermath for his second time
or the inning, and fans pleaded for
a circuit waliop. There was a sim
infamous intake of breaths as
baldy met one-bHt, dag CONT. !
the leftfielder backed up against |
the barrier and pulled it down. |
After that spasm, the Evas were /
completely at the mercy of Ross. !
while the Islanders kept driving |
away at Ziegler. with only negi-