The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-27
SCHOOL TEAM
OF MANITOWOC
is OPPONENT
Large Crowd Of Natives and Green
Bay Fans Flock TO See En-
I'm Action.


lISorry, Old Top
Dear Editor: How about a
game between Harvard and
little old Center college on
The Argus Grid Board Satur-
day, showing BO McMIlIin and
q few more noted players in
action. Yours hopefully,
A Pan.
We assure "h0pefuI" that moth
ing would please the sporting edi-
tor better than to sit in beside a
telegraph key at the HarVard-Cen-
ire game at Cambridge Saturday
but we believe he has spoken too
late. This being Thursday. and the
sporting editor due in Green Bay,
Wis, Saturday, where the indie
pendents clash with the Packers on
SUNDAY, we fear that even the Goth
Century cannot make it possible for
him to switch to Cambridge, Mass,
Saturday afternoon ard then hike
across continent to Wisconsin by
Sunday afternoon.
At any rate, The Argus has ar
ranged for reproduction Of the In
Green Bay game on It's
specially designed grid player on
the elaborate scale employed for a
quartet of other games within the
present month. We believe "hOpe-
full" and TIE other countless tri-
city fans will bear with us this
time and be among those standing
in af the game in front OF The
Argus plant Sunday afternoon.
BY ]. l. HUGHES.
An idea of the interest the little
resort of Nanltowcc, Wis, is TAX
ing in the Rock Island Independ-
ents is conveyed in a telegram from
Manager Walter Flanagan this
morning, telling about a practice
scrimmage with the high school
team of that place. A large crowd
was out to see the Independents in
action, hundreds of whom were
fans from Green Bay anxious to get
a line on the ability of the invad
ers. The scrimmage was held yes
terday afternoon. Another was on
the cards for today with a heavy
signal drill Friday. The team will
take a light workout Saturday
morning before piling in automo-
biles for the 30-mile drive to Green
Bay.
Boss Walter writes that the prac-
tice was excellent in every way,
even though the high school lads
were small They showed plenty
of scrap against the big fellows and
made the afternoon worthwhile.
Manitowoc fans are tiocking to the
standard of the Islanders like bees
around honeycomb They are
predicting a victory for Rock Is
land on the strength of the show
ing made by the Marines against
the Packers, it being claimed the
Minneapolis crew really outplayed
the winners from start to finish but
succumbed to bad breaks.
Seek Fitzgerald.
Green Bay is understood to be
dickering with Freeman Fitzger-
aid, another Independent castoff. to
play the center position. If they
land him it will look like a scrim-
mage drill of the Independents at
Douglas park, for FitZ would be the
fourth ex-lslander with the oppo-
sitton. The others are Frank
Coughlin. Dave Hayes and Grover
Malone. The eleventh hour man
euvers of the Packers in attempt
ing to strengthen their club is evil
dence of their fear of the Independ-
ents- But how they intend to make
a showing by using players dis
carded by the Islanders, and who
can have no more than one workout
with them. is hard to understand.
The only possible advantage is in
having half of the lineup familiar
with the signals of the Independ-
ents but such little thing as that
is not bothering Councilman and
company.
"Ziggy" Hasbrook. who was OBJ
tanned from Rochester, is fitting in
nicely, according to Walter. He is
a speed boy with lots of football
sense and has been quick to learn.
signals and plays. The Minnesota
shift is being drilled into those men
who have never played it before
ana the squad is commencing to
show the class that characterized
the powerful 1919 independents,
the team that defeated the Akron
1A04dhS.
Walter misses his guess if a
mammoth crowd is not out Sunday
afternoon for the game. Green Ray
Is in turmoil over the approach !
ing conflict, he states, as evidenced |
by the droves of fans coming to !
Manltowoc just 10 get a look at the
islanders
Like Nanitowoe.
The home like atmosphere OF
Manltowoc has put zip and pep into
the Independents in plenteous guam
Titles. The cooking is all that could /
be desired. Walter writes. He saws
the players are being treated like
kings, nothing being too good to !,
serve them Every player crawIs
under the blankets by 9 O'Clock
each night.
TRAMRITAS Il