The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-18
DEFEAT
OF LOCALS TO
EIGHT ERRORS
Vlctors Slug Ban Hard, But So Dc
Islanders, Whose Late Rally
Sfirs tho Fans.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Bloomington at Rock Island.
Peoria at Moline.
Evansville nj Cedar Rapids.
Terre Haute Mt Rockford.
BY ]. L. HUGHES

petrated on the local lOI CuiS oSa-
son ended in a victory for Bloom
ington yesterday by the heavy
count OF is to 8. 1t was the fourth
straight reverse for the islanders,
and the manner of its happening
gave the fans laughs and thrills by
turn.
Four hur1ers mixed in the fray
before hostilities could be terminal
ed. Thirty-five hits that went Tor
46 bases, in which there were six
doubles. one triple and a home run
that cleared the feace. bear wit
ness to the fact that it was a ter
riic Suggest.
gripped the Islanders since the in
yasion of Terre Haute was WIN
the club in greater effect than here
tofore. Eight misplays were re-
sponsible for at least six runs
scored by the visitors. -Four
scores in the sixth inning were the
direct result of five errors In that
spasm the locals Wed with one an
other in throwing the ball TO all
parts of the field while Bloomer
runners circled the bases in gleeful
abandon.
The Bloomers drove the pellet for
20 of the 35 hits, four OF Whlcn
were doubles. Mixed with the lsr
landers' errors and four bases on
balls. the reason of the catastrophe
Is evident.
BensOn's Homer.
The home run was Elmer Ben
sons. The Islander boss lifted the
sphere over the left field fence in
the seventh with no one on. me
triple was his, also. 1t came in the
ninth and scored two. The drive
was to the clubhouse. Al Schweitzer
got a brace of doubles and two SIN
giles in five times at bat
The ninth inning was a whizz
After Bloomington had six runs
the Islanders sudden rally held the
fans to the park, cheering like mad
as each succeeding batter drove the
ball to safe territory. Bogart, 60
ing into the last inning with an Il
run lead. was forced to abdicat'
the mound in favor of Miller aftel
four runs had counted on five hits
Miller got the three outs but no
until another hit and run were
chalked up.
Rally in Ninth.
Murphy began the ninth with {
single to right He was safe a
second when Bogart threw low t.
second in an attempt to force thu
shortstop on Newell's grounder
Benson's triple to the clubhouse
scored Murphy and Newell. Tat
scored Benson with a single Il
right. Schweitzer's single to lief
put Tate on second. When Con
molly singled to left and scored
Tate, Joe Dunn signaled Bogar
that his days work was done. Mil
Ter got a force opt on Wires ground
err and Jauio flied to center field
But rs was not all over yet, for FL
mer. Ambroses1i lined a single to cen
ter that scored Schweitzer. Muir
ply, Up for his second time OF the
inning. ended the rally by ground
ing cut 10 second base.
Seven hits, an error and a base
on balls, enabled the Boomers to
score six runs il their ninth.
Twelve men faced Ambrose in that
last session, and at that, three were
left stranded on the bags.
The Weird Sixth.
In tho Boomers sixth, the Is
landers were guilty of the worst
kind of fielding. After Woehrs had
walked and stolen second, he scored
when Newell let Brownlow's single
go threw his legs to the fence.
Brownlow pulled up at third and
scored on Coltrin's single to CEN
ter. But 1t was Callahan's single
to right that brought on the weird
stuff. Tate jusgled the ball bit and
Callahan continued to second. Tate
relayed the pellet to Benson and
Elmer threw wild in a belated eff
fort to cut Callahan down at thf
midway station. Jando retrieved
the ball and threw bad to the plate
on Coltrin. Ambrose, who backed
up Connolly, secured the runaway
sphere and sailed it to left field
Schweitzer returned II to Jando, and
the third sacker hit Callahe.. in the
back as the latter was coming into
the plate.
After Bloomington got away to q
one-run lead in the second, the Is
landers scored three in their third
and with Lefty Ross apparently In
form. that much looked good for
q" victory. Four hits, one a double
and a pass in that round made II
look like Bogart was In for tough
day. However. the big fellow found
his stuff In the fourth and had no
more difficulty until the ninth. In
the meantime tho Boomers had
tied the score with tallies IN the
fourth and fifth innings and. IN the
sixth, got O strange hold on the
contest through the generosity OF
the locals. They needed all they
got in the ninth. as future develop
ments proved
Saturdays Game.
An instance OF whore two UNI
pires failed to see q play and re-
fused TO render a decfsion-at least
that the spectators were conscious
of-occurred Saturday In the game
at Douglas park won by Terre
Haute, 10 TO 1. Drew, the visitors
shortstop, doubled to right field.
The ball was reiayed by Tate to
Murphy and the Islander shortstop
put the ball TO Drew trying to re-
tr.eve tho base he had over-Eun-
Umpire Bruce Copeland -instenGaaG