The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-07
BY ]. L. HUGHES.

A gent by the name of Aitchison,
who use to fling 'em for Moline, did
the chucking for the Evas at Doug
las park yesterday afternoon, and
did it so well that the Islanders
lost another ball game. The score
was to l.
While quite removed from an
suspicious start for Elmer Benson,
in the role of manager, it was,
nevertheless, a contest full of Is
lander pep. Even though the Is
landers fell down a few times in
the pinches, their actions indicated
they were battling, but well-intend-
ed effort often goes for naught
when directed against a winning
style of twirling.
Young Lefty Mackey, the youth
from down Peoria way, was given
the tough assignment of stopping
the Bashangs. He really twirled
good brand of the national pastime,
allowing only seven hits and keep
ing his dauber up at all stages. The
breaks of the game turned him
down fiat. His worst trouble was
his generosity. Two of his five
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taken out in the eighth when Tate
was sent to bat as a pinch-hitter
and Elmer Berg wound up the
game on the mound in the ninth.
The defense of the Islanders
sparkled. Three errors appearing
in the box figured no way in the
scoring but four brilliant double
plays did so much to keep the Evas
h
nation of Murphy TO Benson to Wire
broke in twice with twin outs, when
failure might have caused real dis
aster for Mackey. Mackey started
a double play that went to Muir
ply, then to Wire, and Wire staged
the other one unassisted.
The Islanders had frequent
chances to overcome the lead but
lacked the well-known punch
against Aitchison's steady perform
ance- The most outstanding of
these situations occurred in the
eighth when. with three on and two
out. Murphy struck at a third one.
The credit belongs to Aitchison en-
tirely for he filed the bases pur-
posely by walking Tate, batting
for Mackey, and made good by
As early as the first, the locals
had an opportunity to even things
up In that round Schweitzer and
Cole singled but the former was
forced at third by Benson's hard
grounder to Aitchison and Con-
noIly's infield fly. In the third Cole
tripled with two gone bur was
stranded vt the far corner. Things
were gummed up a bit in the
seventh when Mackey, attempting
TO reach third on Schweitzer's sin
gle to right after he had begun the
inning with a line smash to the
center garden, was thrown out with
lots to spare.
The lone tally resulted in the
eighth on Benson's single. a bit
batter, a folders choice and an in
field out.
OF to Wrong Start.
Mackey got off to a wrong start
with the umpire's play ball" Be-
lore the game had fairly warmed.
Bashang had walked and scored on
Mahn's double to the center field
renee, Then Mann registered on a
scratch hit to the youthful pitcher
following double play.
In the third pass to Kelly aft
er two were out gave the Eyas an
other opening. A bad break in the +
luck at this stage helped the Eyas
very materially to make the chance
GOOD. 1t came when Benson and
WIRE got bawled up on L. Coles pop
ny that went for a hit on the theory
that no error can be charged where |,
man doesn't get a fair chance to
wrap his two hands around the
sphere. Elmer made a desperate
iunge for the ball when he saw
Wire stop but the apple escaped.
IN the meantime Kelly had raced
all the way to third. Cole stole
second and along came Speraw with
a single TO left that registered both
runners.
During the remainder OF the
game the Evas went runIess and |,
were able to find Mackey for onlv
Two additional hits. But il made
no difference in the final reckoning |,
the Islanders mace vali9
ant attempts to change the aspect /
OF the contest. How well thew
rallied before Aitchison is shown nv
the fact that runners got on base
In every inning excepting the ninth /