The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
ROSS BLOWS UP
after HURLINC
GREAT CONTEST
Bloomers Go Hff1ess In Ten OF the
Innings But Finally Get TO
Southpaw.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Rock Island at Moline.
Terre Haute Mt Peoria
Evansville at Bloomington.
Cedar Rapids at Rockford.
BY ]. i. HUGHES.

exhibitions that has been witnessed
in many's the day at Douglas park
Yesterday afternoon, but lost After
letting the Bloomers down with a
solitary hit from the third to the
fatal 18th, he cracked and three
singles, a hit batter. an error and
sacrifice fly Melted the visitors
three runs and victory by to 3
score.
The game not only takes its place
az the longest of the season at the
local park but ranks as one Of the
hest, everything considered. The
Boomers got thre runs on four hits
in the second but from then until
the last inning, they went begging
and only a bit of tough luck that
broke against the Islanders per-
mitted them to hold on and event
palIy win a contest that the Locals
were really entitled to- A single
to right in the ninth by Harkins
was the only hit the visitors got
from the third through the twelfth.
They went without blow in the
first inning and this gave Ross 10
hitless innings.
Tho Islanders missed a wonder
full chance to end things in the
tenth inning because Murphy could
not be brought in from third after
he had reached there on one out.
Murph, who singled TO start The
round, was sacrificed to second by
johnson and stole third. Benson,
at bat, attempted the queeze but
the ball rolled foul, rare thing
with Elmer welding the willow. On
his third strike he lifted fly to
the shortstop. Tate was purposely
walked, and, with Schweitzer at bat,
Murphy elected to steal home. He
was out easily.
Get to Ross.
In the Bloomington thirteenth,
Brownlow singled to left field after
Ie'ser had famed. Here Joe Dunn
pul.ed some Of his we'll known
strategy by letting Coltr;n swing
instead of sacrifice. The result was
a clean bingle to right that put
Erownlow on second. Callahan got
liz the way of one of Ross benders
and then the bases were loaded ana
one down. Knisley hit a slow roll
e. far to the right of Murphy bu
the shortstop made one-handec
stop. Too late to prevent score
he threw to Benson in an attempt
TO force Callahan but Elmer drop
ped the ball Coltrin scored from
third on Sykes sacrifice fly ans
Callahan arrived at the plate will
the third run of the inning wher
Ross uncorked a wild r''ch.
By scoring three p n the sec
ond, the Boomer won thc
game. Without It lie contes
would have terminate in the ninth
to the credit of the Islanders. Tate
mussed IN Knisley's grounder tC
begin the second. Sykes sacrificed
and k-nisley reached third on Har-
kins' scratch hit through Tate
Woehrs singled to left, scoring
Knisley. Bratchi singled to left but
Harkins was thrown out at the
plate, Schweitzer to Connolly
Zeiser tripled to the flag pole. scor-
ing Woehrs and Bratchi. Brown
low walked but Coltrin made the
third out by popping to Murphy.
Hits are Few.
During the next four innings, the
Boomers went out in order In
the seventh Murphy's error let one
on first. Ross got three in a row
in the eighth and then came a hit
in the ninth that cut no agure- Only
six batters faced him in the tenth
anu CiSNcblA Innings. III Tue twelfth,
Tate's error put one man on but
still Lefty was going strong, as he
got the next three with ease But
= the thirteenth, with all it's tradi-
tional misfortune, brought disas-
u ter.
y Come From Behind.
Slowly. but surely, the Islanders
came from behind in the regulation
time and tied the score. They gor
one run in each of the fifth, sixth
and seventh innings. Remember
that all this time. Mig Zeiser was
doing some fine hurting on his owl
account and only the hardest KIM
of fight enabled the locals to score
on him and carry the combat into
extra rounds.
In the fifth Wire doubled with one
gone and scored on Ross single tc
right field. In the sixth Tate sin.
Eled to start, was safe at second
when Brownlow dropped Woehrs
throw for a forceout, and scored Oh
Newell's single to center. In the
seventh Ross opened with q douDls
10 left, reached third on Murphy's
sacrifice and home on Johnson
sacrifice fly. The Islanders could
do nothing worth mention in the
eight and ninth innings but were
tucked out of the winning run in
the tenth. In the last three chances
Zeiser allowed only nine men to
face him.
1t was a splendid exhibition. the
locals losing out only because the
breaks passed them by. The fans
Who witnessed the contest are con-
WINGED the club is in for a new
lease of life
Notes Of the Game.
Bill Johnson handled the duties Of
right field in finished style He had
nc luck at bat but his sacrifice fly
in the seventh scored the tieing run
All in ali he made a good impress
sion with the fans who turned out
His addition should strengthen the
defense of the club.
Introducing the versatile Mr..
Tate, this time in the role of third
baseman. Because OF his hitting
ability. Tate was sent to the far
corner. To say his fielding of the
hot ones was big surprise to the
fans is putting it lightly. He had