The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
HAMMER PAIR
OF TWIRLERS
FOR VICTORY
Bill Cole and Frank Murphy Feature
the Attack With Their War
Clubs.
fsnecial to The Argus.)

Rockford, Ill, Sept. 3.-The Is
ianders looked like anything but a
cellar position. club here yesterday
afternoon, when they attacked two
Rockford pitchers in such manner
as TO hammer out a 10 to victory
over the Brants in the first game OF
the set. After having won two OF
three from the first place PloWs,
the Rox were anticipating an easy
session with the Bensonites. Need
less to say, a good sized turnout OF
fans was disappointed, because TINS
clty's ambition is to attain second
place, at least.
Four twirlers were injected into
the melee, both teams calling upon
two for firing line duty. Russell
Lefty" Rose. who started for Rock
Island, looked bit off color, and
when the Brants began to hit him
regularly in the fifth inning, Man
ager Benson derricked him in favor
of Jack Fitzpatrick. Fitz was in
pretty fine trim, and the result was
the homeguard settled back into a
run for the remainder of the con-
test
The Islanders displayed a vicious
drive in the fourth that netted SIX
runs and caused Manager Brant to
order Wehrli to the mound TO start
the fifth. Peyelle, his predecessor,
proved soft pickings for the visitors.
Wehrli got along better, but he
wasn't good enough to check the
Islanders altogether.
Hitting of Bill Cole and Frank
Murphy was of high order. Be
tween them, they collected half OF
Rock Islands hits, and were re-
sponsible for most of the runs. Re
markable part about the islanders
showing was the fact that only one
of IL hits was wasted. By bunch
ing blows with Rockford errors, the
victory was comparatively easy.
Score In First.
Murphy started the Islanders on
the road to victory by cutting 4
clean single to left first crack out OF
the box. Benson sacrificed, and
after Johnson went out, Cole came
through with a double, registering
Murphy.
The fourth inning was a slaugh-
ter Of Peyelle After Cole had
grounded out, Aftermath talked the
twirler into issuing him base on
balls. He reached third when
Strong pegged to center field after
receiving Lords grOunder. Newell
singled, scoring Aftermath and
Lord. Connolly doubled, sending
Newell to third Ross grounded to
Brant, and the latter pcgged home
to get Newell but Rigsby overlooked
the necessity of tagging the runner.
Murphy doubled between left and
center. Connolly and Ross scoring
Murphy then stole third and regis
tered on BensOn's infield out. John
son was safe on Strong's error but
Cole, who had opened the inning,
finished it by flying out.
Rockford. did some scoring in its
own behalf in the fourth. Strong
and Anderson singled, both scoring
on Altermatt's wild peg to second.
Hardgrove walked and reached
third when Lord let Ross throw get
away. Hardgrove scored on lie
Beau's sacrifice fly. In the fifth in
ming Brant singled with two down.
scoring on Strong's triple. and An
derson's triple registered Strong.
IN the Islanders seventh Benson
walked, Johnson singled Benson
was out trying TO reach third on the
blow. Cole contributed a double
that scored Johnson, and Cole
counted on Altermatt's single. In
the eighth Newell walked, reached
second on Connollys sacrifice and
scored on Fftzpatrick's single.
Rockford finished the scoring in
the ninth with tally that resulted
from singles by Brant and Strong.
double steal and an infield out