The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-19
TOTS VICTIMS
OF Ito 3 AND
8 To z GAME
Ambrose and Fitzpatrick In Great
PORN, While Mates Dazzle in
the Field.
BIZ ]. L. HUGHES.

The islanders closed the nfee
Eye season in a blaze of glory,
so to speak, at Douglas park yester
day. by subjectng the once re
doubtable Tots to 4 double-defeat
The scores were 4 to 3 and s u
2. Incidentally, the victories mad
a clean sweep of the series for thu
locals.
No games of mid-season could
have been more holly contested
than those of the finish. The Is
landers, deep in the mire of th'
cellar, played like champions
against a club which only a weel
ago was in the midst of a spur
that threatened to carry it through
pennant winner. The visitors
gave everything in them in an eff
fort TO capture the bacon, for Man
ager Bob Coleman did SO want to
finish in second place.
Not until the final inning of the
second game, when il was practic-
ally decided in the Islanders favor,
did the athletes of either club re-
lax and give the crowd of approx
imately 1000 fans a taste of horse
play" This was furnished by the
we'll. known. "Cinders," he of the
big, shiny star. Responding to the
opportunities of the players, Gin
ders" assumed the role of umpire
of bases, relieving Dow Van Dina
in the last half of the sixth and first
of the seventh. Amusing antics of
the colored comedian taxed the
disabilities of the fans and play
ers alike The fun was climaXed
by a mock demonstration of the
Terre Haute players, who. armed
with bats, bore down on the diminu-
tive "Cinders," as he ruled the
final out at first. "Cinders'' pointed
TO his star, and the excitement sub
sided
But, getting back to the games
both were filed with thrills, too
numerous to mention. In the first
game Terre Haute collected three
TALES at the outset, only to have
Rock Island come back in their
half of the inning and assemble
four. And those were all either
club could engineer in the next
eight innings.
In the second game, after the
visitors had gathered two runs in
the first three innings, the Is
landers set their war clubs to work
ing, counting eight in the ensuing
three rounds. The aftermath was
enlivened particularly by brilliant
bits of fielding furnished by Messrs.
Cole and Newell.
Ambrose Bids Alden.
Elmer Ambrose bid adieu to the
fans and his teammates by besting
Andy Gump' Mcdonald, the
string bean artist of the Coleman
staff, in the initial encounter. Eras-
ing the first inning, the game was
one of the prettiest pitchers dueIs
of the season. Each team was
able to collect no more than eight
Eits. At the finish, Ambrose hasti-
ly donned his street clothes. AS
he was leaving the park the crowd
gave him great ovation.
The Tots opened in rather vici-
Gus manner. Danaher slashed a
single past short and reached third
on Williams double to center
Danaher scored on CampbelIs sac
rihce fly to Newell Benson bob
bled grounder off Cummings bar.
Williams scoring. Dunning stole
second and third and counted on
Lewis sacrifice Riley singled and
Coleman walked but Ambrose SET
tied down and forced Duggan to
Whit for the third out.
Murphy and Benson led off for
ROCK Island by talking Mcdonald
INTO issuing bases on balls. John
sen beat out hunt that fit,ed the
CaSeS- Murphy then registered on
a hassed bal. ~ Coleman. Cole
&.
second. and ia the attempt - stoD
am, Coleman 'h.ew low. giving
Jtllnson a clance to scoie. Cole
leached thirG and counted on Lords
itlilld hit.
Second Game.
Mcdonald essayed to stage the
IRON man. stunt by pitching the
second game also. He was driven
10 cover after the third inning, dur
ing which the Islanders counted
i've runs on five hits, all made ait
or The hTst two batters had gone
out Wright twirled the remainder
OF the game for Terre Haute.
JACK Fitzpatrick hung up a rec
ord or six victories out of seven
starts for Rock Island. The big
fellow hurled in his usual con-
sistent form. He displayed fine
control by passing no one.
The Tots scored one in the first
on single by Danaher. an error
by Lord, Campbell's sacrifice and
Cummings infield hit In the third
they completed their scoring eff
forts for the day, and season. for
that matter, by adding another.
This resulted from a single bv VIII
Hams, an error by Fitzpatrick and
a safe blow by Lewis.
The third inning was great snort
from the islanders point of view. |
Fitzpatrick and Murphy went ont /
TO begin with, but what happened !
after that made Mcdonald realize /
he had taken a bite a wee bit too /
large. Benson, Johnson, Cole, Tate
and Lord singled in a row, and
errors by Lewis, Campbell and
three stolen bases produced five
runs. Singles by Johnson and Cole.
a double steal and two passed baNs
by Cole gave the Islanders two off
Wright in the fourth. An error bv
Duggan and Fitzpstrick's double
gave the Islanders their final run
Of the season in the fifth.
Win Saturday, 8 to ..
Russell Lefty" Ross was sub
ected to nine innings OF misery at {
he hands of the Singing Tots Sat |
irday at Douglas park. but due to ,
'fhcient work of his mates with the