The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-08
pep and DASH
DISPLAYED BY
BENSON TRIBE
BEN Tate In Right and Hank Jando
ut Short Add Strength to
Attack.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Peoria at Rock Island.
Bloomington at Moline.
Terre Haute at Cedar Rapids.
Evansville at Rockford.
BY j. l.. HUGHES.

The rejuvenated Islanders came
back into their own at Douglas PARK
yesterday afternoon and the Evas,
a bit chesty from their two previ-
Gus victories, were licked by a
count of to 1. The locals start
ed early in the fray to put the con-
test in the old game bag and they
kept hammering away to the end,
getting in some timely raps with
the stick and playing a fast article
of ball in the field. The Evas new
er had a look in until the fifth in
ming and the fact that only one run
scored then, with the bases popu-
lated, indicates the Bensons were
keeping a strangle hold on the con-
test.
Appearance of Ben Tate in right
field and Hank Jando at the hot cor
Ter seemed to add the necessary
batting strength, for both young
sters were there with the war clubs.
1t was Tate that scored Wire in
the seventh with aNneatly placed
bingle and it was Jando who
brought Benson in from second in
the eighth with a slashing single
to center. Aside from this both
men helped themselves to additional
hits and felded their positions in
acceptable style.
Herb Miller handled the pitching
assignment and handled it well. Not
until the fifth round did the visitors
get to him for a hit. In the first
four innings only Is batters faced
him AS it happened, that fifth was
his worst session but he came
through with only one runner scor-
ed, and this the result of a free
base allowed by Matty Fitzpatrick,
the dean of minor league umpires."
1t was a close one to call a ball
but Matty said it was and SO the
Evas were saved the ignominy Of
q shutout.
The Islagders raped Reisigl, vet
eran of many campaigns, in consist
ent fashion. One score was donated
by Kelly when he threw wild to
second but it would have counted a
moment later when Benson doubled
to right.
The Benson-Murphy-Wi COM
bination staged a pair of double
plays that helped Herb out of some
tight places. One came in the sixth
with two on base and the other i'm
ished the contest in the ninth after
Patterson threatened trouble with
Ills single. Al Schweitzer delivered
a sensational piece of work in the
eighth when he SHARED L. Cole s
line drive with his bare hand and
prevented one score and opening
for more.
The fans who turned out despite
the rain of the early afternoon were
well repaid for their visit. The dia-
mond, which had gone through a
long dry spell, soaked up the water
rapidly, and was in presentable
playing shape by game time. The
players were not handicapped in
any manner by the condition of the
field.
Score in Third.
After feeling out Reisigl with a
trio OF hits in the first two innings,
the Islanders got busy in the third
and scored two, which would have
been enough TO win. Benny Tate
started the noise with a single to
right field. Schweitzer coaxed
Reisigl into giving four wide ones.
Bill Cole cut a vicious grounder
TO the pitcher which he managed
to rap his claws around and Bill
was thrown out at first But in
trying for double on Schweitzer |
going to second Kelly sailed the
sphere to left field, enabling Tate
to continue in from third. 1t would |
have been the same without the er-
ror, however, for Benson's double !
to right would have scored Tate, as
well as Schweitzer.
In the seventh Wire drove a pref !
ty double between left and center
and came home on Tate's clean sin
gle to left field.
In the eighth Benson's double and
Jando's single gave the Islanders
their final score.
1t was uncomfortable for the
fans in the Evas' fifth. Martin got
scratch single through Murphy
after two were out. Patterson then
helped himself to the first clean
hit of the game off Miller, being a !
single to left. A little unsteady, |
Miller walked Reisig TO fill the |
bases. Bashang got the count two
and three and the jumps finally
granted a free ticket on a pitch
that looked to be in there. At any
rate, Martin came home unmolest-
ed. That was as far as the Evas
got, for Mann grounded to Miller |
for the third out.