The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-25
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PUNCH NEEDED
AT RIGHT TIME
Victory Makes 1t n Perfect Pro-
gran In Homer of Moline's
Boss.


and Familiarity known as Earle
Mack, had his day at Browning field
yesterday, and the pennant-aspir-
ing Piowboys, Of whom he Is the
scrappy boss. did their part in
making it an all-around success by
letting the Islanders down on the
short end OF to score. A large
turnout of Moline fans that would
have done justice to any Sunday OF
the season was made exceedingly
happy thereby, for it checked an
other game off a fast-dwindllng
schedule as victory.
The Islanders tired valtantly 10
! stem the tide of Moline's advance
toward the coveted gonfalon, but
were denied the pleasure because
of a better all-around attack dis
played by the league leaders. AT
/ that the game was close enough
! from the start to finish to satisfy
everyone, and it might be said the
Islanders had the upper hand for
I the major portion of the contest.
The Plowboys were inclined to
be bit ragged in the field, hve err
rors being of much assistance TO
the Islanders in forcing the Flows
to extend themselves to the limit.
Lefty Heimach pitched effective
". only one run of the four secured
Off him being of the earned variety,
strictly speaking. Herb Miller got
away for four innings with hardly
a scratch, but came the fifth and
half dozen hits netted four runs.
After scoring two runs IN the
seventh to knot the count at TOUR
( each. the Islanders missed an ex-
+ cellent opportunity in the eighth to
create a disturbance that might
have taken a bit of the edge from
the spirit of the day by failing to
score with the bases loaded and
one gone.
Failure of Frank Murphy to touch
home plate in coming in from sec
ond on a single by Johnson denied
the Islanders possible chance or
copp;ng. In trying to get back to
retrieve his mistake. Jake DEUEL.
touched him for the second out.
Then with two on Heimach passed
Elmer Benson purposely and prov
ed the wisdom of the move by fore
ing AL Schweitzer to fly out to CEN
ter.
The Plows came up in the ninth
intent on calling it a Cay. Howard
n Jones, who seems to have sudden
" recovered his hitting stride, led
of with a double to right, reached
third on Shollenberger' sacrifice
and scored on an infield hit to Lord
by Smith.
Locals Score First
The Islanders were the first to
start a noise, and that in the first
/ inning. It was disconcerting to
Moline fandom to see Frank Muir
Z ply lead off with a double to cen
! ter field and reach third when Jones
! let the ball slip past his legs. Muir
! ply chung to third when Cole
gounded out to Barrett. but regis
tered on Lords sacrifice fly to
Gooch IN right field.
In the fourth the Islanders added
one to this. Bill Cole opened with
q single to right, reached second
on an infield out and scored on
Benson's clean single to left.
The Plowboys caused plenty of
I excitement in the fifth by hammer
ing in four runs. Jones started the
assault with a double after one was
out. Shollenberger beat out slow
hit ball to Murphy. putting run
ners on first and third. from whence
they scored on Smiths triple to
left field Heimach singled to cen
ter, scoring Smith. reached second
ON Carey's scratch hit and scored
on Gooch's single to center. Miller
got the final out by forcing DEUEL.
to Whit.
The Islanders took advantage of
q couple of errors to knot the count
IN the seventh. Johnson doubled
70 left and Benson singled to the
same territory, but the former was
held at the far corner. Schweitzer
grounded to Barrett. johnson SCOT
ing while Benson was forced at
second. Mack then took Newells
grounder and pegged to second for
. play on Schweitzer, but the throw
got past Barrett and permitted AL
to continue to third. He came home
n moment later when DEUEL. made
y bad throw to second on Newell
going down.