The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-22

W1thdfAWAl OK the Knox collo8o
basketball team from The annual
intercollegiate tournament sched-
uled for Decatur, March rs, leaves
q competitors which probably
means that all six Of the leftover
teams viii have to enter in order
to insure = third division. Should
there be less than six teams enter
ed in the third division, it is prob
able that the schedule committee.
which meelB Saturday in Decatur.
will add more teams to the major
and minor divisions. doing away
with the third section.
The following teams VIM be List
ed in The major 6iyiaioa ~ . res1ll
Of their season showing: Argus
tana, Lombard, Wesloyan, lnlikin,
St Viator, Eureka, State Normal
and either Northwestern Or Hen.
mouth. DeKalb Neral b alse
major division possibility. Non.
mouth has Inferred conference o.
ficials that its team will not !entel
the tourney uRless ~ . najer con
tender.
! Dominick J. Mul2ahey, we'll know
to Rock Island baseball fans Of Il
to 20 years ago, will be interested
to learn that he has been appoint
led manager of the Jacksonville
} Fla, club which will enter the Flor
Ida State league this season. Mul
laney, it will be recalled. went t
Bloomington in 1906 after his Roc
Island sojovrn and performed abou
five years for the Boomers. Som
thine after leaving Bloomington
Mullaney served as umpire in th
American league.
Johnny IaAgelslorf Of the Islaz
City bowling alleys convulses R0<
Island sport readers every 4oAds
with his line Of chatter called Il
land City Gossip" - featured
The lnsidsr. Johnny's gems Of ]
viality sparkle with the COED Il
:. lowship Of his live spert emporiul
u The Insider urges all other beWltl
;. and billiard hall proprietefs h Z
- tri.eities to. follow .JoAnny's le'
e and contribute regularly to t
column.
IL The Three-Eye league schedl
NJ makerA are a lazy lot, according
30 President Ira D. Bell Of the Rot
s. ford club, who is chairman Of I
Il. schedule committee. Mr.. Bell
OF ports that only one draft has be
Submitted to- him. but even so,
er believes the schedule in hand il
TO good one and that it would PIT
IS, satisfactory to q majority Of
tic other club owners. Mr.. Bell UT
'e- an early vote on the schedule.
ng -
IRE Fred Beck, star Peoria cleu
nd several years back, has been Sig
,r- by Manager Joe Berger ~of
all wichita club. Beck finished
10. season rs one Of the best batter
Ia the Western league. He hit e
nd to forty homers and expects to
to coed the fifty mark this year.
es. atmospheric conditions in Wesl
Ter league territory are IDEAL for
es- clouting. Beck explains, and
ct plans to establish q record this
wn son that win stand for many y,
to come.
ute
hes Two Peoria Three-Eye leag,
SIS. will soon be among the M
SITS league candidates at spring tr
in ing camps. One is Pitcher
An Hanson: the other. Joey Ey
an Both players will go to, Gaia
nth with the Chicago Cubs. Hanson
raj ing under contract for q tryOut
cor will be returned to Peoria in
i'm he is not wanted by the Cub n
agement. Joey will accomI
Brother Johnny on the latter's
nil, ond installment as Cub mana
or. He will train with the Bruins
"a expects to have great year
.-n the Tractors.
.n. Nineteen teams will compel