The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-27
SCORE TWO IN
ninth BEFORE
DELUXE COMES
Raglan Protests to 2 Victory. Cit
ing Weeps From the Clouds
as Cause.
BY j. L. HUGHES.

Those Islanders just naturally
snatched a game out of the rain
from Waterloo at Douglas park
yesterday afternoon, putting over
two runs in the ninth inning for a
3 to 2 score, right in the midst of
the weeps from the clouds.
And they were some clouds, too.
Only one was out at the time the
winning run counted, and it is
doubtful if the inning could have
been completed before the elements
attacked in earnest. The Islanders
had to score two. One could not
have helped, except that if the side
had been retired there would have
been a tie to be played off at some
future date.
The game was not finished with
out a protest Manager Pat Raglan
of the Hawks tried to induce UNI
pire Swain to declare halt after
Rock Island had tied the score, and
failing, announced an official pro-
test of the game would be made on
the contention that the state of the
weather did not give his men a fair
chance to hold their own. This in
spite of the fact that Ragan offered
no objections to his men returning
to the battle front after play had
been stopped for several minutes
in the last half of the ninth account
of a preliminary deluge. The halt
came following the Islanders first
out. but Pat at the time could see
no reason why the other two outs
should not be comparatively easy
Newell Starts It.
But Wally Newell was aching tc
have one good crack at the wet pill
The contest resumed and he
smack the first pitch of Skupa's to
the center field fence to two bases
That blow seat Skupa soaring
above the rain. He threw wild
sending Wally to third, whence he
registered when Johnny Belz sin
gled prettily over third base. Stu
vengen singled to right, putting
Belz on second. Johnny went tc
third on another wild pitch, and
scored the winning run when Sku-
pa missed connections with Sven
sons grounder. About one minute
later the flood arrived.
The contest was a pretty battle
to watch 1t was really duel al
fair between two southpawS, Skupa
and Hoeft. The Islander portsideI
was taken out in the locals time a
bat in the eighth, not because he
showed any sign of weakening, but
simply to give way to a pinch-hit-
ter. Charley Fried took up the
mound burden in the ninth, and fol
a few minutes it was quite some
burden at that.
FriedI walked the first man, and
the second was safe on bad throw
by Swenson to second base in ar
attempt to force the runner at thai
station. Both advanced on Jeli-
neks muff of F'riedl's throw to sec
ond from his position in the box
With runners on second and THIRD
and none out, it looked as if Water
loo was due to put the game away
for keeps. However, Charley set
tied down and struckout the mex
two batters. The third out was OBJ
tanned when the runner at THIRD
tried to score on a passed ball o
CampbeIls, Friedl rushing in Il
. made the put out at the plate.
MISS several CHanCeSs
The Islanders tossed away ;
number of chances to put the gam'
in their own bag in the early in
nipgs by poor base running. Con
zelman was picked off second in tn,
first inning after he had singled
and reached there on a passed ball
McEwan. who followed, tripled Il
the right field fence. Mac was pu
out at the plate trying TO score OIL
passed ball. In the third inning
Belz was nipped off first base wheI
there was one down and a runner
on second also. Looked very muCl
as if the jumps missed the decision
at that In the second inning
Swenson was thrown out at Tho
plate trying to score from SECOND
on a grounder which the SECOND
baseman mussed up bit.
Hawks Score First.
Waterloo's score in the first was
the result of single by Simmons
and double by Thomson. In the
Islanders second Stuvengen sin.
gled to center with two gone and
scored on Swenson's double to cen
ter. A double by Fergeman in the
seventh plus a single by Simmons
spelled score No. . for the visitors