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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
SEXTON RULES
/ SERIES IN EAST
Leaves to Direct Inter. League Bat.
lie Between Eastern Shore
q and Blue Ridge.

NJ. II. Sexton. president of the
National Association OF Profession
al baseball clubs, left today for
Salisbury, Nd, to direct the playing
OF an inter-league series between
the pennant winners in the Eastern
Shore league and the Blue Ridge
league. He will have personal
charge OF all details.
The series is sponsored BY the
Baltimore Sun and prizes are given
the winners. The series attracts
considerable attention, due to the
fact that five states are represent
cd in the two leagues, which are
class D organizations. The states
are Pennsylvania. New York, Della.
ware, Virginia and West Virginia.
The series will open at Parksley
Va, champions of the Eastern
Shore. The opposition will be Mar.
tinsburg. w. Va, winners in the
Blue Ridge. Two games will bs
played at Parksley. The third will
be staged in Salisbury. Md, and
governors Of at least three Of the
five states will be guests Of honor
The next two games will be play.
ed in Martinsburg, and II the, sew
enth is necessary It will 30 to Bal.
timore. The fact that some OF TIKI
games are played on neutral terri
tory indicates the interest that at
taches to the outcome Throughout
The i've stateA
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Mike may Get
| TITLE CHANCE
Dundee or Burman Likely to Be
Matched to Meet Lynch at
Michigan City.

Michigan City, Ind, Sept. g.
This town is going to keep on try
Ing to make a success of the boxing
racket, though the Labor day cham
pionship card, genuine thriller,
was somewhat of bloomer finau-
cially.
Joe Lynch, the bantam cham
pion, who with Pal Moore combin-
ed to furnish most of the thrills, is
going to stick around Chicago and
come back here to box in a couple
of weeks. 1t will be a Saturday
fight and Mike Dundee or Joe Bur-
man will oppose the lanky, fight
ing Irish boy from New York's
west side.
The Labor day bill attracted Just
about $4,000, according to Promo
ter Floyd Fitzsimmons and Jack
Kearns. Jack Dempsey's manager
When fitzsimmons paid off he still
was very much in the hole with the
previous fights Of the summer and
the arena expenses and all that fig
ured in. Floyd is persistent enough
to keep on trying, and after the
wonderful bantamweight fight OF
Monday business may perk up. A
great fight like that always renews
interest in the sport and Burmar
and Dundee are fine drawing cards
in Chicago.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
HEISMAN HAS
REAL GENIUS
FOR FOOTBALL
With Aid of Dauies
Should Glue Penn
Winner.
By WALTER CAMP.

(Copyrlgnt, l9zz, by The Argus.)
New York, Sept 6.-John Heis-
man, Pennsylvania's coach, has had
his need of criticism but neverthe-
less he possesses real football
genius and with the assistance of
Tom Davies the chances are that
he will do a great deal for the
Quakers this year.
One thing should be borne in
mind by all who cannot resist the
tendency to assail coach when his
team loses anil that is that the
greatest coach's chances are not
much. if any. better than the quail
ity of his material. Many an ag-
gregation of stars has made a
coach's reputation, prestige that
collapses quickly enough when the
stars have gone and the instructor
has players of mediocre ability with
which to work.
OF course thoroughly competent
coach can do more with a green
eleven than a coach whose ability
runs from poor to average but even
the best gridiron mentors cannot
make bricks without straw. More
than one football instructor this
coming season who in past years
has been blessed with fine material
and as consequence has been rid
ing high will find himself down to
brass tacks this year and it will be
interesting to see what they make
Of their problems.
Ty Cobb is certainly making good
ON his expressed conviction that he
believes in college players as big
league material and that aside from
their athletic ability he counts upon
them as 4 fine influence in base
ball. Already he has signed Rig
'ney. from Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical, the college that jolted
Centre at football last fall; He'll
man, from St. Mary's; Woodall
from North Carolina, and Olson
from Cornell. Probably the time
Twill come when Cobb's Tigers will
be an all-collese outfit.
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PIRATES TRIM
GIANTS LEAD
St Louis Browns Regain Lead
With the Aid of Williams 34th
Home Run.

Chicago, Sept. 6.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press) = Double-barrelled
disaster at the hands of the Boston
clubs, tail-enders in both leaders,
left the pennant prospects of the
New York clubs in precariouS
condition today.
The Red Sox, jinx most of the
season to the Yankees, jolted the
American league champions from
the lead with a double defeat, to
| 8, and 6 to 5, while St. Louis nosed
out Cleveland, 10 to 9. The Braves
gave the Giants a twin trouncing
by scores of 6 to 0 and 4 to and
as Pittsburgh crushed the St Louis
Cardinals, II to 0, New York's lead
over the Pirates was cut to four
and half games.
] Yankee discards helped the Red
Sox to make it l victories out of
Is games with the Yanks this sea-
son. Johnny Mitchell's homer in
the first and Del Pratt's circuit
clout in the second were blows that
spelled defeat for Higgins two
pitching aces, Bob Shawkey and
Joe Bush.
81 for Ken.
Ken Williams helped the Browns
to regain the lead by wauoping out
his 34th homer with the bases full
tying Rogers Hornsby for the ma
OR league smuggling lead. George
Sisler laced out two hits, bringing
his streak of consecutive hitting te
35 games, five behind Ty Cobb'i
American league record, made il
1911. and nine back of Willie Keel
er's old National league mark
made when he was with Baltimor,
in 1897.
Pitching weakness that has be
come chronic with the Giants ant
failure to solve Frank Miller ant
RUDE MarQuard we're the principa
factors in their double setback
Ryan was knocked out of the DO,
in the first and McQuillan in tn,
second contest.
The Chicago Cubs tied St. Loui.
for third place in the Nationa
league by beating Cincinnati, 8 Il
l. Detroit and the Chicago Whit,
Sox split double-header, Will,
Brooklyn and Philadelphia also di
vided honors in a twin-bill.
Cy Williams of the Philadelphi;
Nationals made two home runs il
the first .gamd of the double-head
er with Brooklyn, and Jack Peters
catching the second game for Phil
adelphia, duplicated the feat.
The hitting Of Rabbit" Maran
! vile was big factor in Pitts
! burgh's victory over St. Louis, tn
peppery shortstop collecting fiv
hits, two Of which came in tn
: eighth inning, in five trips to tn
l plate. Every Pirate made at leas
5 one or more hits.
i Cecil Duff, recently obtaine
!. from Aberdeen, of the South Da
| kota league, by the White So1
\ made his first major league appear
!. lance in the third inning of the sec
ond game with Detroit, after Te,
Blankenship had been knocked on
: and held the Tigers scoreless i,
the remaining six innings
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Each of them faced a club which
had been raked with a fine tooth
comb to find players for the New
York clubs. On the Giants there
were Nehf and McQuillan, two
pitchers of skill, and on the Yanks
most of their team gravitated from
Boston to New York.
Both of the Boston teams were
tail enders and while there was
little respect for either of them, it
was figured the worst that could
happen would be for each club to
lose one game. Both of the cham
pionship coptenders and the major
league leaders lost both games.
It. put one of them, the Yanks
out of place and it gave the other
the Giants, a Jolt that would have
set them on the back track were II
not for the fact they had made
trip through the west in which they
had met with unexpected success
and had gained so much on theil
league that the championship wa:
easily within their grasp.
i The loss of this double header b!
each New York club does not neces
sarily mean that each of them viii
fail to win the championship, bu
# the Browns of the American
league, the St. Louis representa-
tives, can come through with SOM
high class baseball and can holt
their own from now until the end o
September play they are going II
give the Yanks a race that the lat
ter will remember exactly as the.
remembered the chase that Cleve
Hand gave them last year.
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have CONTRACT
Of H. E|ELS0N,
| STAR HALFbACK
Washington & Jefferson Player Il
First to Attach Himself OH
cially to Team.
BY ]. L. HUGHES.

Gather round, ladies and gentle
men, for a bit Of football chatter.
The first player actually signed up
by the Independents, excepting
Manager Jim Councilman, is Harry
A. Eielson, formerly of the cham
pion Great Lakes team but more
recently of the celebrated Wash
ington & Jefferson eleven which
last season made the trip to Cali
fornia and played the famous Bears
of that state to scoreless tie. His
contract arrived in the morning
mail.
This Eielson lad is better known
as Dizzy" He gained this dis
tipctive nickname as member OF
the Great Lakes aggregation in
1918. During their stay in New
York his pet amusement consisted
of approaching dignified Officer
of the law and tapping that worthy
on the opposite shoulder. Wher
his nibs about faced, Harry would
grin broadly, but seldom did the
copper share the enjoyment. Har,
rvs pals got such a kick out d
these antics that he was awarded
the "diz" championship without {
struggle.
Eielson jumped into nationa
prominence as a player when sin
glehanded he practically turned de
feat into victory for the Lakes il
the memorable struggle with thu
Annapolis midshipmen. With thu
score to 0 against the Lakes ant
only two minutes to play, Eielsol
received the ball behind his owl
goal line and Travelled 103 yards t
a touchdown.
/ After leaving the service, Eiel
son entered Washington & Jeffer
son, where for two seasons on tn
gridiron he was rated as one of tn
greatest halfbacks in the country
In addition to being brillian
advancer of the ball, he gained dis
tinction as a kicker. He has sew
eral worlds punting records to hi
credit. In one game. he average
60 yards to his punts, several GO
ing more than 70 yards. He boot
the ball high, giving his men plent
of chance to get down the field.
is easy to see what an asset
consistent kicker like this would b
to any team, but more especially t
the Independents when it is re
membered that inconsistent
: marked the efforts of the punter
all last season.
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D0UbLEDEFEAT
PERILS YANKS
Giants, Too, Lose Two, Which Just
About Makes History in
Baseball
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus.)
New York, Sept. cit is ques-
ton which would take a great deal
of research to decide whether any
thing like that which happened on
Tuesday to the New York clubs of
both major leagues ever took place
before in baseball history. Each of
them lost a double header to team
from Boston.
For the moment it is doubtful il
anything can be raked up that ever
happened just as this did happen
First of all here were the Giants
and the Yanks in first place and
struggling for a pennant in each OF
their leagues. Then each of them
lost a chance to play a double head.
err on Sept 4, which was a holiday
If one of them had decided to ar.
range a game for the morning Of
the 4th it might have been played
Possibly the other could have
played a morning game but whether
it could or not, it did not.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

Little Joey Ryan is sharing the
spotlight with the St. Louis Browns
this season. Joey, you will recall.
was mascot for the 'Terre Haute
club Of the Three-Eye last season,
and as such entertained Rock Is
land fans on one Of two occasions
with an exhibition of his remark
able baseball skill for youngster
of tender years. He is just IA.
Joey's prowess entitled him to ad-
vancement to the big show this
season and he is playing not a
small part in the success of the
Browns.
The critics say of joey that he
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

New York, Sept. 6.-With the
Davis cup successfully defended
and safe in our possession for an
, other Il months those who are in
terested in the future, as well as
our present status in international
lawn tennis, are casting thoughts
ahead not only to 1923 but the years
beyond.
AS the situation now stands it is
quite evident that so long as we
have Tilden and Johnston in their
present form We need not fear
greatly for our international
laurels. Tilden in recent games
has shown in and out form which
might suggest that he was begin
ming to slip; but even if this be
true-and there is no reason for
any one familiar with Tilden's vary
! ing form to believe it is-he will
have to slip a great deal before he
is on even terms in match play with
}, any foreigner before the public, and
this is said in the face of the great
match which Anderson of Aus
tralia played against him on Tues
!. day.
Johnston at Top.
Bill Johnston is in the very mid
summer of his game. His play
against Patterson in what proved
to be the deciding match of the
Davis cup series was one of the
most profitable exhibitions of hare
:, hitting. clever placing and courr
covering that has ever been seer
in this country. Inexpert observ
ers may have thought that Geralc
Patterson was playing poor TENN!
against him. but he was doing moth
ing of the kind. He was playin,
good tennis and it was merely tn,
uncanny game he was up agains
that made him seem so inferior
In this opinion the writer is born,
out by Pat O'Hara Wood. San
Hardy and other qualified obsery
ers.
But when Tilden and Johnsto,
go, as they must sometime, VIII,
shall take their places? Vincen
Richards? Probably not. 1t is like
ly, basing opinion upon his physi
que and the character of some @
: strokes, that right now he is play
e ing as good tennis as he ever will
l. The kinsey brothers, Phillip Nee
:, and other youngsters who hav
l. been playing excellent Tournament
tennis this year do not, howevel
l. suggest they will ever be worl
+ beaters. In fact the only yout
IS who promises to step into the shoe
d of either Tilden or Johnston is A,
e mold Jones. Here is a real pros
y pect. Watch him in the next yea
: or two.
/ 1t is now pretty well establishe
s that We do not know as much a
we should know about the art {
u playing doubles. Both in Australi
, and in Europe they play double
more scientifically, and thereto,
:; more successfully. Our double
II game will have to be bolstered u,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
HIGH eRIDMEN
EAGER TO GET
EARLY starr
Alumni Game to Be Sept ls; Han
Fast Games on Schedule
This Year.
By ART WILLIANs

Soon the sun will be burning IA.
backs of the Rock Island Mia
school football men and the am
thud Of the old pigskin will b.
familiar sound on the Reserves,
field. Coach Kimmel is plannin, !,
deal out uniforms rapidly, becsp..
the boys will have to get busy N.
first game with the alumni stapa.
ing only little less than -,
weeks in the distance. The hon
will meet the former men Of elor|
Saturday, Sept, 16. at Douglas pari
and they know it viii b q MI
scrap.
The first training which the bov,|
will receive will be light exercis.
such as running, passing and kick.
ing, because Of the hot weather
Hall Is Captain,
i, Floyd Hall, the big man OF ths
team and veteran line performer
will lead the Rock Island elsyen
this year. Hall has plenty Of ~
to make any player in high school
circles sit up and take notice And
is expected to go strong this year
This will be his last appearance IN
high school sports and he aims 10
make it his best year. After hin
election as captain of the eleven
last year he abandoned his hin
school studies so that he could r.
turn to school this year and not b
ineligible to continue his grid &C.
tivities.
The team should have plenty d
material this year. To build thu
team around, Coach Kimmel has /,
number. of boys who are famila,
with the game who played lad
iyear and also held substitute nod
tons. Some of the lads on WHOM
hopes are pinned are March, Clark
Ramser, Reed, Anderson, Mayer
Ash, Alvine, Chambers and Cromp
ton. All Of these boys have hai
experience on the gridiron.
l. Have Hard Schedule.
| Manager Clark has billed SOM
hard opposition for the boys Til
year. The schedule differs froa
former years, there being a mum
Der Of new schools added to u
list. The schedule is:
Sept. 16-Rock Island versu
. Alumni.
Sept. 23-East Moline at Roc
., Island.
Sept. 30-Macomb at Rock
land.
Oct. 7-Galesburg at Rock /
, land.
Oct. 14-Monmouth at Rock
j land.
Oct. 21-Rock Island at Cliuiu
Iowa.
>, Oct. 2S-Moline at Rock Island
Nov. Rock Island at Sterlin
| Nov. 11-Rock Island at Dave
> port.
q Nov. 1S-Rock Island at Buriin
: ton, Iowa.
= The Nov. Is and Nov. 30, Thank
= giving day, dates have been h
. open by Manager Clark till Int
- in the season.
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flies like iris Speaker himself. The
Browns hit or throw to Joe just
like they would to one of them
selves. Sometimes ball turns the
diminutive mascot clear around,
but he hangs onto the ball. Some
times, between inning, when the
catcher isn't ready, Joe steps up to
the plate and warns the pitcher up.
That he's made a hit with the
fans is shown by the applause
which follows every move he
makes.
But he hasn't been spoiled by
being a big league attraction. How
ever, he'd rather talk baseball and
the Browns than anything else.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

already promises to rival Nick Alt
rock as a diamond attraction. Not
with a line of comic stunts, such
as have made Nick famous, but by
the all-around excellence of his
performance when he gets out on
the field in practice before the
game.
Joe is doing the things for the
Browns that he did for Terre
Haute. He plays second or first,
scooping up hard hit grounders
with the grace and ease of a vet
eran and he throws to first or sec
ond or third with the machine-like
! precision of the finished player. In
the outfeld he judges and catches
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
JUNIOR GRIDDERS
WANT CANDIDATES

Independent Juniors are in need
of candidates. There was a good
turnout last night, but Coach Jerry
Mansfield is anxious to hear from
other prospects. The squad got to-
gether at Twenty-eighth street and
Fifth-and-a-half avenue. Another
drill has been set for Friday.
Manager Fred Wheeian. 2217
Fifth avenue, is already busy book
ing games. He can be called at R
/. 1759L.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
GILL PUTSkAYO
over ON GROVER

Peanuts Schieberl is back from
a trip north with Jimmy Gill. Re-
Gently Jimmy scored kayo victory
over George Grover in three
rounds at La Crosse, Wis.
Schieberl has signed five-year
contracts to manage Gill and
frankie Schmalzer, the Milwaukee
bantam. He aims to keep these
boys busy around here this fall and
winter.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

The first year of the Mississippi
Valley league was success. not
only from a playing point OF view.
but financial as we'll. True, half
the cities lost money, namely, Du-
buuue, Ottumwa and Rock Island.
Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown and
Waterloo carried the expense well.
thanks to the splendid cooperation
of their fans. Rock island was last
in attendance, and in fact had the
poorest season financially in the
history of the game here. In spite
of this, the deficit was compare
lively small, indicating the econ
omy of operation that can and did
prevail.
While the semi-pros are getting
a few more ticks out of the Old
horsehide, the gridders are heark-
| ening to the call of the pigskin and
in another month the great fall
| sport will swing in the scene in
| full view. Indications point to a
bright season ahead for the Rock
Island Independents, and, lovers OF
the game are eager for the ref
| eree's whistle. The lightweight
teams of the tri-cities are issuing
challenges in mid-season form. The
high school lads are airing theiI
moleskins and in day or two will
launch the training grind.
Rock Island post, American
Legion, has not closed with
boxers to appear here Sept. %,
the night of the American Lee
gion state convention, but ex.
pect to within q few days. Pal
MOore's recent decisive defeat
at the hands of Champion Joe
Lynch seems to stamp him rs
an illogical choice at this time.
Sammy Mandell would make a
worthy opponent for most any
bantam, and the legion is keep
ing in touch with him. NegO-
tiations are also pending for q
match between Mike Dundee
and Eddie Anderson.
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GALVA TEAM BEATS
BISHOP HILL NINE
Especial Correspondence !

Bishop HILL. H., Sept. 6.-Bish-
op Hill was defeated in a good
game Of baseball at Swanson's
ball park in Galva last Monday aft
ernoon by the score of z to 4.
Bishop Hill was in the lead until
the eighth inning when Galva
pushed i've runs over the rubber.
Berg. Anderson and Chilberg for
Bishop, Hill, and Larson and
'Hanes for. Galva. served as the bat
teries.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
Three.Eye League.

Peoria, Z; Bloomington, 6.
Terre Haute, 8; Evansville, l.
Danville, IL; Decatur, 4.
Rockford at Moline; rain.
National League.
Chicago, 8; Cincinnati, 1.
Philadelphia, III; Brooklyn, 3-S
Boston, GA; New York, OIL.
Pittsburgh. IL; st. Louis, 0.
American League.
Detroit, 9715; Chicago, SIS.
Boston, 4-6; New York, 3-5.
st. Louis, 10; Cleveland, 8.
Philadelphia Washington no
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. e.-Whils
awaiting reports from his repre-
sentative who attended the Labd
day bouts at Michigan City, Cover
nor McCray intimated that b
would stop all boxing matches O
that character in the future.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06

Forest Hills, L. l., Sept. CIVIL
liam Johnston, the beloved Little
Bill" of Frisco, known as the hor-
net Of the American court, alike
for his, busy court covering and
the sting OF his drives, defeated
Gerald l.. Patterson of Australia
yesterday in the final matches Of
the Davis cup challenge round, thus
assuring that the famous trophy
remains in America for another
year. Johnston won in straight
sets CO, 6-3 and 6-1, playing with
the dash and speed of 1915 and 1919
when he beat all corners for the
national title in singles. Patter-
son never figured seriously at any
time and was made to look like a
novice
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
META PATCH WINS.

Hamline, Mimi, Sept 6.-Nitl
Patch, from the Fred Egan ST.
bles, at Memphis, won the 2:G
pace, feature event of the Gra
Western circuit races at the Mn
nesota State fair.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-06
sEhn-PRo NOTES
Hill Tops &; Arms. I

Hill Tops defeated The Argus
team, to 1. in game at Angus
tana campus last evening. Dark
ness prevented the Argus from go
Ing to bat IN the fourth inning.