The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-08
BOOSTERS ARE
BUSY SELLING
AUTO TICKETS
Baseball Directors Pleased With
Spirit of Fans Toward Fund
Raising Venture.
BY ]. L. HUGHES.

Committee IN charge of the sale
of tickets on the Velie automobile
to be given to some lucky person in
the near future, reported to the di-
rectors of the Rock Island Fans as
ISOLATION last night that the paste
boards are being disposed of at a
satisfying rate of speed.
The ticket books have been placed
in the hands of many boosters, and
in various cigar stores, according
to the committee. Everyone is
working tirelessly to dispose of as
many of the tickets as possible at
the nominal price of so cents each.
The fans association hopes to real
ize tidy sum from the proceeds of
the venture.
The committee has plans under
way for intensifying the automo-
bile campaign to a greater degree
but these will not be made public
until all details are complete.
Mueller Resigns.
Resignation of DR.. C. W. MueI-
Ter as director of the association,
was received and accepted by the
board. Robert F. McConochie was
elected to fill the vacancy.
DR.. Mueller, who served two
years as president of the fans as
ISOLATION, is planning to remove
from Rock Island.
Are Enthusiastic.
The directors are enthusiastic
over the progress that is being
made toward building up team of
young fellows. Consensus is that
the kids who are anxious to make
their marks in organized baseball
will show more pepper and ability
than would be the case if they had
to buck up against veteran COMPETE
ton. Rock Island fans have had
their fill of the so-called expert
enced article of baseball; now they
want something which youngsters
naturally give, namely, fight. The
average fan bears no resentment
toward the club that loses so long
as the loser fights for everything.
This is the kind of a club that the
fans association proposes to in
stall in Douglas park this summer.
Efforts to dispose of Charlie Con-
molly via the sale route haze failed
thus far. Bill Cole and Con Nc
Inerney have not yet replied to the
terms of the contracts sent to each.
The association is entertaining an
offer for Coles services, but the 9TH
er club desires to buy him under
option. The association prefers to
sell him outright. 1t has been def
initely established that Bill John
son, Outtielder, is a free agent. a
clause in his contract last year
making him liability to the local
club end with the finish of the sea-
son. However, the club has clear
title to Wally Newell. Newell does
not want to sojourn in these parts
this season at a reduced salary, and
he is trying to obtain his release.
The association has offered him the
chance to sell himself at a compar-
atively small figure
OLeary to Decatur.
Dan OLeary, former Rock Island
player and later manager of the
Davenport Three-Eye league team,
has been signed as manager of the
Decatur team, whose entry into the
tri-optic circuit is announced by
President AL Tearney. Press re-
ports call him John OLeary, but
Dan it is. Danville, which is to be
the eighth Three-Eye league city,
has yet to name a manager. An
nouncement that the entrance of
both of these cities into the league