The Chicago stars badly beaten on the Quincy diamond and but for errors would have been shut out.

It was a nice tame little bunch of Cubs that the Buds chased around the lot yesterday. They let Mr. Hofer's men lead 'em around by the nose. They climbed the pole, danced, ate out of the hand and rolled over and played dead. Slats Rause's foolers were beyond them and after the first inning it was like taking candy from the children. The Cubs can lead the Nationals, but when they hit the Buds, they can climb a tree for they are out.

Chicago came to the bat first and Shorty Slagle made a safe hit to right field. Hofman the shortstop grounded to Johnson who made a neat and tidy error and gave Plummer a chance to fumble which he immediately proceeded to do and Slagle advanced to third in a hurry. Schulte flew west to Rudd and Patsy Moran hit safe to the left field Fisher fumbled the ball and both runners scored.

Fisher was the first man up for Quincy and he Dalton and Johnson went down in one, two, three order. At this point an enthusiastic fan way up in the tip-top of the grandstand crossed his fingers and a small boy down on the bleachers with two warts on his left paw crossed his toes, grounded the bad luck and the Cubs were started south, though they didn't suspect it. Mercy, no not for a moment.

In the second Durbin fouled out to Walsh. Olis popped a neat but not gaudy Texas leaguer into the eager hands of Mr. Johnson. He neglected to keep his eye on Mr. Johnson, and then the tall and slender Pfeister struck out and again the Cubs said, "No more at present."

Mr. Rudd proceeded to strike out and tawny hair Lindy hit safe to the infield, made first and boldly stole second under Pfeister's haughty nose. Then Lindy's blonde pate began to swell and he vowed to steal third, but alas! and then Plummer struck out.

Then Slagle vowed vengeance and beat out a bunt along the third base line and was forced to second by Art Hofman's grounder which gave an error to Mr. McGuire. Schulte hit a grounder to Johnson who caught Hofman and threw Mr. Schulte out at first, a neat little double play that did the work.

The third inning did the everlasting business for Quincy and taught their Cubships a lesson or two.

Little curly-headed Walsh led off with a good, safe hit to center. McGuire hit to Pfeister, who threw to second but both men were safe as safe could be. Rause nobly sacrificed and both runners hit the road for third and second respectively. Then the mighty man from Burlington hit a nice long safety to the left field and Walsh and McGuire tied the score good and tight. Dalton made good on an infield hit to the shortstop, Hofman, and then Mr. Johnson hit to left for two bases and Fisher and Dalton came home to mother and the fans went up straight in the air. Rudd struck out. Lindy hit to first leaving Johnson on second.

There was nothing doing for the next two innings and the fans drew their breath in long gasps and congratulated themselves that even if they did get licked they had gotten four earned runs off the Cubs anyway.

In the sixth trouble loomed up when Hofman let fly to Lindy. Shulty was out on a grounder to Johnson, who passed it on to Captain Rudd. Moran hit safe to center and Howard was hit by Slats and both runners advanced. Then Johnny Evers hit to Dalton who threw him out at first.

Iin the last half of the sixth, Reulbach took his place in the box and Mr. Pfeister gave up the ghost. The Buds were good and quiet through the inning but when they came up to bat in the seventh there was blood in their eyes and the gentlemen from Chicago had real trouble ahead of them. Plummer made his regular safe hit to the left field and Walsh frolicked to the bat and sacrificed Plummer to second. McGuire grabbed the stick, planted his feet good and firm and the ball bounded just right for him into right field. Schulte threw to home, sweet home wild and Plummer was in a position to say "There is no place like home." McGuire had advanced to third but his "umps" made him hike back to second as but one base is allowed on a bum throw. After that the lull came and scoring on either side was no more. But with five runs to the Cubs' two, the Buds were satisfied and let 'er go at that. Yes, verily, the Cubs rolled over and played dead.

Schulte is the mightiest batter on either of the big Chicago teams, but he couldn't connect with a measly little bingie yesterday. Rause had him sewed up in a sack. Harry F. Hofer was an interested spectator at the game yesterday. He is getting along nicely, although he is quite weak and has fallen off in weight considerably. Umpire Fuller was quite sick last night, but had recovered sufficiently this morning to leave for Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller will spend the winter in San Francisco. Walter Rause has received an offer from St. Louis and will pitch there before returning to his home, which is on a farm about eight miles from Memphis, Tenn. "Trapper" Farrell left this morning for his home in Annapolis. He stated last evening that he would take up the work of soliciting insurgence during the winter. Quincy is getting a big "ad" out of the Cubs' defeat. Today's Chicago Herald has in black letters clear across the top of the sporting page, "Cubs Lose to Quincy 5 to 2"

Instead of finding "easy picking at Quincy" as announced byt he Chicago papers yesterday, the Cubs found as big a drubbing as any team in their class could give them. With the Cubs was J.C. Gilruth, sporting editor of the Chicago News. Mr. Gilruth has traveled with the Chicago White Sox for six years and this year is making the circuit with the Cubs.

Reulbach relieved Pfeister an inning earlier than had been announced before the game. instead of winning the game, he allowed two hits in one inning, which coupled with Schulte's wild throw home, netted another run. Linderbeck had successfully stolen third base in the third inning, but was called out by Fuller. It was a close decision and as Fuller was standing at first base, the mistake was excusable, especially since we won.

The Buds gave the Cardinals a fifteen inning scrap and McCloskey admitted that his team worked as hard as it ever did. Now we defeated the Cubs in Cardinals style and should receive some consideration when we challenge the champions of the world.

Possibly some people will now believe the statement made by Manager McCloskey of the St. Louis Cardinals when he said that the people having a club in the Iowa State league do not have to go to Chicago or St. Louis to see big league baseball.

One of Rause's admirers asked Evers at the depot whether he thought that the big pitcher was ripe for the big league. Evers ventured the statement that Rause would not last a week. At the same time he had to admit that his club would not have scored a run had Rause received faultless support.

Treasurer Roy Holcomb, of the Quincy baseball club, states that the Cubs received fifty percent of the gross receipts of the game yesterday, including the revenue from the grandstand and reserved seats. The clubs therefore received $730 each for the day. The total receipts for the game were the greatest known here for many years.

The Cubs' lineup yesterday was the same it would have been had they played Pittsburgh or New York. Just because Quincy outplayed them, there is no reason why any one should kick. The next time Chance and Tinker are sick when the Cubs are scheduled for a game with Quincy, Murphy will pay a forfeit rather than have the prestige of the National League injured.

One loyal fan is smoking the best cigars on sale in Quincy. He wagered that Chicago would make less runs and less hits in the game with Quincy than they did in the game with Cincinnati at Chicago Saturday. The runs, hits and errors in that game were Chicago 12, 19, 2 Cincinnati 5, 10, 5. The figures in yesterday's game were: Quincy 5, 7, 3. Chicago 2, 7, 1.

In three innings only three men faced Rause and in three innings not a single champion made a hit. Of course there were circus catches galore by Lniderbeck. Johnson and Rudd and brilliant stops by both Dalton and McGuire. The gilt-edged support given Rause after the first inning gave him the necessary nerve to hold his own during the remainder of the contest.
The only regular men missing in the line-up of the Cubs yesterday were Chance, Sheckard and Kling. Chance is out of the game for a few days and his place was filled by Moran, while Durbin as regular pitcher, filled Sheckhard's shoes. Moran is a regular catcher. Olis is a new man and gave a better account of himself at bat than did either Hofman, Schulte or Evers.

Richard Comiskey, superintendent of the laundry department of the Noxfall factory presented Evers with a box of fine shirts when Evers stepped to bat for the first time. Comiskey and Evers are old friends. Evers explained that five years ago he worked under Comiskey in a linen collar factory at Troy for $3 a week. Today Evers would not think of taking that for two hours' work.

Arthur Hofman, who played at short for the Cubs yesterday is the best utility man in the National league, possibly in the country. Manager Murphy stated several weeks ago, that he would not give Hofman for the entire St. Louis National league club. Artie played a fast fielding game and made a brilliant stop of Dalton's hit in the third inning but like the majority of his team mates was unable to touch Rause.

Hugo Duesenberg, the young St. Louis lad who accidentally hit Umpire Evans with a pop bottle Sunday afternoon and fractured his skull is a nephew of the late August Halle, the horseshoer, who died less than a year ago. His father is a German Lutheran teacher and both he and his son are well acquainted here. The young man is a quiet fellow and those who know him were surprised to hear that he could become so excited over a baseball game.

Burlington Hawkeye "Quincy bears about the same relation to the rest of the league as an infant does to a full grown man, at the start of the season. It was the fisrt year of league ball for Quincy, and Harry Hofer had no reserve material to draw upon. He had to pick out an entirely new team, and it was a difficult task to bring it up to the standard of the rest of the league in one season. But the Quincy club has steadily improved, and next season no doubt it will be even faster...