The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-23
BASEBALL.
A Splendid Game in the Diamond
Field.

The match game of baseball played last
Saturday between the Honolulus and the
Oceanics was spirited, and the victory
gained by the Oceanics was a decided sur
prise. The impression prevailed before the
game that the HonoIuIus would capture the
greatest number Of bases, and their success
in the first inning in making four runs sent
their stock up a point or two, the odds of
two to one against the oceanics being freely
offered. When the latter club retired from
their first inning with a blank record this
feeling of confidence in the superior playing
of the Honolulus was stronger, but there
we're those who declared that the game was
neither lost nor won quite yet. The Homo
lulus finished the first half of the second
innings with goose egg, and the like fats
befelI their opponents when they took turn
at the bat.
In the third inning the Honolulus- did
not increase their score any, and it was then
evident that the Oceanics intended, if they
could, to make the game little more even,
they scoring two runs. The record now
stood to 2. In the fourth inning the
HonoIulus met with another damper, they
retiring without raising their record any.
The Oceanics followed them and made three
runs, changing the score to five runs for
themselves and four for the Honolulus.
The HonoluIus captured a single run in
the next innings, but the Oceanics did as
we'll in the last half, and were still one
ahead of their opponents. Having thus got
the lead the Oceanics attended strictly to
| lulus to retire from the sixth inning without
a run, they went in and increased their score
a couple Of points, leaving the bat three runs
| ahead.
In the next inning the Honolulus did
their best to even the score, but it was no
| use; the good luck of the Oceanics had fairly
set in, and the Honolulus could not get q
run, while in the last half of the inning the
Oceanics increased their lead by three runs,
the score then standing eleven to five in
their favor. The same poor luck attended
the Honolulus in the eighth inning. they
being rapidly put out without recording a
run. They had their revenge, however. as
far as this inning was concerned, for they
sent the 0ceanics to the field without run.
The question now was, not which club
would win the game, for barring acciden Is,
it was already won by the Oceanics, but to
see. whether the score of the HonoIulus
could not be increased any on the next
inning. After a short, but interesting
struggle this quest ton was decided by the
HonOlulus making one run more before
their third man went out. There was some
very fine play during the match, the fielding
of the Oeeanics being especially good.
There was an unusually large number of
ladies present to witness this game, and
they all took a great deal of interest in the
fuctuating fortunes of the two clubs. While
congratulated by fair friends on the victory
won, it was worth while, too, to be defeated
to win the expressions of sympathy and re-
greet that were so freely bestowed upon the
Honolulus.
There is one thing that should be looked
after and corrected, and that is permitting
a crowd of spectators to encroach upon the
ground on the right of the catcher. In a
previous game the catcher lost a foul ball
that he would otherwise have probably
caught, on account Of the people who were
in the way, and last Saturday the catcher
had again to request the boys to get further
back.
There is still another thing that should
be checked, and that is the use of profane
language by lot of little fellows who con-
gregate at the baseball ground. There were
ladies in the grand stand last Saturday who
must have heard the oaths of the youngsters
in front of them, and it could not have been
very pleasant for them to be compelled to
do so.
Following is the official score:
OCEANIC.