The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-21

League yesterday, and baseball in
Honolulu will probably take a
sudden drop. This action was
taken because the Kamehamehas
refuse to call last Saturdays game
a draw.
The League met at the office of
w. F. Allen at noon. The follow
ing report was read by A. Perry,
the delegate for the Crescents, and
was adopted:
The undersigned, representatives of
the Kamehameha and Crescent base
ball clubs, beg to inform you that a
meet ng of said representatives and
others interested was held at the y.
NJ. G. A. Hall on the evening of July
18th last to investigate the matter of
the bribery of Wood, pitcher of the
Cresceuts, and that upon the evidence
adduced before said meeting the MEM
bers of said Kamehameha Baseball
of said bribery
ANTONIO PERRY.
GEO. III. ANGUS.
II Il. ANDREWS.
S. S. MAHUKA.
Delegate Anderson, for the Ka-
mehameha nine, then read the fol-
lowing report:
A protest was made by the repre-
sentatives of the Crescents July 10Th,
requesting that the game played with
the Kamehamehas July 18th be de-
clared off, as Wood, pitcher of the
Crescents, was bribed A committee
of four was appointed by the Baseball
League to- investigate the matter and
report to the League. The committee
met at the Y. NJ. &. A. Hall Wednes-
day evening, July 18th, examined
witnesses, and the result OF their IN
vestigation is as follows:
First-That the pitcher of the Cres-
cents was bribed.
SecOnd-That the committee is I'M
able to- find out who the briber or
bribers are, there being no evidence
to incriminate the party named by
Pitcher Wood.
a protest to be valid must be made
on the grounds and specifically state
an intentional Injury done to the pro-
tester by member of a competing
nine; or "a noncompliance on the part
of the winning niue 10 coufOrm TO the
rules by which a game il played; or a
decision or decisions made by AN UNI
pire or umpireS, which decisions arr
not in accordance with the rules of the
game, ard thereby cause an Injustice
To the professors.
The evidence brought before the
committee and tn iT written state
ment eXoneTate the kamehamebas
from all charges o bribery, and they
are the refore not implicit q i'll this
of I.nna fhars. IL "a lUaInGt
them and the bribery of Pitcher
Woods is a question between the nine
in which he played, and the league
not IA question between two contend
ing mines.
The offensa was committed by a
member of the protesting nine, and
that nine in this case is pleading it's
own inefficiency. That winning
nine should los a game because Que
more of the opposition proves lneftl-
cient il an injustice to the winning
nine, and a dangerous athletic prece-
dent to establish.
Inasmuch as the protest was not
made on the grounds, and the VIII
ming nine was not implicated in the
bribery of Pitcher Wood, and an in
Jury was not done to the professors
except by one of their own members,
and iuasmuch as no objection was
made TO the ruling of either umpire,
find 10 ground for protest.
This case has been left to the ka-
mehamebas TO decide, ana in the in
terests of baseball that uine would
state that the evils of betting and
bribery, if allowed TO continue, will
so corrupt baseball as to bring 1t into
disrepuJe.
The good name of anv nine is
jeopardized when the diamond is
ruled by money and not a desire II
win simply for the sake of winning.
The anxiety, the feverish excitement,
the whirIwind of wrath incident to Il
game, will cause hazard when money
Is shaken in the faces of youths and
the baseball ground, instead of being
a place where self control, nerve,
courage, and mettle is developed, is
door TO professional lOafiDg and de-
bauchery.
The decision as read was ac-
cepted, by a vote of 5 to l, Angus,
of the Crescents, alone voting
against it. Consequently, Satur-
DAYS game stands as 1T is.
The following letter of resigna-
ton from the League was read by
Captain Angus:
Col. w. f. ALLEN, President of the
Hawaiian Base Ball Leagne.
DEAR Strive, the undersigned
members of the Crescent Base Ball
Club, hereby tender our resignation
tn the Hawaiian Ease Ball League,
on the ground that fair play has not
beer shown us by the referee i'll refus-
inc TO accept our protest Of the game
of ball which was played at the
T,eapue grounds OH the 18th inst, be-
tween the Crescent and kameha-
meha Bas- Bail Clubs.
We regret that the action Of the ka
meh lmeha CLUB In perslsuhg IN
I~nown fact that Wood sold the game
70 some party or parties unknown to
NJ ami thus showing a readiness to