The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-04-12
OUR BASEBALL LEAGUE.
LETTER FROM A MAN WHO HAS
BEEN ON INSIDE FOR YEARS.
Says the "Kams" Have Always Made
TroubIe-The Present Collision
Unknown Club Looking Up.

The Unknown Baseball Club met
Thursday evening. Captain Clark
resigned his Office in the club and
J. A. Thompson was elected to sue
coed him. Tom Pryce and Chris
Willis, formerly of the Athletics,
were taken in as members. A game
between the Unknowns and Phila-
delphias will be played Saturday
afternoon. The following letter on
the baseball muddle is of interest,
being from a man who has closely
followed the subject for many
years:
EDITOR STAR The Baseball
Leage of 1895 was organized on
March 10 last, with the following
clubs: Honolulu Amateur Athletic
Association, J. A. Thompson, cap
tain; Star, John Camel, captain;
Unknown, George Clark, captain.
The Kanehamehas, who were
members of the ga league, were
notified of the meeting, but sent no
representative. The captains of
the new league were APP
pointed "a committee to pre-
pare schedule of games.
Before the Committee hal reported,
on April 2, the Kamehameha
Alumni Association, practically the
old Kamehameha team, applied for
admission to the league, and init
mated that if they were not adj
mitted they would organize an
opposition league to play on the
old baseball grounds, which was
in the line suggested by a letter
signed by Professor Richards of the
Kamehameha school published in
city paper. The application was
opposed by Captain Thompson of
the Athletic Club on the ground
that four of the players
of the Kamehameha nine
had agreed to play with him, and
had joined the Athletic Association
for that purpose. If these players
should be admitted to the league
his nine would be broken up, and
it would be impossible for him to
play nine. The meeting was adj
iourned to the 10th, no action
having been taken. At this
meeting the Kamehamehas were
admitted to the league, which
necessitated the withdrawal. of the
Athletics, as nearly half of their
men had been admitted to the
league as members of the Kameha-
meha Alumni. After the meeting
it was said that the Kamehamehas
proposed to Captain Thompson that
he and certain of his players
should join their nine, practically a
case Of the tail wagging the dog.
If tactics of this kind are to prevail
in amateur sports here, it is time
that supporters of legitimate ath-
letics should show their disapprov-
al. The league has used every
effort TO secure four clubs this sea-
son, but it has never been posi-
bility. A league of three clubs,
evenly matched, was formed, and
at the last moment has been knock
ed into pi by the action of the
Kamehameha Alumni. There has
been no question of opposing the
admission of the Kamehamehas.
The point was whether they should
take four players from regular
nine of the league. breaking up the
same and debarring several
popular players merely that
nine with the Kamehame.
ha name should play ball
this season. A reference to the
files of Honolulu papers as far
back as April, 1880, will show that
the Kamehamehas have always in
sisted upon the league being
governed according to their wishes
AS rule other clubs have sacri
feed their rights to the whims Of
that club rather than have them
carry out their threats to withdraw
from the league if their demands
were not acceded to. The Kane
hamahas have been carried arouno
on feather pillow ever since they
entered the league. There ha!
been no harm in this fawning, bu
when the tactics of this club tent
to discredit fair and honest base
ball it is time that a halt is called
FAIR PLAY.