The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-04
THE BASEBALL CHAMPIONS
Re- iments Win From st. Louis in
the Deciding Game

Everybody, that is everyb )dy that
can remember and recognize base
ball champion, will stake off their
hats" to Captain German and
Meesrs. Mayne, Duncan, Moore,
Bowers, Davis, Kaanoi, Luahiwa and
kyle who constitute the team of
the 1st Regiment club which achiev-
ed victory over the St. Louis nine in
the final contest for the champion
ship at the Recreation grounds on
Saturday last, and by score of 6 to
8, in an hour aud forty-6ve minutes
game
The audience present to witness
the contest between the two teams
was the largest paying one of the
season and they all got their moneys
worth as evinced by the feeling dis
played, every inning being frsught
with interest OF high degree to
both the seniors and Juniors present.
The game throughout was remark
able also for the care and interest
of the Regiment team in playing
"bali" the lack OF "monkeying with
the pitcher" being due to the fact
that Tia y recognized that in the
s.. Louis boys, they, Qhe Rs) had
opponents Noteworthy of all of
their time and attention and on
strictly business basis. The game
was started sharp at $3.50 o'clock the
welcome iorm and face of Harry
Whitney being seen ia the position
Of umpire, and Morris Keohokalole
filing the position of field umpire.
The ST. Louis team went fret to bat
and we're soon afeld with a cypher
score. The Regiments had better
luck in play, at the sphere ia their
half as two tallies were to their
credit on retiring. From this first
to the sixth the St. Louis played
with nothing ON the board; the
eccentricitiss of pitcher Mayne's
curves being most effective in aiding
the usually sturdy batters OF the
st. Louis team to obtain the uude.
sirsd cyphers which was the total
footing of the ST. Louis score for six
straight innings. Kyle, Moore and
Kaanoi helped out by holding down
some hy-scrapers sent their way and
Davis, in catching Hansmann's high
fly in the sixth, ended Gleson's hope
for run in that innings; a run by
the way which came near to being
an assured fact by Mayne's amateur
throw to home instead Of cutting off
Clarke, which might have been east
ly done, at first. III GoIman had
missed it-but then that is another
story. Let us return, brethren Of
the sphere, to the st. Louis teams
work. la the 9TH Holt hit to Davis
and "Dinkey" had such good thing
that he fumbled the ball and sent
in wild throw to Duncan who clev-
erly stopped it, but Holt got to the
bag all right. Holt sprinted for Sec
cond and 80 did the ball sent thither
by German. Moore got it and-the
field umpire said safe" Moore
came very near sending the ball
through the earth for spite, but he
acted like real lady" and stopped.
Holt now made another sprinting
trip to third, and the ball did some
speedy business too, German send
ing it into Bowssr's hand, but the
umpire said again, "runner SAFE"
There was considerable talk in the
air, but the ordinations, intsrjec-
tions and other photographed arti
oles were 80 irretrevably mixed, in
various languages, that it is impossi-
BILE to give the words on paper.
Well, Dayton got Mayne to give him
four balls and mirabile dictu he stole
second safely, Simerson hit low by
Moore aud Holt came home, making
the first run in the game for the st.
Louis, the success being duly appre-
ciated by the grand-stand people.
Thompson went in for a three
bagger, but instead sent a fly into