The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-03
Regiment Team Played ALI Kinds
Of Ball.
ST. LOUIS BOYS OUTGLASSED
Barracks Team Shows
Great Improvement.
Necessity for Ground Rules APP
parent-Too Much Playing in
Grand Stand.

The St. Louis College Baseball Team
is composed of young men who have
earned regulations as good ball play
ers in other teams, for when Captain
Thompson made up the nine he picked
only those who he knew could play
ball" The public had great hopes for
the lads in their game with the Regi-
ment team, after the latter were so
badly worsted by the Stars the week
before. But the college boys were not
in it from start TO finish. Changes in
the Regiment team strengthened it, so
that there was no chance of defeot.
The absence Of Kiley, the catcher, who
is laid up for repairs, secured one or
two runs to the students, which they
might not have had if he had been in
his place.
The pleasure of the game was
marred, however, by the unwarrant-
ed exhibition of hoodlumism in the
grand stand, as well as on the dia-
rs.ond and if the managers of the
clubs expect to have ladies attend the
games they must meet and pass rules
that will give the policemen who par
ade the grand stand the right to eject
men who use language that would not
be tolerated in dive. Another thing:
Honolulu people like clean baseball,
and by cleanliness it is meant that
members of teams will attend strictly
to their business without attempting
to interfere by word or action with
members of a rival team. When the
Regiments played the Stars, they were
sticklers for rules and would allow no
violations. But on Saturday it was diff
ferent: more coaching was done by
German, from the vicinity of the play
ers' bench, and by Kiley, in the grand
stand. than by the men at first and
third, regularly assigned to that duty.
Again on two occasions, when the St.
Louis catcher was trying to get foul
flies the Regiments yelled: You can't
get it, and German, who by the way,
is captain of the Regiment team, and
is supposed to know better, was loud
est of all. The game on Saturday was
as nearly as possible a duplicate of
those played on the lots in the mis-
sion. If jamming, vulgarity and pro-
family, in the grand stand or on the
diamond. constitutes good. clean
ball" then the 500 people who wit
messed the game on Saturday. had
their fill, but there is a horrible sus-
picion that decent people Of Honolulu
do not like that kind of 'clean ball"
Akina. who caught for the Wailuku
team last year, was not in good form,
and retired after the fourth inning. He
was succeeded by Kanahi, who though
appearing in a nondescript uniform.
played good ball for the st. Louis
team. W. Woods, second baseman of
the Regiment team last year, played
right field for the St. Louis on Satur-
day. He made an excellent fly catch
in the first inning. and distinguished
himself throughout the game. If Cap
tain Thompson could but realize the
difference the change would make, he
would put Woods at second in the
games this year.
The ST. Louis team won the toss, and
sent the Regiment to the bat. Moore
was the first man to bat, ana through
Akina's bad playing got two bases on
strikes and a passed ball. Duncan lost
his chance when he sent the ball into
Woods territory. Davis flew short to
Simerson. but the young man ran and
caught the ball just as he slipped to
the ground. But he held on to it, and
put his man out. German did not get
TO first. For the Regiment team,
Scanlon distinguished himself in the
first inning by making pretty catch
at first base. The inning closed with
out either side scoring. In the second
inning Lemon was batted wherever
the barracks boys listed. Hansmann
gathered in a fly from Scanlon in a
way that surprised the tall first base
man. Five runs to the good for the
Regiment team set the college boys TO
thinking, and they were not through
doing mental work at the end of the
game. They were clearly outplayed at
every point by the Regiment, though
they played fairly good ball, and had
not the Regiment team put up bet
ter game than they did with the Stars,
they would have won out.
Bowers, for the Regiment, pitched
good game, and is earnest in his work,
ignoring the grand stand in every par
ticular Following is the score:
FIRT REGIMENT.