The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-08
WHAT is GOING ON IN LOCAL
" AMATEUR CIRCLES.
The Cricket Game on Saturday after
noon Won by Town Players-Base
Ball League Will Be Formed-Notes.

There has been a general awakening
all along the line in amateur sports
during the past few weeks. The form
alton of base ball league bespeaks
revival of the American national game,
here during the coming season, and
the expressed desire of Harry Mus
grove, the Australian manager who re-
Gently passed through the city, to
meet the island players in a series of
has added much to the flame
tennis tournament promises to be the
most interesting in years. Cycling is
gaining new converts daily, and the
talk of building a speed track is not .
idle. Acquatc sports, too, have lost |
none of their old time popularity. The |.
recent stag" at the Myrtle Boat Club
demonstrated that. In fact, every sort |
of out door sport is concerned in the |
revival
Clean, healthful amateur sport |
claiming the approval and patronage
years been accounted in England as an
institution of the country quite as inn
portant as the public school system.
Through the influence of the colleges
and schools of the United States, anna
teur sports are becoming to be as gen
orally recognized there as an import
ant factor in the life of any commun-
ity, and there is now scarcely a city,
town or village in America that does
not have organizations to foster it.
Honolulu is not behind the times in
matters pertaining to sport, and she
can boast of no faint of professional
ism in her organizations. The young
men of Honolulu, as well as the old
men and ladies, love the sport for the
sake of sport. The Star is a friend of
clean amateur sport, and in the future
will attempt to keep its readers posted
on all events, past and future, that
occur in the sporting world.
Owing to the inability of a number
of base ball enthusiasts to be on hand,
the proposed meeting in the Chamber
of Commerce for the purpose of or
ganizing league on Thursday evening
was postponed until some evening this
week. There is not the slightest ques-
ton but what the league will be
formed and further that it Will flour
ieh from the start. The Regiment,
Star and st. Louis College teams are
heartily in favor of the league and
will go into it at once. a fourth club
is now being organized from players
picked from Kamehameha school and
town players. The team will be
known as the Kamehamehas, and will
be member of the league.
The plan is to make the league
local affair in the strictest sense of
the word, only local clubs being elig-
ible to membership. The Wailuku, La
haina, Hilo and other baseball teams
will be invited to Honolulu to try con-
illusions with the local mines during
the season in this city.
An intensely interesting cricket
match took place on the Makiki base
ball grounds Saturday afternoon. The
contesting clubs were the Icarus and
the Honolulu, the honors of the day
falling to the latter. The score was
60 to 81 and was pretty good, consid-
ering that both clubs have had little
or no practice. A return match will be
played next Saturday afternoon on the
same grounds. There was not time in
last Saturdays game to play two inn
ings each, therefore the match was de-
cided on the first inning. Mr.. A. r.
Hatfield was captain of the town play
ers and Paymaster Silks captained the
cricketers from aboard the Icarus. The
individual playing was short but the
team work was about the average.
There was good playing done by the
bowlers of each club. Messrs. Hat
field and Macintosh of the Honolulu
club and Messrs. Edwards and Mosely
of the Icarus held these positions.
Here are the players: Icarus-Capt.
Fleet, Messrs. Mosely, Edwards, Silk,
Holland, Liversidge, Pike, Boyce,
Briggs, Bridges, Windows. Honolulu
-Messrs. Herbert, A. St. NJ. Macllin-
tosh, Vincent, Rev. V. II. Kitcat, w. l..
Stanley, A. r. Hatfield DR.. II. V. Muir
ray, Shanks, l.. Ahlo, j. IL. Cation,
! Scanlon.
Everybody, it seems, is keeping an
eve on the st. Louis college boys this
season. The Organization of base
ball nine, composed of two or three of
the best players in the city, has
aroused no little interest among the
base ball cranls. 1t has had the effect
of putting new life into that here
tofore invincible ball team, the Stars,
as well as the Regiment lads. Chris
L. 81 Ia.