The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-14
MUDDY BASEBALL
Naval Men Surprise the Town
Players.
LARGE CROWD ATTENDS
Plenty of Amusement for
the Spectators.
Strangers Friend Society e Ma
terially Helped-Lieutenan Ell
lott VIII Protest.

I'VE met them upon a field of mud
and they are ours,'' said Dr. Smith of
the Philadelphia, yesterday, after he
hit the ball to center for three bases.
And the chaser after the vermiform ap-
pendiX knew whereof he spoke.
The great baseball game for charity
is over, and the Strangers Friend So
ciety is about 500 better off today than
it was last week. Had it not been for
the rain the stand would have been
packed. AS it was, there was a good
crowd, and everybody enjoyed the fun
Of seeing the players soil their clothes
in the mud. The Flagship Band was
present and played catchy airs between
the innings, never once playing a note
after ball had been put over the plate.
For this reason the band was voted
pleasure-nOt nuisance.
Just before the game began, the op
posing teams, headed by the band,
marched around the diamond, to let
the audience see what kind of looking
chaps they were. The uniform of the
town team consisted of white sailor
hats, red leis and few old clothes;
one member wore a red garter around
his left calf for two innings. Then he
lost it, and during the rest of the game
substituted for his HOni soft que NAL
pense decoration a lace from a white
canvas shoe Either was very becom-
ing John Waterhouse was made up in
a football-team uniform and played
real we'll Fly balls had no business
in Johns territory.
The sailor lads were dressed in nine
different costumes, and that probably
helped them out; it was the ball they
were after, not uniforms. They regret
this morning that they did not wear
something that could be washed out
Lang, however, kept on his feet, and
his black knickerbockers will not have
TO go to the cleaner.
In the first inning Tozier was the
only man to score; he got in on a pass
ed ball. A few minutes later Willard
the fourth man at the bat, struck out,
and the band struck up Baby, Come
Kiss Your Honey Boy" The boys
thought they had the world by the
neck
When the navy went into the field
then was the sight. Not one in three
could stand up long enough to hold a
ball that dropped into his hands.
COontz played short on his hands and
knees and then couldn't do anything
Willard would brace himself at second.
and paid so much attention to the foot
holes he had worked in the mud that
he could not hold the ball Wodehouse
made first on tumble of Coontz and
second on a muff of Willard's. Then he
tried to steal third. but all the naval
men got along the base line. trying to
catch the bali, and Hay was too i'll to
battle with more than three at once.
Burt put him out with the assistance of
the other eight men. Nichols took his
base on balls. Adams hit past short
for base and Nichols slid around to
third. Lucas swatted to center for two
bags, Mott-Smith hit for a single;
HOwards hit past second base carried
Lucas part way to third. then he turned
back and the ball was fielded to Will
lard. Lucas crawled on his hands and
knees to the base and touched it. but
Umpire Spencer called him out Willie
looked real pretty as he ran in the
direction of the water tap, where the
Japanese luna turned the hose on him
Shingle went to the plate full of hope.
but Mccormack and Tozier made a
battery too many for him. He struck
out and the band played "We Didn't
Do Ting To En-
Lieutenant Elliott came on the field
at this moment to console the naval
men. The score stood 8 to / against
the officers. and the mud was growing
deeper. Mr. Willard was deploring the
fact that he couldn't stand up and