Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-03-07
Correspondent Makes Some Suggestions
to PunahOu.
Baseball Team Should Be Made Up Wholly Of
Students Outsiders Render No Real As
siStanCe- ESheriOnC' in the States.

week to the students of the college
to support it's baseball team, by
attending and showing a greater
interest in the series of games
now being played with Kameha.
meha College.
Sad it is that such an appeal
was necessary and it certainly
would not have occurred, il ath.
letics at Punabou were conducted
as they should be in an institu.
ton of its standing. How can
Prof. Hosmer expect his student
body to take keen interest in a
baseball team which is composed
of only three or four Of their fell
low students, the remainder being
business men and one a teacher,
some of these graduates of Puma
hou and some not, as instanced by
Mr.. Gay and Mr.. Babbitt2 l am
old that Mr.. Gay WAS never even
SO much as student at Punahou
and hts no connection with the
college whatever. Mr.. Babbltt is
simply an employee of the insti-
tuition, as an instructor.
Does anyone doubt that quite a
different interest would be shown,
if Punahou's students could have
the privilege of cheering on to
victory a baseball team of nine
fellow studentsp
1t is claimed by her gradu-
ates that Punahou has not
enough good baseball players to
form an undergraduate team ,suf-
fciently strong to defeat the bona
fide student team which does
honor to Kamehameha College
athletics. Even so, where is the
glory Punahou would derive,
should they, with the patched up
team of men they now present, de-
feat the team of Kamehameha
boys, unlikely as such an event
appears, when the scores OF the
three games already played are
borne in mindp Would not de-
feat to pure student team be far
more acceptable to Punahou, than
victory to the team she now puts
in the field to compete with Ka-
mehameha boys'
The writer is somewhat ac-
quainted with the terms and con-
ditions governing these matches,
all the more credict to the manly
boys of Kamehameha, that they
confne their team to their student
ranks, instead of calling upon the
services of outsiders. May they
always win if they follow this
policy.
The essential feature of success
full baseball is team work. How
10 the world can this ever be ven
hoped for at Punahou, If their
present methods continued The
few students who are given a
chance can only work in half
hearted way, for when Saturday
comes they may expect to be "put
on the bench" to make room for a
business man. How different at
kamehameha; every boy of the
tea m has his whole heart in hi,
work; they pull together aud know
each o her, and just what to ex-
pect Of every other boy 10 the
team; socially they are friends
which means great deal. If one
makes an error during the match
ne has not to fear the hum iliation
IT being taken out and eplaced |
'y an outsider, who is not even
'ne of his own fellows. They
continually gain cor fdence
which the present Punahou team
adly lacks and will never enjoy.
There is only one remedy and it
3 the same as was found neces-
airy several years ago, by the
lundred or more schools forming
he National Interscholastic Ath.
Ass. in the States. For a long
lme they struggled along with
raduates, instructors and occa.
ional outsiders in their ranks. In
lany instances schools were found
instructors solely for
heir ability to strengthen the per-
onnel of the schools athletic
cams. Rivalry between schools
,creased this evil until no specta-
'rs were interested, except those I
no desired to bet money on the
,sulls OF competitions Naturally,
God, healthy sport was crowded a
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