The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-31
HOT
FOR SPORT
Volcano Nine DoWned
On Diamond.
A, HANSEN BESTS BURNS
Watossa Runs Away from Uncle
True--Dixie Land Wins
Another Race.
lspecIal Correspondence.l

| tSpeClbl COTTeSpOHutiNt'J
HILO. July 27.-The local feast o.
sport this week. passed off most aus
piciously and the affair was a success!
both from sporting and tinancia
| standpoint.
| The ball game was won by the Rich
ards and Sheen team by n score Of
| 16 to 10. The game was marked BY
much verbal strife and both sides dis.
| played profounder acquaintance witt
the invective dictionary than with thai
volume, wherein one may read the rules
of baseball Up to the fifth innings the
scores ran neck ana neck and then al
accident happened and the Richard and
SChoen's tailed seven runs. This con-
| tretemps had a demoralizing effect on The
| volcanic aggregation who from there
| on scored only at the polite request of
their opponents. At the commencement
of the seventh innings the police force
was telephoned for to protect the UNI
| pire who escaped unobserved under the
| seat of the patrol wagon.
| The racing started with mile trot-
| ting race between j. r. Wilson's Daisy
Bell and Guards Queen. The former
was favorite but persisted in attempt
ing to emulate a balloon, and sue
| cumbed to royalty in two straight
heats.
The second race was between the
pride of the Portuguese, Watossa good
horse that WatossO and Uncle True.
Watossa, for some unaccountable rea-
son ruled strong favorite, which Is
strange, bearing in mind his running
on the 4th of July Uncle True did not
seem to be right, and ran disappoint-
ingly. Watossa won in common can
ter, the avuncular one being practically
pulled up.
The last number on the program was
n hurdle race of q mile between j. Il.
Moir's Dixie Land and Peter Lees Van
Waggener. Dixie Land beat the Lee
horse in a similar event on July 4th,
but this Notwithstanding Van Waggen-
er was served up a prohibitive favorite
as much as four dollars being laid to
win one. Joe McAuliffe of Honolulu
rode Dixie Land and George Thompson
steered Van Waggener. They ran like
team to the last hurdle and then
Dixie Land came away and won easily
and another speculative pot boiled
over.
A goodly crowd witnessed the fistic
features at Spreckels' hall in the even
ing. The preliminary was tive-round
go between Billy Watts and one Sui
Ivan who recently blew in from Ho-
nolalu with horses. The bout was a
good one, Watts, proved himself to be
the cleverer of the two, but Sullivan had
too big a pull in the weights for him.
No gore flowed, and the referee called
Ii draw.
The big affair between Aleck Hansen
of Honolulu and Robert Burns of San
Francisco, for the middleweight cham
pionship of the islands, commenced i'm
meditely after the conclusion of the
preliminary
The officials We're: Timekeeper,
Sandy Bellew; referee, Sam Johnson.
Hansen was seconded by "Dink"
Davis Ri.lyAnlar,r tnlil IL
Burns corner were Ike" sullivan and
Bob Grace.
Burns looked n much improved man
while Hansen on the other hand ap-
peared to be a shade too finely drawn
Nothing happened until the third round
when the Honolulan started to mix
matters and time was called with the
advantage slightly in Hansens favor
The fourth round was deadly duh and
some of the audience went to sleep
while the remainder whistled iocundly
Dear Old Pals" The music apparent
~ had an irritating effect on the pug
lists who went to ii in sober earnest
in the fifth chapter of which Hansen
had all the better, landing when he
pleased and almost putting his man out
with an upperCut on the chin. In this
round the timekeeper fell asleep and
had to be awakened by swat from
stuffed nit.
The sixth round was Hansen's who
paid particular attention to the first
story of his opponents anatomy, pay
ing frequent visits some of which were
returned. ]
The seventh round was marked by |
much enthusiastic punching. Both men |
Exchanged compliments hard and often. |
As the round wore on Hansen played a |
attoo in ragtime on Burns face while |
he crowd beat time with their hands. |
5urns inspected the floor twice during |
his round looking for wind.
The grand finale came in the eighth |
perturbation. Burns strength appear
ID To suddenly leave him and he put |
up his hands mechanically, making no |
anort to hit his adversary. Hansen |
said that that was real nice of him
ma handed him three warm packages
IN the jaw, the last OF which partook
lt the nature of right hook, and Sc
'ured the purse for the Scandinavian,
Hansen intends To remain i'm Hilo for
time and is booked to fight Frank
next week. Rlckenberg
$ game, clever has a long reach and
should make II interesting for Burns
'onqueror.
A big racing meet Is being arranged
or the Christmas holidays.
Old Antidote was ratified OFF this week
100 tickets at $500 "A throw. Demos
henes Lycurgus won him and will
ship him to Honolulu To be converted
nto beef extract.
Bob Burns and Ike" sullivan, left
or San Francisco on the Roderick
Ohu, in charge of Naples and Everett.
A match race is probable between
Dixie Land and General Cronje.
Maurice Mcmahon, the well known
DOT racer. will leave HiIo shortly for
he Orient.
\ match race is scheduled between
BILLY McCluskey and Dixie Land; IL will
IpDably come on next Saturday.
Hives are terrible torment to the
lttle folks and TO some nlhar ones |