The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-18

THE SPHERE
Yesterday Saw a
Big Crowd at
Makiki.
.FOOTBALLERS
GETTING READY
Lack of Recreation Ground is
Being Sadly FeIt-Varied
TENS of Sport.

games will be played at Makiki on
Saturday. The first game will be be-
tween the Police and Capitols and after
that is concluded the Custom House
will play E. o. Hall & Son.
On account of illness, Jim German
will be unable to assist the Custom
House team.
Oahu College and Oahu College
Alumni will play football at Punahou
on Saturday. The Honolulu Athletic
Club Hackfeld game will also probably
be played on the college campus.
The Hackfelds will it is said make a
great bid for victory. The Honolulus
will be without the services of Joy,
Schemerhorn and Aylett. The two lat
ter are hors de combat and Joy has to
play for the Police in their baseball
game against the CapitoIs.
Pat Gleason will play no more base
ball this season but will devote his
energies to intercollegiate football
The Makiki recreation ground was
crowded to its limits yesterday after
noon with athletes practicing for COM
ing contests. Several baseball teams
We're out in force and two intercollegiate
and an Association football team were
doing steady work.
hot
field and the element of danger was
about as great.
The Honolulu Athletics did not put in
an appearance in satisfactory numbers
and only light work was done Con-
siderable kicking was INDUCED in for
the purpose of lettering the wind Of the
men on the line.
The Hackfelds did lot of snappy
work and will take the field on Satur-
day much improved aggregation.
Coach Elston was out with the men and
several new faces We're seen in the line
up. From present indications this team
viii keep their opponents busily engag-
ed from whistle to whistle tomorrow.
The Association players numbered
about two dozen and did considerable
rapid work. Most of last seasons.
Scotch and English players were pur-
suing the round ball and practice was
kept up until darkness set in.
There is a growing feeling among
local athletes that. the baseball season
should be considerably curtailed or
declared ended. The basebaIlers have
monopolized the Makiki and Punahou
grounds for several months past and it
is now the turn for the football men
to have an inning. According to the
schedule of the Winter Baseball League
there are still twelve games to be play
ed and only one ground Makiki, on
which to play them. If this schedule
is carried out it will give a black eye
to the legitimate fall game
The prospects for a successful foot
ball season were never brighter, there
being six good teams in the field. The
trouble is that there will be no ground
on which to play if the baseball season
is allowed to run on indefinitely. The
Oahu College ground will be used by
the college and alumni teams which
naturally have first call upon it.
The Association football season also
promises to be a record breaker and
the players are certainly entitled to the
partial use of the Makiki ground, which
is public recreation ground. If the
baseballers hog the Makiki ground,
which by the way they have no right
to do, the "socker" players will not
have a look in at all.
The baseballers have had a prosper
Gus season and a long season. Now
the public surfeited with weekly ex-
l.
ard the football season as a welcome
relief from an embarrassment of dia-
mond reaches. They will be doomed to
disappointment if the Winter Baseball
League schedule is not literally knitted.
The present crowded condition of the
AIakiki recreation ground is peril to
life and limb. To further sport and
prevent accidents the footbauers and
baseballers should arrange to use the
ground for practice purposes on alter
nate afternoons.
The Hawaii Yacht Club meets this
evening at the Hawaiian Hotel.
On Saturday evening the Association
football clubs viii get together in the
rooms OF the Scottish Thistle Club for
the purpose of organizing for the sea-
SON.
On Monday night the local fntercol-
legiate league will be put on work
ing basis at the Male lima headquar-
ters. It was reported yesterday that
The Artillery had decided not to affiliate
GOLF COMPETITION.
a handicap competition under match
rules will be held during November.
Members DESTROYS of playing are re-
quested to notify the secretary not lat
or than the 2Sth inst.
HONOLULU COLI. CLUB,
A. 3. Sinclair, Secretary.