The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-08
ATHLETICS
TOO FAST
Police Are Unable
To Bat or
Steal.
REDS SMOTHER THE
BLUE AND WHITE
Nineteen to Thirteen Final Score
Of Game Which is Finished
in the Wet.

The fans and the rooters, the batters
and the cranks were all out to the base
ball game Saturday on the Makiki base
ball grounds. The Finest" in the city,
the new nine of the Police Department,
went down in deplorable defeat before
the hard working Honolulu Athletics.
Those who believed in colors and who
had backed the Blue and White at the
boat races, thought the Police nine
surely would win on Saturday, because
the "billy-wielders' wore blue and
white. Victories on the water and on
the baseball diamond did not go by
pairs as far as the colors-at least
this season-and the Police are now
wondering whether it is worth while
trying to do impossible things in the
baseball line. They allege they can do
great things with a billy" and know
how to walk a beat, but have doubts
as to their ability to swing a bat or
steal a base.
The score ended in 10 runs for the
Honolulu Athletics and Is for the Po
lice The latter are SuperStitious as to
numbers, and feel that ignominy was
pied their ueIedI pS lSdNiIS lhciIi
with a score of just 1S.
The game was started shortly after
o'clock. The grounds We're scorching
hot and the spectators had no shield
from the burning sun. After few
innings a few clouds sailed between the
sun and the perspiring spectators and
by the time the seventh inning was be-
ing played all had to run to get out of
a drenching rain. AS soon as the rain
came it was "all off" with the Police,
for the grass became too wet to run
bases, the ball became heavier and
their spirits correspondly weighty.
The Police were the first at the bat.
They reeled off two runs and We're
followed by the Athletics with the same
number Then both sides took goose
eggs. In the third inning the Police
added two more. and the rooters for
the wearers of the star became bolster
Gus, and likewise confident that the
Athletics would go home in disgrace.
But not for long, for the Athletics ran
around the bases without any trouble.
Joy, pitcher for the Police, lost control
of the ball and threw wild. The catch
er was unable to stop the balls and the
reds simply hoped, skipped and jump
ed in to the home plate. The score
rolled up five more for the reds. In
the fifth inning, both mines made three
runs each.
Then came the worst playing of the
day. In the seventh inning the Athlet-
les played tag with the Police, walked
home. ducked under the ball. and scor
ed nine runs. In the next two innings
the Police made six runs, but not
enough to make it worth while.
The trouble came when Kaai stepped
into the box at the fifth inning and
toyed with the sphere. The first man
at the bat who struck at Kaai's first
ball wondered what had happened He
missed by about two feet. The next
ball suddenly turned in toward his
anatomy. There was either a hole in
his bat, or someone had kahunaed the
sphere. Kaai was trying his old trick
of curving the ball in impossible ways.
First it was an up curve and the bat
ter went below it with the stick. The
next time the batter reached high for
it, when it suddenly dropped somewhere
in the vicinity of his knees. One after
another was struck out
Even the Deputy Sheriff, who struck
a statuesque pose in the batter's box,
threw down the stick in disgust at
having famed the air with vicious
swings. The rain came and added to
the perplexities of the Police They
manfully stood out In a muddy. wet
field. gazing through the misty atmos-
phere to watch for a fly ball The Ath-
letics also had considerable trouble in
locating the sphere. and the game end
ed up in miserable combination of
mud, rain and despair.
Joys pitching for the Police nine was
steady until the third inning, when he
became disguised at sudden turn of
affairs for the worse and threw wild
ly. He was hard batter, too, and saw
ed the day on two or three occasions.
The Deputy Sheriff put Parker in the
pitchers box in the last two innings
and he made a good showing.
1t had been rumored that the Police
would have a genuine kahuna on the
grounds, attired in conventional kahu-
ma costume, who would oil and keep
time upon calabash and thus hoodoo
the Honolulu nine, but the kahuna fail
ed to put in an appearance and the
Athletics were not hoodooed. The Off
cial score was as follows:
S4567s9
Police ............2 9 0 0 o 2-13
H. A. c. .....2 0 ) O O Q O ia