The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-10
BASEBALL
BOOMING

o'clock. The opposing teams are the
!. Police and the Soldiers
| Following are the mines:
/ Police. Artillery
Catcher
Leslie ............ BULLOCK
Pitcher.
JOY bOyie
First Base.
/ C. F. Chillingworth ....... McMulien
Second Base.
! A. Mossmap Observation-Disclosures. Hawkins
| Third Base.
/ Duncan .................... Beisenroth
/ Shortstop.
ii. Mossman .....-..:...: Bennett
Right Field
! lAare .,....... ........... Grant
| Center Field.
| r. Parker Jr. ..................... Jones
| Left Field
| r hdHde buFDdDk
The Soldiers have won one league
game, that with the Male Ilimas the
| Police have yet to be devirginated from
a losing sequence The Soldiers are
| favorites for today's game, and 1t was
reported last night that some fatuous
moon calves had laid the preposterous
| odds of three to one against the blue
| coats.
| Should the Artillery win today they
| will take third place in the league,
| leaving the Police and the Maile Iii
mas to combat for the wooden spoon.
| If the Police are victorious, however,
| the three teams will have tied for third
| place, in which event 1t is probable
that they will engage in another series
| of games to decide their relative su-
| premacy.
The game between the clerks of the
| take place next Saturday. The scene
of the contest will probably be Puma
| hou.
! There is a growing sentiment in favor
of a league formed on a three-game
| basis. Where club meets another
but once an accident may turn the tide
of victory or defeat. A series of three
games would, however, settle the
question of supremacy beyond the pos
sibility of doubt.
| Clarence NJ White, one of Honolulu S
oldest and most enthusiastic baseball
players, in an interview yesterday on
| local ball said:
| The game here has run down for
various reasons. Noisy coaching and
gambling on the games is the main
| trouble. The two and a half dollar
gambler is too prominent at the games.
| and disgusts the decent portion Of the
spectators by his ribald efforts to frus-
| trate and intimidate the players For
the good Of the game this class OF fell
lows should be suppressed People want
| to see ball played, and not to listen to
a noisy squabbe.
THE umpire should be master of the
| field. The rules of the game provide
| for this He can impose fines for un-
seemly conduct among the players. and
should be protected AS things are
| lNN, h. l..
idated and bullied into making de-
cscion. There are too many captains
| to every nine. which makes the duties
| of an umpire much more arduous than
they would otherwise be-
| NOISY coaching should be prohibited
According to rules only one coach is
| allowed to act at a time, and he must
only address the baserunner.
Il don't expect to see baseball placed
| on solid basis this year. A grand
stand is Indispensable and until one is
provided the game is bound to Ian
guish. I would suggest the formation
of league somewhat on these lines
Eleven nom players who would consti-
! tute nucleus of the league. Say four
clubs applied for admission, and each
club provided two snen for delegates
who had no place in the respective
mines. These, with the eleven. others
WOulu the DOdTO, ana Dy THIS
| means the conservative portion of the
board would control the league, Any
disputes would be settled by a board OF
appeal made up of the eleven non
players on the league board These
eleven men would constitute a perma-
nent league,
THE umpires should be paid for their
work and protected In their duties by
strict rules and penalties. II league
were organized on these lines the pub
lie would quickly show the interest In
| baseball that they used to.
| ut would be a good thing for the
local clubs to obtain as large a mem
bership as possible, then the fees would
pay for uniforms and other expenses
Il am satisfied that an enterprising
man could go around town and in
three days raise all the money neces-
sary for building a. grandstand There
in plenty of interest yet taken in the
game, and public enthusiasm would
quickly be aroused If baseball were
properly and decently conducted The
self-respecting ball lovers have simply
become disguised with the low level to
which the game has fallen here"