The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-07
PRUlESI
INVALID
So Declared at
Meeting Last
Night.

The protest of the Capitol team vas
declared invalid on account Of lack OF
details
President Chillingworth Of the Win
ter League rendered his resignation.
The Capitol team withdrew from the
league.
Such were the main happenings at
the meeting Of the Winter League held
last night at the headquarters of the
Honolulu Athletic Club. The room was
filled with baseball men who came to
the meeting. in the expectation Of in
teresting developments.
The matter OF the protest grew out
of the Custorns-Capitol game played
last Saturday. The protest read as fol-
lows:
November 1891.
1 C. 2 ChiIlingworth, President Winter
Baseball League:
Sir:-I. solomon Mahelona, manager Of
| the Capitol baseball team, do hereby
protest against the ruling OF one Robert
| Pahau, umpire In certain game played
between the United States Customs team
and Capitol team at the kakikI grounds,
| on the afternoon of the I'd OF November.
A D. 1901. said ruling being in regard to
/ a certain blocked ball in the sixth or
seventh inning of the game. Very re-
Especially. SOLOMON MAHELONA,
Manager Of the Capitol Baseball
Team.
/ Directly the meeting started it was
evident that relations among some Of
the members of the league were some
what strained. President ChiIIingworth
started the bah rolling by asking what
Manager Fogarty of the Custom House
team meant by telling people that he,
| Cliringworth, wrote the protest him
self Fogarty replied that Barney Joy
had supplied him with. the information.
Chillingworth sent for Joy, but that in
dividual was evidently busy for he did
not put in an appearance during the
evening, q fact which somewhat de-
| tracted from the liveliness of the sub
sequent proceedings. After this passage
of arms the matter of the protest was
taken UP.
Captain NOVEL; Of the Custom House
nine moved that the protest be thrown
out. Manager Mahelona of the Capt.
tolls strenuously objected tc this and in
cidsntaIly remarked that he had writ
ten the protest himself. The matter
went to q vote which resulted in tie
of three votes side.
President ChIIlingworth cast the de-
Gliding ballot, invalidating the protest
| mainly on the ground that the protest
| failed TO state specifically IN which in
! ming the alleged blocked ball incident
| occurred.
l President ChiIlingworth then tender
| ed his resignation. He said that his ac-
ton was mainly prompted by the prop
| osition Of Manager Fogarty Of the
Custom House to play the Capitols for
81, 900 a side. BE stated that he had
no wish 10 be identified with what was
little better than a gambling scheme
| He said that ne was certain that the
numerous young men occupying respen-
sible positions. who played baseball.
| looked at the matter in the same light
as himself.
The proposition has given the sport
a black eye he concluded, II. P Bald
win and other prominent men who have
been interesting themselves in getting
a ground for baseballers, are. since the
4 81, 900 challenge appeared. disposed to
wash their hands OF the matter
/ a NJ. s&oweiT stated that the chal-
HENCE had been made without his au-
! thcr.ty and was contrary TO the wishes
! OF the members Of the team. He want
ed Mr.. Ehi1ingworth 70 reconsider his
] resignation. This he refused to do and
the resignation was accordingly tabled.
FogaEty admitted that he had given
the information about the challenge to
1.-THE Advertiser and completely exonerat-
led MI Novel; OF completely In the mat
tex.
H. Peters. on behalf OF the Capitol
team, announced that the nine would
| withdraw from the league.
1 The matter Of the cup came up 100, and
lit was announced that the donor had
! decided to present the cup outright TO
the winners this year.
[ The Custom House VIII therefore get
the cup. for by winning six straight
games they have established their claim
| to it beyond possibility Of dispute.
| with regard 10 the blocked balls rule
50 of the national league rules says:
Section la block is a batted or
thFewn ball that Is touched, stopped or
handled by any person not engaged In
the game.
| Sec Whenever the block occurs the
umpire shall declare II, and the base run
ners may run the bases without being
put out until the ball has been returned
TO and held by the pitcher. standing in
his position.
Sec 3.-In the case Of a block. # the
person not engaged IN tie game should
retain possession Of the ball, or throw or
kick X beyond the reach OF the FEEDERS.
the umpire should call Time" and re-
quire each base-runner 70 stop at the last
base touched by him until the ball be re-
| turned 10 the pitcher standing in his 20
| sition. and the umpire shall have called
play"
! Dealing with the duties of en- umpire
Rule IS Of the National League says:
( Under no circumstances shall any
| player be allowed 70 dispute a decision
! by the umpire. in which only an error Of
! Judgment is involved; and no decision
! rendered BY him shall be reversed.
/ cept II be plainly shown By the code OF
rules 10 have been Illegal; and IN such
case the captain alone shall be allowed
! 20 make the appeal for reversal"
( Writing OF errors OF Judgment and In
terpretattOn by Urnpires Henry Chad
wick, the eminent baseball authority.
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