The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05

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The king is dead long live the king.
The new power on the local diamond
is the Honolulu Athletic Club, which
by winning the championship on Sat
urday established, in it's first season, an
undisputable claim to supremacy
among the other city mines. on Satur-
days exhibition the Stars must be
relegated to the limbo of Charlie Mitch
ell and the baseball giants, now decrep
it, of yesteryear.
The two clubs have cut victorious
swath in the league games this sea-
son, neither until Saturday having lost
a game The Stars basking in the de-
ceiving gIamor of former greatness,
were supremacy confident of success,
and their overweening confidence was
so infectious that when the game was
called the black and whites had legions
of hackers The Athletics We're by no
means sanguine of victory but were de-
termined to do or die. The kanakas
were with them to a man and Wad
of haole money was placed on the red
and whites simply on account of the
grit and enterprise shown by the club
in the season of its inception, and be-
lief i'm the old saying that nothing sue
ceeds like success.
Long before the time announced for
the game a great crowd had assembled
| at Punahou and by the time of the
| third inning fully two thousand peo-
pie We're in attendance. Old timers re-
! marked that it was the biggest base
/ ball crowd that Honolulu has ever seen.
Among the spectators, prior to the
| game, opinions We're freely expressed
| that the Stars We're unfortunate in not
! having been able to secure stronger
! pitcher than Babbitt. Many of the
| spectators did not hesitate to criticize
the condition of more than one of the
Star players, and, whereas the Stars
had been firm favortes in town when
| the game was called it was an even
break as far as favoritsm was con
cerned
! The game was bitterly contested I'M
! til the sixth inning. when the score was
two all 1t looked up to the seventh,
as if the score wound be kept down
wonderfully The Stars retained Bah
| bftt Just an inning too long and it in
great measure lost them the game. In
the seventh the Athletics scored at
their own sweet will and accumulated
nine runs. In this they We're material
| ~ assisted by errors on the part OF
! Davis and Bowers. The former was
Ipalpably out of condition and seems to
have forgotten all that he may ever
have known about the game
Morris Keohokalole and II. Whitney.
Jr. officiated as umpires and their
work was revelation to those unfor-
| tunate enough to have witnessed the
alleged umpiring of former league
games. What they said went and that
their work was satisfactory is best at
tested by the fact that not word Of
dispute was voiced during the entire
game The best of order prevailed and
the game was unmarked by the often
sive ribaldry which has done so much
| to dispopularize baseball in Honolulu.
! The Athletics opened the ball futile
l. and when their opponents turn
came they got one of their members
home and joy sprouted in the hearts of
their supporters.
The clubmen evened matters up il
the second, thanks to loose fielding, and
the Stars We're retired for the proven
bal : Cose egg.
IG the third the Athletics' efforts
were again brought to naugh- ana The
Stars secured a lead of one. The Ath-
letics came back with another in the
fourth, tieing the score, and the fifth
and sixth proved barren.
At his juncture a Young lady in the
crowd remarked to her escort that the
Athletics were her favorites on account
lof their nice clean suits.
ooh, that don't count" rat'iaf the
young man. who wcre black and white
ribbons in the lapel of his coat; they
never played ball before and their
suits haven't had to be washed"
In the seventh Rabbit went to pieces
and It was goodbye Stars. A three
Dagger. two-bagger. stolen bases and
singles fell out of the box with grace
ard promptitude, and Davis and Bow
ers did all in their power to help the
good thing along. The score at the
close of the eventful seventh was, II
A. c.. II: Stars, T. The clubrnen stood
a good show of adding another run or
two to their total in the seventh had
not Dayton lapsed into somnolence al
first base and his slumbers been rudely
disturbed by the Star custodian.
When the Athletics retired in the sew
enth the club choir rendered THE Stars
Were Chasing the Ball Around the
Field" The selection was vigorously
applauded.
1t was "all off, with the Stars. AL
Castle. the old Oahu College boy. sup
planted Babbitt, and Davis, who played
worse as he grew older was shifted
from first to third. but it was like
searching the wharf after the opium is