Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-02
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they burn II up. To speak seriously OF
the colored boys, they have had ex-
Cellent men, namely. Walker, catcher,
and Stovey pitcher, also Grant, who
used to play for Buffalo.
The Scotch have so assimilated with
other races that not many of the out
and-out Scotch are in our national
game. but the few that are shown in
action have the qualities of followers OF
Bruce and Wallace. The Netherlands
are some that recall and they are OF
excellent timber.
English Are all Right.
The English extraction, the true
lovers OF outdoor sports, the promoters
of the game, and extraction will ever
take off my hat to when II comes to
liberality in sport.
On the ball field they are nervy and
reliabel in a crisis. Take the British
extraction out of the sport and II
would fall back into decay. This is .
candid expression, and 1t is based on
experience in broad and wide field.
The last, but not the least, In Ameri-
cas- great game Is the Celt- the Mile.
sian. the Irish lineage. Have a care,
Mr.. Sullivan" you say. I'VE know that
Is your blood and you must not put on
an extra daub of paint" Well, l will
see how impartial can be.
Irish Baseball Leaders.
The very same impetuosity and dash
/ that made the Irish brigade at Fonte-
noy (when they fought on the French
side) cut the English to pieces and
rout them. the very same abandon and
dash they showed at fredericksburg In
the war OF the rebellion are in a lesser
degree exemplified in the dashing base
running of the game, past and present
: namely: Mike Kelly, Jim Fogarty,
! Charles Comiskey, John Ward, Curt
WEIGH. Tom Mccarthy. Hugh Duffy,
Hugh Jennings, Joe Kelley, Billy Keel
err. John McGraw, Jack Doyle and
many others that can be enumerated
I out of the same extraction. The same
| qualities that made Montgomery, Sulli.
van and Wayne of the revolutionary
army leaders and Sheridan, Shields,
Kearney, Reynolds, Logan Stonewall
Jackson, Stewart Forest and Pat Gle
burne of the American civil war in Il
lesser degree have made leaders in
baseball out of Hanlon of Brooklyn,
Comiskey Of Chicago, Mack of Phila.
delphia, LOTUS of Washington. Dono-
van of ST. Louis, Clarke of Pittsburg,
Delehanty. captain of Philadelphia
I (NationaD, McGraw of Baltimore and
MCAleer of st. Louis. The Irish, to
their credit, are naturall" leaders
Whether in the crisis of battle or in
the long-shooting turning point in y
game of ball, their minds clear up, and
in the confusion of their opponents this
weak SPOT Is seen.
BY intuition (Which Is the heaven
born spark of genius) they strike Is
quick as lightning itself the weak spot
OF their opponents. Those are tho
qualities Of the Irish in crucial con-
test.
There has been a disputed point for
years amongst the friends Of the Irish
and Germans as to which Of the two
ca nationalities has the best players.
This has been disputed poih+ and 1t
could be easily settled II they would
do as they do in England--have a
grand International match as at lhe
end of the English football season.
Both the Irish and Germans have great
stars in the ball field and nothing
would draw better at the end of a sea-
son than a series Of games between the
two leading eXtractions on the bali
field.
! would suggest that two teams 10
made up at the end of the playing sea-
son to contest series Of seven or five
games, the one winning four ont Of
seven or three out Of five to be decided
the winner. | would also suggest that
two out Of three years should forever
decide the superiority of both extrac-
tons. The success of one year would
not be fair test as one team might
have little luck over the other in the
way OF players.-Ted Sullivan in Deu-
Yer Post.