Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-06
Baseball League In a
DISCUSSION
Over SpaIding Trophy

There was an important meeting Of
the Honolulu Baseball League in the
headquarters Of the Maile.ilima Athiet.
& Club, Fort street, yesterday after.
noon. The most important matter
brought before the league was the
present status of the Spalding cup.
TOW in the hands of the National
Guard Of Hawaii and deposited in the
headquarters OF the regiment. where
il has been sincc7S97. rhe First egi.
ueut team winning it at that time.
Spaldine Cup.
The cup was presented to Honolulu
in 1889 by A. C. Spalding when he
PASSED through here with the All.
American team. It was a challenge az.
isw to be contested for perpetually
,no TO be held by the champion nine
each season. II has been won as fol.
hVs: 1888, Stars: 1890, Kamehame.
Eas. 1891, HOnOlulus: 1892. Kameha.
nehas; 1893. CresCents: 1895, Stars :
.s96. Stars; 1897, First Regiment.
Dispute Begins.
From 1897 untl1 1901. there was no
Tgular league and the cup remained
IN the hands of the First Regiment.
However in the latter year. the II. A.
C.'s won the championship and claim
81 the cup on the conditions set dowr
BY Mr.. Spalding. A dispute arose ant
Ihis year. in order to learn just what
Mr.. Spalding had to say on the subject
communications were addressed to
him with the result that he has sent a
reply to the effect that the cup is per.
retual.
Spaldine's Reply.
The reply of Mr.. Spalding was as
follows;
February II. 1902.
Mr.. Chas. F. Chillingworth. President
Honolulu b. B. League, Honolulu
Oahu.
Dear Sir:-Your letter Of January
IL. with letter enclosed Of same date
from the vice president and secretary
RI the Honolulu Athletic Club. was re
Trived by the Chicago house Of A. G,
Spalding & Bros. and forwarded to the
writer here for reply.
h., ri ~, hnI hn Ma nj
visiting Honolulu in the fall of 1883
IN route With the American baseball
teams around the world, recalls the
facts of his promise to present a
'Spalding Cup" for competition by the
baseball clubs of the Hawaiian Isl
tnds. but does not recall the exact con
S:tions under which cup was present
ed. but Is very certain 1t was not &c
become the property Of any club by
winning 1t for one year, and Is under
the impression II was to be a perpet
ual cup, though it is barely
possible that a provision may have
Lesn made which provided that a club
winning 1t for three consecutive years
would become its permanent posses
sor. As the writer understands, there
rs no club In the Hawaiian Islands
that claims ownership to the "Spalding
Cup" by winning II three years in sue
tession. Assuming this suppositiOn Ia
b. correct, and assuming further even
IL there is any club claiming to have
Won 1t three consecutive years, the
writer thinks they will be agreeable
n having the "Spalding Cup" a perpet'
Lal cup for competition asong the
baseball clubs in the Hawaiian Islands
Of good standing; therefore, regard.
hess Of what the conditions may have
been when the "Spalding Cup" was
srst presented, we would request and
recommend, and in fact stipulate that
lhc "Spalding Cup presented in 1883
shall be considered as a permanent
rup for annual competition, the club
winning the cup being entitled to its
Possession until it shall have been
Won by some other club, when such
new club winning 1t shall take posses
zion and hold it in trust until it shall
b. won from them, and so on indeti.
Ritely.
Cup Is Perpetual.
Iuasmuch as this "Spalding Cup"
oates back to 1889, and inasmuch as it
commentaries the first visit of base,
rail- team from the United States to
she Hawaiian Islands, it seems very
appropriate that an advantage should
sc taken Of the present situation and
The age of the Gun to make the "SDald.