The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-01

Saturdays game decided the cham
pionship for the season, the Honolulus
| having reached the pennant stage The
Males meet the Honolulus today at
! Punahou, and it will be a game for
blood, although if the former nine wins,
they cannot pull the Honolulus down
from the championship. The Karaeha-
mehas having won Saturday from the
Males, gives them chance to tie with
the zebras in today's games. The last
games of the season will be played Sat
urday
There is a hoodoo with the Customs
House baseball team. 1t doomed up on
the horizon last Saturday during their
match game with the H. A. C.s, and
only for the splitting of Bttle Sonny
Cunhas finger in the eighth inning did
the hoodoo disappear Some say that
Secretary Shaw's oroer just promul
gated that the treasury department en-
ployes can no more tickle dame For
| tunes palm with Uncle Sans big iron
dollars, had something to do with their
poor playing. Anyhow the kiboSh is on
| the team, and they went down to an
| ingloriuus defeat before the almost in
vincible Honolulus.
, Saturdays double games brought out
a big crowd and it had its moneys
worth during the playing of the first
game between the Kamehamehas and
the Males. There was but a fringe of
the crowd left when the Customs and
the Honolulus finished their tourna-
ment on the diamond, but the rooters
made up in noise what was lacking in
quantity of individuals. The Kameha-
mehas laid it on to the Zebras by
score of three to two, pitcher Lemon
covering himself with glory in putting
out fourteen men on strikes. The
doughty little champion of the Rams
had no glass in his arm and the way
he put the sphere over the home plate
to the utter confusion of the Zebras
was caution. JOY, pitcher of the Ho-
nolulus, on the other hand, played an
Indifferent game, and merely shot
straight, curveless balls over the plate
into the capacious paws of Cunha.
Curves weren't needed, however, for the
Customs men failed to connect to any
extent until the eighth inning. Up to
that time the score was Is to in favor
of the Honolulus, and the game ended
with the Smugglers getting three men
safely around the diamond circuit
The Government band was ps esent all
afternoon and enlivened the spirits of
the spectators with their choicest re-
pertoire of popular and ragtime airs
Cunha's latest being included.
Some of the best batting of the day
was done by Williams of the Honolulus.
The left handed player never missed a
good chance and sent the sphere hurt
ling through the ether into the top of
the PALM trees in right field or up
against the stone wall on Wilder Ave
nue., and generally assisted in running
up the score.
KAMEHAMEHAS AND MALES.
The Zebras went to the bat and scor-
ed a goose-egg, followed in the same
light vein by the Kams. On the return
of the Zebras Kiley wiggled the willow
and sent a high ball in the vicinity of
first base which was chased by Lemon.
He caught it on the bound, and then
sprinted to first with Kiley landing
first on the bag. Jones then sent a fly
over to right field and Reuter- closed
his big paws firmly around it. Akau
swatted barnyard novelties for a while
and then rolled one to Mana on second,
who threw the sphere handily to first.
Wise stood up for the Rams at the
home plate and was snuffed out quick
~. Kozi landed a high ball into Davis
waiting hands at first. Yates followed
with q base hit and Richards took first
or balls. Pitcher Clark for the Zebras
failed to do anything remarkable dur
ing the inning and get the wrong angle