The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-02
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In the first place. they put up a TEN
to serve the refreshments IN Then
they purvey the refreshments-oh yari.
Gus. These refreshments all go in the
tent-all but some. The balance goes
out under tree, where it has been
found that the key keeps cooler in heat
ed weather, you know. Next they
stretch a bit of green carpet along the
ground. and at their end of this they
set up three little sticks about two feet
long or so, with two other small sticks
| nicely balanced to rest on the top of the
three. Then two young gentlemen in
natty white ffannels strap a couple of
chest protectors on their legs. take each
bat that looks as though it had been
cut opt of rather heavy door. and stand
in front of the sticks. while another
young gentleman in white fannels
stands behind one of these and still an
other makes 81 windmill kind of move
ment with his arm and throws a hard
ball with considerable degree of force
at the young gentleman behind whom
If he hits the young gentleman's bat,
then the two that have been holding
the bats run the length of the carpet,
a sort of ssy-wants-a-corner PROPOSE
ton, and if he hits the little sticks and
knocks the top ones off, then the young
gentleman he has thrown at is out.
There are lot of other young. gentle
men in white flannels grouped about in
picturesque attitudes, whose duty it is
to chase the bail, but they don't do
much They don't have to. And that
is cricket. Nobody does much.-except-
ing possibly the young gentlemen who
serve the refreshments and the ladies
who kindly volunteer to make the tea
1t was said by experts to be record
cricket that they played on the Makiki
grounds yesterday afternoon. and the
sailormen from the Amphitrite and the
AInphion showed that they were so
much more than a match for Honolulu
that the home boys will have to re-
wise their entire estimate of themselves
in the sporting way. They have been
beaten at football. badly, and now the
men-of-war have come ashore also and
beaten them at cricket. And it was
done so easily. Three men did it, in
fact. Those three showed by their skill
that they could play the game any
WHSTG III I0o WOElO. 1T Was SalQ ABOUT
the refreshment booth. to be sure, that
the bowling on both sides was rather
weak, and so it may have been, but |
there never has been such a score piled |
up in Honolulu as the British made yes |
terday-and one man, Lieutenant P. H. |
Irvine, made the most of it. He could |
not be bowied out. In fact, the Amphi- |
score was 232 runs, with |
only one wicket down, and at that they |
did not play out their time. They could |
not. They had not the neart to be so /
cruel to the poor landsmen. They threw
down their bats while they still had |
ten minutes to play, so as to give the |
other fellows some chance for their |
lives, and all adjourned to the refresh |
ment booth, where the ladies made tea 1
and tried to hearten their sons and /
brothers and things. 1t was, no good. |
Big Anderson went in bravely. present |
~, when Honolulu's inning came, and |
knocked the ball here and there, and /
ran back and forth along the green car
pet and did everything that a good /
cricketer may to save a losing cause, |
but he could only make 9S runs. Then he
grew weary, uncovered his wicket by |
dropping his bat at critical moment
and was stumped out by the watchful
sailor behind him. And it was all off.
Jordan and Harvey were bowled out.
and the wickets were drawn with 165
all Honolulu could show to the good.
rhe score: