The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-08
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MID-WINTER LEAGUE
BASEBALL PROSPERS

| Things We're doing in baseball at Ka-
pioIani Park yesterday when the initial
games of the Mid Winter League series
began at 1870 and the Advertiser-Oahu
Railroad game was played off in the
forenoon. If the regular league believes
it has a monopoly of the baseball BUSH
ness its members need only go to the
Park Sunday afternoon to see the big
crowd which gathers to watch embryo
players who may in time become valued
| members of the senior league.
The opening of the Mid-Winter sea-
son augurs well for the new series, for
the diamond was heavily fringed with
an interested crowd of spectators who
took lively interest in the two good
games presented. The four teams which
displayed their talents yesterday have
excellent material and the batteries
showed UP to splendid advantage, es-
pec1aHy in view of having just made
their initial bow to the public.
The spectators We're not confined en-
tirely to friends and sympathizers of
the players of the four teams, for there
was a goodly sprinkling of ladies and
gentlemen who are generally to be
found on Saturday afternoons in the
league grand stand.
Jesse Woods and a corps of workers
have brought the Mid-Winter league
into being this year and have provided
a diamond which should be a weekly
attraction TO lovers of the national
game. a seni-circular wire fence has
been erected back of the catcher's sta
ton and ratings have been run past
first and third bases to mark the limit
for spectators. A covered stand for
the scorers and officials has been put
in and altogether the club starts out
with a fairly good equipment. Police
officers We're on hand yesterday and
these kept back the crowd which was
prone to press forward, especially when
brilliant plays caught their fancy.
The crowd was a good-natured one
and mildly chaffed the players for err
rors and gave them fulsone praise for
good plays. One reason that large
scores are run up on the park diamond
is because of the slippery ground on
which players have difficulty in keeping
their feet.
The result of yesterdays games was
as follows:
Aala, II; Makiki. s.
Pacifics, 8; Iron Works, 3.
The games developed some good pitch !
ers. Rodriques for the Pacifics is a man |
who is coming to the front by his
steady, swift delivery. Kaanoi for the |
Makikis has plenty of ginger but has a |
tendency to pitch balls too high. An
derson does good ball twirling for the |
Aalas, while Freitas is a warm and |
rising member who puts them over |
the home plat hot and sizzling.
There is no kick on Russel's umpiring. |
Russell has a level head. His decisions |
yesterday We're quick and decisive and |
the crowd seemed to be satisfied that
he knew his business.
The game between the Aalas and Ma |
kikis ended with score wide apart |
and in favor of the former nine There |
was good playing but the number of |
runs struggled the game out and made |
it less interesting than with a closer
score. Still it was good ball.
The second game between the Pacifics |
and Iron Works looked at first to be |
the formers game and ended the way |
II ioohed- big ttOdflqueS sent warm |
balls straight over the plate and in the |
first inning the bridge-builders failed
to tally. But toward the end the bat /
ting of the Iron men improved and |
plowed furrow through the score card |
for awhile, but couldn't leave the Pa
cities behind Tony MarceIlino directed |
his team. the Pacifcs. and kept them
we'll under control. Marcy" made |
some good plays and an error or two. |
but the good plays did the work. On |