The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-31
BRILLIANT
BASE BAL |.
StapIeton's Stroke That
Gave ArtiIler,ys
Victory.


of the most spectacular finishes to
great battle on the Kapiolani Park
baseball diamond yesterday afternoon,
Stapleton of theN Artillery team swat
ted the sphere away over into the right
field where there was no Aala player
handy at that instant, and brought in
two men. When those two runners
crossed the home plate there was no fur
Their need of playing out the remainder
of the ninth inning. FOL, they had de-
Z to 6.
A big enthusiastic crowd had assem-
| bled to see the game between the Ar
| tillerys and Aalas and If any one of the
spectators was disappointed over the
game. he must have been an Aala SYM
pathizer with a big bet up, for better
ball has not been witnessed here in
many moons. 1t was a great game,
better than most senior league games.
and was worth a good price of admis-
sion.
Stapleton had not made good up to
the time of his sensational hit and its
resultant score. He had struck out
/ time and again and had failed to con-
meet with the sphere to any useful
! end. Suddenly his bat and the ball
connected and the ball went flying out
| into the garden. the two men on bases
came home on a wild dash accompanied
/ by three or four-score of soldiers yell
ling like Comanche Indians, and then
| Stapleton was a hero. He deserved all
the honor the boys bestowed on him.
Pitcher Anderson of the Aalas also
| made a record. He piled up thirteen
| strike outs to his credit and pitched
/ his best game this season. In two
! innings he struck out the first six men
at the bat and in the next inning struck
| out two more, making a total Of eight
straight strike-outs. He had a drop
/ ball which mace the Artillerymen
shiver, and the admonition. every time
a soldier went to the bat. was, "For--
| sake look out for thar drop ball"
| Pitcher Gephart of the Artillerys also
made a record for pitching frequently
| into the batters. especially making
| target of Olmost who was struck three
i
he allowed to take his base. The crowd
| thought Umpire Hampton was strain
| ing at gnats and swallowing camels in
| arriving at this decision, and he prob
ably was, figurativeIy
The game between the Makilxis and
| Honolulu Iron Works resulted in VIC
tory for the Makikis. the score being
| 10 to s. 1t was a fairly evenly fought
game but the Makikis had the best of
| it before the game was half over.
ARTILLERYs VS.. AALAs.
In the first inning E. Ayau got to
| second base and Anderson smashing O.
three Dagger brought him in. Ander-
son was brought home by Luning. This
was a good start for the Aalas and the
soldier rooters were subdued for the
time being, although their enthusiasm
was at the boiling poirtt The Artillerys
went out in one two, three order and
in the next inning the Aalas scored a
run by Olmost, who was hit by a pitch
ed bali 10 begin with.
When two men We're out in the sec
ond inning, Parr of the Artillerys pop
ped long fly over centerfield and ar
rived at the home plate on a home run
a shade of a second ahead of the re-
turned ball from the field.
The Aalas took an egGs in the third
but the Artillerys did things. First,
Ripberger smashed a, three Dagger to
left field bringing in Tseartion, and then
came in himself on Gephart's pretty
grounder past third. Gephart was in
a doze near first wher the pitcher lined |
the ball over and put him off the dia-
mond. These two runs tied the score. |
Goose eggs were passed to both teams |
in the fourth and fifth innings. This |
was when Anderson began to show his |
curves. by striking out the soldiers in /
one. two, three order. for both innings. |
1t was pretty work and brought plenty /
of applause.
There was great excitement in the
sixth inning when Kalolo OH third and |
Macfarlane on second were brought
home on a long liner past second. Then
Olmost came in on w. Ayau's good con-
nection. Sullivan dashed considerable
hope by striking out with a couple of
bases occupied by Aala runners. E.
Ayau tried to get home during this
time and almost succeeded.
Then the Artillerymen came back
with two runs in the sixth. Johnson
started things hummingly by sending
a two-bagger which brought in Conne1
johnson trotted home on Cramers big
hit down the right white line
In the seventh ard eighth innings
neither side scored, both pitchers TAX
ing charge OF the battle. Andy had
the Artiilerys terrorized with his drop
ball.
Then came the last inning The
score was to in favor of the Aalas.
The Aalas went our quickly without
getting a chance to score. Luck re-
turned to the ArtiIlelys. Cramer man
aged to connect for a base hit and went
safe to first. Parr dittoed and sent
Cramer to second. Then Stapleton
came to the bat. There was a.hush as
he picked up his bat, but, an instant
later bedlam broke lose among the sol
der fans. They crowded forward, wav-
ed their hats and yelled their enthusi-