Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-17
Waimea Is Safe
At Home Plate

Editor Evening Bulletin:-Alohs
Nui: Will you please allow me space
In your valuable paper in answer u
the three articles in your weekly edi
ton OF October II, 1904. headed re
spectively "Zamloch All Right, Fam
loch Too Speedy, and THAT Waimes
Game.
The three articles no doubt were
written by the different writer's In
answer to the one giving the account
Of the game Of baseball played In Wal.
inca, Hawaii which was printed In the
weekly edition Of October I.
In justice to the Waimea boys, I
wish to state that the account was not
written by any OF the Waimea people,
but by one Of the regular correspond.
ents Of The Bulletin. who was present
and who no doubt gave what most i'm.
pressed him. II the account. however.
has caused some wounds to open,
please don't blame the Wsimea boys.
tor We have truly and honestly tried
10 keep them closed
The understanding before the game
was that the Hamakua team. through
Its own request. was to get four play.
ers from Hilo. which was granted, and
q proposition which the Hamakua
team awaited itself notwithstanding
the positive denial made by the mem.
Der of the Hamakua team" of Ku.
kaiau.
The excuses offered by the three
seem to infer that
Zamloch not having a catcher able
to hold him was to certain extent
handicapped in his pitching. and also
being a picked team there was lack Of
team work. Now any school boy
knows that which the Hamal,ua team
evidently did not know till after the
game. for they certainly had time to
overcome these difficulties, having
three weeks notice before the gamo
was played, and have no doubt in my
mind that II the Waimea boys had any
Idea that the Hamakua team was 20.
Ing to reach out for wider field to
pick its players and that Zamloch was
to pitch. we would have humbly sug.
gested that the plucky Bob White of
the Elks be sent for to catch for the
lIamakua team, or. allow me to correct
myself. the Territorial team; but as
We did not know Of Zamloch until q
few hours before the game we natur.
atYx fhnnuht Ia. Ia,
were well provided with catchers.
The Waimea team or, rather.-allow
us to correct the name OF our team
the Parker ranch team. not horses or
mules or even oxen, but baseball team,
know the following facts to be true:
That Zamloch pitched four innings
and was batted out OF the box land as
We are now told because the catcher
was not able to hold him; that Fam.
loch went and played first after he
pitched the four innings, because they
needed him every place: that Fam.
loch threw up the sponge after he was
struck out by a cow-puncher ball-toss.
er. and refused to play after the eighth
u WAS the WOTst ttNm
he ever played with" circumstances
he should have known before he al.
lowed himself to play with such u
team; that some of the Hamakua, boys
left something else than marbles and
unpaid bills behind them because not
Of lack Of practice entirely but lack OF
judgment; and that the Parker ranch
team won to the tune Of 276.
In closing allow me TO state that the
Parker ranch team is to play the Union
Specials Of Hilo. in Waimea. on the
22nd and 23d of this month and hope
II will be the Union Specials instead
OF II picked Hilo team, as We are not
yet quite ready to play a picked Hilo
team, but hope to some day In the
near future.
Thanking you beforehand. I remain.
JOHN II. WISE.
Manager Parker Ranch Team.
Waimea, Hawaii, Oct. IA, 1904.