The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-12
SOLDIERS
Win GAME
Plenty of Excitement at
KapioIani Park
Yesterday.

A big crowd and lots of enthusiasm
marked the games of the Winter
league at KapioIan park yesterday af-
ternoon. The bali played was not quite
equal to the standard of baseball that
the league has been putting up but still
there We're many fine, plays and the
closeness of the contests served to keep
enthusiasm at high pitch. The pro-
fessionaI fan would find many tech
meal points to critieise. but there We're
plenty of those long hits, sensational
catches and heart breaking races
around the bags which keep man
jumping up and down in his seat and
make the grand stand yell as if it was
getting its moneys worth.
Perhaps the greatest interest was
conferred on the second game, for the
Artillery team, after its disastrous rout
the previous Sunday, was determined
to redeem itself by defeating the Ma
kikis who outclassed the Honolulu Iron.
Works team last week. Crowds of sol
der boys We're on hand to back their
team with cheering and money. There
was considerable betting, for many
neople thought that, the Blue and
Khaki could not recover from last
weeks decentralization. Makiki money
was freely offered, but the soldiers
were ready to cover everything in sight
and it soon began to come hard There
was a feeling, however up to the
eighth inning that the Artillerys might
go to pieces again, but there was moth
ing doing in that line and money on
the Red and White went to swell the
Golfers of Camp Mckinley.
The soldiers had a mascot who car
ried peculiar umbrella and fan
decorated with the national colors. and
he led dog similarly bedecked. He
made the rounds of the field during the
game hunting for Makiki bets but
when the Artillery tallies began to roll
in he devoted himself to dancing a
Highland fling and saying that it was
shame to take the money.
The soldiers went to bat first AND
started the ball by knocking the Makiki
pitcher nearly out of his box and
bringing in seven runs. This gave them
lead that they never lost, although
do
perate rallies. In the third the Ma
kinks made four TALES and shut out the
soldiers, but this was their last sight of
victory and after that it was always
over the hill for them. The Makili
pitcher went up in a balloon near the
opening of the game and in the fifth
was replaced by new man, who was
somewhat out of practice but allowed
fewer hits than his predecessor.
What he accomplished in the way of
preventing hits, however, was more
than outweighed by the number of rank
errors n,ade by the rest of the team.
To speak frankly, after last weeks
overwhelming victory the Iakikis seem
to have been utterly demoralized. The
best ball of the game was in the sixth
inning which yielded a goose egg to
each team. In each half of this inning
there We're three men on bases and no
outs and neither side was able to score.
Time after time the Makikis filed
the bases but somehow they couldn't
in the runs. In the eighth the Makiki
center field made star catch of
long fly and earned the applause Of the
Artillery bleachers. but there was moth
ing doing for the White and Red and
IN the ninth they went out in one. two.
three order.
E1cIlov-ipo is the Srora nv inniuos.