The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-07-08
|HONOLULANS TAKE MONEY
AT THE MAUI RACES
Quinn Drives Two Winning Races..-AlI-Maui
Baseball Team Bests Punahou Team in a.
Strenuous Game. Bands Hard Work.

The burden of the victorious yell o
the Mauans on the Fourth of July a
| Kahului race track and at the Wailukt
baseball field was the familiar old Ha
waiian slogan, which in plain Englisl
means, Maui Excels ALL" 1t resoundec
and echoed over the Kahului sand plain'
and down the slopes from Wailuku from
| lusty Mauian throats and had a dis
| piriting effect on the Honolulu visitors
/ 1t was well used too, for Honolulu, al
| though considerably the winner in tht
horse races, fell down with a thud a
Wells Park, when the All Maui nine
defeated the redoubtable Punahou base.
| ball team by score of IL to g.
Maui is good sporting island, fol
| almost everybody is interested in fast
| horse-fesh and nearly every one is q
| baseball fan. The Honolulu delegation
which went to Maui on the steamer Ii
keike found plenty of sport, took in
considerable money and came away ir
a happy mood, generally speaking. OF
course, there we're a few who couldn't
feel happy but what was their loss was
Maui's gain.
| Maui's Fourth will be long-remem-
bered one. Shortly after sunrise the
| flag OF the Likelike was seen dancing
and swaying outside of Kahului A big
| crowd from Honolulu, numbering over
eighty people, including the Punahou
team the Government band and a crowd
out for a good time, were taken from
the steamer onto a scow and towed to
Kahului's wharf by the tug Leslie Bald
win. There the train was boarded and
merry start was made for Waikiki.
Quarter way over it was discovered that
the conductor was not aboard and the
train went back for him, and the crowd
incidentally bought their tickets. At
last the Wailuku terminus was reached
and hacks conveyed the Honolulans to
the Wailuku hotels. Breakfast disposed
OF the crowd again went back to Kahu-
lui by hack and train route and fetched
up at the race track When Berger's
band started up inspiriting airs the grand
stand was crowded, the paddocks lively
and by 10 o'clock the days races were
on.
The Honolulu drivers caught on well,
Jim Quinn driving Sambo and Cyclone
in winning races, drawing down two
purses amounting to $3.50. There were
some exciting races, especially when
Bruner and Geraldine S. finished 3-S
mile dash under the wire, a dead heat,
according to generally accepted versions,
but Geraldine S. was declared the win
ner. Again in the ninth race, a mile
dash, Bruner and Racine Murphy came
down the last stretch nostril to nostril,
a clean dead heat. The run-off gave the
race TO Bruner.
The Kahulu track was dusty and by
the time the program came to an end
everybody was covered with a fine red
powder, good dirt in which sugar cane
thrives, but not especially adapted to
improve ones looks.
Then the crowd went in hacks, on
foot and by train to Waikiki, where the
baseball game between the Punahous
and the All Mauis was in progress. This
was a rattling good game, one that Ho-
nolulu would be proud of if played here,
but the Maui boys had the best OF the
game They played with singular free
dom from errors, did some splendid
batting, ran bases like hareS, but show
ed their temper at a time when the visit
ors should have had just little courtesy
shown them. Things came to such a
pass over very rank decision by which
a Maui runner was declared safe at
third, when to most spectators the man
was undoubtedly out. that the Punahous
quit the field. Later, however, they let
the matter go, giving Maui a point, and
played the game through. The decision
of "out" was given by the field umpire
standing between first and second. In
stead OF allowing the home-base UNI
pire to decide the point, the field-umplre,
Gage by name, gave a very unsatisfac-
tory decision, which brought him no end
OF Kisses. The Maui players knocked
three Honolulu pitchers out OF the box.
However, all in all, it was fine game
of ball The Punahou rooterS were pres
cnt-"Doc" MonSarrat towering among
thcn-but the Maui people massed the
grand stand and rent the welkin with
Maui no ka oi, driving out the visit
ors.
The game finished the visiting players
were taken to Schradcr'S and given a
fine luau. The band went to Puunene
where a concert and dance were the en-
tertainmcnt ior the evening, The club
house was beautifully decorated with
electric ieStoonS and bunting, and the
/ hospitality OF Hon. III. =, Baldwin and
| others was sincere and thoroughly APP
! prccatcd The elite OF Maui was pres
cnt aud it was with difficulty that the
band was finally sent away, Mr., Baldwin
cndcayOriug 10 keep il there until mid
night, Mr. Baldwin presented the band
boys with $50
Judge A ~ Kepoikai had also sent
| on invitations Tor a numerous company
| to attend "a luau at his kahului home
uIh. Fisheries and headed bN Al.