The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-13
Baseball Notes.

! It Is surprising what small amount
Of base-running there is among tbs
players here. There are some men who
wouldn't try to steal if they were
showed off the base. Base runners like
En- Sue, Hampton, Fernandez, Grady
and Gleason stand SO far above the
other players in this respect, that they
are in class by themselves. A. Kan
man last week stood on the opposite
side of first and did not try to unhitch
from the base until after the delivery.
With the exception of perhaps the Elks,
there seems to be but little attention
paid to this part Of he game.
If the efforts of Samuel J. Gompers,
President Of the Labor Federation,
prove successful, ball players in the
States may be called out on a strike
sometime in the near future, in SYM
patty for some other trades union, or
they may have grievances of their own
that will warrant strike in their own
behalf. Letters have been received by
all players in the big leagues asking
them to become members Of the Fedora
ton of Labor and to organize unions in
every city or town that supports
ball team.
An American baseball team, the Troy
Grays, after being dared by Mexicans
at Juarez, near Ell Paso Texas, con-
sented to fight four bulls. At the last
minute all but two men backed down.
Seven amateur Mexicans were substi-
tuted. Three bulls were successfully
dispatched, but a professional had to
be called in to kill the fourth.
The baseball games on Saturday will
be between the Elks and Kams, and the
Punahous and Males.
The actions of the Winter League in
refusing to amend the bylaws so that
men who played in the Big League can
also play in the Winter League have
certainly adopted a very poor policy to
begin the season. AS it stands now, a
man who has played perhaps a few
innings as a substitute on Saturday is
barred from ever playing in the Winter
League. Deas and Roe were two who
stood out the strongest against the pro-
posed amendment.
The Winter League is by far too
small an affair to make such an arbi-
trary ruling and it cannot help but
affect the name of the league. Sunday
baseball develops, and has developed,
men who when they have become pro-
ficient are taken into the Big League
and if the former league, for some un-
explained reason, tries to keep their |
men, it will probably result in the big
teams signing up a larger number of
men at the beginning of the season. !
1t is to be hoped that the Winter League, |
for the good of it's teams and for |
ba seball in general will abolish such an ,
arbitrary and utterly foolish ruling as |
they are now trying to abide by.
In the Boys Clubs baseball games |
yesterday the Excelsiors, a team made |
up from the japanese Boarding School, |
the Senior Kauluwelas Al.
The feature of the game was when the
We're at bat with full bases,
and a long low drive which looked like
a home run was caught by Thigemitsu,
the side.
The first Winter League games will
be played next Sunday. The first game
will be between the Honolulu Iron
Works VS.. Diamond Heads, and the
second between the Stars and Makikis.
There will be meeting of the Ka-
Baseball Club tomorrow
evening, at $780, at the Kamehameha
Alumni Club House, No. 1887 Fort
street
Acting Governor Atkinson solcits
baseball bats and balls from kindly
persons for the boys at the
Settlement.