Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-08
BALL Season IS OPENED
1900 PEOPLE SEE
FIRST TWO GAMES
PUNs AND kAMS DEFEATED BY
tLkS AND H. A. CLANS
SATISFIED WITH
OUTLOOK.


Seventeen hundred people saw the
opening of the baseball season of 1905
al Baseball Park Saturday and with
either sorrow or joy, according to their
sympathies, watched the Elks trim
the punahous handsomely, to 2, while
the champion II. A. c. aggregation
made u runaway match Of 1t with Ia.
mehameha, getting the long end OF y
to 3 score; and seventeen hundred peo-
| pie saw some rafting good ball play
ing. some exceedingly bad playing and
went home pretty well satisfied with
the prospects for the season OF 1905.
For variety of quality and quantity
nobody has any kick coming Oh the eA'
hibition of the great national game,
unless 1t Is DOC" Monsarrat, the de.
teated Puus and Captain Lemon of the
Rams. These two gentlemen saw
their proteges make some awful blum.
ders and doubtless had heart to heart
talks afterward, but on the whole there
was plenty of satisfaction and excite.
ment in those three hours of baseball,
and so long as that happens the League
{. going to thrive, while President Pau
sonberg's capacious Golfers swell
with the good fat coins. The season
is Just beginning and there are going
&c he some surprises before long.
Well, the Elks defeated the kid"
Puns In the opening game, but the
youngsters were right after them all
the time, and the BEST people on
.arth" had to keep going some to stay
ahead. Eddie Desha was in the hox
Tor the Puns and he was IN good form.
aside from three bases on balls. He
allowed eight hits and struck out three
men. Desha Is hard worker and he
will improve as the season progresses.
He was up against a hard man In
Hampton. the former Male. now do.
. ing the pitching honors for the Elks.
The Elks came out in their new blue
and white shirts and they lived up to
their clothes by playing good ball right
; clong, plugging for the base runners
all the time, and using good baseball
sense. They showed fash of really
brilliant playing In the third. Cusack
was roosting on third base with Hamp.
ton at the bat. Cusack made des.
perate dash for home and Hampton
: Gunted out to third. The runner
: scored by 4 mile and the crowd cheered
for the first tally and nice exhibi
ton of the hit and run game, and
right here 1t might be said that there
was mighty little of the hit and run
game seen Saturday. or course it's
too early In the season for the full de.
velopment of team work, but a team
that depends on its ability to slug
the ball will lose the majority Of ito
games II II travels in any kind of com
pany.
The Puns showed Just that lack OF
concerted team work. Four times dur.
ing the game any kind Of hit out
side the diamond would have scored
one or two tallies and four times a
man on third died there because the
Puns couldn't deliver the hit. IL was
Captain Jess Woods misfortune that
he was the culprit three times. Jess
played good ball in the field but he
couldn't see outside the diamond last
Saturday.
The Elks scored one in the third
and again in the sixth on hits by
Hampton and Cogswell. They annex.
!. CO two more tallies in the seventh on
:, q brace of bases on balls. Deshas
wild throw to first and Evers' beauti.
: tul liner to left field. They punched
a In the ninth.
: Up to the fifth things looked bad for
Captain Woods and his men. They
had hard luck In the matter of hits
and together with some punk base run.
Eing. were out in the cold. In the
fifth they got busy. l.. Judd the Pu.
nahou catcher, opened the ball with
o scratch hit to right. G. Desha sent
scorcher through Evers at shortstop,
and Brother Eddie took his time and
. walked. Then Grady failed to stop
0 wild pitch and Judd reached the plate
b. something like a hairs breadth before
the ball got back. In the seventh Pu.
pahou got their second and last tally.
L. Judd again hit safe, this time for a
double, and scored on Bushnells triple
Judd certainly was all to the good Sat.
, urday. He got three hits out of four
= times up and played like a veteran be-
hind the bat.
= The Elks showed all kinds Of ginger
and deserved to win the game. Cogs.
well. the Male recruit made good on
first. He has the height and reach
for a fine first baseman, and barring
weakness on low thrown balls, Is n
good fielder. He puts plenty of life
into his work at bat, and got two hits
$ out Of three times up. As far a.
\. catching the crowds fancy goes, the
ever popular Bob White, the Elks' left
: gardener, Is there with bells. Bob Is
one of the unluckiest mortals that
: ever wore himself out running bases
+ He bangs the ball on the nose, but
: can't get around the circuit He cut
off hit into his territory by pulling