Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-22
PUNS lose HARD GAME
MALE MAVERICKS
TURN The TRICK
EDDIE DEsHA LOSES CONTROL
OF WET BALL - DECISION
COSTS TWO RuNS-THE
ElkS BEAT kAMS.

II certainly was a shame for Joe
Cohen's mavericks to take that game
from Punahou last Saturday. Jess
Woods picked up an old shoe some.
where and brought II out to the game
just to give his Punahou fellow ball.
players chance, having lost two
games. The kahuna worked all right
until the eighth inning, and then that
bunch assembled under the auspices of
Maile.Ilima jumped in and took the
game. They got It by score of 4 to
9, and on the decision of Umpire Bert
Bowers at that. The decision was alb.
solutely correct, but 1t was a mighty
hard game to lose Just the same.
The hard-hitting, fast-felding Elks
won the first game from the Kams, 3
to 1, and that just about indicates the
comparative playing Of the two teams
last Saturday. II was a pitchers bat.
tie right through, with Hampton get.
ting the best of 1t. Hampton held the
Kams down to three lovely hits. The
hsiho '"hi'it hoNNNVis htpt SSttihb
himself into a hole with his passes.
He allowed seven of the Kams to reach
first on free transportation. But when
men were on bases he settled down and
pitched winning ball. 1t was really
his support that gave "Hamp" the big.
men. The score shows that nine of
Capt Lemons men were left high and
dry on the bases, and this shows how
Il. p. o. L. was performing in the
field.
Vanatta was responsible for a whole
lot of Kan trouble. Things certainly
came Bill's way in large, juicy lunches
last Saturday. The former Kan had
all the grandstand knocking him when
he came to bat. but he laced out to
nice bingoes and pulled off all kinds of
fielding stunts. The best of those came
in the eighth session, when Reuter-
walked. AHA lifted dinky little pop
fly right over first. Vanatta ran over
and grabbed 1t not five feet from Cogs.
well, who reached out one long pre-.
hensile limb. TO first and scooped in
Vanattas quick snap, catching Reuter-
OF base by about an inch. 1t was one
of those plays that require quick think.
ing, and that is where the Elks Ger.
tainly are making good.
| Speaking of Cogswell, the lanky first
baseman Is responsible for the good
work Of the Elks infeld He has such
hp.aht hnt hn h., l.,
all sorts of wide throws. and save four
or five errors last Saturday by his neat
work.
Reuter-, the Kan pitcher, cut loose
his speed so fast that the ball came
over the plate about the size of a pea.
Bob White nearly disloCated his spine
trying TO kill the ball, but Reuter- fan
ned the chunky Elk four times in sue.
cession. Bob couldn't even touch the
elusive sphere most of the time.
The Kams got the start by scoring
once in the second when Lemon walk.
ed, J. Desha and Richards sacrificed
and Hampton's wild pitch let the Kan
captain trot home. Wilder ended the
inning by coming in fast on Sheldon's S
right,held hit and throwing the speedy
Kan out at first with a winger that
brought the crowd to its feet. After
this the Kams couldn't reach the reg,
lister station.
The Elks got unit in the fourth,
Evers walked and went to second on
Reuter- balk. With one slowed away
Cogswell hit safe and Vanatta got back
at the knockers by scoring Evers on
a wrive 10 center. Again in the seventh
the Elks busted themselves. Bob
White started the trouble by sanding
his hands carefully and striking glor'
iously out. Kia struck out. Wilder
hit safe, Grady followed suit, and Moore
drove one at Plunkett. The third
sacker threw low to first. AHA ought
to have stopped the ball on the bounce
but he didn't, and two runs came
across. That was all to this game.
The summary: