The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-31
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SPORTS
LONG RACE
LOCAL BALL
New York Paper Treats
the Subject Very
EntertainingIy.

The idea OF the game of baseball
being played in England doesn't seem
So curious to man-o'-war's man as it
probably does to a landsman," said a
man who used to be chief petty officer
in the United States Navy.
Baseball has gfrdled the world. and
the biuejackets of the navy have done
most of the girdling. Not only have
American naval sailors played the
game among themselves. on the beaches
Of practically every civilized coun-
try on the globe, but they've started
the baseball bug a-going in a whole lot
of places.
Take Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Is
lands, for instance. The Americans
down there-that is, the island born
sons of native American parents
never took much of shine to baseball
till the bluejackets of the navy go,
them worked up over it. When AL
Spaldings woodworking bunch of BAH
players made their tour a good many
years ago a number of games We're
played in Honolulu, but the folks down
there took only polite interest in the
contests and attended the games more
for the sake of being civil to gang
of visiting Americans than because
they had any real interest in the
sport.
But when the men from the men
o'-war in the port of Honolulu began to
play games OF ball among themselves
in the environs of Honolulu the young
fellows down there, away off the base
ball beat and out of the baseball at
mosphere, began to sit up and take no.
tice. The instinct for the game was
in them, all right, but they'd never
allowed it to develop. The bluejackets
got them all worked up over the game,
however, and they began to form
scrub mines and practise playing ball.
After few years they fell into the way
of playing with the men-o'-war's men,
and it soon fell out that they won as
many games as they lost.
''At the present time baseball is a
raging and rampant bug down in the
Hawaiian Islands. There's a regular
there. and they play bully ball., at that
mot shade under the best brand of
ball dished out by the minor leagues of
the mainland as the Hawaiian folks
call the United States. There are
clever mines representing Honolulu,
Lahaina, Hilo. Hanalei, Kahului and
other important island towns, and they
drew big crowds of keen rooters, who
know every inside kink of the game
and who keep as close cases on the
players as the fans at any ball park in
this country.
Young Mr.. Carter, the Governor of
Hawaii, is a baseball bug, and so are
most of the leading Hawaiian officials.
Most of the Hawaiian teams are made
UP of island-born Americans, mixed
I'D with pure kanakas, and there are
some all-kanaka mines that put up
nifty article of ball. Quite
a number of professional players from
the minor leagues of this country have
gone down to Hawaii to join the pro-
fessional mines Of the islands, and
they've all done welt Some prom
nent minor league players have, dur
ng the past few years. gone to Homo
ulu to winter, ana pick up some spare
hange by playing ball and keeping in
condition, amid the most
beautiful surroundings in the whole
world, bar none, at the same time. The
aides attend the games in Hawaii,
nd they're enthusiastic rooters, just
s are the fan girls in the States. =
Evening Telegraph.