The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-17

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but 1t IS more probable that the defee-
ton is due to unevenly-matched teams.
In the first series the Honolulus stood
head and shoulders over the other
league teams, while the Males were
| lmmeasurably the worst lot of the
bunch. The Kamehamehas and Puma
nous played to the '"happy medium -
notch and the Oahus were ALWAYS to be
safely estimated as something worse
than the Honolulus and a good deal
better than the rest of the league mines.
The consequence was that the games as
a rule had the appearance of foregone
conclusions and the crowd doesn't rel
ISL foregone conclusions at two-bits
per.
| The second series started with start
ling form reversals of such radical
nature that people began to ask each
| other what it all meant and in conse-
quence ugly rumors crept abroad. While
these upsets of form undoubtedly gave
the second series much more open as
pect, the crowd at the games grew not
a whit larger, demonstrating that man
who goes to a game because he expects
to see contest won or lost on its
merits, regardless which team may win
or lose, was not according the league
the support which he did last season.
The investigation of Saturdays game
between the Honolulus and the Kameha-
mehas is step in the right direction
and if enthusiastically prosecuted will
mean much to the league in dollars and
scents. The players will realize that
crooked work or the suspicion of it will
not be tolerated and the public will
quickly come to realize this and feel
that when they go to a ball game they
are at least sure to witness a contest |
in which everything is fair and above |
board. And approaching this fact they
will patronize the games literally.
There is no doubt that the presence
of the Males in the league with the |
debilitated nine at present representing |
the club, is costing the league goodly |
sum of money every time that the green
and gold boys are scheduled to play
AS a drawing card their value is abso- !
lutely nil and the nine as it is COM
posed today would have no cinch on
the championship of the Winter League.
1t IS too late to do anything in the
matter now, but next season, unless
vastly better combination can be OBJ
tanned to wear the Male colors, the
league will profit by their absence from
the diamond. A year ago the Males
We're playing much the same kind of
ball that they are putting up today
and yet this season they bobbed up as
regularly as ever. In 1903 the Males
did not take game the whole season.
It would be well to select the senior
Let the last nine in the big league race
for the pennant drop into the Winter
League and the winner of the Winter
League championship replace the tail
enders of the big league. This would
give added inducement to the Winter
League teams to play hard and fast
and there would be a remarkable and
healthy scurry among the weak brothers
of the senior association to keep from
graduating to junior ranks.
A four-team league wouldn't be
without its advantages. Then with two
games every week each nine would be
IN constant play and there would be
40 lay-off which can do no good and
which may easily result in player get
ing rusty.
One thing which is well worth the at +
ention of the trustees is the matter of
ten-cent admission to the bleachers.
Such an innovation could cost the
eague nothing and the chances are
greatly in favor of it's turning in no
mall sum to the league s Golfers every
and Sunday. 1t is surpris-
ng what a number of lovers of base
all there are who cannot afford to pay
5 cents to get into the grand-stand
ut who would willingly produce 10
ents for permission to view the game
rom the bleachers. Then there is the
mall boy element which alone would
i've the calcined benches a peopled APP
earance were 10-cent tariff to
revail