The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-19
BASEBALL. in
OLD ENGLAND
Situations which Games
Adoption May
Produce.
" ell, wei, we'll,

" Ct-r Wen, Well
The English are taking UP the great
American game of baseball and the first
game has been played One of the
mines was composed OF American
students at oxford University. and the
other one was made up of young
Englishmen from Woolwich. The all
American team won. 10 to Z. Two
thousand Britishers were present at
the game, and the cable advices stated
that they liked the game as soon as
they We're able to see through its fine
points. and baseball is likely to be-
come established over here
The whole prospect of British base
ball simply swarms with chances for
unusual happenings when the two
countries get together at the game.
There'll be an English nine organized
at Stratford- Avon, of course, and
Athletics play the American game of
baseball at the home of Shakespeare
with Bender. whose ancestors were
mighty red men of the American for
est, in Shakespeare's time, doing the
twirling for the Philadelphia team?
Imagine. too, the change that may
come over the spirit of sporting re-
porting in the English newspapers. The
deadly solemnity of thee English style
of sporting reporting would soon give
way sto the blithe, gay spirit that ami
mates and permeates and pervades the
American game, and something like
this may soon be looked for in the
Liverpool Times:
THE glass filmed toy dubberinoes of
Liverpool were fed to the pigs yester-
day by the cadaverous and drooling
Tigers from Detroit, over the pond.
The fiabby, one-lunged Hanky- parks
who represent Liverpool in the hopeless
grab for the pennant had their shins
toasted good by the basilisk-eyed cat
tie drivers from the west. They stood
around with gaping eyeballs like hen
on hot nail and suffered the merci-
less Tigers to run the bases till their
necks were long With thirst. Jinlzins
of the Liverpool crab layout made
more errors than he could have made
if he'd been trying to write a thesis
on the fourth dimension, and it WAS
Jinkins who led the melancholy pro-
cession to the morgue. The Tigers, OH
the other hand, were chock-a-block full
of pepsky While the Liverpool lub-
bers couldn't hit a brick wagon with
a pick ak and ran the bases like pail
bearers at a funeral, the Tigers were
there with a bunch of wallops that
couldn't have been moved away in a
furniture van. and the spunky way
they swfped the sacks made their OPP
ponents look like tuppenny marbles
that have been run over by the tram
cars. The Liverpool Lummoxes didn'
have a welt in 'em. If three-base hits
were growing on the back OF every
mans neck they couldn't have reached
'em with a feather buster stuck on the
end of a clothes prop. The NUTS stood
around and whistled for help. and they
were so weak that they couldn't have
lifted a crock of 'alf-and- alf If It had
been all foam Everything they did
was yellow. rocky and whang- basted,
like a stigsstosseI full of dogglegam-
mon. The game was whiskered and
frostbitten so far as the Lummoxes
were concerned. The Liverpool bun-
moxes haven't got a chance in the
world for even piece of the change /
and there wasn't minute during the
hmm game when we didn't feel like |
picking up and going uh-wy from
there
Oh no: there won't be any chance TO
start something" if the English folk |
get tied up with the American game
Of ball.
,I-rrah for the London Larrupers ana
the Liverpool Lummoxes.