The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-31
HOW THE BRITISH
WRITE OF BASEBALL
UNIQUE STORY FROM THE LON
DON GRAPHIC OF GAME PLAY.
ED IN ENGLAND.

The London Graphic says: There was
different crowd than that which has
cheered the Woolwich arsenal football
eleven on it's way through the league
programme at Plumstead on Saturday:
and it was a different game that it
watched. When the "Gunners" step
on to the field on Saturdays, propeling
a football before them, a horse yell
goes up; and hardly ever ceases except
to alter its note all the afternoon; but
when eight slim young gentlemen from
the States (hrsD and from oxford Tn
iversity Csccond) took up their position
at the pavilion corner of a big diamond
chalked on the field, the spectators
mostly pavilion critics, welcomed them
with sympathy rather than enthusi-
assn.
The eight of oxford Americans. who
We're all credited with being Rhodes
scholars were followed on to the field
by an umpire (who is, perhaps, the
most important figure in basebalD, by
a man i'm armor and a sinewy athlete
who was spoken Of as the catcher The
duties of the pitcher were to hur a
missile a little larger and a little Ii ht-
err than a cricket ball at any Rho es
scholar who stood on the plate at the
home corner of the diamond; the man
in armor caught the ball when the
batsman missed it; and the umpire
adjudicated over cases when it did not
miss the batsman.
In such cases the batsman usually
walked to first base. trying not to
rub the place. If, on the contrary. the
batsman hit the ball with the bludg-
con that he carried to defend himself
and hit it within the angle of thed a.
mond. he started to run for first base
and thence to second or third as the
case might be. with al the speed at
his command.
We should perhaps, have mentioned
that the opposing side. consisting o.,
seven players besides the pitcher. had
been distributed about the diamond i'm
order to hamper the basic progress of
the Rhodes scholars as much as posi-
BILE. When a Rhodes scholar dumped
the ball the feldsmen did their best
to intercept it, but. having fielded it.
they did not throw it at the flying.
batsman, as we used to do at school
when playing FOUNDERS. but returned it
to one of the four bases at the corners
of the diamond, where a waiting vic
ket keeper, who is called a baseman
tried to put the batsman's wicket
down before he reached it. The VIC
ket consisted of bag, and many and
strange were the efforts of the bats
men to reach 1t.
II a whole circuit of the four bases
was made by batsman. who seized
opportunities to run offered him when
his colleagues were dealing with the
deliveries or the pitcher, then his side
counted one run. There are no "centu-
rles' in baseball; and having thus
described as well as we are able what
seem to be the leading principles of the
game, it will perhaps cause small sur
prise When we ada that the Rhodes
ScholarS III 'heIr lirSt l''nlls uIu not
sure run nat !io"eNei, 'auaeu
'nelr SuPporlerS no u'Siii"S' lor uilere
"ere eisnI more i'''il,sS u CONE
nv leiu''is sue "iiiCii Vo'i''''eu VI
Ihe Lonuoi team Oh lne recently
formed brltlSii baseo'll AssoclatIol''
theh came III 10 oaI' ana j. H. WIN.
stoH' VINO came from Iile university VI