The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-19


That's playing ball, and then, some
Had there been a Joshua on the leagu
grounds at $50 O'Clock yesterday after
noon to have held the sun in it's orbit
they would probably have been play
ing yet.
The Kamehameha Punahou gam'
was q corker, with the score to 4 from
the seventh inning, and not enough
time to finish out. 1t was a remark
ably errorless game and the infielders
and outfielders certainly put up {
smashing lot of good ball-piaying that
won't be forgotten in many a season
despite the lack of runs. There was a
series of pretty catches away out in
the garden. There were grasscutters
which gave the batters two-baggers,
but the majority of the willoW-wielders
worked overtime on sky balls and the
outfielderS were out with the big baS-
ket-mitts yesterday. There was a de-
cision or two by the umpire which did
not suit the crowd and to a man up a.
tree the decisions were wrong in the
critical stages. One such decision
started the toboggan for the Punahous
and gave the kams their chance to
even up the score in the seventh. But
the Kams We're playing their best, and
so were the Puns, and so the decisions,
wrong though some of the crowd be
lieved them, didn't affect the result of
the game after all. 1t will have to be
played over again, on a date to be
decided by the teams.
Even the boy at the scoreboard gave
up the fight toward dark, for the whole
board, which only carries II innings,
was covered with numerals and then he
had to begin all over again.
The first game, played by the II. A.
C.'s and Oahus, was a fine exhibition
of ball, the Honolulus winning by
score of to 2. There was a time in
this game that the crowd got up on
tiptoe and yelled itself hoarse. espe
ciaIy when Ringland batted out what
resulted in a home run for the Oahus.
Early in the game Ringland, wfalge
wearing the mask, was hit directly
over the heart with a foul tip clean
off the bat, which sent him to the
ground. He writhed with pain and
was assisted to the bench, where be
recovered, and went back to the game
again amid the plaudits of the crowd.
After that experience he batted his
home run, dropping exhausted upon
the home plate, white as sheet. 1t
was a magnificent effort.
That was but sample CT what took
place in the whole game. 1t was ball,
league ball and the kind to draw big
audiences The teams are now Well
balanced and the remainder of the sea
son should see the best ball of the :,
year. |
OF course the expected protest of the
Kams against the Puns, for playing
new men in their team, or, at least, +
old men from the Males, was filed
before the game. This was directed
at To On. a former Male player, a
Chinese hoy who knows and plays real
baseball
The protest was formal and will be
acted on later. Lo On proved one OF
the heroes of the day, Tor he started
the score up for the Puns with q
two-bagger
(2) OAHUS VS.. HONOLULUS (S)
Tt was a runless game between the
and Oahus up to the hfth
inning. 1t was generally case OF
a walk to first and few
steals. Even En- Sue, swift runner as
he is. was caught hypothecatfng the
line between first and second. Big
Harry Wilder veteran of fourteen
years service on the local diamond,
maze no IMPRESSION on the scoreboard.
Joy. he of the mighty left biceps, lifted
the sphere too high and dropped it into
waiting mitts in the field. Soares even
let a ball pass him, the first time this
season, but it was not costly. When
old PaP' German was put out at hrst
he quit the game. Just simply quit,
that was all. 1t was In the last hai
Of the third that Ringland was hit over
The heart, but the soldier was game,
and, donning a chest-protector, con-
.inued behind the bat. But when the
fifth inning opened. with the Oahus at
he bat, the excitement thermometer
began TO get heated 1t looked good
or the Oahus. but Joy was getting in
,ome deadly work Bruins made good
o the first bag and stole down to sec
md, knocking Jimmy Williams off the
gag to get there, and then swung along
D third as the ball passed Jimmy = :
lamp took the willow and the bleach
rs. full of EIks, cut loose their mega
hone voices. Bruins became the cen ,
er of activity and then tried to beat =
he ball home and got caught between :
bird and home-plaJe. 1t was very eX- ;,
operating to the Elks, of course.
Then the Honolulus did things j. =
7ernaadez batted q ball between the =
egs OF third baseman and went TO =
rst. Little Soares sent a daisy high :
all out 10 right field and brought >.
'ernandez in for the first tally. and +.
her made the circuit of the diamond >,
imself That was all. 1t was one run Fl
I'D the c1owG welcomed the sound of n
he gong for TWO strokes. 1t broke the
1ouotcny. f
There was some excitement, too, in Ii
he sixth, when Louis made an inef- W
ective effort 20 slip home. He was b
aught at it and the excitement died d.
,wn. ~ 9,
Along in the eighth inning the Oahus p;