The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-12-13
'COVETS LOCAL
BALL PLAYERS

There is more of significance than
appears on the surface in the presence
of mainland baseball players who are
contesting with local baseball men. The
promotion end of it all is well under
stood, or getting TO be better under
stood, and as far as the pleasure OF
! the sport is concerned, the thousands
who have enjoyed the games between
| the Spaldings and the All-Hawaiis Will
cry aloud for more Coast teams to
come to gather victory if they can.
There is one result which may soon
| become evident and that is the exodus
of some of Hawaii's most promising
players to swell the powers of main
land teams.
Mique Fisher has looked with a
covetous eye on several of the Homo
lulu boys, as they worked out on the
diamond. and his survey of sundry and
varied elegant stunts was not casual
by any means; he looked as IL he
meant business and he jingled the
small change in his pocket as he gaz-
ed, as if figuring how many extra
bleacherseats it would be necessary TO
put in at some big mainland game to
accommodate the extra crowds which
would learn of the interesting fact, for
example, that En- sue, the champion
basestealer of the Hawaiian Islands, or
Jimmy Williams, the boy baseball
wonder, and so on, were TO be seen on
the inside of the big fence as members
of some famous aggregation of ballists
Some of the All-Hawaii team have
had f1eas put into their ears to the
effect that there is a chance for them
on the mainland TO become great base
ball players if they will.
There is something in Honolulu's
climate and the nature of the country,
in the opinion of the visitors, that is
most conducive to effective training.
They have about reached the opinion
that there is no more delightful place
in which to train. Practise may be
INDUCED in at any time Of the year;
grounds are in condition at least eleven
months out of the twelve and such
exercise as baseball is just the thing
to keep men in condition here. Local
think the visitors, to a
large extent explain the proficiency of |
local men in baseball.
1t is a fact that the All-Hawaii team !
d
that which the visitors expected and !
they have discovered several embryo |
wonders among local players.
Another thing, it is suggested that
the best local players are not appre-
ciated as they should be by their work.
a-day employers. The idea of a man,
who is going to take part in an i'm
portant game, being obliged to work
the day before the game and perhaps
on the morning of the day of the game |
seems to the properly trained visitors |
most preposterous.
Leaving a desk to jump into baseball
clothes does not strike the Spaldings
as the correct dope; they are more in
clined to favor running your baseball i
player few miles up the pail and
back, putting five pounds of rare ten
derloin under his belt, rocking him in
a hammock for an afternoon, running
him to Diamond Head crater, up and
back and then giving him a massage
or a Turkish, cutting out cigarettes,
pie, cocktails and brain work. This
may sound professional and perhaps
there are no Honolulu boys who are
craving to make the game profession,
but Mique Fisher, as above stated, has
covetous eyes on some of them and
Comiskey when he comes with the
white-Sox from Chicago, if he does,
may manifest similar symptoms, for,
without doubt, the local boys have
handed the Spaldings a great, big sur
prise, even if the Honolulus did get but
one game.