The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-04
PUNAHOUS WIN
POPULAR VICTORY
Defeat the Diamond Heads in
a Game of Ten
Innings.

It took ten innings to decide the
Punahou-Diamond Head game yester-
day, the second game at the league
grounds. although the game was the
Diamond Heads from the third inning,
by every canon of the game except
the one that holds that the game is
never lost until il is finished.
There was a fine crowd at the games
yesterday, and there was plenty of en-
thusiasm and cheering. The bleachers.
and in fact the whole grandstand, was
overlooking with advice to the players
and opinions of the game. In short, it
was real baseball, both on the diamond
and off. and to the man who played ball
when he was boy, it was a renewing
OF youth like the eagles.
Both games We're good-except in
spots Both victories were popular
cnes. for they gave hope a longer lease
of life. The Kamehamehas won from
ST. Louis by the score of six to four.
If Kamehameha and Punahou win
again next Saturday three teams will
be tied for first place. The loss of a
game then will be the Avernian descent
to any team that loses.
For the first time this season, 1T is
sid, the crowd was with the Puma
hbus. And when in the eighth inning
they made a run that tied the game
and in the tenth piled up three runs to
the good after having been in the ruck
nearly the whole time, the enthusiasm
knew no bounds.
In the first game, that between the
Kamehamehas and the st. Louis
teams, il was the sixth inning that de-
cided the game. Up to that time ii
had been two to one in favor of the
Kamehamehas, and that is what it
ought to have been at the end. For
the Kamehamehas, Kamaiopili went to
bat. He is a youngster whose chief
recommendation is that he is a willing
performer. The crowd, with the MEM
DRY of the brilliant bunt he made in
previous game, cheered and shouted at
him until an older player might have
had stage fright. Kamaiopili hunted
this time and made first, and second
too, on a bad throw of the catcher,
Soares, to first, and made third and
scored on Lemons safe hit to center.
The crowd shouted itself hoarse.
Lemon played too far off first and was
caught out there by a quick throw by
Bushnell to Gleason. Miller was out
irving to run on a short hit to first.
There had been one run scored, two
men were out, there was no one on the
bases, and that ought to have been all
there was to the inning. But there was
a srun-fest after that. Three runs were
made with two-out. What do you think
of that!
This is the way it was done. Jones
got to first. Bill Vannatta surprised
himself and everybody else by making
a beautiful two-bagger between left
and center. Then Lota hit for home
run to extreme center and, of course, |
brought Jones and Vannatta in. For
the rest of this half of the inning, ku-
hina made a base hit over second, but
Plunkett went out on fly to Louis. |
These four runs, with the two they |
made in the third inning, made the six
with which the Kamehamehas won the
game.
In their half of the same inning the |
ST. Louis team made three runs, and |
if looked for a time as though they /
might even up the score or win the |
game Bushnell took first on balls, |
and second and third on Aylett's single |
10 right field and came home on Reu-
ter's overthrow to first made to eaten /
Aylett off the base. Aylett made sec
ond on this overthrow and third on a |
passed ball coming home on Louis fly |
TO center, when center field falled 10
catch it. Louis stole second, went 10
third on Bruins sacrifice hit, and came
home on Vannatta's failure TO gather
in Gleason's fly. Lo On struck out.
Bruins went out on a sacrifice hit.
Gleason was forced out at second.
From this inning to the end of the
game it was but succession OF goose
eggs on both sides.
In the P1nahou-piamond Head game
each side made a run in the first m
ming. Nothing happened then unul
the third, when four runs for the Dla-
moNd Heads happened. Olnos Went
opk from second to first. Fernandez
was given first on balls, ana theh
when nobody was looking stole sec
ond. The steal could not have been
made easier, for when Eddie Desha
turned 10 throw the bali to second TO
catch Fernandez, neither second nor
short was within thirty feet of the bag
Ferna ndez made third on a passed ball
and scored on Leslie's single to right
field. Darcy also scored on this hit,
he having gone to first because hit Dy
the pitcher, to second on the passed
hall. Davis struck out. Leslie mace
his single TO right and scored on
Soper's long hit to center, this hit also
bringing in Sam Chillingworth, who
had made a single, and got the rest
of the way around on Sopers nit
Tonah and w. Chillingworth were at
first and second respectively when Oh
mos few out to center and retired the
side.
Punahou made a rally in the sixth
and for = time it looked like the whiri-
wind of runs the Diamond Heads had
piled up in the third would be duph-
Gated by their opponents in this IN
ming. Eddie Desha got first on W.
ChiIlingworth's error. He stole sec
ond, and went to third and nome on
D. Desha's two base hit. d. pesha
after saving himself at second py
spectacular slide after playing OH To-
ward third, made third. and came
home on Kia's hit to center. KING pat
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