Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-20
PUNS HANDED A Lemon,
DIAMONDS GET THEIRS

Baseball, the kind you read about
I in the old dope-sheets, the kind that
you will shake % cents ont Of John
MES savings bank to see, was passed
up to the large gathering which took
the tip that some good ball was to be
seen Saturday at the park
The sporting public like to see a
game of ball in which there is some
thing doing each and every minute
hits and plays of all varieties are
What the fans desire Well. they were
certainly not disappointed in the last
games played by the Honolulu league.
The game between the Saints and
Puns was boosted hard; all said that
il would be a game worth going miles
to see. Doc Monsarrat and Charlie
Falk both shook in their boots before
The game for fear that their favorites
would go down to defeat The crowd
sat anXiously awaiting the finish of
the first game 50 that they could get
a glimpse Of the real card of the day,
st. Louis VS.. Punahou. As the game
progressed the fans were worked up
to high pitch, for spectacular play
followed play, and first one team and
then the other would have an advan-
tage. This sort of baseball will get
on the nerves of the coolest spectator
and make him set his muscles with
anxiety.
Don't let us lead you to believe that
the first game was not good, for it
was, as the clOseness of the play and
pulling out of fight places by the Kams
Will show, Had this game been play
ed last it would have had more inter.
est, but the second game took some
Of the luster from it,
Below is our attempt to describe
how the boys struggled on the dia-
mond Saturday. TO repeat the his
tory of the second game first is deem
ed more important:
Burns Chased to the Pines
Both En- Sue and Hampton got a
hand from the stand when they enter
ed the game. Ed Desha chose the
field and En- Sue was up. He opened
his season well with a nice little din
gle. Bushnell The butcher, also hit
safe to right and En- Sue went on to
third. 1t certainly looked like runs,
Tut John Williams settled down to
business and pulled out of a tight
hole. The Saints pulled off a double
in their half in the field. This half
Sot the crowd on its feet
There We're interesting features up
to the third inning, when The real
startling events began to happen 1t
was in this inning that the Saints
drew first blood Here is the way in
which they turned the trick Burns
hit safe, En- Sue pOked the atmOsph-
ere, Burns annexes first on a passed
ball by Ringland, Bush hits safe over
first and is caught between first and
second. While Jack Desha was chas-
ing Bushnell, Burns sprinted home
with the first run amid cheers from
The st. Louis supporters.
Things went along nicely until the
fifth. Up to this time Pitcher Burns
was a puzzle to the Colts, while VIII
liams had been touched up for three
safe ones. In this glorious fifth in
ming things happened in swift success
sion, Fernandez drew a pass. Burns
hit for three bases, scoring Fernandez.
This made the score read st. Louis >,
Punahou 0.
Now came Punahou's turn. King
placed one over second Lieut.. Han
nah met one of Burns choice ones
fairly between the seams and then be-
gan a hotfoot around the paths with
King ahead of him Hannah turned
nto the home stretch but the ball /
beat him out, and in a close decision /
1t the plate imp. Bower cried Out
King had scored. Hamp. hit safe, /
tDlc second and scored on Ed. De /
has two-sacker. J. Dcsha Outsprin, I.
cd a hunt and Ed went to third. I
iloason had taken Lo Ons place at 4
irst and he ordered Bushnell into the /
lox while Burns took the field. Jack .
lcsha stole second, Both he and Ed !
oored ON Ringlauds buglo Score,
muhou T. Saints .
The Saints worked a runner across .
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