The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-03
LEAGUE WINNERS
ADOPT NEW NAME
Baseball Situation Grows More
Interesting as Season
Approaches.

The H A. C.'s are no more. In their
place appears upon the local sporting
arena the St. Louis College Alumni,
this change of name having been oe'
cioed upon last night at the meeting
of the organization. The change of
name was decided upon after a long
debate.
The general prospects for the base
canvassed. the members expressing OPP
timistic views of the situation. 1t is
true that Barney Joy will not be with
the red and white this season, but even
with their husky twirler gone the St
Louis boys will get into the game on
their toes and with the expectation OF
walking off again with the pennant.
Johnny Williams is to be depended
upon to pitch the team to victory. the
report circulated yesterday afternoon
that he was 20 sign on with the Puma
hous being declared a canard- Everett
will also appear with the Saints.
What the team feels the need of the
most is a good man at the receiving
end of the battery. E. Fernandez, who
has held down that position in the
past, has taken the managership of the
new leaguers, the Diamond Heads, and
consequently is out of the nine. The
fact that Fernandez had accepted the
managership OF another league team
without severing his connection first
with the Saints was a subject of talk
last night, some censure being intend
ed in the resolution passed at the
meeting that he be requested to hand
in his resignation from the club forth
with.
THE HEADS GETTING INTO SHAPE
: The Diamond Heads are doing some
trying out and limbering up for the
practise game they are to play this
month. on Washington's Birthday, with
the winners of last seasons league
series. They are going to demonstrate
as soon as possible that there was no
mistake made in allowing them to come |
in with the best of them.
Eddie Desha will twist for the new
team, and George Desha, who never
missed anything that came in his ter
ritory in left-field when he wore the |
Pun uniform last season, will do the /
same thing this year for the Heads |
The Puns alone are not the only team |
from which players have been drafted. |
Jones, from the Rams, and German. |
who wore the big mitt for the II. a. |
C's, have switched as well, while the
best of the defunct Oahu nine will also |
be out around the diamond.
PUNAHOUS ALSO RUSTLING.
with net for any stray ball-tossers
and promises to have winning ma.
terial on the ground when the time
comes and the umpire calls They Will
have at least two of the Desha family.
in spite of the OBJECTIONS noted. Then
it is limited that Castle. who pitched
winning ball for the Harvard nine last
season. will be in the Territory avail
able for the majority of the league
games With him in the box the Puns
make it decidedly interesting series.
The Kamehamehas alone are noe
showing any particular signs of activ-
ity Manager Lemon has been unable
to attend the past few meetings of the
league through i'll health, but 1T Is ex-
pected that he will be out with a bunch
breaking into fast company who are ex-
pected to be we'll known to the fans
before things are over. The Kams de-
veloped q winning streak towards the
end of last year. showing that they
have IL in them all right. no matter
how artfully they concealed the fact in
the early games OF the series.
JOY GETS HIS CONTRACT.
Barney Joy has received his contract
from San Francisco, giving him every
thing that he has asked for. and he
will leave on the 9th inst. in the Ala
media to play with the San Francisco
team
A benefit game will be rendered TO
JOY on the 10th, between the Homo
lulus and picked nine from the rest
OF the league. And, in view of the
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