The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-04

There was a good, snappy game of
baseball yesterday afternoon when the
boys from the Tennessee defeated the
South Dakotas by score of s to 4.
There was something doing every min
ute and the game was wonderfully fast
and the errors very few considering
that the boys had just come off the
water and had had no time to get
their shore legs.
By defeating the South Dakota team
the Tennessee boys are in line to meet
the champions of the First Division,
the farfamed Pennsylvania.
The championship of the fleet is to
be decided soon, and it lies between
the Pennsylvania team, champions of
the First Division, and the team that
can beat all the others III the Second
Division. These two teams must meet
again, and then it will be a tie be-
tween the winner of that game, the
Washington and the California. The
Tennessee and South Dakota will meet
again next Saturday at Aala Park and,
should, they win, they will be in the
finals of the Second Division games.
The feature of the game was the
base-stealing of Feliz for the South
Dakotss in the sixth. He had the
best OF the Keios backed off the board
and went from first to third so quick
ly that nobody seemed to know how it
had happened.
The Dakotans scored one in this in
ming, and it was almost entirely due
to the burglarizing of F'eliz that this
happened. He had the shortstop, sec
ond baseman and the third bag tender
Ginning with Morpheus while he gum
shoed by them. It was great play
and the Dakotan sailors yelled them
selves hoarse when they saw their man
slide gently and carefully to the last
bag.
The sixth period was also notable
for the fact that the Southerners tore
off a quintet and did it as much on
bingles as on the other people Is errors.
Errors came mostly at the wrong time,
vet. when one takes into consideration
the state of the ground and the lack
of practise for the teams, they played
mighty good ball.
The Tennessee boys showed their
fielding class in the third. There was
a man on third and one Wilder came
up with fire in his eye. He took the
distance and elevation from the con-
ming tower, sighted carefully and hit
center-field between wind and water.
This was good for two bags, and john
son. the man on third, romped. But
J. p. Clark, who was on second at the
time of the hit, thought that he could
hammer out the twenty-fveknot clip
and reach harbor before shutdown. He
reekoned without the enemy's speed,
however. for Green, the Tennessee man
at left-feld, found that ball and sent
his Parsons up to the twenty-three
hundred notch. The ball went to Bush
At third base, who has reciproeating
engines. and it seemed that Neff would
oct in before he got his tube pointed.
But he took chance and shot, and
the torpedo found its billet, for Neff
made a splendid catch and Clark
struck his eolors at the order of the
umpire. Tt was a great play and the
Southerners' supporters went up in the
air and did wireless stunts in the key
of major.
Jr. hauIHldu SIOu6 dL nIfb lOA tltC
Partners. He was there with the
probe and trepan and kept Pitcher
Reed busy with the anesthetic. He
sure had the other boys laid out on
the table and performed some delicate
operations that brought forth appreci-
alive applause from the students in
the theater.
Mr.. Littlefeld, from the Washing
ton. who frOze on to the indicator, was
there with many chimes that told some
thing more than the half hours. He
kent perfect tab on the target prac- !
tise and called the hits and misses
with unerring precision. There was
never any doubt as to whether man
missed his mooring or not, and he call
ed them ga wrack on the mud as
evenly and as quietly as he sang out |
for deep water and a fair anchorage. |
Both teams complained of the glare.
The sky was cloudy and this same
glare was very hard on the boys, since
thew are not used to it. Even at that, |
very few hard flies were missed, and |
both Catchers Neff and Waehlin hung |
ON to some peppers that were buttered
in Farmville.
The bows were very pleased with the
game and the losers forgot to be sore
at each other, something that you find /
as universal rule in the Navy. They
said that they felt out of practise, but
will be there with full bunkers and a
great head of steam when they play
again next Saturday.
The official score was:
TENNESSEES.
ALB. R. BIZ.
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