The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-22
TIME TEAM IS
GETTING BUSY
Fans Want to Know What Is
Being Done in Preparation
for AlI-StarS.

One of the grandstand regulars dur
ing the recent series of games at the
league park, and one of the most en-
thusiastie fans in Honolulu, came into
the office yesterday and wanted to
know about the team that was going
TO play the Reach All-Stars when they
arrive.
He said: cit is only just month
now until Mique Fisher and his bunch
will arrive here, and / don't see any
signs of preparation. When they come
here we want to give them good
game and beat them if possible, and it
seems to me that it is about time
people began to take notice and start
getting a team ready. 1t is a cineh
that we can not beat those people
unless We practise good and hard for
them. If Pat Donahue is coming here
to coach the team, he ought to be mott
fed at once
So far as can be ascertained, no
movement has yet been started to ar
range for a representative team to OPP
pose the triumphant victors from ia
pan and China 1t is certainly true
that we shall need preparation and,
more than all the practise in the world,
enthusiasm.
The people are beginning to look for
ward to the series of games and the
fan mentioned is by no means the only
one to make inquiries about the per-
sonnet of the team that will play
them.
The league players are nearly all
out of practise, as they are not adj
mitted to the winter league and so
have little opportunity to play. In
many cases their work is not conducive
to speed, and they will need plenty
of limbering up and throwing and
catching before they are in proper
condition to put up series of good
exhibitions of ball.
So far as the town is concerned,
there is no doubt about the reception
which the visitors will get. The
grandstand and bleachers viii be
crowded to the limit, and there will
be plenty of support for the local team
if it shows a tendency to put up a
hard fight.
There has been an air of willingness
among MANY of the best players to
take part in the games. but this seems
to have worn off, and the time is about
ripe to start something. The boys can
not be expected to turn out for any
very vigorous work during the holt
days. but they will be all the keener
afterwards, and, by starting in after
New Years Day, they will have just
a month for practise and selection.
About the time that dear old Mique
1abs his smiling eountenanee above the
horizon, things will commence to hum.
There is no more successful booster
than Mique, and he has an extraOrdi-
nary way Of arousing enthusiasm that
is a pippin.
There is one thing about Mique that
has endeared him to the heart of all
sporting writers. He will stand for
josh and the harder you slip it to him
the better he likes it, the louder he
laughs and the fatter he gets.
One famous joke about Mique is that
he is a tight wad This is, of course,
very much of a joke, as the big fellow
is never happier than when he is set
ting up anything from ice cream to
highballs for the bunch. But Charlie
Van Loan started the ''Tight" josh
some three years ago and it has chung
hard and fast.
There will be one event that will be
quite classic when the all-stars get
here and that win be the session be-
tween Mique and Joe Cohen. The re-
corder of events will camp on the trail
of the ball magnate until this comes
off and then there will be the big
burning of typewriter keys and the
festive jingles.
The series of games will be jolly
event in every way. The famous ball
tossers will keep things lively, when
thew are not playing, with oriental rem.
iniseences and good old Red Dog Will
have his usual comet 8 tan
Of kids following him round. Some
thing like big jim Jeffries in the old
days when he first became champion.