The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-09-22
lL-OAHUS BEST
THE MO0HEAUS
tlNrom sunday's Advertiser.)

II The All Oahuan aggregation of base
Pail stars had little difficulty in putting
kht over the Mooheau visitors from Hilo
in their first attempt yesterday after
noon at the ball park. This does not
say, though, that the Hiloites are not
a classy bunch themselves, for they
are there with good team combination
and it may well be that their defeat
was due to having just come off the
boat and the very nasty and sloppy
condition of the ground and ball.
Their pitcher Williams is surely
worthy of the fame which preceded
him. He is stockily built fellow, ap,
Parently very muscular and he sends in
}the hard ones with terrific force. He
has head as well as muscles and
plays up to his first and second base.
men with remarkable skill.
Before the game it was announced
that Admiral Beckley, for whom the
iMooheaus are named, would pitch the
first ball, which he did with great pre-.
lodi pog dlu uOb pay pu1
took the indicator instead, which he
did to the entire satisfaction of players
ana spectators alike.
The visitors went in first and the
-, three men all found that Eddie
HI lnandez had the ball before they
ofhed first. Then Olmos came up for
locals and walked after Williams
= = pitched four balls straight. This
not look as though the visiting
Thsrler were going to be so much of
1Illyonder after all, but he soon settled
wn and got used to the wet ball. 1t
evident that Williams is not used
Eb} that widely deprecated method of
4 sbtching known as the "Spit ball.
4 fA,The 0ahus made two of their three
Wins in the second. II was hard to say
E,5Aether it was an error or merely a
Any wet ball that let Lyman in, but
{,E Georg Desha who threw the ball
u cw the plate.
stABruns was out at first, but Lyman
az
tHEgled and it was one peach of a
t9Agle; for the ball shot by second base
y hr the ground, so red hot that a
h could not have stopped it with a
Y FIR of pincers. Then En- Sue doubled
n left field. 1t was another hot one
yF,d third baseman Tevis had no chance
7 q handle it. The. ball got wetter and
} = letter en- route to the fence where
George Desha found it and he can hard
lily be blamed for fumbling trifie, al
i though the throw he made probably
calls for the error with which he was
debited.
While all this was going on Lyman
romped and En- Sue went to third. Up
came John Williams who performed
the typical sacrifice by skying to right
field where, of course, he was caught
out, but with plenty of time before the
return for En- Sue to make his scratch
lon the plate.
"a. Will Desha retaliated for the visitors
Y scoring the one and only in the
Fourth. He singled nicely and then
fburgled second. John Williams maze
an unlucky error about this time and
\ threw badly to Eddie Fernandez. The
4 nimble first baseman missed and Desha
. ran home. This was all that the Wis.
itors could do however and they were
i held down for the rest of the game.
N In the seventh Bushnell scored anoth-
er for the home team. There were two
men down but both Bushnell and Ol-
mos wore out shoe leather to first and
then Todd at first base found the ball
+ too wet to hold and Bushnell ran in.
The eighth and the first of the ninth
were soon over and the home team had
won clever victory after a good,
snappy game.