The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-08

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When man like Shinpo Sheba
Starts in getting things to go,
You can bet your bottom dollar,
That they won't be very slow;
He arranged game of baseball
And the fans all loudly swore,
1t was easily the fastest
Game of ball they ever saw.
! When the journalists of Nippon
And the 'Tisers played game,
Though the latter were the winners
Yet they worked hard just the same;
But, instead of being sorry
That the 'Tisers beat his bunch,
Mr.. Sheba smiled quite loudly
And invited them to lunch.
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Now, II every baseball magnate
Were sportsman such as he,
We should have less pilikia
And no rampant jealousy;
For with each and very player
There would be this single thought,
s'We shall do our best to beat 'em,
But we're playing just for SPORT
That was the (and you can spell
rtheo with letters an inch Highly game
of the season. Almost errorless, fought
for tooth and nail, tied until the last
of the ninth inning and with grand
stand crowded with yelling, stamping
rootets, for general keenness and excite
ment it had the best of the Keio games
backed of the board.
In a way ft was two scratch teams
that were playing but they didn T play
like scratch teams, not bit of it. The
signalling work between the pitchers
and catchers and the way the felders
! worked together was treat to watch.
If the 'Tisers put up the same kind of
a game against theVWaialuas that they
did Yesterday afternoon, there won u
he any doubt about that whtewash tub.
| The grandstand was jammed full or
enthusiastic fans most of them Japan
| csc. but there were many admirers OF
the ,Tisers of other nationalities and
| il made the old grounds look like the
first Santa Clara game. Before the
game. when the Asahi BanZais had quit
business for time, there was much
good joshing of the "White-
wash variety. Both teams took only
a few minutes practise and then the
'Tisers went out on the field and Kato
went in to bat.
Kato died very suddenly at first but
Achieu slipped cog and gave Sakaino
transportation to first. Then Hideo
singled neatly and Sakaino went to sec
ond. Tsuneto skied but Noda banged
out beautiful double that sent Saka
inc and Hideo romping home. Then il
seemed that the grandstand would sure
" fall in for the crowd literally jump
ed up and down in its joy; while row
of grinning faces poked over the rail
ing and derisively yelled to the scorer Z
table to ask where that whitewash was
/ 'Tisers UP Against 1t.
: The 'Tisers were up against some
thing they did not quite understand
when they faced that little Hamasaki I
curves. He stood in the box with hi
bare feet planted firmly in the cart
and twisted almost entirely from tn
hips but, when he let the ball go, j
went with terrible zip and you neve
could tell which way it was going t.
curve. But it always went over tn
plate.
a Joe Pereira bingled, it is true, bu
!. Bisho skied, Rodriguez famed and Mar
g uel Correa skied. Then the journalist
!, came in again and Imanaka scored Q
passed ball. This made the score
n 0 but the 'Tisers had their blood u
: and they scored in the second half q
the inning.
d Chi Bui skied and Achieu died br
II Paul Pereira was safe on Noda's sli
g and then Kupau bingled. They al
a. both good burglars and practised the
e profession nicely for a bag apiece. The
le Sing Hoon followed with neat sw'
le that sent Paul prying to the plat
y Kupau got a trifle too ambitious abo'
g. this time and was out trying to g
home. The score stood to ] in fav'
10 of the journalists and it looked trif
better for the 'Tisers.
lie Duel of Pitchers.
le The japanese scored their four
sr and last run in the third inning. S
re kaino was the man who did it and
D. very neat steal from third to &
~ plate. With their champions thr
~ runs ahead, the fans began to THU
ie they had cnch and rooted more IL
;o tily than ever at each play.
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