Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-01
Baseball
Boxing
Boating

Clara, kctO, ana Hawaiian teams
have been interesting both Cor GER
tain amount of good baseball and for
showing the different styles of play
between the various teams.
The Santa Claras played together
well as Il team, worked well on their
rignals. ncldcd cxAllcntly, but bat
ted rather poorly. Team work ana
lgcmc baseball luck saved them. They
worked the squeeze play very clever
| ~ at times. but showed us nothing
really new in baseball-with apollo
gies TO their mud paint--except one
or two attempts at delayed steal,
which is different from the ordinary
first -and-third play. This play and
resulting error won them the first
Kamchamcha game. What we learn
cd from them, or rather what was
impressed upon us, was the value OF
consistent team play, and the pull
ling together for Il common end.
This, however. Is only the result of
constant practice and under present
conditions Hawaiian teams can not
lgct u sufficient amount.
In one respect we do not want to
Icopy the Santa Claras, and that Is In
lruOting from tho players bench when
1.-The opponents are in the field, making
Ipcrsonai remarks, and kicking too
frequently at the umpirc's decisions,
when they are merely errors of iudg-
mcut. not of rules. All this may be
popularity called playing the game"
but IL is not baseball \ team using
those tactics may win more games,
but roofing should come from the
Iblcachcrs. Honolulu, by the way,
would welcome u few more cnthusi-
asts like Jack Doyle and Doc Mon
sarrat.
The Kcio team came here with
comparatively little baseball knowl-
edge, and they leave the most i'm
proved team of the series. This Is
all to their credit and speaks well
for baseball In Japan. When they
arrived they were daring on bases.
felded we'll and battcd very weakly.
They could only bunt, but this i'm
portant art was ineffective because
they gave away their play, or would
bunt, for instance, with a man on
first and one out, while they would
not under the same conditions with
none out. Their squeeze plays also
we're played at the wrong time. But
now they 20 away with these faults
largely eradicated. They are still
aggressive or bases and field cleverly,
but, in addition, bat reasonably we'll
They meet speedy balls for short
Lifts, though weak on curves Bunt-
ing has not been forgotten. In fact
III is improved because they know
how to use IL and realize the foolish
mess Of continual attempts at squeeze
plays. Whether the japanese ever
win have n good pitcher is ques
ltion. A pitcher Is generally taller
n and heavier man, so the best policy
II for the japanese would seem to he t.
n develop Il man who would have guot
A control over curves, and not rely or
III
\ any great extent. However, tn,
II Kc.os alwn"s will be dangerous, ant
n must he watched at every momcn
4 during the game, so one can sincere
4 ly hope for the success of baseball il
4 Japan. The Keios have brought GU
4 a loyal crowd of japanese rootcrs
/ which has been good thing TO
! bafCball In Honolulu.
a The Hawaiian teams in wa!
. We're disappointing. They contain
good individual players, bat well
but lack team play and give thei
pitchers poor support. The answe
Is lack of practice. The series ha
also demonstrated that Honolulu i
a partisan ball town. for IA regula
team will draw better than "A picked
Also picked team does not play u
good Il game rs regular nine, n
\ was shown by the defeat of the All
Hawaii nine by the Santa ClaraS
- This team with proper practice cOul
probably defeat Santa Clara fou
times ont of five, as individually Tia
mon were better.
The Santa Claras defeated all on
teams except the Diamond Heads
with whom they drew, and lost onl
one other game, to the St. Louis, bu
of the total games they won, the
should have lost four. The frs
Kan game was lost by poor heaC
work on the part of Kamehameh;
combined with a crossed signal; til
second Diamond Head game woul
have gone the other way had N
| change OF pitchers been made ca
lier; while the Punahous simpl
=. handed the Santa Claras two game
while, except for two innings out
y eighteen, they outplayed and out-h
y them.
The PunahOus also threw ava
the last Keio game by suicidal wOl
mt 4.