The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-11
Santa claras, 2; St, Louis, o. !
Keios, g; Diamond Heads, l. !
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4 Keios, 6; Diamond Heads, 1. X
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Banzai forty different ways for the
little Keios and their great, ally, Jack
Doyle. Between them they tied the
Jewels to a big balloon and sent it way
up in the air, where it burst and drop
ped the poor Diamond Heads all over
the field.
! After the game Jacks army of we'll
trained rooters crowded on to the field
and, amid the waving of keio flags,
the players were cheered to the echo
until the cheerers were forced to run
for the ears or walk home.
Stealing bases at every possible OPP
portunity, always successfully, batting
out timely hit or two and keeping
their heads all the time, the Keios ran
their board on to great wave of en-
thusiasm and beached high and dry,
while the Jewels were putting around
waiting for big comber to start them
! just one run did the free-paper boys
tally, and that was as much due to a
let-up in Fukuda' Is wonderful pitching
as anything else. If the little brown
| pitcher had not walked Thompson, it
is very doubtful if they would have
scored.
AS long as the Japs were at the bat
it was impossible to hear oneself think
such was the energy and volume of the
roofing from bleachers and grandstand.
Jack Doyle was in charge of the first
base bleacher, which was crowded with
Japanese. He stood on the railing and
led the yells in proper polyglot style.
Not satisfied with this, he arranged a
system of return yells from n crowd of
their countrymen in the grandstand,
and the tremendous waves of noise roll
ed back and forth across the plate.
The balloon started its ascent in the
/, first and scared gracefully along until
the eighth, when it burst with bang
and dropped the Diamond Head play
ers all over everywhere. Two in the
first one each in the third, fourth and
seventh, and great big three in the
eighth with two men gone was the
way they did it.
Strangely enough those three in the
eighth came after Leslie had appar-
emily woke up, for he famed two men
/ one after the other, and it seemed that
I he was in shape to do the same again,
but he fell from grace and walked
Higo, the boss base;stealer of q cham
: pion se-stealing aggregation. Then
lit was all off, and they kept coming
until Fukuda was out at first.
! The dull games of recent date were
more than made up for by the two
great ones yesterday. The Santa
Clara-St. Louis affair was a grand ex-
hibition of ball, especially of pitching.
| Barney Joy twirled seven innings of
; the finest kind of ball; if he had found
4 himself just trife sooner the visitors
would never have scored in the second
and the game would have passed on
to the tenth with the Saints getting
better all the time.
Barney began to be very good in
the third and started in on a wonder
full alienation of high and low balls,
swift and slow ones that the Santa
! Claras could do nothing with.
| Kilburn was in fine form too. The
| Saints could not find him and he kept
them playing that grand old tune, 81
could not hit that ball nohow.' There
was life and go in the game from the
/ very start and this increased as the
4 game went on until things were all
ready for the great excitement of the
second game,
The band did itself proud 1t start.
ed with a real new tune on Saturday
and was so elated at this that it re
peated it at every opportunity yester
day, playing a few bars between in
nings and continuing until that tune
was finished, then it would start all
over again. Some unduly optimistic
fan said that he expected we would
have another new tune this season, but
he probably forgot what he was saying
in the excitement of applauding the
Keios.
1t was great afternoon and every
fan who was not out at the park hai
good reason to feel sorry for himself
Let those fans who were there spreao
the glad news so that the third bas,
bleachers will not be SO glaringly emp
ty nor the grandstand such hollow
void in future.
i OF the four pitchers yesterday, Les
lie was the only one who did not de-
himself justice. He walked man aftel
man and his strike-outs were very few
and far between; also he made two err
rors in throws to bases both of which
were very costly. 1t cannot be said
that he went up in the air. He kept
l.his head wonderfully well but he did
not act as though he felt right and
1 everybody knows that a pitcher can
not twirT his own game unless he il
there with the rosy hue of health in
side and out.
The Keios showed the marvellous imi
tative ability of their nation by the
way they have picked up the finer
points of the game and have turned
from a tyro team into well-working
play together, thoroughly classy anna
teur aggregation.
THE FIRST GAME.
The Saints went in first. En- SUE
few out to Art Shafer, Bushnell sin
gled, then Walker did the same, which
i took Bushnell very nearly home; II
fact, just near enough to be touched
out by Merv Shafer. Jim Williams
did his best, but could not hit hard
enough and never reached first.
Then Barney went into the box and
made bad start by walking Lappin
but Merry. skied and "Pop" LappiI
was not smart enough at second. Ken
needy reached first and put Byrnes t.
rnn foy him hut tho Inter triad III