The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-08
JAPANESE JOURNALISTS
BEATEN AFTER HARD FIGHT
(From Monday Advertiser.)

Then the game settled down to a |
fast and brilliant duel of pitchers.
Achieu was finding himself, and the
'Tisers were doing their utmost to hit
Hamasaki, but neither side could find
the ball for a bingle until the sixth
inning, when Sakaino made first on
good safe hit to center field. This did
his side no good, but it broke the
spell, and when Rodriguez came UP he
found the left-feld fence, but owing
to remarkably brilliant piece of
fielding by Tsuneto, he could get no
farther than first base.
Rodriguez stole one while Correa
was waiting for a chance, and when
that chance came and he bingled, Rod.
riguez went to third and Manuel stole
second. Everybody was finding the
pitcher this time, for Chi Bui singled
and Rodriguez romped, while Correa
went to third. Chi stole second and
Aehieu sacrificed Correa in. Paul
slsied, but Chi came in on the throw,
which was muffed by Kato at third
base. This tied the score and things
got more exciting than ever.
From then until the very end Of the
game It was one of the tensest, hard
est fights ever seen on local dia-
mond. In the seventh Tsuneto per-
] formed another brilliant piece Of work
by catching Joe Pereira Is long fly on
/ the dead run. Achieu was down tn
business in earnest by this time, and
the journalists could not touch him.
They famed or flew out with regular.
ity, but the 'Tisers did the same at
the hands of Hamasaki, and 1t looked
like ten-inning game.
The Last Effort.
Hideo came up in the first of the
ninth and reached first on Manuel Cor
rea s. one error. Then he stole one
and reached third on Tsuneto's sacri-
tHee. A man on third and only one
down, it sure looked like score, but
when Noda hunted Hideo was out at
the plate and Noda couldn't steal Sec
ond. This put the Japs out and the
'Tisers came up for the, last effort of
the game. ~ 9o
4 Paul famed, but Kupau singled.
Sing Hoon reached first on fielder IS
choice which put Kupau out at sec
ond 1t was the right play to put Ku-
pau out, but, in reality, it lost the
game for the journalists, for Sing is
very swift runner. He stole second
and then Joe Pereira bingled, oh, 80
J; nicely, and the speedy Chinaman
romped round third and just beat the
ball to the plate by the skin Of his
/. fingers. That was the final and win
ming play, and 'Tisers and Japs begar
to Jump round and shake hands and
! congratulate each other on one of the
: fastest and friendliest games svel
seen here.
7 80 sheba Genial Host.
After the game, Mr.. Sheba came out
all smiles and asked for, old mar
: Boisse. The latter was found on hi
way out from the Elks' memorial ser
: vice, and then the whole team wal
l asked to accompany the smiling edito
$ of the Shinpo to a downtown restau
$ rant, where fine supper was sprea'
b for them.
The 'Tiser players were loud in thei
t praise of the Japanese journalists a
r opponents and sportsmen, and reall
o felt very sorry that they had beate
Q them. There is no doubt that thi
friendly meeting will give great in
It petus to the sport among the japanese
l. who were very much tickled that the
IS could make il so hard for an aggregs
n tion of seasoned PLAYERS.