The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-10
Use WOODS
BIG INVASION

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.--For the
first time since the great American
|jghme of baseball became reality the
||stlars of the diamond will invade the
Il Orient next winter under the guidance
of Jesse Woods, the well known Homo.
Zulu sporting man, and Mike Fisher, the
jocuIar manager who chaperoned SO
maa y ball mines in various cities of the
HPaSific coast during the last eight years,
|3If6 the trip proves a success-and all
j Publications point that way-it will I'M
EAloubtedly result income of the greatest
triumphs that the pet pastime of Uncle
Sam has ever known, and the game has
maHaged to achieve new wonders every
Byeslr since its birth half century ago.
M Encouraged by the success of last
8y9ar s invasion of Honolulu with nine
fhade up almost wholly of Pacific coast
league players, Woods and Fisher de.
cided at its conclusion to undertake the
L "trip far across the broad Pacific. Care.
{f,hlly they laid their plans and so eager
~ were they received by all who heard
/ pf them that the magnates went at
their work with zest until now they
are being doomed throughout the ORR
emit.
T. Little by little the famed tossers of
hn No Nd Apnn laof rac
heard of the wonderful pilgrimage
planned by Woods and Fisher. AppH.
+ cations for places on the tourist team
game pouring in daily, and now the
&pen Engineering the deal can have their
Pick of the nation s stars.
II Woods sails for the Orient tomorrow
morning on the steamer Mongolia for
The Ifurpose of making the final ar.
gang&ments and booking the team at
F. he 'larger cities of Japan, China, Phil
n pIpines and the Hawaiian Islands. His
Il |,i1p will-eover period of three months,
n upon his return on October l Fisher
|g8ll have perfected the arrangements
~ this end of the world and the party
Jill be ready to invade the Far East.
IA The team win sail direct to Yoko-
hama, where it plays a series of games
with the leading Japanese mines of the
big city. From there it visits Toxic,
E Kobe and Nagasaki. Finishing its tour
ofi Japan, the team goes next to the
a Philippines and then through China On
heir way home the stars viii stop over
Hat Honolulu, where the natives will
|again be waiting to greet them as they
!were last year.
All Japan is agog over the coming
slbf the American stars AS the baseball
fans in general know, the little brown
|n men of the Mikado' IS kingdom have fol
f. lowed once more in the footsteps OF
Uncle Sam and adopted his national
pajstime as their own. So proficient have
the Japs become in handling the sphere
|$tBat their leading colleges are reputed
10 play ball nearly as fast as our own
uhiversities are capable of.
M Every large school in the realm OF
fhe NIikado boast; e ball team, while
,9all the big cities they have their in
Independent mines, grass leaguers anj
sand lot performers, just as we have
hinder the Stars and Stripes. And til,
4 Japanese fans can root and make lif,
miserable for umpiros, too. There il
T bot a feature of the great game which
F. they overlook, and the faster the game
H the better the little brown men lik,
Them.
In The coming of the American player
IA Twill do more for baseball in Japan thar
Iahything else that has ever happened
IA in this line. The doings of these grea
Iliam1nd stars are well known to tn,
I Japanese fans, who take nearly a
muc@ interest in our national game a
~ we do ourselves. They can tell yol
f phel batting average of Hans Wayne
4 n "a jiffy, while they have Hal Chase I
b tolenN base record at their tongues
lips.
Japan is very populcus country
and the population is all centralized
For this reason Woods and Fisher hop,
10 break the world s attendance recor,
Rt Toxic and Yokohama. This sound
ridiculous on the face of it, but whel
|4 the matter is studied out carefully i
looks plausible enough.
Both of these cities contain some
+ hing like 100000 people, and are
therefore, nearly as large as Chicago
Besides the ardent japanese fans, tn,
population is made up of thousands o
Americans and British subjects, win
will flock to the games like so man.
sheep Then, the price of admission
Is small, so the hopes of Woods that h,
Will draw from $4,000 to 10000 peopl'
Ri his big games may be realized.
TIA Jack Bliss of the st. Louis Nationals
|+A Claude Berry of the Seals. and Pa