The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-11

Perhaps it was because the evening
papers are not in the habit of getting
out on Sunday that their baseball
teams at the big league park yester-
day afternoon were overcome by the
ballistic printers of the morning press |
and Ed Towse!s printery, but big
scores for the victors and a bunch OF |
errors for the victims made the games
none the less interesting.
That the truth may not suffer the
fact should be proclaimed that there |
was more enthusiasm to the square
inch per occupied seating capacity at
yesterdays contests than is ordinarily
the case at ball game.
The initial games of the newspaper
series, Stars VS. Advertisers and Bull
letins VS.. Mercantile Printers, were
pulled off in great shape though not in
any particular form. There is a diff
ference. Lots of players showed shape
who have not yet acquired form.
Moore, who started to pitch for the
Bulletins, for example excited envy on
| account of his lovely calves, bat he.
| hadn't form enough as a player to put
the ball over the plate and Albright
was put in his place. the latter having
more form than shape.
"How do you feel?' was asked of
Albright, after he had demonstrated
the fact that he can pitch when in
condition.
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One thing was clearly indicated by
Sundays line up: There is sufficient
good material to be gathered from
among the boys of the four teams on
the ground yesterday to, make a rat
thing fine printers aggregation to go
up against the big league or any other
bunch of ball sports in this Territory.
There will doubtless be numerous
changes in the losing teams before
they play again, changes for the bet
! ter, but there should be no regrets
over any mistakes made yesterday
when it is remembered that they were
the opening games and necessarily not
finished or full of perfection.
Brewster for the Stars on first muf-
fed few, but he also glued on to sew
eral which he might have been excus-
ed for letting pass and he swatted one
to center, when he went to bat, that
covered a multitude of sins.
CONFESS pitched a good game rror the
Twinklers and was sharp and effec
tive in action, also making good on
| first when his catapult stiffened and
]. Walter Brewster relieved him in the
box for a few sings.
But two errors were made by the Ii
ser team who walloped the Holy Lights
to the psalm of II to 8, while the fallen
Stars counted 16 plumbers and made
four hits to nine of the P. c. Ads. The
| e. B. s eTrored II times and notched
! three hits, so it was a ross-up between
| the evening papers as to which was
the more delinquent. The Mercantiles
butchered the Bulletins, the operation
! resulting in 10 to runs for the Mer-
chants who scored nine hits and made
as many errors.
There were several hundred lovers
of the great game in the park to be en-
tertained and they" got their moneys
worth and then several
The Territorial band under the in
spiration Of Professor Berger was sta
| toned in the grandstand and fed with
peanuts and tan-san. They started the
| sensations of the afternoon with STIR
ring strains and occasionally threw in
a couple of bars between innings.
Secretary of the Territory Mott
Smith in civil clothes sprang to the
box and, at the signal bell, ground the
capsule into his right vest pocket and
let it fly with a tobasco curve not
more than a yard above the head OF
the honorary batter Manager Hen
shall of The Star, who was also civil
ly dressed.
After that the deluge.
The Stars were first to the hickory
and for several minutes it was doubt
full as to what the result would be and
then it was uncertain how many runs
the Advertiser would make; and then
there was anxiety on the part of Of
fetal Scorer and Legal Adviser Bob
Breckons, ably assisted by his little
daughter who helped papa count the
TiseT runs
The braves in gray and the gallants
in blue went at it much as a couple OF
wrestlers, but the wonderful brain de-
velopment of the Star team did moi
serve them in that particular game
against the mere" muscle Of the Adj
yertiser boys. Here was a crying IN
stance where great mental attainment
was overcome by ply sique, With the
l Bulletins and the Merchants, of course
it was different. That was a case of art
versus beauty, and art won.
! Watch for the game between the
stars and the Bulletins. The team
that makes most hits gets all the tan,
san booze, being used to soft drinks.
There are good men in each team
and the game to come will naturally