The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-10

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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 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 cars or walk home
Stealing bases at every possible OPP
portdnity, 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 beaehed high and dry,
while the Jewels were putting around
| waiting for a 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 S wonderful pitching
Ii
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 vita
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 a 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 a 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
he was in shape to do the same again,
but he fell from grace and walked
Higo, the boss base-stealer of cham
pion base-stealing aggregation. Then
it was all off, and they kept coming
until F'ukuda 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
himself just trif1e 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
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 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 a great afternoon and every
fan who was not out at the park has !
good reason to feel sorry for himself :
Let those fans who We're there spread !
the glad news so that the third base |
bleachers will not be so glaringly emp |
-ty nor the grandstand such a hollow !,
void in future.
OF the four pitchers yesterday, Les
lie was the only one who did not do
himself justice. He walked man after
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
his head wonderfully well but he did
not act as though he felt right and
everybody knows that pitcher can
not twirl his own game unless he is
there with the rosy hue of health in
side and out.
The Keos 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 ANA.
teur aggregation.
THE FIRST GAME.
The Saints went in first. En- Sue
flew out to Art Shafer. Bushnell sim
gled. then Walker did the same. which
took Bushnell very nearly home; in
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