The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-08-18
Chinese Alohas, 8; ]. A. Cs., 8.
Pillamas, 8; Aalas. o.

Chinese Alohas, 6; J. A. Cs., 8.
Ptlamas, s; Aalas, o.
There was Joy in the hearts of the
Riverside fans yesterday for their own
players were once more out on the Aala
park diamond and they came in their
thousands to welcome the reopening of
the Riverside League.
For many weeks now, Aala park has
been d.eary and somber desert on
Sunday afternoon for the big games
were going at the ball park and the
Riversiders had postponed their games
in courtesy to the management of the
baseball league.
The entire diamond was circled by
a thick bank of polyglot spectators and
the windows of the houses across the
river were thronged with excited spec.
tators. And what roofing there was.
The MIGHTY oceans of sound that rolled
from tine bleachers at the park when
Jack Doyle took charge of the Japanese
roofing squadron were as nothing com
pared to the tumultuous roars of APP
plause that arose from the Aala field
after each good play or clever piece of
fielding at Aala yesterday.
1t was celebration and a mighty
paean to amateur baseball with free
admittance, unoaid players and thou
sands of fans cheering their favorites,
and the sight was one to impress the
chance visitor with the wonderful hold
that clean sport and the grand national
game has on Honolulu.
OLD VARIETY GAMES.
The games were of the good old Aala
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and clever. There was twelve inning
game with only five errors for the los
ers and "A tough withdrawing job that
kept the successful artists busy from
'the time they first dipped their brushes
into the bucket.
The j. A. c. IS put up terrible game
against the Alohas and the latter had
to fight tooth and nail to cloud the
Rising Sun in the twelfth. At the close
of the ninth each team had tailed five
runs and then there were three innings
of such playing as has rarely been seen
even down by the River.
In the second inning of the last game
Makanu repeated his wonderful feat of
sending the ball across the river. The
spectators jumped in the air and howl
ed themselves hoarse, but unfortunately
the ball was foul and so the batter took
no well-deserved home run.
THE FIRST GAME.
The j. A. Cs. went in fir It but failed
to score. Then Kaia came up for the
Alohas and dropped the ball into the
river, This took him to second. Zerbe
was out at first as also was Britto but
Akana came up with his eyes on the
water and dropped another ball in the
drink. This passed Kaia home and the
Alohas had scored the first run.
The Japs came back in the second
with run which was tailed by Steere
the first man up. He singled and stole
twice so that he was all ready for tho
nice little single batted out by Pickard
and romped home accordingly.
In the second part of the second in
ming the Alohas came back strong and
scored three. L.. Akana was safe at
ond when En- Sing was safe on Ross
beef. Townsend famed but Ho Yup
handed out a single piece and Akana
Their along and, when Kaia singled he
and Ho Yup both came in. That made
the score to l.
The ]. A. Cs. made two in the fourth,
for which credit is due to Kaipo and
Kualo, materially assisted by Akana,
who threw high to the plate, so that
Britto was doing some ground grovel.
ling while they ran in.
One in the seventh and one in the
ninth put the Japs one ahead, but the
Alohas would stand for nothing of the
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trated by Fleming, except in one in
stance, when he missed and Single
was Johnny -the-Spot He had only
short distance to go and sent the
ball through the goal in two short
strokes.
Just before the whistle blew for "No
Side" there was a mixup on the Oahu
goal.line, the inner consciousness of
which could not be ascertained by tho
scoring officials at that distance. 1t
turned out that the Oahus had made n
safety, that it had taken the ball be-
hind their own goal-line and thus for
feited one.quarter of one of their very
hard'earned points.
There was a large crowd ON the polo
field, as the day was holiday on Maui
and a special train ran from Puunene
to take all those who wished to see
the game. The whole of one side of the
field was lined with rigs and automo.
biles, and the rain did little to dampen
the enjoyment of the spectators, who
were naturally in sympathy with their
home team.
The general opinion expressed by
those who know the game was that
the 0ahus lacked practise, not only in
team work, but in hitting. In way,
their team work was very good-each
man kept his place and did his utmost
to ride off when it was the right thing
to do. Even as it was, if the Oahu
players had been able to find the ball
with more certainty, there is little
doubt that their score would have been
yerY much larger