The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-09
Santa Claras, 9; Keios, 1.
Vannatta Combination, 8:
Castle Combination, /.

Was it baseball or was it bunch
of fellows Stacking round the field be-
cause they had nothing else to do
Why did the bleachers, sadly untitled
at the beginning, show such rapid
thinning out of the ranks of the root
ersl And echo answers, "Why2' If
you were there you need no explana-
ton, and if You We're not there it is
such a sad subject that the less said
about it the better.
The game scheduled between the
picked teams from the St. Louis Kane
hamehasN and Diamond Heads Punahous
was fzzle 1t had been proclaimed
and heralded as one of the fastest and
most interesting games to be seen on
the diamond this season. 1t should
have been that same thing, but it was
not.
In the first place none of the Dia-
mond Heads turned up. Sam Chilling
worth was in the bleachers and he was
hailed down and into his baseball togs.
A Mr.. Beggs, a Diamond Head recruit,
who proved to be a player of some
parts. was also impressed, and the rest
of the places were filed by Santa Clara
boys, who had already PLAYED a hard
game and had spent the night in a
testv argument with their midsllips sec
tionl 3 to the confluence or otherwise
of ballast
The fact is that none of the players
seemed to care a whoop whether they
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pointed out before, this is not what
pleases the fans. These latter put up
to- see the games, and while it is ad-
mitted that the players are amateurs,
this does not detract from their re-
sponsibiIity to do the best they can
when they go into the light of pub
l;citv on the diamond. Nobody on the
field seemed to take any interest, and
a much faster and keener game can be
seen on any of the bare lots where the
players are shoeless and have three
bats and one ball between them.
The first game, between the Santa
CIaras and Keos, was up to the aver
age for speed and excitement, and was
bv no means a poor game to watch
The Santa Claras showed the effect of
their recent voyage very distinctly. al
though they deserve great deal of
credit for the way they threw off any
i'll effects and shook down into good
team work.
The little Japanese players made a
sturdy fight against the other visitors,
and it looked as though they were go
ing to do things in the second inning,
when they tailed two on clever steals
and Art Shafer' s error in throwing
E wildly to third
Fpkuda was behind the bat for the
first eight innings and drew applause
many times for the clever way he
threw He sent the ball TO second like
a streak several times. and his quick
work was in large measure response
BILE for the Keios holding the Santa
Claras even until the eighth inning.
The first two innings of the first
game were remarkable for two very
clever catches. Art Shafer skied to
middle-right field and Abe went for it.
He was not near enough for a clean
catch. but he jumped at the ball and
caught it. He fell forward owing to
the impetus of his leap and rolled over
on the ground, but he chung to the
hall and raised his hands triumphantly
in the air as he lay on his back.
Shafer. Takahama sent very hot one
whizzing towards second, just out of
reach of Art s head, but the nimble
coilegian jumped for it and made
very pretty one handed catch that
brought a healthy round of applause
from the bleachers.
The Keios scored two in the second,
the Santa Claras came back with two
n the third. Koyama held them TO
this till the eighth, when the Santa
Claras came through with three. In
the ninth Koyama went to first. Fu-
kuda pitched. and Higo took the lat
ter s place behind the bat. Fukuda
was unable to do himself justice after
the eight hard innings of catching, and
he was batted to the tune .of three
singles and a double in that one in
ming.
The Keios made last effort in the
ninth and did succeed in tallying two.
but the other side had too much of
a lead and they could not even come
near to tying the score.
THE FIRST GAME.
Lappin got as far as third on Merv