The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-20
ALL-OAHUS BEST
The MOOHEAUS
BY Score of 8 TO | Local Team
Defeats Visitors From
Hawaii Island.

The All Oahuan aggregation of base
ball stars had little difficulty in putting
it over the Mooheau visitors from HiIo
in their first attempt yesterday after
noon at the ball park. This does not
say, though, that the Hiloites are not
"a classy bunch themselves, for they
are there with good team combination
and it may well be that their defeat
was due to having just come off the
boat and the very nasty and sloppy
condition of the ground and ball.
Their pitcher Williams is surely
worthy of the fame which preceded
him. He is a stockily built fellow, ap-
parently very muscular and he sends in
the hard ones with terrific force. He
has head as well as muscles and
plays up to his first and second base.
men with remarkable skill
Before the game it was announced
that Admiral Beckley, for whom the
iMooheaus are named, would pitch the
first ball, which he did with great pre-
cision. Barney Joy did not play but
took the indicator instead, which he
did to the entire satisfaction of players
and spectators alike.
The visitors went in first and the
first three men all found that Eddie
Fernandez had the ball before they
reached first. Then Olmos came up for
the locals and walked after Williams
had pitched four balls straight. This
did not look as though the visiting
twirler were going to be so much of
wonder after all, but he soon settled
down and got used to the wet ball. 1t
is evident that Williams is not used
to that widely deprecated method Of
pitching known as the "Spit ball. F."
The Oahus made two of their three
runs in the second. It was hard to say
whether it was an error or merely a
very wet ball that let Lyman in, but
the official scorer decide on an error
for Georg Desha who threw the ball
to the plate.
Bruins was out at first, but Lyman
singled and it was one peach of a
single; for the ball shot by second base
near the ground, so red hot that a
can could not have stopped it with a
pair of pincers. Then En- Sue doubled
to left field. It was another hot one
and third baseman Tevis had no chance
to handle it. The ball got wetter and
wetter en- route to the fence where
George Desha found it and he can hard
ly be blamed for fumbling a trifie, al
though the throw he made probably
calls for the error with which he was
debited.
While all this was going on Lyman
romped and En- Sue went to third Up
came John Williams who performed
the typical sacrifice by skying to right
field where, of course, he was caught
out, but with plenty of time before the
return for En- Sue to make his scratch
on the plate.
viii Desha retaliated for the visitors
by scoring the one and only in the
fourth. He singled nicely and then
burgled second. John Williams made
an unlucky error about this time and
threw badly to Eddie Fernandez. The
nimble first baseman missed and Desha
ran home. This was all that the Wis
itors could do however and they were
held down for the rest of the game.
In the seventh Bushnell scored anoth- |
er for the home team. There were two
men down but both Bushnell and Oh
mos wore out shoe leather to first and
then Todd at first base found the ball |
too wet to hold and Bushnell ran in. |
The eighth and the first of the ninth |
were soon over and the home team had |
won clever victory after a good, |
snappy game.