The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-03
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ALAMEDA ELEVEN
WILL TRY AGAIN
Honolulu C. C. and Sailors Will
Play Cricket at Makiki
This Afternoon.

The Alameda is in port, so the en-
! thusiastic sportsman from that ship will
be out again this afternoon to see if
they cannot beat the local team at
cricket. The game will start at $3.50
and viii be played as usual at Makiki
Park
The Ineups will be Alameda: F. Hill
yard, W. Marshall, F. Jerome, II. Van
Ermin, c. Hede. W. Howard, F. Nit
chell, E. Thurlow, A. Keller, G. Biggs,
E. Cowell Honolulu C. c.: R. Cation,
Bob Anderson, R. j. Buchiy, R. A. Jor-
dan, j. II. Fiddes, j. R. Maclean, w.
Lamb, P. J. Harwood, E. Melanphy,
E. Grant, S. Gait, w. Brown and j. c..
MeGill.
The Alameda boys are very anxious
to win this game. They have been
practising at every opportunity and
feel fit and ready to knock out bunch
of runs that will leave the local team
far behind. Judging by their wonder
full improvement in the last game they
played here, it is more than possible
that they will do the trick.
: Bob Anderson will be out to play
this time and he may be counted on for
a large consignment of runs as well as
wickets as he is equally good with the
bat and ball. r. A. Jordan viii also
appear for the locals and his under
hand twisters may be relied on to keep
! the sailors guessing again.
The Alameda players are very good
felders and excellent batters but they
certainly lack in one respect and, if
they would take cognizance of this and
look out for their failing, it is very
possible that they will win. They are
too wary of taking chances. Time and
time again they could have easily put
in another run on hit last time they
played, but they always wanted to be
on the safe side and thus lost large
number of runs.
1t is strange but true that luck near
ly follows a daring runner at cricket
and, if the sea dogs win only recognize
this and run it out every time, they
are liable to hit up grand score and
none of them get run out.
Z The sailors enthusiasm for the great
British game seems to grow with every
trip. One of the players said yester-
day, 81 don't see why more people
don t come out to watch the game. L
expect we shall have more tomorrow
than we did last time when there was
really quite a goodsized crowd, because
there are a good many ships in port
and every sailor likes to see game
of cricket if he halls from British soil.
Personally, / cannot imagine
more enjoyable way of spending an af-
ternoon than in watching a good cricket
game, especially in this climate where
one can sit in the shade of the trees
by the pavilion and be in perfect com
fort, no flies and not too hot and never
chilly.
"The game is taking a great hold
in the States [ notice In the East, |
especially in Philadelphia, they have a
great number of teams and play first |
class game as is clearly proved by tbe
recent trip of the Philadelphians to
England where they made it hard for
even frst-class county teams. I notice |
also that the girls in some of the uni
versities are organizing teams, which |
is good, for girls can play an intelli- |
gent game of cricket while they are
practically barred from baseball on |
account of the sliding features of the
game.
"There is one thing that everybody
must admit in favor of cricket and |
that is that it is essentially sports
man s game. There is no baking nor
taking advantagein any way of play
er. What would you think if you saw
a man standing at long off and vio-
lently waving a coat at bowler so as
to upset him when he was about to de-
liver a ball7 They do those things and
many more of them in baseball I
have heard many Americans say that,
while they think baseball the faster
and snappier game, cricket has always
appealed to them on that one ac
count.