The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-29
ALL NATIONS
At AALA PARK
international Baseball Tends
to Promote an Entente
C0rdiaIe.
By W. Tin Chong.


If there Is any place where so much
interest is manifested in the natio.,al
Pastime, that great game Of baseball.
that place Is Honolulu, where there are
now about dozen leagues organized.
The most popular place of all the parks
where baseball is seen is AaIa Park.
Here II l. where races eommingle with
one another in this popular sport and
here II Is where there are no race lines.
or preJudiees shown one against the
other, just because a person happens TO
&be born in the land where women wear
trousers and socks, while men wear
dresses and stockings, or instead of hav-
ing their hair dressed as an American.
they wear a queu All in all. baseball
at this popular diamond is one Of the
greatest teachers Of good fellowship
and brotherly love between people of
one country and that of another.
The climatic conditions Of this eoun-
try have made IL possible to have out
of-dOOr sports all the year around. 50
II Is not surprising TO say that, out Of
the fifty and more Sundays each year.
not one OF these has elapsed without a
baseball game taking place at some
place IN the vicinity OF Honolulu. There
are now about fifty or more baseball
teams in all the leagues, most Of
these being japanese, who are said 10
have twenty-three teams in all. As
Japan Is a progressive country, this Is
no doubt true. Among the most p5pu-
lar teams playing the year around are
those at Aala Park in the Riverside /
League. This league was first organic |
ed in the year 1906, but il did not
attract the ewes Of the public until the !
year 1907. when with 3. II. KeIekolio 1
as president; Fred Maxine. vice pres
ident; ". Tn ChOng. secretary. and /
RObt. Asam. treasurer; this league was !.
regularly formed and some of the most 4
historic baseball games were played in I
its second year. I
Il NAV be interesting TO the fans u .
mention ar least one of these, that /
which took place in the early part OF 4
July. 1907. between the Chinese Alohas 1
and the Palamas. The game was the
warmest and prettiest played here, the
dragonlets proved their supremacy by
defeating the Hawaiian team at the end
OF seventeen innings with the score OF
% in their favor. 1t is in this game
that some Of the rootings which would
have even drowned Jack Doyle . three
thousand banzais took place.
On the one side there were a thou
sand or more half-erazed Chinese. blue
bloused and shaven headed, dancing IN
their soft-soled shoes, roofing their
country lads 70 victory, while opposing
them were a few thousand husky Ha-
waiians and pretty hapa-pake girls,
which strangely 10 say have allied
themselves with the brothers Of their
good natured mothers. Besides these,
there were rooters IN Tapping kimonos,
haoles. Portuguese. Porto Rieans. Spani-
ards and Koreans, divided as their
faneies directed, who eheered and root
ed themselves hoarse until the game was
finally ended
II may be proper to congratulate
few OF those who have rendered valu-
able services in the promotion OF
amateur baseball here. Among them
are Hon. J. X. KalaniaRaole, Hon. Chas-
Hustaee Jr.. Hon J. J. Fern, Hon r.
W. Single and many others who have
donated beautiful trophies to those who
are lucky 10 win championship laurels.
Then there are B. H. Kelekolio, A. L.
{. Atkinson. W. T. RapOsO, A h Nler-
IA. h0uE- ASdEl anu AihAf NA-ANAS VIZ
have offered there services free OF
charge 10 the leagues in which they
are interested. Also all those who par (
in the games. play for moth {
ing. but "sport for sport 5 sake. - A
X. Vierra. who i the organizer OF the
Kalanianaole League, one OF the best
organized. deserved special mention, a ,
A. X has even v0uched the last minute I
Of his life To promote clean sports in 7
this happy land.
There viii be two games played this :
afternoon at Aala Park and as both
OF these are international games. all
those who have been unfortunately pre-
vented from seeing any of the former
games. should avail themselves of this :
opportunity 10 see them In the first
game the Chinese 4. c. are to meet the
White Sox and IN the second contest,
the japanese A. c. are 10 face the Aala /,
A. c. Everybody should be there on d,
time. the first game TO start ar 1870