The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-02
FORT SKATER FORCES ARE
DEFEATED BY IRREGULARS
KaIh Team Runs Away in the Seventh, Scoring
the Six Runs by Which They Defeat
the Soldiers.

All afternoon till nearly dark
Fierce, screaming war was waged.
On KaDiolani field that day
Two armies were engaged,
And when the smoke had cleared away
And all the fight was done,
The infantry was off the map,
And General Paul had won.
Dom Paul with his Kalihi horse,
Irregulars are they,
Descended on Fort Shafter s ranks,
And fearful was the fray.
The rifles screamed, the maxims
buzzed
Adown that thin red line,
The infantry fought well, but lost
BY fifteen runs to nine.
It was a terrible battle and fought
by each side until it was a case of
the side that was obliterated first los
ing the fight. With splendid mastery
of detail and strategic science, Dom
Paul spread his force of irregular horse
In open order and urged them forward
until they held commanding position.
General Oakley, commanding the
Twentieth Infantry, held a strong pO-
sition well covered by timber, but the
ground was low, and the Kalihis were
ranged along the top of a steep kopje,
whence they could fire on the Fort
Shafter forces and still keep in very
good cover behind rocks.
It was in the fifth inning that Dom
Paul ordered an advance down the
slope. The infantry had the range
down fine by this time and it looked
as though the irregulars would be
slaughtered to a man during that mad
rush down the side of the kopje, but
so rapid was the advance, and the dis
mounted horsemen lodged so cleverly,
that they reached the serried ranks of
the infantry before the latter could
stop them, and in the hand-to-hand
struggle which followed, the Fort Shat
ter forces We're caught in trap and,
though standing gallantly and using
their bayonets with dire effect, were
worn down to sad defeat.
The soldiers played rafting good
ball from start to finish, and the Ka-
This had no easy task beating them.
What really won the game for the Ka-
This was the admirable coaching of
their captain, big Dom Paul Burns.
When the soldiers tied the score in
the fifth he took the players individ-
ually and gave them all dig not to
give up, but to buck up considerably,
and they did. They bueked up to
such effect that they scored six in the
seventh and followed this with one in
the eighth and three in the last.
1t sure looked like landslide for
the regulars in the fifth. There were
two men down when Oakley went to
Nbat. He swatted hot one down
along the line to first that burned the
skin off Moses fingers and was miss
ed by Frank Zerbe behind him. This
sent Oakley to second, and he stole
third shortly afterwards.
Then Lemm sent another hot one
down the other line past third and
Harry Zerbe could not negotiate it.
Oakley ran home and Lemm was safe
at first. Then Mccall bingled and
Lemm went to second. Here was a
case where a good safe hit would
mean another run. Bateman came to |
bat and swatted down by third. 1t |
was hardly a single, but again the but |
ter was on Harry's fingers and tech
meal error allowed Lemm and Mccall /
to run in. This made three runs, and, |
as the score stood 4 to l at the begin
ming of the inning, it was tied and |
the soldiers hopes flew sky-high.
An instance of the game fight the /
soldier boys put up is that score in
the ninth. Any time a losing team |
scores four in the last half of the last, /
you can wager your saeeharine vitality
that they have not been easily beaten.
There were several interesting Incl
dents of the game. There are differ
ent kinds of press boxes-some are
comfortable. some are not, some are
trespassed into by the public, and some
are really reserved for reporters, but
the boss press box of the lot was the
one at Kapiolani Park yesterday af- |