The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-17
THOUSANDS WITNESS
RIVERSIDERS RETURN
Makanui Batted the Ball Across the River. but
1t Was Foul---Crowds of Spectators
Cheer the Players.
Chinese Alohas, 8; J. "A. Cs., S.
Palamas, 3; Aalas, O.


There was joy in the hearts of the
Riverside fans yesterday for their own
players were once more out on the Aala
park diamond and they came in their
thousands to welcome the reopening of
the Riverside League.
For many weeks now, Aala park has
been a dreary and somber desert on
Sunday afternoon for the big games
were going at the ball park and the
Riversiders had postponed their games
in courtesy to the management of the
baseball league.
The entire diamond was cireled by
thick bank of polyglot spectators and
the windows of the houses across the
river were thronged with excited spec.
tators. And what roofing there was.
The mighty oceans of sound that rolled
from the bleaehers at the park when
Jack Doyle took charge of the japanese
roofing squadron were as nothing com
pared to the tumultuous roars of ap-
plause that arose from the Aala field
after each good play or clever piece of
fielding at Aala yesterday.
1t was celebration and mighty
paean to amateur baseball with free
admittanee, unpaid players and thou
sands of fans cheering their favorites,
and the sight was one to impress the
chance visitor with the wonderful hold
that clean sport and the grand national
game has on Honolulu.
OLD VARIETY GAMES.
The games were of the good old Aala
park variety too. Hard, fast, snappy
and clever. There was a twelve inning
game with only FIVE errors for the los
ers and tough embarrassing job that
kept the successful artists busy from
the time they first dipped their brushes
into the bucket.
The j. A. c. s put up terrible game
against the Alohas and the latter had
to fight tooth and nail to cloud the
Rising Sun in the twelfth. At the close
of the ninth each team had Tailed five
runs and then there were three innings
of such playing as has rarely been seen
even down by the River.
In the second inning of the last game
Makanui repeated his wonderful feat Of
sending the ball across the river. The |
spectators jumped in the air and howl |
ed themselves hoarse, but unfortunately |
the ball was foul and so the batter took |
no well -deserved home run.
THE FIRST GAME.
The J. A Cs went in fr't but failed !
to score. Then Kaia came up for the |
Alohas and dropped the ball into the |
river. This took him to second Zerbe |
was out at first as also was Britto but /
Akana came up with his eyes on the |
water and dropped another ball in the |
drink This passed Kaia home and the |
Alohas had scored the first run.
The Japs came back in the second |
with a run which was tailed by Steere |
the first man up. He singled and stole |
twice so that he was all ready for the |
nice little single batted out by Pickard /
and romped home accordingly.
In the second part of the second IN
ming the Alohas came back strong and |
scored three. L. Akana was safe at /
first on Piekard IS error and found Sec
ond when En- Sing was safe on Ross
beef Townsend famed but Ho Yup |
handed out a single piece and Akana
This also took En- Sing fur
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and Ho Yup both came in. That made
the score 4 to /.
The J. A. Cs. made two In the fourth,
for which credit is due to Kaipo and
Kualo, materially assisted by Akana,
who threw high to the plate, so that
Britto was doing some ground grovel-
ling while they ran in.
One in the seventh and one IN the
ninth put the Japs one ahead, but the
Alohas would stand for nothing of the
sort, and they tied the score when Ho
Yup ran in on Zerbe s single.
Both teams settled down to business
FOR the extra innings. and to such
good effect that each side could make
1nlv two basehits until the twelfth.
Alas for the Japs, they went out IN
he fatal inning. one, two, three.
Then up came Kaimi with fire In his
I'VE and a basehit on his bat. He was
followed by L. Akana. who was safe
1t first on a wild throw, and this put
Zaimi on second. Then En- Sing did
he right thing at the right moment
md put out a single that easily carried
<aimi round to home. This was the
un necessary to win the game, and
he Aloha fans INDUCED in loud yells
f victory.
The detailed score was:
J. A. c.