The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-13

he hits the ball; by either striking the
plate with the bat, or twisting his cap,
or some understood signal; when this
is noted the duty of the man on sec
ondbase is to try to steal home by
starting as soon as the proposed hIt
is made.
81 notice you do not slide but dive
for bases; that is now obsolete. The
new slide is made with one foot to-
ward the base bag. Rubber shoes are
useless in baseball for a runner, as
the baseman can easily block him from
reaching the base sliding with his~feet
with rubber soles.
f'Among the new slides are the Hoon
Slide which is side swing of the
body to the base; the Fall-away where
the man feints ewith his bodg but al.
lows his foot to reach the base on the
side. -
Capt Becker and his men had list
ened eagerly to all these points, and
he now said: 'YOur knowledge of all
these plays makes me anxious TO know
your name?' The stranger thanking
Capt. Becker. handed him his card
which read as follows:
j. Lawrence Woods.
Manager.
Reach All-American Baseball Club.
In the interview which followed, be-
sides the games scheduled to be played
in Kobe, it was distinctly shown how
this is a trip for baseball interests
only, to demonstrate the game by NOV
ing figures on the turfed Diamond field,
which is the center of all baseball en-
thusiasts. The present trip to be made
by the Reach All-American team is
the longest one ever made by any pro-
fessional ball team. Twenty years ago,
the firm of A. & G.. Spalding of New
York made what was called World
tour, going from San Francisco to HO-
nolulu. thence to the land of the Kan
oaroo-Australia. From there they
PLAYED on the sands of Egypt, before
the solemn faced Sphinx, thence via
Suez to England, where they played
cricket against an English team, and
heat them at the wickets, then home.
The present trip of the American team
will be from San Francisco to HOnolu-
Ia. where baseball fans are among the
most prominent citizens. and the inter
est is most keen. In Yokohama and
Toxic the team will play eight games,
two games being played with the best
Japanese teams representing the Peers
college. Keio and Waseda. In Yoke
hama after playing the Y. c. & A. c.
they will play against team COM
posed of the best baseball players IN
all Japan, one game versus these play
ers being played in Toxic.
These games will be fairly close, as
the All-American team will loan
pitcher and catcher to play against !
their own nine and these two men will
naturally try and beat their own play |
ers with the odds against them.
Tt should be remembered that in all
Japan only twelve Japanese have, up
to date. seen baseball as it is played !
in America, they being the Waseda !
team of twelve men, who visited San
Francisco last year and saw a little |
baseball, but not the best, and con- !
sidering what they have said and /
shown bv their play how much they /
were benefited, even by that, the value
of this present trip cannot be overesti- |
mated as to what it will do for base
ball in japan IS colleges and schools.
Every Japanese schoOlbov will watch /
these men, as models for him to follow
in his game at home. whether he plays |
in the field. or on the bases. and each
point will be quickly marked down IN !
the note book which the Japanese |
schoolboy always carries. The present
heroes to all japanese boys-the cham
pion wrestlers-will have to yield their
popularity to such men who are coming
as Henry Cobb, who was first in the
list in batting and base running in the
American baseball records of last year,
and Fl. Chase, captain Of the New York
team.
The games will be as popular as it !