The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1908-12-07
'Tisers, 5; japanese Journalists, 4.

T1SeTS, D; japanese Journa4lStS, +.
When a man like Shinpo Sheba
Starts in getting things to 60,
You can bet your bottom dollar,
That they won't be very slow;
He arranged a game of baseball
And the fans all loudly swore,
It was easily the fastest
Game of ball they ever saw.
When the journalists of Nippon
And the 'Tisers played a game,
Though the latter were the winners
Yet they worked hard just the same;
But. instead of being sorry
That the TTisers beat his bunch,
Mr.. Sheba smiled quite loudly
And invited them to lunch.
Now. if every baseball magnate
Were a sportsman such as he,
We should have less pilikia
And no rampant jealousy;
For with each, and very player
There would be this single thought,
"We shall do our best to beat 'em,
But we re playing just for sport. 3"
That was the (and you can spell
s'the'' with letters an inch high) game
of the season. Almost errOrless, fought
for tooth and nail, tied until the last
of the ninth inning and with a grand
stand crowded with yelling, stamping
rooters. for general keenness and excite
ment it had the best of the Keio games
backed off the board.
In a wav it was two scratch teams
that were playing but they didn t play
like scratch teams, not a bit OF It, Inc
signalling work between the pitchers
and catchers and the way the felders
worked together was a treat to watch.
If the 'Tisers put up the same KIND OF
a game against the Walaluas that they
did Yesterday afternoon, there won [
be anv doubt about that whitewash tub.
The grandstand' was jammed full OF
enthusiastic fans most of them Japan
ese. but there were many admirers OF
the 'Tisers of other nationalltles ana
it made the old grounds look like the
first Santa Clara game. Before the
game. when the Asahi BanZais had quit
business for a time. there was much
good -natured ioshing of the Nhlte-
wash variety. Both teams took only
a few minutes practise and then the
'Tisers went out on the field and hato
went in to bat.
Kato died very suddenly at first but
Aehieu slipped a cog and gave Sakalno
transportation TO first. Then Hldeo
singled neatly and Sakaino went to see
ond. Tsnneto skied but Noda banged
ont a beautiful double that sent Saka
ino and Hideo romping home. Then Il
seemed that the grandstand would sure
Iv fall in for the crowd literally jump
ed ND and down in its joy; while a row
of grinning faces pOked over the ran
ing and derisively yelled to the scorer
table to ask where that whltewash was
'Tisers Up Against 1t.
The sTisers were up against some
thing they did not quite understant
when they faced that little Hamasakf.
curves. He stood in the box with hli
bare feet planted firmly IN the eart4
and twisted almost entirely from th'
bips but. when he let the ball go, i
went with terrible zip and you nevel
could tell which way i was gong q
curve But it always went over th'
plate.
Joe Pereira bingled, it is true. bu
Bisho skied. Rodriguez famed and Man
ueI Correa skied. Then the journalist
came in again and Imanaka scored OF
a passed ball. This made the score ) Il
but the 'Tisers had their blood NJ
and they scored in the second half OF
the inning.
Chi Bui skied and Achieu died bu
PauI Pereira was safe on Noda 5 sill
and then Kupau tbingled. They ar
both good burglars and praetissd theI
profession nicely for bag apiece. Thel
Sing Hoon followed with a neat swa