The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-04
BAGGERLy TELLS
Of JAPAN TRIP
Sporting Writer Describes the
Antics of Professionals
on Sea and Land.
By Fl. L. Baggerly.

800 ~~s ANSSSAAJ'
YOKOHAMA, November 24.-There |
was some rough weather between Ho- |
noiulu and Yokohama, though as a |
whole the trip was pleasant. At times |
things dragged and the players wished |
they We're home or calling on their |
best girls, but these blue spells were
of short duration. The boys shook
them off directly and turned their
minds towards the Orient When the
weather was pleasant they took part
in the games that are usually played
aboard the ship, such as quoits, shut
f1eboard, golf and throwing rings at
pegs. While the ocean water was
warm, which it was until two days be-
fore striking Japan, there was a can
vas tank on deck. This was filed
daily with water and the players gem
orally were among the first to swim
Devereaux, McArdle, Bliss and Curtis
were the real water dogs, sometimes
plunging in twice a day. Williams car
ried off the card honors. He won at
whist, poker, solo, casino and every
thing he touched. His luck stuck with
him from the beginning to the end.
Manager Fisher sat in with some of
the players for few sessions of draw.
At the outset he was lucky, but after
Nick had filed about dozen full
houses on him Mike concluded that his
knowledge of poker was very limited.
By the way, Fisher suffered a great
deal between Honolulu and Yokohama
from finger cut. Just before strik-
ing Honolulu he fell with a bottle in
his hand and smashed one Of his small
| fingers. The very next day after leav-
ing Honolulu his hand swelled to twice
its natural size, and there was every
| indication of blood poisoning. He put
himself in the hands of the doctor
| anon, who attended to it the rest of
the voyage. Several times he lost
sleep from his hand swelling, but he
is now out of danger.
| On the morning of the 18th large
| whale was seen on the starboard side.
| Heitmuller caught the first glimpse of
| the leviathan. After several spouts
the monster passed out of our view.
You wouldn't think it, but Bill
Burns pulls off many a hot one. When
| he is pitching game he won t utter
half dozen words, but off the field
he is regular cut-up. Pat Flaherty
was a prime favorite of the feminine
| fraternity aboard. If any player
craved an introduction to a girl all
they needed to do was to ask the Bos-
! ton pitcher to do the honors. Pat
was never stingy with his girls, MAX
ing them acquainted with all the play
ers of a "social" disposition. Pat
was especially attentive to little girl
who was en- route to Manila with her
mother. On this particular night he
was promenading the deck with her
when Danzig broke into Bill Burns
presence and asked if anyone had seen
F1aherty "Just saw him a second
ago. drawled Bill "Think you will
find him down at the other end of the
! ship pulling off squeeze play. Pres
emily Pat appeared with his new ac-
quantance. The players looked at one
another and smiled, but it was not
until the next day that Burns bon
mot was reported to Flaherty.
What music we had was furnished
by Danzig, Graney, McArdle and Dew
ereaux. The first three were the real
songbirds. All the latest rags were
sung, and between drinks Devereaux
hammered off a few stanzas on the
piano. Mrs. Hildebrand also took a
gram, playing classical and popular Sc
| lections whenever invited.
AS soon as we passed the $50 merid-
ian, where we skipped Friday, having
| but six days in the week, the players
| donned their baseball regalia and prac-
tised a bit. The captain had his men
| improvise a baekstop, and before the
| ship touched land at least half dozen
balls were lost overheard. 1t was
good practise and made the boys ap-
petites all the more ravenOus.
There was big commotion aboard the
boat early in the morning of Novem-
| Der II. When the berths were allot-
ted Devereaux and Delehanty agreed
to bunk together. Brick took the
upper and Jim the lower bunk. Things
| went along without a hitch until on
the morning in question. Just before
daylight Devereaux had a nightmare.
He fancied that he was way back in
Oakland, and that he was in bed, and
that it was time to get up and go out
hoped out of what he thought was his
bed at Oakland and when he awoke
he was sitting fat on the floor in the
middle of his cabin, yelling like mad.
Falling out of the upper deck of a
cabin on the China is like tumbling
out of the upper berth of a Pullman.
Delehanty was startled by the Red
Dogs warhoop, but as severely as he
was shaken up Jim had to have a
good laugh. It was no laughing mat
ter with Devereaux, who thought HIM
self half dead. Brick escaped with a
skinned knee. That was all.
November IS was stormy day. The
weather changed suddenly in the morn
ing. The Hildebrands neglected to
close their portfolio, and when they
visited their cabin it was flooded. Mrs.
Hildebrand s wardrobe was thoroughly
drenched, but not seriously damaged.
The players parted with the officers of
ho China with no {if+1a fpaliuu IF Tp-