The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-19
PhRkLERS GET
THEIRS AGAIN
Mix-Up at League Grounds Was
Not Nice-Saints Play
Good Game.

The fans had a chance to see some
real baseball yesterday afternoon when
they watched the exciting contest be-
tween the Diamond Heads and the
Saints. 1t was baseball from the ringing
of the gong until the last man on the
losing side was declared out and the
enthusiastic spectators were fling
down out of the grandstand to catch
the ears for their dinners.
The Saints won by score of to l,
but it was anybody's game to the end,
and the Sparklers had chance up to
the very end of the final spasm. But
they failed to pull it down. Luck was
against them, but that is no detraction
from the playing of the college boys,
for they won the game on their merits
and put up the best exhibition of the
national game that has been seen on
the league grounds this season. The
value returned to the fans yesterday
for their money was enough to make
them all sincerely regret that the
league games are ended for this year.
The game between the Sparklers and
the Saints was preceded by an exhibit
tion of mismanagement on the part of
the league officials that made every
body extremely tired. There was sup
posed, according to the advertisements,
to be a game between the Rams and
the team from the cruiser California,
but the sailors missed one car and ar
rived little late, and in the meantime
it appeared that the Fort sShafter team
had been invited out to show their
mettle. On the nonappearance of the
sailor boys the Fort Shafter bunch was
substituted, why, no one seemed to
know, as there was nobody on the field
who seemed to have any authority. The
two teams played one inning, in their
half of which the Hams made two runs
and the soldiers none. Just as the
initial spasm was concluded, the boys
from the California appeared on the
scene of battle, and the Roadpounders
were retired TO the dressing rooms,
their places being taken on the field
by the naval boys.
The Kams scored eight runs before
the end of the sixth inning.
The soldiers failed to do anything
in their half of the sixth agony and
the Hams in the seventh rested on
their laurels. But it was misplaced
confidence, for Immediately afterward
the cyclone struck them. Franks, of
the sailor team, reached first on an
error by the pitcher and moved on to
second on passed ball. Higgins reach
ed the sack on nice bingle and Vim
cent was given free transportation.
With Murphy at bat Franks trotted
across the plate while the catcher was
chasing a ball that the pitcher had
tried to throw over the gran island.
Murphy walked, and about that time
the Hams blew up and sailors trotted
across the plate so fast that it looked
like a naval procession.
When the dust settled down on the
field, the astounded Kams discovered
that their opponents had chalked up
no less than six runs. This looked like
something might be doing and the
fans stood on their hind legs and howl
ed for the rest of it. 1t was about
here that the canny management con-
tracted severe case of chilled ex-
tremities and called the game, to the
loudly expressed disgust of the entire
grandstand, who suggested to the
brave field managers that perhaps it
might be better to lose a game than
to win it by doubtful methods.
The Second Game.
The game between the Saints and
the Sparklers was less exciting but
much better baseball. John Williams
and Leslie both pitched good ball,
though Williams had slightly the bet
ter of the contest. Neither team made
any great showing with the willow, but
this may be credited to the curve artists
rather than counted against the bats
men. En- Sues legs twinkled around
the diamond in their oldtime form,
and he showed up somewhat better
with the stick than he has before this
year. Both the Bruins boys were in
the game all the time. But it is really
unfair to mention some of the players
without mentioning all, for there was
little to choose among them. What
few hits were made off the pitchers
were so well scattered that it took
extraordinarily good playing to de-
velop any of them into runs. Nothing
happened in the run getting column
until the first half of the fifth spasm,
when the Saints gathered in one. 1t
happened this way: Freitas, the nifty
shortstop for the Saints, dribbled the
ball along the first base line for three
bags-the best swat of the afternoon.
Markham backed him up with nice
single past second that brought Freitas
home. Everybody else failed to get
into the run column.
In their half of the sixth the Saints
garnered two more. Bushnell touched
the first station because of an error by
the second baseman. Jim Williams
few to short. Harry Bruins logged past
first and landed on second. advancing
Bushnell to third, on rank error by
Leslie, who got confused and forgot
where the bases were and who was on
them. John Williams shouldered the
stick. Bushnell tried to sneak home,
but was caught in the act. Williams
swatted the horsehide, sending Bruins
to third, reaching first himself and
then stealing second. Freitas scored
Bruins with base hit. John Williams
1.