Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-05-15
PIayedIhe Game
After All the
PiIikia

was possible. That is the way 1t
looked all yesterday afternoon, iudg-
ing by the anxious bunch of fans
and wCuld-be players that wandered
all over the city and suburbs in
search Of the military men's game.
The bunch consisted Of newspa-
per men, players and fans, ana deep
were the curses as place after place
was visited and nothing In the ball
line discovered. And the bunch
kept getting hotter all the tine
every ground seemed To have few
men hanging around waiting for the
game to start. On arrival at any
new field the first question was
Where is the other team" That
was just II, WHERE were they?
First of all the word went around
that the men of the regiment were
having a red-hot game a; Aala Park
\ hurried visit to that place was
paid and information obtained that
the men We're playing ~ either Pu-
nahou, Alexander Field or Eva. Out
the bunch went to Punahou. only to
hear that the game of the regiments
was not coming OFF. and that the Of
ficers were surely going to play at
Aala. The original bunch had now
assumed the size OF at least two full
teams. and II bats and ball had been
obtainable the crowd would have
got up a game between themselves.
Back to Aala went the bunch -
picking up half dozen other fans
en- route - and then things looked
pretty well for a short time. a fair
sized crowd of people had gathered
at the park, and all of them express
ed the opinion that of course the of
tlccrs' game was to be played there.
Why, THE paper had said so; the ac-
cent on the THE nearly started n
fight amongst the newspaper men,
each remarking that the rival sheets
were rags.
But horrors of horrors, time
slipped along and there appeared no
sign Of the Shafter players. A wild
doubt assailed the fans; could an
other change possibly have been
made ? Telephone inquiries ELECTED
the fact that another bunch of sol
diers was out at Punahou ground,
and that they We're waiting for the
rest Of the crowd. Once more the
car was boarded, and everyone
thought that at last a game was tC
be seen. The party about filled the
car, ana the conductor remarked
that the crowd seemed to like tray.
cling lot. but It was strange that
they kept going backwards and for,
wards to punahQu.
Well, sure enough, there was q
bunch at the College grounds, but
not the long-sought-ior players
Things were getting desperate now
and scouting parties We're sent out
TO try and discover some trace of tn,
missing teams. After short wal
another bunch of soldiers came wan
dering down from the upper field
where they had been waiting for ;
couple of hours for some one to turf
up. The party looked like an arm!
now, and everybody was offcr!nl
suggestions as to where the gam
might possibly be played, No on,
mentioned Aala Park--lt would no
have been safe to suggest arothc
trip to the riverside grounds. Thcl
| - h,,h ,,I Ia. ii
over the country returned In grea
glee. lie explained how he had aslic,
this and that person II they hai
seen a bunch of lost ball player
jaw dropped suddenly and 1t wa
obvious that he was trying to re-
member something: Gee. but
heard on the phone where the team
some native name Tell me som
of the park names" The rest q
the local fans endeayCred to men
ton all the parks of the city, but
them was the place. Then in des
peratiOn one man remarked, "Mayb
it's Atkinson Park he means. Yes,
yelled the scout, that's the place,
thought 1t sounded like a natiy
word"
Then the bunch footed down
King street -- they did not have I'll
nerve to face PunahOu car cor
ductor again and after charterin
hacks and cross-eXamining eyeryon
they met, finally arrived at the par
in time to stop the rest of the pla!
ers starting out to Punahou.
After a lot of laughter and chat
ing the game was started and it WI
decided to make a iiye-inning ana
of IL - it had been hard enoue
work to find the ground and Il
players were rather tired, Three
the Sheridan bunch were Htill mis-
ing, hut as there was no KNOWN