The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-12
BOER COMMANDERS RECRUITS
WIN GAME BY CLOSE SCORE
(From Mondays Advertiser.)
]. A. @. 5, O. A. Q. /.
Beers 6, Half-wets s.


terday afternoon. The Japs had COM
paratively easy time of it with the
Dragonlets but the Marine -Kalihi game
was a very close and exciting one and
the good Half-wets would never have
gone down TO defeat had it not been
for series of grave errors in the fifth,
when the Beers made four.
There was larger crowd than ever
at the park and more prominent local
people than have been seen there yet.
In fact the grandstand was practically
filed with personages.
There were more ladies in the grand
stand than usual and the park seems
| to be quite a rendezvous for the same
people who used to patronize the in!
ternational games of last year at the
| other grounds.
Flores Had a Mouse.
Jack Flores brought over a good one
and Cheeky added to it. Jack pro-
! duced big mouse in the fourth in
ming, when he went. in to bat and let
| it run over the plate for luck. 1t must
have been lucky for the Japs scored
| three of their five runs in the next
spasm.
Cheeky caught the mouse and, while
Akina was coaching at first base, he
slipped the little animal into Akina IS
mitt. When the inning was over and
the Dragonlets went out to field, Akina
took up his mitt, thrust his hand in
and then withdrew it very suddenly.
He thought he had come across a
Manoa rattlesnake Amidst the yells
of the crowd the little mouse romped
out of the mitt and ran away to hide
itself beneath the bleachers.
Walkers Great Throw.
Henry Walker made one of the
grandest throws ever seen on base
ball field. Cheeky bingled and Hang
Chack went in to run for him. The
latter started to steal second and Hoo
phi threw wild to second so that the
ball went over Francois head. Hang
Chack naturally enough kept on run
ming.
The ball went way out in deep cen
/ ter field and Walker had to sprint TO
it. But he captured the ball and, will
a marvellous throw, he sent directl.
to the plate in time for Hoopii to ge
Hang Chack out. Then was seen on
Of the greatest ovations ever given t.
, a ballplayer in Honolulu. The fan
) went crazy.
: Cheeky was debited with two error
: but he played a crackerjack game jus
5 the same. He caught no less than fiv
) men out at second base when the
) tried to steal, by quick and cleve
) throws in the nick of time.
Anderson's Reappearance.
Anderson, the grand old man G
: Camp Very, made his temperance fo
: the Marines and was greeted loudl
: by the fans. He caught FIVE inning
but then his mitt went back on hil
Z again and he was retired in favor c
= Williams whose place at center fiel
\ was taken by Hines.
) Hines played great game in I'll
3 outfeld. He made two sensation:
) catches that looked like impossibiliti'
\ and put ont the last two men in I'll
: last inning.
Beers Looked Weak.
One of the greatest features of I'll
afternoon was, that when the fans sa
he Boer lineup, they thought it woul
be cinch for the Marines. The bunc
did look different from the usual tur
out, certainly.
Long, Butler, Woods and Georl
Clark were not there Kaipu went
the box, Josiah went to third bias
Sheppard took shortstop and Mos
went behind the plate. Abe Norton,
High School player who has seldo
filed that position, took first base al
made a grand showing. In spite
what the fans thought about it, ii
Beers seemed to have improved
their changes.
Flizer Had the Goods.
Flizer played n dandy game at sc
ond base. Although he made two c
rors he took tremendous number
chances and was there with the good
His two errors We're very forgivabl
He is good with the stick and, if 90
, Paul would give him one position
play regularly, instead of making
general utility man of him, Fliz
would turn out to be a star.
Both games were up to the excelle
standard set by the league and I
, Athletic Park fans certainly ha
nothing TO complain of.
Iuc 4 iIet SdIuo'
The Japs scored first in the IF
Up to that time II had been case
one, two and three. Walker took
ovation when he came up as he h
just made his spectacular throw to I
plate, He was safe on seconds err
and Akana sent him TO second when
was safe on cateher's missing thi
= strike. Then there was a double ste
Kaipo hit 10 first who threw TO catcl
, 10 prevent Walker from seoTil
Walker bumped Cheeky over and d
: gave Akana chance 10 score nj
=. While Kaip0 was safe on first, Kai
8 started 10 steal second and Chez
threw wild 10 second 50 that kaI
, romped, Three runs
Two more for the Japs In
- seventh, Akana hinglel, Kalpo bio
. pitcher who got mixed aud both ~
/, we're cafe DleieT hiugled and seol
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