The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-26

The opening games Of the Military
Baseball League, which were played
Sunday afternoon at the baseball park,
did not attract the crowd warranted
by fine weather and the usual interest
attached to the beginning of an i'm
portant series of sporting events.
Withal, those present thoroughly en-
joyed the games, and left satisfied
that the teams in the double number
had done well for a starter
The first game-that between the 9th
Cavalry and Twentieth Infantry
showed only one thing, and that was
that the Fort Shafter boys need lit
tie more practice. The infantry team
is as fine looking body Of players as
ever graced local diamond, but
there is marked rustiness in the con-
nections between battery and bags and
the field is not yet down to the game.
The game between the National
Guard and Marines was no more nor
less than a walkover for the former.
At no time after the first two innings
did the Marines have a ghost of a show
and were merely toyed with by their
opponents. Bad luck, however, was
on the side of the Marines, and they
game in for a lot of sympathy which
was fully merited. In a critical part OF
the game, Pitcher Anderson was
knocked out, causing the spirits of the
team to collapse. A good man took
Anderson's place, but he was out OF
practice, and the Marines, although
stubbornly resisting, were steadily
beaten to a Roosevelt FRAGILE.
It is too 0arly to forecast the final
results seasons games, as there
will be cu ses and improvements in
the personnel Of ali the teams; but
a few things are certain at the present
time. First, the Natioial Guard team
is far and away too strong for either
for either of the others-that is to
say, they have the game down infinite
ly finer. The Fifth Cavalry team is
the next strongest, and, at the present
time, has the best chance of holding up
the militia for the championship. This
may all be changed however, for with
four or five hundred men to pick from
Fort Shafter or Camp Very may at
any time come to the very front and
stay there.
CAVALRY VS.. INFANTRY.
Before the games started Vice-Presi-
dent A. X. Vierra, in an appropriate
spiel formally opened the season.
Major Long Of the Marine battalion,
stepped to the pitchers box and threw
the first bali over the plate. Vierra,
at the bat, succeeded in catching it and
tapped a pop foul. The Cavalry came
to bat, but failed to score. For the
Fort Skaters, Mccall and Lemn both
reached the plate on a succession OF
safe hits and a couple OF bad throws.
Neither side scored in the second
inning.
The Fifth Cavalry really won the
game in the third inning. Their first
half showed very heavy batting and
some good base running, while the
Fort Skaters became ratified, making
a number of wild throws and fumbles.
In this inning the horsemen piled up
five runs, while the soldiers failed to
score. From that point on to the
finish the Fort Skaters put up a game
fight, but it was no use. The cavalry
men had them down and kept them
there. At the end of the ninth inn
ing the score stood Z to 2 in favor CT
the sturdy horsemen from Leilehua.
MARINES VS.. N. G. H.
When this game opened it was plain
that the Marines had many rooters.
There were their own friends in plenty
and many town people, suspecting the
home team to be in better practice,
shouted for and encouraged the sea
soldiers. In fact the grandstand SEEM
ed purposely to reserve its applause
for the Marines. But it did no good.
From the first inning the Marines be-
came wedged in a vice of bad luck from
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