The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-14
.CORREA AND
kEALOHA CAUSE
BASEBALL RUMPUS

There appears to be lot of fuss and |
friction in baseball matters on Maui, |
and the rumpus seems to have been |
caused by Messrs.. Correa and Kealoha, |
two Aala Park players, who left here |
for Maui some time ago. The follow |
ing on the subject appears editorially |
in the Maui News:
The baseball season is about to be- |
gin and it seems under conditions that |
are not as favorable to a successful |
season as might be hoped for. During |
the past week there was evidence Of !
much i'll feeling and bitter accusations
were made against members of the
league, and it would seem that much
of it was the result of work of a man
by the name of Correa and one by the
name of Kealoha
From the best information that we
have on the subject it would seem that
the two men were imported by the Ka
hului boys for the purpose of having
them play with them during the sea-
son.
Whether they got work or otherwise,
we do not know, but they were soon in
Waikiki and were given work here and
were provided for 1t was not long
before some of the Kahului boys were
giving them money to enable them
to exist as they say they believed the
case to be- The Kahului boys soon
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both signed up with the Star team
and of course the latter were sore.
While some of the Kahului boys
were congratulating themselves on
their good luck, one of the men skip
ped for Honolulu after announcing that
if the Star team would pay his fare
back he would play with the lat1
ter team. At this juncture the boys
on both sides discovered that they
were being worked, and changed their
attitude toward their friends. 1t
seems to us that differences of this
class should not occus. Nor do we
approve of any baseball player doing
anything to take away a player of
an opposing team after the season has
begun.
We do not profess to understand the
latest rules of playing the national
game, but we do hold that common
decency dictates that an opposing team
shall receive a square deal and no in
reference with its members.
After listening to arguments on the
subject by players on both sides. we
are convinced that there must be limi-
tations put on the importation of play
ers for the simple reason that if one
side can import the best players in the
! territory and the other for financial
| reason cannot, then it is certain that
! the team of imported players will win
! and there cannot be any possibility of
| the other teams winning and conse-
quently they will not take any interest
in the games nor play ball worth see
| ing. There must be at least remote
possibility of winning the game for
each opposing team or there will not
be ball worth seeing.
The public pays for the games and
has right to demand reasonably equal
opponents. If it is otherwise there
will be no gate receipts. We must
have clean sport and decent dealing
or there will be no support of the ball
games.
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for the winners was credited with
| homer.
Davis was out of the game on ac-
count of a sprained knee but expects
to be at his old stamping ground at
second in a very short time
Next Sunday the Marines and Ke-
walos hook up in the first game of
series to decide. the championship of
the Atkinson league. The Kewalos
captured the first series and the Ma