The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-25

Punahous, 8; Rams, 7. II innings.
Another extra inning game for the
Puns ON the Kan field, in which they
won out after hard fight. Out of
nine games played they have lost only
two and have won six straight games,
three of which went more than nine
innings.
The Puns won their first game but
lost the next two and it looked as
though they were going to be left be-
hind in the series, but there was moth
ing doing. They pulled themselves to-
gether and out of the hole and had the
championship cinehed before the last
game was played.
|, The game yesterday was a hard
fought one and it looked for time
as though the Rams would get them,
especially after the ninth inning in
which the Rams tied the score by
making three runs without hit.
But the signs of going to pieces soon
disappeared and the next two innings
went by without an error on the part
of the winners. The winning run was
made by Taylor with none down. He
singled and was followed by Lowrey
| and Hoogs on free passes. The bases
were full with none down. Then Town
send hunted and Milikaa was about
| to throw to first when they yelled to
| him to send to the plate. The momen-
| tary hesitation cost him the game, for
Kalimapehu touched Taylor several sec
| onds after he had slid to the plate
and the game was won. Townsend was
| naturally credited with a hit as there
was no error.
The Hams opened the scoring with
| two runs in the first inning. They seem
ed to be in good batting form and il
| could be seen that the Puns would
| have to work steadily to win out. Ther
the Oahu batters were disposed OF
| without score and the Kan fans be
gan to be exceedingly bucked up.
But the Puns came over with three
runs in the second inning which pu1
them ahead Then the Hams retaliatee
in the first of the fourth by scoring
two more, which again placed then
in the lead. In the sixth Punahou made
two more and repeated the trick in thu
eighth.
When the Rams came up to bat thu
score stood seven to four in favor O
| the Puns and it looked as if everybod,
would get back to supper in good time
but the meat had to be put back in tn
oven, chiefly owing to 1ipsus fungu
on the part of Cheeky, who fooled
pitched ball and thus allowed some ad
vancing to be done.
In the tenth inning both teams wen
out one, two and three, and this ais
happened to the Hams in the first par
of the eleventh. Then the Puns file
the bases almost before anybody knew
what had happened and it was all OF
with the Kams.
+ Rex Hitchcock pitched the entir
game and did well. This young twirle
has long, rangy action that is yer.
attractive. He is cool and does no
get ratified. Some of these days h
| will be crack pitcher, if he improve
! in the same proportion as he has bee
doing recently.
There was only small crowd t
watch the game as the result mean
only that the Rams would or woul
not tie with the Saints for secon
place. As it is they ARE tied. TIL
series has been very exciting an
pleasing one and it is doubtful if an
of the leagues serve out a closer gam
of baseball than the school boys hav
done. Each game has been wort
watching and there has been only on
walkover and that after the champion
ship was decided.
The official score of yesterdays gam