The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-10
DRAGON KIDS
WIN HARD CAME
Guardsmen Have No Easy Time
With Fort Shafter
Team.
G. A. c., 2; Aalas, o.
N. G. H., 10; Fort shafter 7.

N. G. H., 10; Fort Shafter 7.
In hard-fought game yesterday af-
ternoon at Aala Park the Chinese A. C.
defeated the Aalas by score of 2 to O.,
thus winning the championship of the
first series of the Cupid League. One
of the largest crowds was present to
witness the contest, of which probably
one-half were sons from the land of the
dragon. In the second game, between
the Fort Shafter nine and the N. G. H.,
the local boys won by score of 10 to Z.
There was probably never SO much
excitement in baseball game this year
as that which was shown in the first
game yesterday. From beginning to
end the game was full of roofing and
cheering from the thousands of wild
fans. There was great interest attach
ed to this game, as the Aalas are cham
plons of the second series, and every
body was anxious to see whether the
dragonlets would win out and gain the
right to play off the championship of
the league.
Now that the G. &C. team has won
| out in the first series they will play
a series with the Aalas for the entire
championship of the league, best two
out of three. This series will probably
start next Sunday.
The Fort Shafter nine made a won
| derfally good showing in the second
game. They made it hard for the Ma
| tional Guard boys all the way through,
and there were times when it looked as
though they might even win.
Bolun pitched remarkably good
game for the road-pounders. Consider
ing the class that he was up against,
| he kept the hits well scattered and
| worked like Trojan from start to fin
ish without firing or getting ratified at
| any stage of the game.
| Bushnell and Soares, the regular bat
| terry of the twice-a-year kids, were not
| in as good form as usual 1t is true
| they won their game, but they might
have held the losers down to fewer
runs if they had not INDUCED in a
slight dose of overconfdence.
The first game was most certainly
the game of the day and Of many days,
SO far as that goes. There were Chi
| nese fans galore out to root for the
| Che Bui kidlets, and the air was full
of dragons and other emblems, not to
| mention much noise when the G. A. Cs.
finally won out by close score after a
very exciting game.
The dragonlets made their two runs
in the first and fourth innings. In the
| first inning Aiona bingled, then Sing
| Chong and Hang Chack few out, but
| our little friend "Cheebyo came
through with ball-wetting and doubled
Aiona in.
In the fourth inning Sing Chong was
the hero. He made first by an error
and reached third in his own irrepressi-
bic way. In the same way he slid over
the home plate and scored the second
run for the winning s'Fat Choys.'
The series of games between the c.
A. c. and the Aala teams will be about
as exciting as could be imagined. Both
of them are keyed up to the highest
pitch to win the championship, and
only the Aala Park fans have the cour
age to say who viii win. They are
making a live noise with their opin-
ions, too.
The sporting page of the Advertiser
| is greatly indebted to the management
of the Kalanianaole League for it,
| courtesy in furnishing scores, advance
| notices and results, when it was impos
sible for a reporter to be present at the
| games. The league has very efficient
scorer and press agent in W. Tin Chong
The official scores of yesterday s
| games were: