The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-27
STANDING AT FINISH OF OAHU
LEAGUE FIRST SERIES

IIe'A A1iOo. = *
ATHLETIC PARK RESULTS.
Half vets 1. Beers 0.
Tennessee 3, Japs 2.
OH! YOU CHE FA KIDDO.
Che Fa Willie is gambler
And to wager he is bold,
He will raise the price. at any time
His feet are never cold.
A sailor bet him five big bones
"Just make it twent,'' said he.
The Tennessee boys won the game
All off with big Billee.
Chorus:
(This to be sung by certain joyful
Oh! you would bet would you?
You Che Fa Willie
You would get bit would you?
You Che Fa Willie
The sailors took your dough away
And some poor chinks will have to pay.
, That IS all for you and so Goodday
Poor old Che Fa Willie.
Oh, yes, there was plenty of excite
ment at the Athletic Park yesterday
afternoon. Che Fa Willie was sure
that the Japs would hand it to the
sailors from the Tennessee. He was
swapping up all the bets he could. A
real old salt with a face like ma
{ hogany fgurehead that has bumped
into a wharf, handed out a five spot.
CAV! make it twent,' said Willie.
The sailor was very pleasant about it.
He produced large pocketful of gold
and began to make live noise. Willie
quit at a hundred.
The Beers took their third lump of
wbitewash in succession. 1t is true
that it was not bad defeat that the
Half-wets gave them but the old Ma
rine bunch was invincible with the
new man, Sinclair, behind the plate
and they played beautiful team work
ali the way through.
An Enormous Crowd.
There was an immense crowd to
watch the games. At least thirty-fve
hundred fans swarmed over the bleach
ers and escaped in an overflow all along
the side of the diamond. The free
galleries up above the right field fence
were "packed, jammed, absolutely
full and tiles on the roofs were to
be seen only in few places near the
edge, where there was no room for
even an excited Chinese fan to hold
on.
There were more celebrities present
than ever Local army and naval Off
GERS were there in large numbers and,
of course, many officers from the fleet.
Link McCandless, Marshall Hendry and
Senator Chiliingworth were observed
near together, Major Long was very
much interested and manager Renton,
of Eva plantation, was a disappointed
man when George Clark was shut out.
sFKimo'' Coke, the popular attorney
and sportsman of Maui, was there and
the beaming smile of good old Les.
the grandstand. Doc Raymond wore
a large smile and seemed to be enjoy
ing every feature of the games.
In addition to the regulars and many
hundred local notables who were seen
at the park for the first time, there
were several tourists present. The
latter enjoyed the games and the nov
city of the huge cosmopolitan crowd
/ intensely, in fact many of them seem
ed as interested in watching the spec
tators as the play on the diamond.
A Great Marine Battery.
The feature of the afternoon was
the great work of the Marine battery,
the splendid support they had from the
ielders and the intense enthusiasm with
which every service man present en-
couraged and applauded Gibson s pitch
ing.
Gibson was never seen to better ad-
vantage. Sinclair, the new catcher,
worked in perfect rapport with him and
there was but one tumble at the plate
and that not a costly one.
There was a large smile at first base
and, after investigation, it was dis
covered that Davis was behind it. He
played a peachy game at that posi-
ton, accepted fourteen chances and
negotiated every one of them. One of
them was half of very clever double
play.
Rice's Swell Catch.
Bill Rice made one very fine catch.
It was in the second inning that Glib
son swatted a hot one to centerfield.
Bill was there like a swimduck and
got that ball on the run, to the huge
ioy of all the Boer supporters.
Josiah also performed very drama
tic stunt by scooping terrific grounder
by Slorp that seemed certain for a
single. It was great piece of field
ing.
Segeart Twirls Well.
Segeart, the Tennessee pitcher, twirl-
ed very pretty game. He was there
with the cool head all the time. Flores
for the Japs was right there. On sew
eral occasions he pulled his team out
of the hole with man on third and
none down.
Great. big, Cred Carruthers played
star game at first for the sailors.
Then McCafferty at centerfeld again
made hit with the fans by his fine
negotiations of hard catches.