The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-09
Bic EXCITEMENT
SECOND SERIES
Oahu League Will Start Thinus
Tomorrow Afternoon at
Athletic Park.

iA|A1 - " NC VI eAclttHb0J at the
Athletic Park on Sunday. 1t will be
the opening Of the second series of
the Oahu league and all the fans are
up in the air to see who will get off
on the right foot first.
The Japs and Dragonlets will fight
it out in the first game and the Beers
and Half-wets will slip it to each
other in the second spasm. The two
games Will compose a great weather
vane to show which way the wind is
blowing and the fans will have a
chance to figure on something by the
time the sun sets tomorrow afternoon
In the first game of the first series
the Half-wets won their first by de-
feating the Beers in hard game, also
the Japs rammed the Dragonlets by a
score of nine to four. Then things
began to happen. The Beers came out
ahead in every game until it looked
as though they had a cinch. But the
, Half-wets put up nineteen-inning
tie game with them and finally beat
them in the play-off. With everything
making a noise like the Beers coming
out ahead, the Dom Paul kids were
whitewashed three times in succession
and the Japs finally won out after the
most exciting baseball series ever seen
In Honolulu.
What Will Happen?
Now the question is "What is going
10 happen in the second series?' Can
the Marines come through9 1t looks
very much as though they would.
Many of the fans consider that they
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won their first game, then lost every
thing until the finish when they slipped
it to their old enemies, the Beers.
The Dragonlets have played the
most consistently of the whole bunch.
Their fielding and pitching was always
about the same, good but never very
brilliant. If they hand out the same
line of dope as they have been doing,
they have an excellent chance.
The Marines and Beers were con-
spicuous in the first series on account
of brilliant work Both teams fell
down at times when to do so was fatal.
The Japs were a trife more brilliant
than anybody else and so won the
championship of the first series.
oh You Battery.
Where the Japs have a good thing
is in their battery. They have two
crackerjack pitchers, Jack Flores and
the King of Spain. The other teams
have but one really seryiceable man
each. The Beers have George Clark,
the Dragonlets have Apau and the
Half-wets have Gibson.
Dom Paul has criticized the state
ment that Clark was being overworked.
He said that one day a week was a
al of
big leagues said he. ''They have
twirlers there who pitch three games
a week and think nothing of it. -
The argument was admitted, but 1t
was brought ito the attention of the
big and smiling Boer chieftain, that
pitching one game a week for an anna
feur who works in an office, is just
about as nerve-racking and hard on
a pitcher as it would be for a pig
Lacquer to twirl every game.
This suggestion was properly mock
ed at, but it has turned out to be true.
With four cracking good teams in the
league, the team with two good pitch
ers won out. In every case the back
ing of the fielders was good, but the
latter games were all pitchers battles.
Jack and Bill Switched
Those who saw the games Will recoi-
Ieet that there were times when JACK
Flores was allowed to pitch four or
five innings and then was taken out
of the box. The fans could not see
the sense of this, especially when the
King of Spain went in and walked two
men in the first inning he pitched. But
after that Bill Espinda was there and
walked or popped out every man that
came to bat.
Jack Flores was worked just about
as hard as a willing horse should De
worked. Then he was given kokua.
That is how the Japs won the hrst
series championship. 1t was good man
" agement and teamwork
More Pitchers Wanted.
Now if is to be seen how much the
other teams will have learned from
this lesson. The pitchers say - W
rot. They think they can keep e"l!l-
inc indefinitely. They cannot do It.
1t is a physical and mental lmpossioil.
ity and the Japs will almost certainly
win out in the second series unless
the other teams get alternate tWirleFS
and slip them in occasionally.
Whatever happens there IS certain
" going TO be big excitement. Ne
second series schedule is practleaiAS
the same as the first with the games
reversed. so that teams that played IL
the first game during the first series
will appear in the second spasm dur
ing the second series and vice versa.
Half past one at the Athletic farh
is the time and the day Is tomorrow
Too much Marathon talk. Let US nave