The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01
AIl-stars, 49,; All-Hawaii, 2.

Here is q not one TO answer. on
can figure it over for about an hour
and half and send in your verdict
to Mr.. Rabbit, the official scorer, but
don't inundate this office with opin-
ions. If you are fielding on first and
the batter is fast enough to nearly
beat his bunt to the bag, and if, just
as you are catching the ball, said bat
Ter bumps vigorously into you and
bowls you over SO that the ball is
Knocked out of your hand, and then,
If you get to your feet and find that
the umpire has called the batter safe;
what would do when you figure out
that technically you have to be debit
ed with an error? Say, wouldn t that
turn your glasses lemon color?'
But that is just what happened yes
terday afternoon, and it turned the gas
faucet connecting with the big bal
loon. Just how Barney managed to
do it. nobody can say, but it was, or,
rather, would have been, a big joke, if
the team had not taken it so seriously.
1t was in the seventh that it happen
ed. Delehanty tried to beat an impos-
,sible one to first and banged squarely
into Eddie Fernandez. Joy called him
safe.
This upset the team. Leslie began
to feel the effects of it and went to
pieces. That was the time he should
have been relieved. He has been sick
lately and could not be expected to
stand the physical strain, with the
nervous one of a breaking team thrown
ON top.
Good Ball at First.
But up to the sixth inning it was
magnificent baseball The visitors
scored one in the first inning, but they
were up against different team from
the one they played the day before.
The local boys were playing well to-
gether and each man was in fine form.
Bob Leslie was getting them over the
plate in fine shape, Soares was catch
ing steadily, and the fielders were do
ing brilliant work. Each inning that
the Hawaiian team went in they came
nearer to scoring, and each succeeding
period seemed certain to be the one
in which the score would be tied.
What little roofing there was APP
peared only in spots, but there was
enough of it to let the boys hear their
names and know that some of the fans
were pulling for them, and Bob Leslie
and Harry Bruins both received ova-
tions after particularly brilliant work.
But it was all off when Joy called Del
sehantv safe Of course, team has
no right to go to pieces when they
think they have a lemon handed to
them. but after being keyed up to a
high pitch of nervous tension during
six hard innings, it would be a hard
hearted fan that would blame them.
The Slaughter Starts.
The awful slaughter started In the
eighth. In the sixth the Stars made
one. which did not amount to much
in the way of encouragement and, In
deed. showed no i'll effects on the
home team In the seventh, signs OF
danger were posted all over the field
and one could see what was liable to
happen unless something drastic was
done. Nothing drastic was done, how
ever, and the killing commenced with
the opening of the eighth.
Leslie seemed unable to find the
plate, and walked ! several of them
Those who did not walk bingled OF
SanPofpct baf
started Before the inning finally
closed every single Star had chance
and nine runs were actually scored
Then, in the ninth the visitors lazeo
through their batting and ran out ontf
the field with their coats on for the
last fielding. This was tritie like
rubbing it in and was emphasized by
the almost supereilious way in which
they handed some second hand sop tc
the Hawaiian players.
While il would be slur on the very
clever hitting and running of the loeal
bows in the last inning, the visitors
gave the appearance, at any rate, OF
handing FIVE cents to. charity, and this
was not appreciated by the fans This
is Judging by the food of spectators
that swamped this Office last night, al
of whom came up to protest that the
people of Honolulu are quite content
and happy to lose game after game tc
a superior team, but would like to see
the other. side working all the time
They may be right and they may be
wrong-they were all very certain that
they were right-but, then, fans have
that habit.
Tow TS Criticized
Barney Joy is a star player and
knows the game, and he gives his de
cisions promptly and honestly. He i:
not liked by the fans in that role, how
ever, and there was hurricane of pro
test round town last night about hi:
. decisions The role of umpire IS the
hardest in the world. No matter how
good man may be, if he does not
happen To hit it with the fans he get'
his all the time 1t is a hard Sian
on the local sports that practically al
the roofing that was done was booins
at the umpire. This is not calculated
to help him do better. Barney evI