The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-06
The Step-Iadder
Route
By Jack Densham.


Come on all you fans. Here is the
dope so far as / can find 1t.
The baseball players all think that
the Ladder route is the only one and
those l have talked to on the subject
agree with me. They agree with great
firmness and. no chance for suppose.
ton of "Aye, aye, sirj you are right,
but oh, WE'LL
Permit few quotations.
Charlie Chillingworth. -"Most Ger.
tainly you are right. The youngsters
, should be given chance. The case
of Danny Arcia that you mentioned in
the paper recently appealed to me. Also
there is that kid brother of mine. You
and l are both prejudiced in his favor
but l guess we are not far wrong in
saying that he will make good if he
has real chance in the outield and
with the bat. ~
Jack Motley, manager of the j. A.
| CT read your article with great
interest and admit that you are right.
You say that latent material must be
given chance to develop into whole
cloth and | quite agree with you. We
have pitchers and fielders, not to men.
ton some catchers who could make
terrible hit on the mainland, il they
we're given n chance. Let us give them
chance. Go to it and boost the step
ladder route
A Marine officer, who will not be
quoted by Nance When l read that
article of yours in the Advertiser the
other morning, / rubbed my eyes and
said to myself, WHAT Has this
sporting writer come out from his deep
sleep mt lastl Certainly you are right
and nobody appreciates it more than
the Marines. TO use your own phrase,
we have some Half.wets that would
make good in any of the eastern
leagues, if they had real chance The
Marine corps will do its best to help
you in the campaign you have
started.
Here are three authentic quotations.
But they are merely three of many.
Tin Chong, Apau, other Chillingworths,
and everybody else agreed with the
proposition The management of the
new Athletic Park, an organization that
is making live noise and doing good
for the game, offered to set its seal
and signature on the proposed entente
cOrdiale.
Messrs. Gear and Fred Harrison both
spoke strongly ON the subject yester-
day afternoon. Said they in part:
owe have put our grounds open to the
use of the big leaguers for practise and
would be only too glad to have them
use the grounds at any time they
want to-
''Sunday baseball is our main a,trac-
ton and, even if the big league were
to play on Sundays, we would not feel
anything but pleased. While we are
running an amusement enterprise, we
are wise enough to know that what is
good for the game is good for us, We
should like to see the Oahu players APP
pear at the big league grounds on Sat
urday. If the big league ever intends
playing on Sunday, we shall use our
best influence to get the Oahu players
to appear for them, if they are
wanted"
You can't beat that line of talk. 1t
is the real talk. Baseball has got to
60. There are more ball bugs than
corpusclcs in the veins of the average
American, and how in Sam Hall Hell
lespont di Escondardo are you going
to eradicate them9 Do you want to
eradicate theml No; of course you
dom You want TO see the game
thrive. So wear that button that the
big league is going to get out with
this legend; "Me for the Step-Ladder
Route. -