The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-09-07
Oahu League Standing.

Oahu League Standing.
P.W. Pet.
Kalihi. ...........,,...,.1 ia
j. A. C. 1925
c. A. c. 800
Marines .............7 l .14S
The surprise of the season was
sprung at the Athletic Park yester-
day afternoon when the Japs white
washed the Beers and the King of
Spain kept the boss sluggers of the
league down without single little
mealy scratch hit.
This changes the aspect Of things
altogether. 1t looks very much as
though the Japs had a good chance to
cop off the championship of the first
series, after all. Here is how things
stand. If the Japs win the last game
of the series next Sunday and the
Beers lose either of the two games
, they have yet to play, then the Japs
and Beers will be tied for first place.
Z Next Sunday the Japs play the Half
vets. They should be able, judging
by the dope, to win all right. The
4 Beers are up against the Dragonlets.
! The result of that game is very much
h on the knees of the gods. But, if the
[ c. A. C. should win, then nothing can
keep the Japs from tying with the
|. Beers. Finally there is that nineteen
inning game tie between the Marines
and Beers to play off. Should the
| Marines win this game, it will be all
|; off with the Kalihis and the Japs will
lead in the standing.
There is another very interesting
possibility to the situation. If the
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the Japs are defeated by the Marines,
then the Dragonlets, Japs and Beers
will all be tied for first place. Which
ever way you look at it, it is the keen
est and most exciting finish to a first
series that has ever happened in this
town.
IN Congressional Visitors.
r. The grandstand was honored by the
4 presence of large number of Con-
4 gressional visitors and their families
sand friends. They seemed to enjoy
watching the crowd as much as they
did the ball games and they expressed
themselves as delighted with the ex-
perience. 1t was great surprise to
them to see the class of ball that our
jpolyglot kids put up and some of them
became greatly enthused over the close
ness of the plays and the clever field
! ing that was done.
m No Hits, No Errors.
The afternoon was so crowded with
interesting features that it is hard to
pick out the best of them. But it
must be said that the wonderful feat
performed by the King of Spain IS
not only something very wonderful but
ID a great Island record. Just imagine
81 Tt-NOT A HIT. NOT AN ERROR.
ONLY ONE MAN ON SECOND BASE
AND NOT A STOLEN BASE ON
EITHER SIDE.
The William Espinda-Solo Hoo
iii combination is the finest that has
aver been seen at the park. Solomon
the old standby of the Palamas and
ne was in excellent form. When he
vent out to take the mask and mitt
he was greeted with round after round
of applause and Solomon carried his
lonors very gracefully. He smiled
hat long, broad smile of his and i'm.
nediately began to work wonders.
Webster Junior Again.
But who 90 you think was there for
he first timef Why our genial friend
Webster Junior. This was his reap
earance at the park and he played
! magnificent game at left field, he
aught all the long flies and there was
sot single tumble or approach to
r me to mar great game. Webster
as profted by his short rustication
nd everybody hopes that he will stay
W it and put out the same line of
i ope.
A Sad Tragedy.
The Marine defeat was sad TRACE.
fnr tho nond Half-wats an6 oil tho
lore so that it was due principally to
he switching round of the team.
lieutenant Kilgore played first base
or the first time at the park and
hanged his men from their accustom-
positions. Slorp and Cav were
hanged over. Cav is used to playing
hortstop and Slorp to third base. The
wap made it bad for them.
It looked, to man up a telegraph
,ole who did not have the price of
IL omission, very much as though the
lieutenant made two bad mistakes
irst, in changing Cav and Slorp over
nd secondly, in leaving Knight on the
ench. Judging by precedent Knight
'ould never have made that overthrow
1 the eighth inning and let the win
ing run in.
. Hang Chack Has Kahuna.
Hang Chack was back from Hawaii
nd made his appearance for the
'ragonlets. He surely brought n rab
it's foot and bunch of kahuna back
18th him for he scored the first two
ms and came in with bingle just
I the right time TO help score an
Their one,
Gibson pitched a splendid game an(
;illiams caught well for him. IL wal
great pity that the support was mo-
eiter, although with the changes thu
- ere made, Que eon hardly blame th'
lielders,
Tsukamoto Smiles.
Tsukamoto, the Jap runner from HI
no has come 10 compete IN the ten
No face next Saturday, was at thl
rounds with three medals on hi
reatt aud a regular corps u trainer
al managers lle Wa greeted viii