The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-02
RACE RIOT At
BASEBALL
PARK
(From Monday 3 AdvertIaer.l

The dirty sporting spirit of the vari.
GUS nationalities who disgrace Amer,
ica's national game at the Honolulu
Athletic grounds every Sunday started
riot yesterday that was stopped only
by quick action on the part of the
police. The outbreak has been expect.
ed for long time and the police have
threatened to shut the park up if the
cheap japanese and Portuguese sports
who patronize it don't eliminate the
words and actions that tend to incite
racial hard feeling.
The outcome of lot of underhanded
rivalry and betting was first manifest
ed yesterday when some Japanese sail.
ed into policeman who tried to stop
small disturbance. That started a
whole mob of disappointed Japanese
in free for all mixup.
The trouble was started, according to
various stories, either by Portuguese
with a big umbrella or another Port
uguese who was making himself equally
obnoxious with Chinese flag, the Chi
nese having just walloped the Waseda
team.
Editor Onodero of the japanese
Chronicle, who was making himself con-
spicuous as the yell leader of the Jspa.
nese bleachers went to Officer Abreu
and asked that the Portuguese with the
umbrella be kicked out. As the officer
did not see any reason why the man
should be fred out because he was root
ing for the Chinese team, he refused
to do so, whereupon 0nodero took n
megaphone out of another man Is hand
and yelled to his followers to hiss, yell
and howl to distract the Chinese
pitcher.
This proceeded for some time and the
bitter feeling of both the Portuguese
and Japanese began to be aroused.
When some exuberant Chinese dropped
few firecrackers on top of a police
man by way of signalling their vic
tory, the Japanese got more angry.
Then another Portuguese youth, safe.
| ly nurtured to innocent manhood under
American protection, made an indescrib'
ably dirty gesture to japanese and
the Japanese sailed in.
| Special Officers Kellett and 0leson
made a jump for the man and Kellett
was soon chasing the Japanese across
the field with Oleson following. When
they caught the man mob of Japa.
nese instantly surrounded them and
started in to attack the officers to force
them to release their prisoner. One
good sport from Nippon managed ia
slice Oleson IS head open with his fist
Chief McDuffie, who was up in the
grandstand when the trouble commenced
Immediately picked out soft Jap and
went overheard, dropping the twelve feet
to the ground and bruising his arm, the
Jap getting out from under. The Japa
nese began to pick up the empty soda
bottles and directed them in a fusillade
against the police, one catching Officer
SpeWncer in the back of the head.
One smallsized japanese marched VI
to McDuffie, where he was driving the
angry mob away from the officers, and
in a threatening tone demanded the in
slant release of his fellow patriots and
countrymen McDuffie seized him in Q
convenient spot and threw him four oil
five feet. The last seen of him was
when he was disappearing out of the
Kukui street gate after record-break
ing sprint,
Meanwhile Kellett had spotted the
Jap who hit Spencer and nabbed him
The efforts of Captain Baker and the
uniformed men broke up the crowd, ant
with the three men who were caught
actually hitting the officers started
towards the gate.
On the way out, W. w. Harris, man
ager of the Athletic Park, marched VI
to Fred Weed, who held one of thu
prisoners and demanded of that office
! to let go his beloved patron.
"Back out" said Weed, ungracious
ly, cor you II get pinched, too"
Thereupon, very much surprised, W
w. Harris, manager of the grounds
faded from view and tried to apolOgiz
to his angry Japanese patrons.
The games at the Athletic Park hav
degenerated into the same tampere
proposition that queered the old bi
, league. Betting started on yesterday
] game several days ago, with odds o
two to one on the Wasedas. Japanes
money was plentiful, but when the
saw that it was going fast they go
scared and demanded that the Chimes
| give them odds
r Yesterday the police discovered
IreRulaT betting rug oh INC E"h Gu
of the grandstand, where money wa
plentiful and bets were being made fas
g and furiously. Chinese, Portuguese an
4 japanese mixed up in several group
A and it needed only regular bookkeepeI
to turn it into betting ring. 1t wa
quickly stopped, but the betting col
I tinued elsewhere.
r If the japanese did in Japan wht
!. they did at the grounds yesterday thei
would be hundred broken heads tn
morning and a lot of sore.armed polio
IS A certain class of Portuguese, who's
r language is limited to vile terms an
( whose loud-mouthed conversation dom
mates the field, were much in evidenc
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