The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-19

The first series of the Oahu Baseball
! League now lies between the Native
Sons and the Japan ese with the
/ chances in favor Of the Native Sons,
4 for on the results of yesterdays play
| the Native Sons are still one game
ahead of last years champions and
there is only one game to be played.
Thus. the best the Japanese can do is
/ to tie the Native Sons by winning from
| them next Sunday, in which case
another game, or short series of
games, will be necessary to decide the
| series. The Stars and the Portuguese
! lost yesterday, but both games were
fairly good, though slow, that between
the Stars and the Native Sons being
the better of the two, though the
Stars were subjected to the indignity
Of a coat of whitewash.
Bill Rice Makes Star Plays.
Though errors decided the game in
] favor of the Native Sons, Bill Rice,
champion runner and all-round ath-
| lete, pulled off a couple of stunts
which really prevented the Stars from
making bid for victory. He certainly
made good yesterday, though his bat
+ ting was nothing to boast about. He
was up four times, famed twice,
walked once and flew out, but he did
splendid work in the field. His star
play in the second, when he deliber-
ately muffed a fly in the garden to
bring off a double play was magnif-
icent, while his spectacular catch in
the ninth was perhaps the best catch
seen on the diamond this season. In
the second the Stars had Sumner at
| second and JOY at first, with no outs,
and Apau to bat. Apau sent out a
! long fly to the left field, which Rice
dropped as the sphere hit his glove,
picked it up without an instants delay
and whipped it to third as Sumner
raced along the base line. The ball
/ beat Sumner and he started back to
! second, meeting Joy there as Mark
| ham relayed the ball to Hamauku. JOY
bolted back towards first, and Ham
auku sent the ball to Dreier, who put
out Joy and whipped the ball over to
| Markham again in time to settle Sum-
ner. 1t was a great play and had the
fans all on their feet Then in the
ninth, with Apau on first and one out,
the Stars had another chance. N.
Hoopii was put in to bat for O'Sulli-
van on the off-chance of his handing
out a hit He met the ball fairly and
it scared between right and center
field, with all the chances in the world
of falling safe But Rice raced across
! the field like a hare and got under the
ball when it was about a foot from
! the ground, That practically ended
the game, for Apau was put out less
than a minute later trying to steal sec
ond In the eighth, Sumner handed
out a long fly to the lei field, which
Rice caught running backward. Rice
was only on the bases once, but he
got to third, remaining there as Kualii
struck cut and Hamauku flew to cen
ter. In the fourth the Stars had a
chance with two outs when Sumner
and JOY handed out hits, but Apau's
grounded settled their hash.
Errors Decide Game.
Though the Stars and the Native
Sons made three errors each, those
made by the Stars were all costly err
rors, while those made by the Native
Sons were without cost All Toon, All
Tin and O'Sullivan were the offenders
On the Stars and their mistakes de-
cided the game. 1t was in the third
: that All Toon and O'Sullivan fell down,
when the score sheet was clean.
Dreier gained first on hit to center
field, but advanced to second on All
Toon's failure to take centerield's
/ thrown. Then, with two out, w. Des-
! har hit to centerfield and O'Sullivan
broke down, scoring Dreier. In the
| sixth the second run was added, and
that after two outs had been regis