The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1912-07-06
Honolulu
VS. Maui
The Two Baseball Teams Hook Up In
desperate Struggle.

T he Honolulu aseball team ar 4
rived in Lahaina Wednesday morn |
ing on t he Mikahala and were met
by committee from the Maui |
Athletic Club, composed of George |
Cummings, A. Garcia, and G. @.
Clark. Autos had been provided to
bring the boys to Wailuku, and
they enjoyed the carly morning
ride immensely.
Wednesday afternoon the first
game was played on the Wailuku
grounds. The Honolulu boys start
ed off with Williams in the box,
and Maui had Meyer on the mound.
The home team was evidently nerv-
Gus in the first two innings, and
they allowed the Honolulu team to
jump away with lead of four runs.
After that Meyer frightened up and
the boys behind him settled down,
and the way they handled the
shoots of Mr.. Williams made Il at
gentleman sick, and he took to the
tall grass. In the fifth inning the
burly form of Barney Joy was seen
on the mound, but the boys had
gained confidence and they went
after Barney hot foot. All this
time Meyer had been blanking the
boys from the big burg with great
regularity, and it was not till the
ninth inning that they were able to
put another run across. The final
score was Z to 6 in favor of Maui.
Thursday an immense crowd filed
through the gates to witness what
was expected to be great struggle
for the second game of the series.
Big Barney occupied the centre of
the diamond for the visitors while
Dunn did the firing for Maui.
But such game. In fact there
was no game. 1t was donny-
brook, with Big Barney occupying
the unenviable position of bully in
chief at every encounter. OF course
in the heat of battle ball players
say and do things they would blush
at during their sober moments, but
when a player so far forgets himself
as to openly and repeatedly insult
every lady within hearing of his
voice, then he should no longer be
allowed to play ball. Barney Joy
is bully not ball player, and
when we say bully, we mean that
he is also a coward. The rest OF
the Honolulu team are gentlemen.
They fight for their games, and
every true sport loves fighter
but with it all they are gentlemen
| uTSl, ld5t anu dlWdyo.
Again the arrangement Thursday
with one umpire representing each
team, was farce. Mr.. Bettencourt
seemed extremely anxious to get in
to the game, and this in itself
looked strange. The game had not
gone far before the reason for his
anxiety was apparent. Along about
the sixth inning he started calling
everything = bail. Repeatedly
Meyer, who had replaced Dunn,
split the plate with a straight one
waist high, but the umpire could
say nothing but ball. Three men
were passed. Joy came to bat and
knocked long fly which fell among
the automobiles along the side lines.
The bail was foul by yards, yet the
umpire unblushingly called it fair.
This was not baseball, it was rob-
berry. The writer has watched this
same Bettencourt umpire in Homo
lulu, and we do not hesitate to say
that he cannot possible Judge strikes
t and balls properly, as when the ball
gets within about six feet Of the
r batter, he shuts his eyes. This is
r the man put up to work with Chill
: lingworth, who is as good and COM