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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
DUBIOUS About
OUR TRAINING
METHODS


There Il 1t least one Englishman
who has not lost hts head in the fran.
tic desire to Initiate American meth.
ods, and he treats the subject of sci.
entific training In reasonable fashion
in an article published during the
Olympic games This is DR.. Adolphe
Abrahams, who was the consulting
medical officer to the British Olympic
team. DR.. AbrahaIns says in part:
1T is OF course obvious that nature
must have the first word. The sprint.
er, the marathon runner, the jumper,
the weight putter all are endowed pri-
marily with the essential features
which adapt them for their particular
sphere. So mucn would be conceded
by anybody. be he scientific authority
with a more or less instructive objec-
ton to artificial aids,s or would-be
coach with an Obvious axe to grind.
But now we have to consider how
far these natural exoellencies can be
developed. We have two schools of
argument in this matter. On the one
hand there is what might be called
the natural selectionists, those who
hold that, az nature will find the best
way to achieve the best results, she
had better be let alone. On the other
hand, there Is what would call the
school of trainers or coaches, who aim
at artificial Improvement, and who
base their system either on the most
elaborate scientific principles or who
60 to the other extreme and claim
equally good results by pure empiri-
cism.
aHow far can an athlete be improy-
ed, or, to go further, be manufactured?
] write from the standpoint of the
scientific observer who, while admit
ting ignorance, protests his desire to
learn the truth. see in this city the
wonderful results of Mike Murphy or
to come conveniently near home, of
Hjertberg. ana It would appear to be
midsummer madness to deny that their
achievements are the direct conse-
quence of these experts skill On the
other hand, see also in this city a
marvellous runner, Hans Braun, who
only discovered he could run by out
stripping his opponents On the football
field-an example Of natural selection
which would have delighted Darwin!
Braun has never had an hours coach
ing; nevertheless, he 10 a serious rival
at all times to the best the world can
produce. II
1t is the occasional appearance,
Aften from most unexpected quar-
ter, of what the trainers call freak
runner, that induces me to conclude
that the coach does great deal less
than he is popularity supposed. to do.
For what has he to rely upon-put into
scientific language, mean? What is
1t that makes one man an oarsman
and another runner, one sprinter
and another q slayer; what makes one
man an athlete at all and another a
duffer? 1t is something out of the
reach of the measuring tape and
weighing machine, of stethoscope, or
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
Boston is Breaking" Says Eddie
Collins, Of The Champ Athletics
By EDDIE" COLLINS.

(SCcond Baseman of the Athletics. }
At last the Boston team has shown
signs of breaking-very slight-but
Still an indication Of slowing up. The
team is not winning games with the
same facility it displayed up to the
last week or two, and other clubs with
stations much farther down in the
standing are coming from behind and
beating the Red Sox after they have
accumulated a lead. This means that
the pitchers are not as strong as they
were.
Let Stahl lose his pitchers and he
will have a great fight on his hands.
The evident strain of the drive for
the wire, with all the possibilities Of
a worlds series, is beginning to tell
The Athletics are much encouraged on
the week. With greater frequency the
names of two pitchers are appearing
in the Boston box scores instead OF
just one.
How About Senators?
But there is thorn in the side of
the Athletics and Red Sox which
pricks deeper with the passing of each
week. There is the Washington club.
It's unexplained squirt of the early sea
SON. has become a sustained flight,
with extremely serious possibilities.
No less a baseball light than Frank
Chance has selected the Washington
team to win the American League pen
hant, aud siInil That it is probably
playing the steadiest ball in the league.
Each week that Griffith maintains his
place just behind the Red Sox and
just ahead of us, he stands a better
chance. His men are not under the
nervous strain caused by worry over
falling back from the dizzy heights of
first place and have no fear in their
hearts Of the criticism which is bound
to exude from every pore Of the home
papers should they once have COM
Portable lead and then drop. A team
in second place has not that to con-
tend with. -.-.5 -.
Now that no great alterations have
been made in the STANDING of the team
as a result of this last Western trip
it looks as if the championship were
going to be decided in those few vital
series I'M the last part of August and
the beginning of September, when the
three cohtending teams meet one an;
other Some one of the trio is bound
to break then and 30 under for good.
A great deal will depend upon what
shape the clubs are HI at that tfnies
It is on these series that the Athletics;
are counting to get up on even terms
and finally win the pennant.. - n
The Athletics should be in the best
shape of the three when the important
games come around. This last week
has shown a big Improvement in the
team. Oldring is back in the game
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Northwestern LEAGUE.
CANNON BALL PITCHER
Is NOT HARD TO CATCH

Is Walter Johnson a hard pitcher
to catch? When one watches his ter
rifle speed and dazzling curves he
surmises that it is one tough job to
receive the big Swede. Charley Street
was the first catcher to receive the
delivery of the Idaho phenom." Street
had trouble in handling him in the
first few. games, but after that it
seemed a very easy job for Street
He always insisted that Johnson was
easier for him to catch than any 9TH
er member of the Washington staff,
but such a statement was never taken
seriously. When Clark Griffith traded
Street to the New York team last win
ter it was believed that he had made
a boot. On past performances it did
not seem as If Washington had a catch
er who could hold Johnson. 1t was
thought his effectiveness would be
greatly decreased. On the contrary,
Ainsmith is catching Johnson better
than Street ever did, and Walter ad-
mits he would prefer the youngster to
the veteran.
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with enthusiasm. We expect Danny
Murphy back before these Boston and
Washington games. Our pitchers are
going better than at any other time
| this season. Bender, Plank and
combs are the same three men who
"on the pennant and the world
championship last year II is the first
time this season the three stars have
all been fit at once. They are the
equals Of any three pitchers in the
country when they are right, and with
the Athletics to hit behind them we
may clean up in i short series when
d great deal hangs on it. That is the
habit of the club
The spirits Of the team have greatly
improved in the last week. Fans may
count us out, but stranger would not
have to travel long with us to see that
we feel we are very much in the race
and with bright prospects. look for
the result Of the impending series with
the Western clubs, when they begin
their invasion of the East this week.
to be about the stand-off among the
three contending clabs,i as almost ey-
cry intersectional fight this season has
been. :.ti:t; -
Cut-Throat Series. AlI}ff#.
We are hoping, of course, for the
best and realizes the possibility of
some club cleaning up On Boston or
Washington in an unexpected flash.
Such blow at such a point In the.
race would probably be vital to them.
suppose that my critics ask why such
a contingency is not possible with the
Athletics. 1t is possible, but not so
likely, because we have been off form
all summer and We are now fortified
with, regular pitchers and regular hit
tiers who have been out Of the game so
long that there is little danger of them
going stale, an ailment that tine boss
of leading team has to watch for
and guard against carefully at this
stage in the race. It is evidence OF
such fault that Boston is now show
ing. -
Suppose. the three teams worry
through Until August 20 rated in
standing about as they are now. The
Athletics 60 to Boston for series
then, If they shotlld clean up on JUS
it would be time TO figure out what
the gate receipts would be from our,
proposed postseason series with the.
PhiHsas. But if we ml3ss up tie Red
Sox and then get aWa with Wash
inston; leaving the Red aox and Sem
aters to fight 1t out III ar cut-throat
series, our prospects would. be of the
best One seveTeasetback for Boston
and we will be On the'heels Of the Red
.Sox The last swing through the West
would then find them caving, and we
would win the pennant, provided
Washington can be tripped, too.
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THE
/. Ball HA|HR,
+ ISHAPPY

This is a story about Louis Sock
alexis, from his own home town, Old
Town, Maine, written because thou.
sands of baseball fans are asking the
question, whatever became Of Sock
alexis?" or us this Andrew Sockal
exis, the Marathon runner, any reIa-
ton to Sockalexis, the old Cleveland
hall player" Then that line of
thought is quite likely to break into
Talk about your Ty Cobbs, an
Wagners and Bakers-guess you
never saw Sockalexis when he was
in his prime" or Yes, Big Chiefs
Meyers and Bender are some Injuns,
hut you'd oughter seen Louis Sockal-
exis. Why, in a game on the Polo
grounds once, | saw him" and Sock
alexis stories will be fan feed for
some years to come. ---
Much has been written about the
Sockalexis of today that is not fact.
He is not dying in poverty" neither
is he ghost of his former SELF" He
is not running ferry. He is just a
fat, smoky, lazy Indian, who lives
with the tribe on the Indian Island
reservation of the Penobscots, which
is practically a part of the city Of
Old Town, being but few rods from
the mainland. He doesn't work much
because he doesn't have to. He could
rot die in poverty, because poverty
is unknown to the tribe. While there
are times when the people are not
living in luxury, the tribe is, in way,
the wards of the State of Maine and
has a tribal income enough to pro-
vide for the necessities. AS for be-
ing a ghost, he weighs close to 200
pounds.
Too :1uch Fire Water.
When the great book of baseball Is
written there will be a short, but
graphic chapter on "Sockalexis, the
Man Who Might Have Been" In all
baseball history there has been no
more lamentable chapter than the
rise and fall of the "Abanaki Adonis,"
as some wrater called him. Diseoy-
cred by the late lamented DOC" Pow
ers while playing in Maine, he was
taken to Holy Cross, where his de
velopment was rapid. He was soon
the college sensation of the year. Big
league scouts camped on his trail,
and Patsy Tebeau, of Cleveland, land
ed him.
They say that the downfall of Sock,
alexis dated from his first payday
The lights of the big cities dazzled
him. He was coaxed, threatened, ca
joled. all to no effect. He simply
would not listen to managerial ad-
vice or recognize any discipline. He
was given every chance, but there
was the aboriginal Indian thirst for
firewater, which was unquenchable.,
One night, in getting out of a second
story window to avoid guard on the
floor below, he broke his ankle.
Andrew Sockaiexis, the plucky Mar
athon runner, is his cousin. Andrew
never tasted liquor and never used
tobacco. He has more of the Indian
traits of stoical silence, dogged de-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
MARINES AFTER
DIAMOND HEAD

Down at Camp Very the mari
have organized a ball team. and
management y out with 4 chaI|I0
to play the Diamond Heads next SUI
day. The def, hurled through &.
sporting columns OF the StarBulIe'.
includes not only the names 81 a
players, but a few snappy Criticize
and comparisons Of their style 81 D'||
Here ii IS:
August Is, 1919
Manager, Diamond Head Bassl.
Club.
Dear Sir:-on behalf Of the new
organized baseball team Of Camp Ven
challenge the Diamond Head b11.
ball team to game to be played Sun
day morning, September /, at Atkins
Park The manager can be reac10
by phone to discuss arrangements. N1
1882.
Following is the lineup:
Brewer, the corn cob twirler. r
Miner, who once saw Johnny kliuS, G.
Thompson. Hal Chase,s double, 10
Pierce, Johnny Eyers the second, n
Peterson, the 40-loVe batter. 5b. II.|
maurice, good as they make EN-, 11'
Dickey, one-time 0riole star, Il. ~
cuyer, the smallest man that ever
played ball, CT; Ghires. also known
Rusty the slugger, If; Cox, the dup
cate of Honus Wagner. utility
Yours truly,
CORPORAL BREWER.
Manager
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
HEALANI BARGE Will BE HERE
ON WILHELMINA OF SEPTEMBER 3
Local Cbmen Much Relieved by Letter Received from Alt
Rogers in Yesterdays MaI-AIl Four Clubs Have High
Hopes of Winning Senior Race on Regatta Day

the oarSmen to double up, two crews
taking turns at the same boat. There
is no chance, however, that the
Healanis will put two senior crews
in the regatta, although this was
talked of a few weeks ago. The club
will need to put its very best men
In the boat, and when the choice is
made there won't be many first-class
oars left over.
Reports from the Coast intimate
that the Alameda crew is rapidly
rounding into form, and that the men
have fallen naturally into siX-oaT
barge rowing, and are making great
progress. Rogers remodeled four
oar barge into a six for the California
clubmen, and although not used to
six-oar work. the crew is now, making
fine progress.
Best Race Ever.
The Myrtles are right in their
stride again, after something of a
slump, and they confidently expect
to walk off with the senior event.
Owing to the entry of the Alameda
champions, and the fact that Puu-
meme will row senior, this event car.
ries even more interest than is usu-
ally the case. 1t is a bigger race
than ever, and with four fast crews
fighting for honors, the contest
should be one we'll worth seeing.
Puunene is touted as having the
heaviest crew in the race, the figures
given by Maui showing that the men
in the boat average more than 1870
mounds
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
STABLE FIRE DESTROYS
WORLDS HUSKIEST MULE

ST JOSEPH, Mo-. Aug. 13.-"Dar-
KY" the biggest mule in the world, was
among the stock destroyed today when
the livery stable of w. r. Warren at
Trenton, Mo-, few miles from here,
was burned "Darky" was eight years
old, weighed 20S0 pounds, and was
valued at $1,000. He had never been
sick a day in his life and could draw
as much as three ordinary animals of
his kind.
Lake GTie produces more fish to the
square mile than any other body of
water in tie world.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-29
THE TRUTH ABOUT SPORT
Is NEVER A KNOCK
FULLER IS ANOTHER GREAT
JOCKEY TO GO BROKE

y Friendless and penniless. Gro
y yer Cleveland Fuller. who sue. !
y ceeded to Tod Sloan's place as
= leading jockey of the country.
= appeared before Judge Grain in
y New York the other day on a :
y charge OF stealing a watch and
y chain valued at SIS. In his day
= Fuller's winnings ran close to
= $S00,00 Now he Is broke" :
= and could nc: borrow enough :
y money to hire lawyer.
\ The court appointed counsel :
= and Fuller pleaded not guilty.
4 Booze got me; it has been :
+ my worst enemy" exclaimed
= the former jockey. Some years :
= l made nearly q quarter of q
= million dollars. but il all went
= over the bar. My friends got :
4 lots Of 1t. too. and now they
= won't help me-"
= Fuller Is lame as the result :
= of a fall from horse in the ,
= Excelsior handicap a. Jamaica !
y seven years ago.
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microscope or any other scope, of the
most delicate scientific instrument so
far as l am aware; something in the
innermost recesses of the nervous sys-
TEN. And / think your great trainer
gets at it by his personality, so that
conceive him rather in the light of
skilled empiric with an exceptional ca
pability of influencing men and stimu-
Iating them to do their best, rather
than as a man who has thought out
the neuro-muscular principles involved
in any movement and able therefore
to show the aspirant to athletic PROV
ess the way to do things best, The
coach need not be dissatisfied at my
labelling him an empiric. A clever en-
piric is better any day than a muddle
headed, scientist whose criteria are all
wrong"
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There was a broad smile much in
evidence around the Healani Club
yesterday afternoon, In fact, the
grin was broad enough to reach right
around the boat house, with enough
lap-oyer TO tie the ends in bow knot.
There's reason" and mighty
good one, too, for the general at
mosphere OF contentment and pros
perity, for letters from the Coast re-
ceived yesterday brought the cheer.
ing news that the new Healani rae
ing barge was to be shipped on the
wilheImina, due here September 3.
That ALI Rogers has finally COM
pleted the boat is good news to the
Healanis, who have been looking for
Il for the past month, and who were
beginning to get somewhat worried at
the prospect OF having to go through
the regatta with. the old barge. The
new boat is said to be the very latest
In construction, with several improve.
ments In weight and design over the
present racing craft. The Healanis
will get 1t into the water as soon as
possible after landing, and the senior
crew will have the pleasure of trying
It out for the first time.
No name has been selected for the
new boat as yet. but it is probable
that some Hawaiian name will be
given to It, to follow the custom of.
tho club n
Eight Crews Out.
Yesterday eight crews We're on the
water, a1d Il Is now necessary for
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Arrangements are said to be under
way whereby the Kilauea-MeBryde
two-out-of-three games for the final
island championship will be pulled Off
in Kilauea, McBryde and Lihue respee-
lively. That is, the first game to be
Mayed in Kilauea, the second on the
McBryde field, and, in the event OF a
third game, the same to be played OF
in Lihue. This program seems to have
met with general approval, and will
no doubt prevail-Garden Island.
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NO CHANGE FOR
CLUB ARMY
GAME
University Club Ball Players
Would Like to Accommodate
; Officers, but Team Has Dis
banded-Series Next Year

There Is now no chance Of the U.li-
yersity Club ball-players and the offi-
GERS team from Schofield Barracks
coming together for a. return game
this season. The officers have sant
along request for another chance at
the clubmen, but the latter have re-
gretfully declined to be drawn into an-
other diamond argument, for the pres
ent at any rate. ..-.. 49,. -.--~--zs-y +.
Il think every member of the team
that won Saturday would personally
like to hook up again with the Off
GERS" said Captain A.. L. Castle of
the University aggregation yesterday
afternoon. However, it's out of the
question. Howell has already left, and
Lowrey, Hogs, Watson and Withing-
ton will all be leaving within q few
days. There is no chance of finding
substitutes for these positions capable
of making anything like the team we
had in the field last Saturday, and We
need fully as good team to make
good game of 1t. The officers play
real ball, and it would be no satisfac-
ton to them to walk through the joke
aggregation that we would have to
send against them, when the players
mentioned leave. - .-2.z.
Il hope" continued Castle, that this
game between the club and the army
can be made regular annual event.
Next year we would like to have a
series~of it, the first game in town,
the second at Schofield, and the third
at Athletic Park, which is neutral
grounds for US, who practise at Alex
andefs Field. I'm sorry we can't give
the officers another crack at US, but
there's positively nothing doing"
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BOOM
ON GARDEN
ISLAND

Hawaiian has reorganized its junior
ball league, having placed three teams
on the green, the schedule to begin
next Sunday. The teams viii consist
of the P. A. .Cs., Hawaiis and Kealias.
The P. A. Cs., while holding second
place last year, are confident OF CIV
ing a better account OF themselves
this season. The Hawaiis have added
more players to their team this year,
and seem formidable aggregation,
while the Kealias, who lost but a sin
gle game last year, hope to do even
better this season.
The members of the junior league
teams are as follows:
Kealis Geo. All Nee Captain Jack
Comes, Z. Alameda, n. Koani, J. Teix-
elra, j. Afpda. = Neal Jr.s q Souza,
ar Teyes IT. Joe Teyes. u Mladnicn.
Charlie Too, j Pohako, 3. MogamL
L. Aohayas, H. Sheldon
.(manager1.
p. A. Cs.-Joe Bettencourt leap
tain), M. Bettencourt, John Betten-
court, A. Rodrigues, w. Rodrigues, q.
Rodrigues, j. Acquire, w. Ebinger,
Charlie Ebinger, A Silva, ]. Verrula.
J. Cabral, c. Cabral, J. Rodrigues
.(managerl. .
Hawaiis-J. H. Cummings captain
and managerl, ]. B. Cumming Jr., j.
Scharsch, A. Wong, s. Nagihisa, D.
Hano, NJ. Bonita, s. Opio Jr, A. Arm
hea, P. Comrades, J. Lahaale, Keoho,
l. Kan, L. Rose, ]. Ropoza, All Chong,
w. Hepa, C. Laval.
Two ball teams have been organ
lied in Hanamaulu. Practise games
are held every evening on the school
grounds. Some very good material Is
and If the teams keep 1t
up, the Lihue team pext year will do
well to look over these teams for ma
terial for the big league.
Kapaia is already preparing to come
out with an exclusive team next sea-
son, to be headed by Johnny Fernarl-
des. The three Fernandes brothers
are good players, and in themselves
would make team hard to defeat.
President R. p. Spalding OF the ka-
uai Athletic Association has taken
steps to get together Kauai base
bali team and has so notified all play
ers of such intention. With the ma
terial to select from, Kauai need have
little difficulty in rounding up an ag-
gregation Of players that will skin
in the Territory.
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was puffed and swollen with bruises
from blows.
This is the worst case ever heard
Of" said the judge. Il only wish |
might inflict the death. penalty upon
each of you"
Then he gave them the extreme pen
atty allowed under the indeterminate
act-not less than six years nor more
than nine years at hard labor in the
eastern penitentiary. The boy will be
placed in an institution by the society.