The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-07-09
MAUNTES SORE At
OUR BARNEY JOY

Maui is very sore over the way Bar
ncy Joy refused to allow the Valley
Island baseball players to annex all
three games. Tho Maui News account
of the scrappy Thursday game is full
of vitriol and personal animus against
Barney Umpire Bettencourt also
comes in for serious charges. But all
the way through the Maui paper ac-
count there il not word about Louis
Soarcs' part in the affair which was
what really started the trouble. Meth.
er does the country paper say word of
how Maui people tried to I'LL Barney
up good and plenty so as to prevent HIS
being in condition to play. Herewith
is reproduced what the Maui paper has
to say-mainly anent Barney and the
goat Maui didn't get Off him:
Thursday an immense crowd filed
through the gates to witness what was
Expected to be a great struggle for the
second game of the series. Big Barney
occupied the center of the diamond for
the visitors while Dunn did the firing
for Maui. But such game. In fact
Their ewas no game. 1t was Donnybrook
with Big Barney occupying the unen.
viable position of bully in chief at ev.
cry encounter. OF course in the heat of
battle ball players say and do things
they would blush at during their sober
moments, but when player so far for
, gets himself as to openly and repeated
: ly insult every lady within hearing o.
: his voice, then he should no longer b,
! allowed to play ball. Barney Joy is
, bully not ball player, and when W,
. say bully, we mean that he is also
9 coward. The rest of the Honolulu team
8 are gentlemen. They fight for thei
4 games-and every true sport loves
tghter-but with it all they are gen
: tlemen, first, last and always.
g Again the arrangement Thursda.
S with one umpire representing eac
y team, was farce. Mr.. Bettencour
b seemed extremely anxious to get int
the game, and this in itself locke
strange. The game had not gone ia
before the reason for his anxiety wa
apparent. Along about the sixth innin
he started calling everything n bal
Repeatedly Meyer, who had replace
\ Dunn, split the plate with straigh
Il one waist high, but the umpire coul
u say nothing but ball. Three men wei
PISSED. JOY came to bat and knoeke
long fly which fell among the autom,
biles along the side lines. The ball WI
9 foul by yards, yet the umpire unbus
ingly called it fair. This was not bas
ball, it was robbery. The writer hi
watched this same Bettencourt umpi
in Honolulu, and we do not hesitate
say that he cannot possibly jud!
strikes and balls properly, as when II
w ball gets within about six feet of Il
= batter, he shuts his eyes. This is Il
man put up to work with Chillingwort
o, who is as good and competent an III
s. pire as can be found in the Territor
he We always hesitate to make charges
E. this sort, but in this case it was t
%, Jaw to be overlooked. The cause cal
lis from outsiders who had bet on t
or game, and were not willing to Ia
chances, but wanted to make a su
BY thing of it.
no "After this Meyer refused to pit
eli longer, ana BAL went IN. ENeryo
es who knows Bal, knows his great ass
on is his wonderful control, still Bette
on court kept on calling balls, and
IA might still be calling them had not t
VS. Honolulu players hit some of them, a
IA, been thrown out.
"'Barney Joy was told before t
b (Friday s game) that he must not sti
I'd anything, and he took the tip, and
up haved himself. Barney went into RIG
re- field when Williams went into pit
or and in his only time at bat, he "
robbed of what seemed sure hit, by
ior clever bit of fielding and fast thr
he by Garcia.
raj "The series was well played outs
lte of the disgraceful scenes in the mid
an of the second game. The boys are ]
of to be blamed for this, as the contin
he butting in of outsiders was the :
ig cause of the trouble