The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-31
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tSpeeial Correspondence OF the Star.)
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE HE
Ssiian Chinese baseball team which
recently played Georgetown universi.
ty here made a decided hit among
the sports who follow the various
form OF outdoor amusements. They
made up In strategy what they lack.
ed in weight in the sixteen-inning
game with Georgetown men, and
only lost out through one of the play
ers taking an exceedingly long chance.
During their stay in Washington
the members of the club were enter
tanned by Delegate Kuhio by a drive
over the city, a sightseeing tour
through the public buildings, a lunch
at the capital and a big dinner at
one of the downtown hotels in the
evening.
H. G. Byrd, one of Washington's
best sporting writer's, has the follow.
ing to say of the Hawaiian team:
There were no two innings in which
the Hawaii nine played the same kind
of game. 1t was one complete at
tempt to trick the Blue and Gray
bunch, and many times success at
tended the efforts. Whenever George
town expected sacrifice and the first
and third basemen played close, then
it was that the brown men swung
hardest at the ball, and vice versa.
Once when Georgetown men were
looking for the batter to clout the
ball he laid down perfect bunt along
the third base line, and as fast as
Davis is he did not get to the bali
before the runner was at first. 1t was
bunt with two or one or none down;
the Chinese team seemed to have no
preference, just so there was chance
to fool the opposing players.
On the base lines there were con-
tinual attempts on the part of the
Chinese nine to draw throws, which
they did at times and which gave
them several runs. In the field there
were little intentional slips that gave
plenty of opportunity for the Blue
and Gray men to place themselves in
a hole. The center fielder, Sing
Hung, had a way of catching fly balls
with men on the bases which had
the appearance of trapping or drop
ping the ball. 1t was an attempt to
get the Georgetown runners to leave
the bags with the idea that the ball
had been missed.
The shortstop uncorked a new way
of playing that position with a man
on first Instead of shifting the least
bit at the sign to waste the ball he
would maintain a position within two
or three feet of the ball during the
entire time that first base was occu-
pied. 1t made it much easier for MIN
to receive a throw from home, but
1t left a lot of room for the hit and
run play through the position he had
practically left vacant.
Yes, there was some peculiar base
ball uncorked by that team, but it
was all that made it able to play en-
even terms with the Blue and Gray
nine. 1t was by taking advantage Of
the little slips on the part of George
town that the Chinese nine was able
to make the showing it did. George
town looked much the stronger team.
both in the field and at bat, but i'd
was in the really finer points that the
foreign aggregation showed to adj
vantage, just the part of the game in
which it would not be expected to DO
much.
None of the pitchers used by the
Chinese team seemed to have much
on the ball, but they were continually
outguessing the batters. Time and
again the Georgetown men would
swing at balls that were not good by
feet simply because they had been
fooled.
There were times, though, when the
Blue and Gray men hit in mighty
hard luck. Once with two men down
and third and second occupied, DAILY
hit the ball at the second baseman
on a line at about a mile-a-minute
gait. On two other occasions line
drives were hit directly at somebody
when men were on the bases.
Kan Yen, who did the catching for
the Chinese team, had a good arm
end was able to shoot the ball down
TO second on line, but it generally
went into center field. He had little