Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-31

famed three In u row. He had them
all biting at . slow out, with plenty
Of break. that Hampton, Motley and
Bruins nearly stepped over the plate to
swing at
Then came that sorrowful tenth.
+. Lopcs put boundcr down the
third base line and was thrown out a
mile. NJ. Plata came through with n
noble double, but the Wdidnae hopes
We're dashed when Jack Meyer famed.
G. Meyer hit a sharp groundcr inside
of first. and Franco ran in and over to
field II. He fumblcd II. recovered ana
picked up the ball in plenty Of time
to get the runner. and then Just as he
was about to throw let the ball roll
out of his hand. Curtains!
The Opening Game. +.
The first game was n bloody affair
between the poor old spawned Stars
and the ]. 4. e. Juniors. For u while
IL looked rs though the Juniors were
going to turn the trick, but the Stars
saved their faces in the lucky seventh,
getting three men across and getting
I'm front Ivy couple Of tallics instead
Of trailing by one.
The game wasn't much to look at,
but II was marked by one piece Of
rotten luck in the first inning, when
Dohsky and KCntnor, running In oppo-
site directions for MatsuiChi's fly to
center, ColidCd "bcak -on" and went
down with u crash pOhsliy was daZ-
ed. but EcntnOr was worse of. break
ing his nose in u nasty way, and pass
ing out entirely. DChsky also nurscd
u badly bruised nose for another in
ming and then had to retire. 1t was n
game Of substitutions. and the scorers
were lucky t. escape brain fever. what
ever that Is. According tn the pitch
crs. who can't see anything but field
, ing errors. and the bnttcrs, who try to
! tell you that their baby groundcrs are
! too hot To handle It would he impos-
I sihlc for a scorer to get brain fever.
Variety.
The changes were about on this or
der: Reeve started in to pitch. with
| Eddie Fernandez playing short. When
! Kcntnor was knocked out, iibhcy took
his place in center. Reeve didn't have
| his pitching clothes on, although the
batters didn't get a hit In the two In
nings that ne twriCd. while he, had
| four strikc-Outs to his credit. He Is
| sued three passes, however, and de-
cdcd to go back to his old position
at short. Kibbcy then came in from
center to pitch, Il. Fernandez went into
/ left. Barney Joy shifted from left to
center. and j. Fernandez went out to
right Right on top of this miN-up
! Dobsk,. retired, and Dunlap vert to
second. The Juniors had to get into
this game. too, and in the seventh put
| Omura in center in place of Wakita,
land Ycmoto in left instead Of Nil So
what could the poor scorers do but
! cuss. especially as the captains didn't
| seem to think 1t necessary to announce
| these changes. taking II for granted
that tine men in the press box were
mind readers.
The feature catch Of the game was
in the firth inning. when Schuman
drove a twisting fly to deep right
Ozak ran for II and Wakita came over
to back him up. The ball bounced out
of Oaakis glove and was scooped In
by Waklta before It touched the
ground Umpire Bushnell thought so
ut any rate, for he called Schumar
out. There were many who thought
that the center fielder made II pickup
of Il.
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