Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-03
. BY LAURENCE REpiNeroN.

AltSi me ~naH-FaislnS game o Ia week
ago between the same teams. the
fans looked for a whirlwind contest,
end were nightly disappointed at the.
oae-sided affair which resulted. Had
they considered the laws of baseball
chance, however, they would not nave
bGilded their hopes so high. for games
like the first between the Chinese and
Picks seldom occur In success. ion.
Captain Akana's speed boys won as
they pleased by score of s to 1, and
after the second inning they had tho
game wrapped up and turned over to
the delivery department. -Four pair OF
Chinese shoes crossed the rubber in
this frame, and IL was all over but
some clever bits OF individual work
Never were theSC Chinese in danger oil
losing, and from the second until the
end Of the game they let down the ter
sion a number OF notches and PLAYED
just well enough to win. In fact, they
showed more Eigns OF going to sleep
on the job than In any previous game
since they returned from the main
lard. but this il not surprising, nor
car II be the subject of adverse critic
ism. The team won the game in the
second, and played II safe from then
on.
Joy in Hard Luck.
Barney 10y topped the mound for
the Desha Picks. hurting for six
innings. and finally retiring In favor Of
Bushnell Barney was getting better
as the game progressed, but he had
enough or the spotlight and was glad
TO retire to the comparative secluaon
OF the Prime. sign ON the right field
ferce. and take the last two innings
easily. The game wls hppelessly Lost,
and the Roman holiday stun didn't ap-
peal.
Barney got on on the wrong foot
yesterday, and his own Mistakes con
tributed largely to the score against
him. He was a bit Wild, and he Ger
tainly didn't get any the best of II on
called balls and strikes. For once
Bert Bower was unsteady In his calls
behind the plate, and In the second
Inning, in which all the damage hap
pened, he called q number OF pttche
that cut the corners, as balls IAN nm
rire Is human after all, but Il just hap
ptned that Barnevs trials came 10 q
run-getffng Inning, which made him
tho goat. He kept himeslf well in |
hand. however. and Fefdsed to aviate, |
even when he thought be was getting
aslot the worst Of the decisions. Later,
VIXEN he came up With two men on the
sacks and none gone. and hit into q
double play instead Of answering the
nrayers for q homer that came nom
hir friends In tie stands, he m
smiled.
Game starts Well.
The game started of like hot one,
btfore the record crowd OF the season.
About 2ge0 persons we're on hand, and |
these wasn't reserved seat left when
3 O'clock came round, The Picks came
irp first, and Apaut Kau started of by'1
giving aChinito, Mofiyama a pass.
Eashneli's out at first advanced the
Asahi player bag, and when Kan |
Yen fsfmhIed pitched ball Moriyasna
tried to annex third. The Chinese
catcher was quick with his recovery !
ard peg to Lai Tin, who made des-
perate dive at the runner before he
had chance to hit the dirt, It look
ed far q moment an though this our /
would cost the Chinese their third 1
baseman, for Tin gave his right nald
a bad wrench in putting the bah on /
Moriyana, and all his team mates had /
to have q look at 4 before ne could
continue playing For Few innings /
ii bothered him considerably, and had
tie Picks hunted q few times to him,
they might had got more men TO first.
The man that followed was strike
oct, retiring the side.
In their hair 81 the arst the Chinese
cot busy. Barney Joy started 1t him
self by pitching En- Sue a ball that hit |
tho dirt IN front of the rubber, after /
re had two strikes on the batter. I'm
sue was foxy enough 10 strike at the
bali ana scnttle down to first when L
bollncaa over Schumanis head. Ayait I
laid down nice sacrifice, and En- Sue
INT to third on A. Akana's int1eld /
mt Then along came Kan Yen with a |
timely single. and the first run OF the
game came across. - /
The Bio Doings.
In the second Joy again started the
tre ubIe by walking sChief Akana. He
was ont ON the folders choice that
g; We I.ai Tin life. and All Lee got first
TN a hard chance which Moriyama
f.s;ed TO handle according to HOWE I
Tin. who had stolen second and gone T
to third on the play. scored ~
Mitch. Sing Hung hit, and Apau went
nrt nItcher to first This left
1aen ON. and two gone, and 1t was most
IL, rorfant that barney retire I'm 81
II looked to many as though the big
fellow tanned the little one, but Bower
dffn,t see it that way, and finally En-
Sue walked. Ayau and Akara follow
ed With sharp hits. cleaning up to
TN Of four runs for the frame.
Ia picks got their lone rit" in 49,
third Apau being the responsible party
Alex Desha came up first and hit 0e-
tween second and short. Brother Vii
lie sacrificed him along. and he got a.. an
other bag when Moriyamawent QUITO
kEana unasslsted. Then Apau let slip
q Wild pitch and the run came across.