Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-09
CLUBMEN NOT AT.
ALL CHUBBY
With army
Rather Rub 1t In When Good
Fellows Get Together
!. on Diamond
BY LAURENCE REolNeToN


BY LAURENCE REolN6ToN
This is the sorrowful story
Told as the twilight fails
And the officers gather together
Swapping their hard-iuck tales:
"our players lived In the country,
Foolish people were they,
"They went down to the city
ITO teach the clubmen to play.
"Then came the terrible cIubmen,
Nothing Of play they. knew,
"onIy-they caught our players
"And c!outed our pitcher too
With apologies to R. Kipling and
Major E. " Smith.
There was a ball at Brussels the
night before Waterloo, but ball and
Waterloo were coincident at Moiliili
Saturday afternoon. In the first game
of the much heralded series between
the army officers and the University
Club, the latter won by the over
whelming score of 10 to 6. It may
UG Vi luICIC6l ~ bJAIi0ltCA0hO ~ INV
that the runs scored by the winning
side amount to just one-third the
varieties of pickles offered by q we'll
known manufacturer. Probably this
Is merely a coincidence, but you
never can tell what high brows like
AL Castle and his troupe Of trained
ball tossers will put over. and the
whole thing may be some frame-up
with an inner meaning.
1t was grand little ball game If
you copper the statement. Last year
the game between the clubmen and
the officers was billed as q sort of
farce, and turned out to be a'rattling
good contest. This year the series
was taken with all the seriousness of
worlds championship, and the first
game has turned out TO be q farce.
Shy on Fingers
Had the army been able to raise
a boxman of class the story might
have been different, for the team
hit the ball hard. and gave 4l Castle.
about as hard a drubbing al be has
received for some time, and the field
ing was very fair. But neither Baird
nor Rose claims to be a Walter john
son or Christy Mathewson, and they
were found rather easily by the club
men, besides issuing more free trans
portation than the Interstate Com
merce Commission usually stands for.
Baird did the twirling for 8 10 IN;
nings, but in the fatal seventh, with
only one Gown, he allowed five hits
in a row, three of them for extra
bases. and finally fled from the
mound, giving the distress signal to
Rose. The latter finished the game
with no hits and one run against
him, although he allowed two bases
on balls.
Army Gets start
Things had a very military appear
ance in the second inning, when the
officers got four men across the rub
Der, after batting Castle for six hits.
Several of these were of the scratch
variety. the fielders seeming to need
Big Ben apiece, but although lit
tie less slumber would have cut down
a few of them, they have to appear
on the score against the former Har-
ward twirler.
In this frame the first man up
famed. and Calder, second at bat,
combed out a drive that went be-
tween first and second for two sacks.
Peyton, Baird, Saunders. Clark and
Applin followed with safe hits. and
when the dust cleared. four runs had
scored A snappy double play. Hoogs
to NOVEL;, ended the agony.
In their half of the second, the
clubmen collected seven runs with
only two hits to show for 1t, and when
| they grabbed three more, in the third.
| the game was over to all intents and
purposes. In the second inning the
Officers got the worst of base de-
cision that might have cut down the
runs, but would hardly have changed
and second and no one was out
Cunha sent an easy grounder towards
third, and Saunders gathered 1t in.
and jumped at the bag for a force,
throwing Immediately to second in an
attempt to double. A. Lewis, who
umpired in the field, called the man
at third safe, although It looked as
though Saunders clearly got his foot
on the bag before the runner arrived.
There was no question but that the
other runner made second. This was
a severe jolt to the morale of the
| team, and a sacrifice fly, an error, a
! two Dagger. a single and a pass,
wrought havoc to the extent OF seven
runs
The clubmen scored in every inning
hut the first and last, while officers
lorossed the pan in only three frames.
Some Good Fielding.
There was some brilliant individual
fielding, and some clever sticking,
everyone having a chance in such a
| free-hitting contest. Calder, Peyton,
| Saunders and Clark played excep-
tionally well for the army, the latter
doing some star work around second
and incidentally got four hits out OF
/ five trips to the plate "Tanglefoot'
Halloran poisoned one fly in the first
inning, in big league style, and got
nothing but mighty hard chances
| thereafter
For the clubmen, Hoogs probably
! played the best fielding game, with