Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-12

sit still like a bunch of mutes wher
their team is behind and needs their
support and their cheers, and, still
further. there was no excuse Satur
day why the fans should leave the
field in squads in the eighth and
ninth innings. ~~....... ~ -.
Apparently what the First Infantry
needs most is some audible support
from the side lines and little JudS'
lnent in the matter of putting play
ers where they can do the most good.
individually the men on this team
are fire players. but as some OF them
are being PLAYED its no wonder the
team can't win-or doesn't win. 1t
shouldn't be necessary for the Flat.
iron building to fall on the manager
fer him 10 tumble TO the fact that II
looks that way Some one Is. respon-
sible for Kidd being handicapped Sat
urday by having no catcher who could
hold him Kidd pitched great game
in spots and if he had had some
one to hold him when he has
Wild moments. would have pitch
ed winning game. Baugh,
who tried to fill the bill makes no
nretensions to being catcher. nor
aid Lehman who followed him. and
both did their little best. But there
surely is somebody in the regiment
who can do as we'll as these men and
by trying will release them to fill
other position in the field for which
they are both admirably fitted. Here
was Lehman, with his head chock,
full of baseball sense, who always
knows what to do in any situation,
who can out-think ninety-nine men
out of hundred who bat against him
almost before they face the pitcher,
placed away out in the outer garden
where his brain could do his team
the least good This team will have
10 get organized, and that speedily, If
ii wants to be in the running at all
in this series. The Fourth Cavalry
isn't suffering from any errors of or
ganization. It offered a team that
played like veterans, with a well-bal-
anced infield that is the smoothest
working bunch of players in the post
today. and their third pitcher. who
can make the batters of the post sit
up and take notice.
Hickey, the cavalry twirler on Satur-
day. is chapter three in that joke book
the cavalry circulated some weeks ago
when the subject of the post league
was first mentioned They stated
that, of course, they would go into
the league but they hardly expected
to give the other teams run for their
money as they hadn't much material
for a team and absolutely no one
who could pitch" If the three pitch
ers they have shown to date can't
pitch, no one on any other regimental
team here wants to go up against the
cavalry pitcher who can. It's some
thing of proposition for young UNI
known pitcher to go up against a vet
eran twirler with formidable local
reputation like Kidd has, but Hickey
didn't suffer any by comparison Sat
urday and when it came to control
and generalship in the pinches he out
classed him. The only run against
him came in the first before he had
fairly begun to pitch and happened in
this manner. Moore hit to Touhey, |
who had rather an off day Saturday
and in fielding the ball to Donaldson
he threw into the grandstand and the
runner went to second. Burns fol-
lowed with fielder's choice which
failed to catch Moore on third OH
close decision. Burns then stole
base. Lehman hit long fly to left
and Moore scored before the ball
could reach home plate After that |
Hickey was never in danger and his
retirements in all but three of the
innings that followed were of the one,
two, three order, and in each of these |
three innings but four men faced him. |
He allowed five hits, two of which |
were scratch. He emphasized a peach |
of drop and high in-shoot. His de- |
livery is peculiar in that he has al |
most no wind-up, so little that he |
seems to have hardly enough to put |
anything at all or the ball. He faces
the batter almost squarely. and has a |
very effective ball that ne uses, While |
he quickly turns from watching run /
ner on first. There was but one
stolen base tried on his catcher, Ro- |
nowski, who caught a splendid game. |
Smook, for the cavalry, did some pref |
ty stealing.
So far as hits went the game was |
almost featureless. k;dd famed ten
Of the cavalrymen, showing some !
good backstop. Three Of the cavalry
runs. are chalked against him, as the |
makers were either passes or batters
bit by him. The umpiring by Collins,
18th infantry, and O'Connell was sat
isfactory. +.