Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-07
SPORT.
WILL APPLY FOR
LEAGUE entry

| Especial Star-bulletin Corrasponiencel
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, April I.
lit has been practically decided that
the Twenty-fifth Infantry will make
formal application for admission TO
enter the Oahu League at the meeting
Of the league managers on Wednes
day evening. The Twenty-fifth neg
! lected to DO so at the last meeting
because it was thought that the inyi-
tation to join would be forthcoming
from the league If it desired the Scho-
field team in the lineup. In view Of
I the fact that the All-Artillery team
seems to be the fayorite there is a
dissenting minority who think that 1t
will be a waste of time and paper TO
present the application, but neyerthe-
less the application with such advan-
! tageous features as can be offered
will doubtless be sent. with the hope
/ that the case will be decided on its
/ merits. There are several strong
Joints in favor Of the Schofield appli-
cants that cannot fail to appeal to
| the managers, which would seem TO
more than counterbalance the claims
| of the All-Artillery.
There are at this writing two sin
fantry regiments, a regiment of cav
airy, a battalion of field artillery
with a company OF engineers soon to-
! be transferred from Fort De Russy,
who comprise nearly the entire mo-.
bile army garrison of the islands sta
toned at this post Roughly esti-
mated the First Infantry has about
nine hundred; the Twenty-fifth in
fantry about the same, the cavalry
about eight hundred and fifty, the ar
tillery six hundred and the engineers
one hundred and fifty; in all about
three thousand soldiers An order
was issued last month by the war de-
partment to raise the regiments of
infantry and cavalry in Hawaii to the
maximum authorized strength at once.
This means that the infantry COM
panies now numbering sixty-five men
will have one hundred and fifty men
each and that both of. the infantry
regiments here will together have
nearly four thousand men.
| The post strength will be raised to
nearly six thousand The recruiting
for this increase is now going on in
the states and the transports for the
next three or four months will be
filled with recruits for this port.
| These men will be stationed here
with very limited sources of amuse-
fnent. II is fair to presume that
eighty per cent of these are baseball
fans. The problem of furnishing
amusement for the large number of
colored men now in the islands is
trying one and various kinds of sports
Is the only solution. They have
| money to spend and a team that they
will support; all that is lacking is the
opportunity If they will fill the
stands and overflow the sideliness to
see company contest, what won't.
! they bring to an enterprising ball
park management? 1t is the finan-
| cial side of this proposition that
| should appeal to President Chilling
worth and his associates.
| The Twenty-fifth not only can carry
TO town its following from its own
ranks, but from all the regiments, for
Ii will be representing Schofield Bar
racks, the biggest post in the coun-
| try.
| 1t has been reported that at the last
7, meeting of the league magnates that
one of the obstacles to having a team
from this post was the fact that there
is no noon train from Leilehua on
Sunday. Yesterday is the only Sur
I day since the new train schedule went
into effect, and the Twenty-fifth has
played in town, that a special train
hasn't been necessary. Only the fact
that the soldier team had already met
and defeated the Japanese and the
game scheduled for the afternoon be-
/ tween the First infantry and the st.
Louis teams was to be played here
and was the greater attraction, kept a
large number of fans at home. Put
the Twenty-fifth or any team from the
post in town league and a special
train will always be. necessary, and
secured, for the railroad has. an eye to
business and with an increased garri-
son the train will go back on the reg
ular schedule. Arrangements can
doubtless be made with the post ex-
changes for both the tickets for the
grounds and the railroad fares, so any
soldier at any time of the month can
have the price.
| Another point raised is the maneu-
vers and practice marches may ex-
tend over Sunday and thus keep both
/ fans and team away from town. 1t is
only very rarely, if ever, that this
would occur, and never would work of
any character be done on Sunday and
should troops be absent from the post
the distances on Oahu would never
prevent troops going to town, nor are
the conditions apt to be such that per-
mission to attend would be denied
them. -.-. -: .. .:....".
AS to which team can draw the
greater crowd of Honolulu fans, this
cannot be discussed, for the Twenty