The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-13
ALL CHINESE TEAM IS
PRAISED by EXPERTS
New York Baseball Writer Is
Pleased With Exhibitions OF
Team ON Mainland.

Compliments are coming thick and
fast TO the All.Chinese ball team during
their iuyasion Of the mainland. Below
will BIO found the opinion of the base
ball expert of the New York Sun, I'M
der date of April %:
Peace reigns over Chinatown. The
warning tongs have buried the Ratchet
and Mott and PcH streets have become
neutral ground. Rival gunner pass
each other by with smile and friend
ly greeting where once all was hostile
glances and bad words, followed too Of
ten by the popping of the guns, tho
swift rush into the darkened doorways
and the coming of the thrice hated po-
lice. There is peace in the house of
the four brothers, for the Ong Leongs,
and the Hep Sings have declared
truce, and he woh breaks the pact had
better go away quickly, lest worse
thing befall.
Not far from whore the house of tho
Seven Gales once stood members of tho
rival tongs gather nightly, and over the
"blaek smoke - tell of the prowess of
Goo Sun, Kan Yen Chun and Lai Tin,
who are not, as you might suspect,
mighty warriors or lawmakers of some
bygone dynasty, but members of tho
Chinese University of Hawaii baseball
team, now touring the United States.
win Open Fans Eyes.
And the brand Of bah that they arc
putting up is something to make tho
fans open their eyes aud the college
teams look to their laurels,
Last year the same team played ll9
games in this country, won sixty.six,
lost forty-nine games, and broke even
in four. Their showing was all the more
| remarkable when the fact that they
played such colleges as Fordham, George
town, Wisconsin and Syracuse is taken
into consideration.
Said well known expert in describ-
ing one contest: "To come right down
to hard facts, there isn't much TO
choose between this rather unique team
and the average American university
nine. Their attack is std,fdy, but while
they know the hit and run. the 'hook
slide and various other nIctlods Of at
tack, they have not yet acquired the
knowledge Of utilizing them success
fully, In fielding the average Amcri-
can college nine has nothing on the
Chinese team. 'soi 1870
Field Work Is Wonderful.
GIN fact, their, field work borders
ON the sensational. They still have
much to learn in the art of batting, for
they meet the ball too high
II is evident that since the expert
pcnned his criticism of the Chinese
team they. have learned how to make
their attack very deadly indeed and
have picked up several points of inside
baseball as well, if sixteen straight
victories since their arrival in San
Francisco mean anything,
Moving steadily eastward they have
| met such teams as the itIgixeySty. of
California, Leland Stafford ~ Mays
College, where The migBtp Hal Chase
learned how to hold down the first sta
ton; Colorado College, University of
Kansas, ms well as the Leayenwortll
team of the Kansas State League and
the answer has been sixteen straight
victories for Goo Sun, Lai Tin 4 Com
pany.
Averaging game a day or, in other
words, practically playing as steadily
as do the big league tcams-and far
more so than any of the college teams
in the country--goes to show that the
Chinese athletes have evidently discov.
cred the secret of getting into eondi-
ton, hitting up a winning pace aud
| holding it. .y
Cannot Figure Losing streat,3
How long the winning streak will
| last before the inevitable slump ar.
riyes is question that experts who
| have watched the victorious march of
the Chinese are not prepared to say,
and If you ask Goo Sun, Lai Tin or
any of the Ong Lcongs or Hep Sings,
| with whom this story opens, their an
swer will in all probability leave you
| just as well informed on the subject
as are the experts
| The real test of the ability of the
| Chinese team will come when they meet
some of the Eastern COLLEGE teams.
| These teams are bound to improve rs
the season advances and will therefore
! have an advantage over most of the
| Western teams that the Orientals have
met so far. And when the Chinese
team crosses bats with Williams last
year s intercollegiate champions, on
June 81, there are indications that the
battle royal which will follow win be
worth travelling far to witness.