Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-11
Chinese TEAM Is
SCHEDULED FOR
100 GAMES
Nat Strong Very Busy with the
Publicity Stuff and Fame OF
Local Team Is Now Known
Throughout Country = Can't
PLAY Yale or Harvard


Play Yale or Harvard
Nat G. Strong, promoter of base
ball enterprises, who is arranging for
the 1913 mainland tour of the All
Chinese team. isn't letting the grass
grow under his feet, and besides sign.
ing ND for a number. of games, ar
ranged on a carefully planned circuit
he has been handing out the pub
licity stuff 10 the papers in great
style. The Chinese college boys OF
the UNIVERSITY of Hawaii" are get
ting whole lot of advance advertls-
ing, which should show results when
they appear on mainland diamonds.
Under three column picture of the
All-Chinese team, the New York
Evening Sun of recent date carried
the following story;
The members OF the Chinese Uni
versity OF Hawaii baseball team,
which made one of the longest trips
ever attempted last year by college
team, are so well pleased with the
showing and the treatment received
from their American opponents last
year that they have decided 70 pay
another visit to this country.
Word received from Albert X.
Akana, captain of the team, states
THAT the faculty and board of directors
have given the team permission to
make another trip. The Chinese col
legians, whom New Workers had a
chaIice to see in baseball uniforms
during the early part of last summer,
have jumped at the chance, and ar
rangements are already being laid for
the trip, which will be an extended
one
Capt. Akana writes stating that the
nine, which will be composed of about
fifteen players, will leave Honolulu
on March Is He expects to arrive
with his team at San Francisco on
March, %. Immediately after which
the long list OF dates arranged for the
Oriental ball tossers will be begun.
Starting ON the coast the team will
work its way eastward, paying games
in the coast and middle western
states. After these are finished
visits will be made to the east, where
a number of games are to be played
with big eastern college teams. South
ern and New England mines also will
be met. The trip viii be concluded
on June 81, after which the squad
will return home All told. the tour
will comprise approximately $4,000
miles-a nice little jaunt for col
lege team.
AS yet no game has been arranged
for this city, but it is very likely that
the Hawaii FASTENERS will play several
exhibition games in or around New
York before the tour is over. Last
year the Chinese met Fordham at the
Polo Grounds and held the Bronx col
legians to a 2 to o score. The brand
of bah the Chinese players gave
brought out the fact that they are not
far behind the American colleges in
the national game, which. incidentally
has become one of the favorite sports
of the Hawaiian Islands.
No games have been scheduled with
Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Pennsyl-
yania for the reason that no satisfac-
tory dates were obtainable. The 1913
schedule shows that the team will
play over q hundred games while in
this country. This years trip is short
er than they made last year, when
they did not finish ii until September.
An idea of just how many games
this unique team will play while in
this country is shown by the Ions
schedule being arranged for them.
In California Leland Stanford Jr. Uni
versity, Santa Clara and st. Mary's
No. OF In TIfah
have been arranged with Brigham
Young University and Provo Uni
versity Colorado University, Univer-
sity of Colorado and the University
of Denver is the Colorado itinerary.
In Kansas, Salina-Wesleyan; Friends /
University, Southwestern College, !
Wichita club of the Western League,
st. Mary's College, Kansas State Agri-
cultural. Baker University and Uni
yerSity of Kansas will be met.
The latter part of April will find
the team in the middle west. Games
scheduled in that section are with
University OF Wisconsin, Missouri Gel
Ieee. Westminster College, Kirksville
State, William Jewell College, Canton,
Knox College, Iowa, Morningsiic Col
lege. st. Joseph. State College of
iowa. Coe College. Ames, Des Moines,
DEBORAH, Sacred Heart, Beloit and
Northwestern College. Chicago will
be reached about May 10. In the
vicinity will be played games with st.
Viteurs, Notre Dame, Oberiin, Ohio
Northern, Ohio Wesleyan, Buchtel,
williamsburg and Marietta.
EallnwinU the western games will
come the southern trip. In the south
contests have been arranged with the
University of Virginia, Washington
and jefferson, Waynesburg, Grove
CITY. Slippery Rock Normal and West
minister College will follow. On June
{ the Chinese will play Seton Halt at
Newark, Albright, Penn. State,
Swarthmore, Mount st. Mary's Tufts,
Holy Cross. Dartmouth. Vermont, Mid
dIebury and Williams are some of the
eastern colleges which will be played.
Capt. Akana writes saying that the
team on its arrival home some months