Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-17
Venice TIGERS
SHOW sPIE !. /. ! N.
FIRST PRACTISE
Fans Open Their Eyes at the
Way the Ball is Shot
. Round the Bases

The Venice Tigers got into uniform
yesterday afternoon and shot the balls
round the bases at Athletic park in
a way that made the handful OF inter
ested spectators present sit up and
take notice The combination that
Jack Bliss brought from the mainland
is certainly fast, much faster than u
IL were the Venice team intact, for
the men are the pick Of the Coast
league, with several major leaguers
thrown in fer good measure.
Il sure wish we could start the
Coast league season with this club,
said ''Rowdy" Elliott, after the ball
had been flying round the diamond
for while. ~Boy, oh, boy; we'd go
through the other clubs like hot
knife through butter" .r I'LL 81,
The Tiger infield Is lightning fast,
with Derrick, Orr, McArdle and RAJ
der and Elliott, Jack Bliss and ''Toots'
Bliss to do the backstopping. Kane,
Fitzgerald and Reisberg can cover all
the outfield territory that's inside the
fence, and Jim Scott, Lefty" VIII
lIams and George Klepfer shou.d be
able to take care of the pitching I u,
Faster Than DlIIsnurg.
An interested spectator at yester-
days practise was Lieut.. Harbold,
manager OF the 25th infantry team,
which Is to be the Tigers first oppo-
nents in Hawaii. Harbold Is the Con-
ME Mack or army baseball, and yes
terday he sat on the bench in a brown
study and laid out a plan of cam
paign. When asked what he thought
OF the team, Harbold made this cryp-
tic answer:
They are faster than the DiIlsburg,
Ps A. club for which | used TO play
the outfield.'
Manager Bliss says that he will
start Scott in the initial game at Scho-
field next Thursday. The dusky bats
men Of the 18th win certainly get a
taste OF the real thing when they OPP
pose Comiskey's star slabster, but If
they don't get stage fright the game
should be RATHER. The venetians
have heard a lot about the 18th ball
team, and they intend to take no,
chances Of having one slipped over on,
them.
II We lose that game we'll sneak
-out Of the haflJcF 0heone or your sam
pans and beat Il right for Frisco,
said one Of the players.
The. Tigers viii turn out for another
warmup and practise this afternoon
at Athletic park. commencing at 1880.
II Is expected that quite crNwd will
be on hand to size them up while
the visiting ball players are the lecip-
tents Of many Invitations. and wlile
a number Of entertainments are on
the program, the men are here prs
marily to play baseball, and they In
tend TO get in plenty Of practise. so as
to be able to deliver their best line
Of goods for the peneft Of the island
fans.
There is a chance that the Sunday
game scheduled with the All-Chinese
will be called on. Manager w. Tin
Chong and Promoter Lowry are at
outs over business arrangements, and
the former stated to the sporting editor
Of the StRrBu,iefin this morning that
so far as his team was concerned, the
game was OF unless Lowry met the
demand The iatter says nothing do
ing and there Is not much chance Of
the deadlock being broken. The All
Oahus, the Punahous or the 25th In,
faptry could easily be substituted