The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-07-17
Returning Sports Writer Tells Of
Contract to Bring Fine Coast
Team to Honolulu.

with tho Venice baseball team Of
The Pacific Coast League playing tn,
same kind Of baseball here IN Honolulu
next November as ! saw them PLAY
against the Oakland and San Francisco
teams on the mainland last month
Honolulu fans win witness some class,
baseball when Happy Hogan and his
bunch eavort on the local diamonds,
vas the declaration Of II @. Lowry
sport editor Of The Advertiser who
vas 4 returning passenger from the
Coast yesterday in the Sonoma.
lit was my GOOD fortune 10 see an
thc teams Of tho league with the ex
cepfion Of Portland in action, and
while the Angels. Oaks. Seals and
Wolves play good ball. Hogan 3 bunch
look al the class Of the league. or AZ
least Of the Eve teams. Portland h
q slow beginning team and ALWAYS ha-
been, and does not make a squirt until
Along IN July or August. On the Other
hand. Hogan's outfit play steady
consistent game, being crack helders,
timely hitters and good base runners,
noplbined with that tearing IN, fighting
spirit that wins hall games.
Nothing TO Ewing's Story.
~ White on the msinland, !. Cal Ew.
ing made a statement to the effect
that the Honolulu Elks had invited him
and his team to Honolulu next Novem-
bef, which by the way had no founda.
ton WHATSOEVER, for Lorrin Andrews Of
the local Elks had instructed me TO see
the Venice boys first Of all, and to
hand his personal invitation. to Owner
Edward Meier II the team aud to tell
them and Mr.. Maier that the Honolulu
Elks wanted them 70 make tho Elks
headquarters their homo while in the
Paradise Of the Pacific To me II
looked like bit Of small politics on
the part Of Ewing. There was not a
chance Of the Seals coming this year
..Joel c. Cohen Of Honolulu, who is
6ntncing the eoming Of the Venice
team TO Hawaii, had requested me
merely TO act as his agent while on the
mainland, and after had looked over
the various teams Of the Coast League
II was my decision that the Tigers
were the club best fitted to show the
local fans some real baseball
Some star Players
FISHING up Hogan 8 bunch both col
leetively and individually, he has one
Of the best teams ever gotten together
bya Coast League manager. Every
man Is star by himself, and sym.
pathize with Hogan for having 30
many crack players, for the big scouts
Of the major leagues will be after his
men hot shod when the drafting season
opens and he is bound to lose several
OF those players.
tfteWhile the exact makeup Of the team
can not be figured at this time, il Is
agreed in Mr.. Cohen's contract with
Manager Hogan and Captain Bliss that
none but players Of the Venice team ex.
elusive of two other players, a pitcher
and catcher, shall make the trip. The
contract calls for a series Of games both
at Honolulu and Schodeld Barracks al
we'll a. az Hilo and Waikiki should the
proper inducements be made for games
at,these points.
Many People Coming
Besides the fourteen hall players
Owner Eddie Maier and his family
Manager Hogan 3 family, the wives Of
several Of the players and several Of
inc oI||II .NIALEIn tOuuCtECu Will lut
Los Angeles and San Francisco paperi
VIII be in the party. Mr.. Maier is ar
ranging for several Of his friends
among the Elks and Shriners Of Los An
geles TO make the trip to Hawaii, and
Indications point TO at least fifty PEG
pie being with the travellers when they
leave San Francisco next November
for Honolulu
This is going to be one Of the great
est trips ever taken by a baseball aggrc
gQtion. While Venice will not cover Oh,
vast territory the Chicago and New
York teams did, they are coming I,
what has always been an ideal spot ;,
them, and a place they have had a long
Ing TO see. Through the efforts Of Mr.
Cohen, such a plan has been made pos
gible and every man with whom / talk
red promised to give his best TO the fan
Of Honolulu.
Hogan watches Hawaii.
Hogan said he has had his eye o.
Honolulu for many years and has bee
watching the work Of the local men con
unnously, aud he freely admitted tina
~ expected to find some fast aggrega
tons here next November. Fans her
will like Hogan the moment he step
onto the coaching line, and thew wi
like the Teat OF the men, too. for el
cry man il a ball player from IN
ground up aud belongs 10 the apprecis
tive class aud naturally will give us tn
best they have.
Verify I think the coming Of I'll
Venice Tigers TO Honolulu next Noven
Der win be big thing. not alone fc
the benefit Of baseball, hut because
will do much 10 show the world tina
Honolulu is an ideal spot in which |
spend . vacation, and that the ba
players of Hawaii know somethin
about the great national pastime. !,