Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-15
BuntS and
BOunderS

Jansen on second DaSe is worth
watching. The St Louis lad looks
! like conner.
Soldier fans are giving baseball
big patronage. They form large per-
, centage of the total gate
Three big crowds I'm four days will
help the park management to get on
the right side of the ledger
Aylett in right field dropped hard,
low-curving fly that might have gone
as hit as well as an error
II is more than two years since the
local fans saw Buckley in action. He
wore J. A. c. uniform then.
Pitcher Gefkin can also slam the
ball. He "chokes" the bat and usu.
ally drives on a line or strikes out
The press facilities at Athletic park
are now up to big league standards,
and the scribes are duly appreciative.
Ladies who did not care to undergo
the discomforts of the odl park, are
becoming regular patrons of the new
plant.
st. Louis has a lot of power in the
team IL Foxy Pat Gleason can get
it into action. Yesterday the team
lacked cohesion.
Buckley had all kinds of pep behind
the bat and on bases. On the coach
ing line he INDUCED in a sort of In
dian trot that pleased the left field
bleachers immensely.
Some canvas stretched in the back
Of the grandstand to shut out the sun
off the people In the stand would be
appreciated by several hundred per-
spring fans and fannettes.
Joy had one fine inning yesterday,
the second. Otherwise his work was
somewhat of color and made still
more so by some very ragged field
ing.
Zerbe's slide to first in the seventh
saved an out The throw was short
and high. pulling Dodson off the bag.
and by hitting the dirt Zerbe passed
under the tag.
The Japanese still have trouble
when on bases because they are in-
clined to run wild. Taking chances is
all right but taking desperate chances
is never good baseball except toward
the end of critical game
Mamiya at third base gave grand
exhibition on Saturday. He fields In
peculiar style, taking a grounder
on the short hop. When successful!
these stops are spectacular, but the
ball has to be perfectly judged
Pitcher Dodge was wild enough to
make his early work look bad on
Saturday. He would get himself into
then would have to put over straight
ones and trust to luck and his field.
ers.
Extreme rightfield in the new park
is hard to play because the foul line
runs close TO the fence and tine bleach
ers and a large pipe appears above
the ground few feet from the fence,
making low balls difficult to judge
and to handle.
That big hole over second base
will have to be plugged IN before
the Saints can have an effective in.
field. Yesterday half a dozen ground.
ers shot past Joy and either just to
the right or to the lett % second
Cowan made tries for one or two but
failed to knock them down.
Moriyama pitched nice game Sat.
urday, his drop ball working we'll, bu:
he began to weaken after the fifth
inning, losing much of the stuff" on
the BAH and then the CALIFORNIA;
started to hammer him hard Up to
that time they mao only been getting
pieces of the ball.
Gefkin, the sorreltopped California
pitcher, is almos; as nifty a perform
er at first base as Captain Jimmy
Dodson. Gefkin was on first in Sat
urday's game and scooped a lot OF
low throws out of the dirt On the
other hand, Dodson, who was in left
field, played to far toward center sew
eral times anG once a high f1y fell
safe that he would have captured had
he been in better position.