Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-09
AL CASTLE And
FLAG winners
TRIM TRAVELLERS
After Collecting Five Runs In
the First Frame, Sam
HopperS Lose Out
Runahous 10, Travellers 9.

When the Chinese Travellers chased
"BlCndy'' Williams from the box In
the first frame before a man had been
retired. with a grand total CT four hits
and five runs chalked up against his
delivery, you could have made any
sort CT bet you wanted on the Puns.
and written your own ticket. IL looked
like forlern hope when Al Castle
took Williams place on the mound,
and started pitching to the Travellers,
who were swinging with all the con-
ffdence engendered by that fiye-run
lead But the unexpected happens
pretty often in baseball after all, and
when the last man was out in the last
inning the Oahu league pennant win
ners had stemmed the tide and forged
lust one run in the lead. 1t was .
great victory. and enc of the gamest
uphill fights seen this year.
The Travellers can put a lot Of the
blame for their defeat on their own
shoulders. fer the big lead in the first
frame proved their undoing. They
slackened up considerably, and when
they were In danger of being passed
they couldn't get the machine to work
ing smoothly again. The team con-
tribated no less than eight errors,
three of these occurring at short and
four at third base. lnfield hobbies to
this extent will tess away almost any
game.
Castle let the Travellers down with
seven hits. and considering that he
pitched nine full innings and went into
the game when the opposing batsmen
had already exercised their collective
batting eye. his performance is most
famed three. Castle couldn't have
turned the trick of snatching victory
from almost certain defeat, however,
without the great support that he
received. The Puns refused to be
discouraged by the long lead which
was run up against them. and when
their crafty leader started smoothing
the kinks out of bis wing they put on
some extra speed that in many cases
cut of hits and runs too.
Williams simply wasn't there. He
started by passing the first man nm.
the next two hit, the next was hit by
pitcher. and the next two hit safely.
1t was then that Castle stepped in
the breach.
Punahou got a couple OF men across
in the third. and the team began to
cheer up In the fourth another run
came in, cutting the Travellers lead
to two runs. Castle, in the meantime
was going nicely, and Il was not until
the fifth that his delivery was found
to any extent In that frame three
hits meant two runs. The sixth was
the big frame for the champions. In
the sixth the Puns did land office
business. 0'Brien opened with a hit.
and then three walks and errors by
short and third let in grand total
OF four runs. Punahou followed up
this advantage with three more in the
seventh. while one in the seventh and
one in the eighth gave the Travellers
a total of nine, just one Tess than their
opponents.
The game ended with spectacular
catch in center by Argabrite and a
beautiful line throw to third that
caught Moriyama a mile, when he at
tempted to gain a base after the fly
was gathered In.
Kekoa did the hurting for the Tray.
elers and was touched for nine safe
ones. tanning like number and pass
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