Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-09
OPPOSITION
LEAGUE TALK
ISFREQUEN
After Visit of Venice Tigers
Project viii Probably Take
Some Definite Form

Runners Of 4 baseball war have
stirred up considerable conversation
ca the streets and where the fans
gather and the consensus OF opinion
favors a change of base and there Is
little doubt of the proposition meet.
ing with success should the plans laid
cut by the men behind the project 90
through.
OF course the coming OF the crack
Venetian Tigers to Honolulu for q Sc
ries of games is occupying much OF
the fans, time and they are anxiously
awaiting the arrival Of the mainland
stars and the playing Of their first
game, figuring that II the war 10 to
come, II will not be along for few
months at the earliest.
With all the details completed for
the reception OF Owner Edwin r.
Maier. Captain Jack Bliss. Umpire
Jack Mccarthy. the IA ball players
and the rest of the Venice party and
the schedule Of games arranged. the
fans will have to sit back and pa
tiently await the coming OF the main
land crackerjacks. This Is not far
away now, for the Venice party will
depart from San Francisco In the
steamer Sierra tomorrow and will ar.
rive here next Monday. November Is.
The first game IN which the Vene-
tians will take part will be with the
25th Infantry team at Schoheld Bar
racks. November l.. Great prepare
tons have been made az the big army
post for this game and the tourists
will be royalty entertained before and
after the game
On the following Saturday, Novem-
Der 81. the Tigers VIII make their
first appearance In Honolulu. playing
the champion Punahou team at Ath-.
letic park. Manager Al Castle and
his men are keen for the game and
every spare moment the boys can get
is spent getting into condition and
there Is no doubt but that the fans
will witness a baseball game well
worth seeing.
''Blcndyp williams, who has great
ambitions OF getting into faster COM
Dany and who Is pitcher who wiz
bear watching, VIII be Manager Cas-
ties selection for the slab and with
Death Valley" Jim Scott sitting on
the bench with him, Williams win no
doubt give the fans q fine exhibition
Of Ditching He will have either Bliss.
Elliott or Stannage catching, either OF
whom will steady the boy aud give
him chance to cut loose with every
thing he has.
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Der %. the Tigers will face the only
AFl-Chinese team on the Islands. the
Chinese Athletic Union aggregation.
under the management Of w. Tin
chcng. With Lang Akana. Iai Tin.
Kan Yen. Kaulii and others IN the
lipeuD. chong win present a most for
midable aggregation.
What viii prove a decidedly great
feature Of the TIGERS games will be
the umpiring Of Jack MCCARTHY. dean
of the Pacific Coast arbitrators and q
man who has had his experience IN
the major leagues In q letter to Pro
moter Lowry, Mccarthy writes that
he is glad Of the chance to come to
Honolulu and he wants II distinctly
understood that he viii handle the
games In the same faultless manner
.nat ne handled them IN the Coast
lsasus Eans Wili IKE Mccarthy both
On ana on the Held for not alone ii
ne Is e great umpire, but Jack Is gen
IA Ietscw and can tell fund Of stories
7. past ana present stars Of the dIa-
-. ana peculiar Plays he has seen.
=, y MnIcn VIII prove aecldedly inter-
ssung reading 70 the followers Of base
pa,n