The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-22

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to take up the game with more thar
an even chance of success, The Cavalry
team have recently acquired new uni
forms Of a neat grey with blue stock
ings and cavalry yellow trimmings and
a brand of pep which was notieably
absent in their first game. With two
] victories to their credit they have taken
a big brace and the team is likely Ia
lie the dark horse Of the present series
| viii Help onicers.
That the Army League games will b,
| of great assistance to the officers who
may be delegated to select All.Servict
team for nex5 Years Carnival Il
becoming more and more apparent
Not only will their task Of picking
the best players be simplihed but their
selection will have the unqualified ap.
proval Of the fans of the entire Oahu
garrison. Already the local fans know
by name the players of the Coast Do
Tense and just what they can DO. The
Second Infantry win soon begin II 9
games here and the fans will know ali
about the Shafter players. 10 know
these men is to like them as Is evi.
denced by the warm greeting which the
Coast Defense team has received here.
Fos some reason prior to the opening OF
the series Lawson, the Coast Defense
twirler, was not a general favorite
here, Today there is not fan in the
post who does not take of his hat TO
Handsome Jack y, and acknowledge
him the peer Of all the pitchers in the
league and good feiNw wIthai. ne
has made good and the same may be
said of all the visitors. In discussing
the coming season Of the All.Serviee
team and the problems of the selection
of the tenn lasT yea, Lieutenant
Q 'Hara said last Saturday afternoon,
I" You Schofield people do not under.
stand, think, the difficulty we who
trained the All-Serviee team last
spring were up against. With the ex-
ception of the few Twenty fifth play
crs who were members of the several
teams in the Oahu League we know
relatively little about the other mon
from Schofeld. We needed men from
here and we had to accept the word
Of officers and players from mere as to
which players would best help the
team. We took them TO Shafter on
this say so and / freely acknowledge
that we made some mistakes but the
thing at fault was a method of selec.
tion. The Schofield recommendations
were all right but in some cases we
could not see it then as / can now,
The men came down to Shafter with
the realization that they were being
tried out and this made some Of them
fall down pretty badly. h
E. Mason Made Good.
"Take for instance the case of 4.
Mason of the First Infantry VINO came
touted to us as crackerjack outfelder
LAS he is inquest cnably. Yet Il 1t
hadn't been for his batting, his play.
ing at Shafter wouldn't have justified
our finding a place for HIM. The first
day he went out for practice he missed
on an average seven flies out of ten.
He had the attack of stage fright that
troubles most of the SchoneId candi.
dates. But / can see now that he is
just about in a class by himself as
centerfelder. g u. 0...
''And take the case of Collins of the
Twenty-fifth. We were told that he
led the post league in batting and
fielding last year. He couldn { do
thing at Shafter but he will make D
place for himself on next years squad
hands down. We are getting TO know
these men now and that Is the best
thing about the present series.
"There was one little human touch,
bit of gentlemanly sportsmanshlp, in
the Twenty-ffth VS.. All]Chinese game
of Sunday that made a great hit with
the fans and which will do more to
promote a clean generous spirit of riv.
airy than any other incident which
has occurred here In many games. In
the sixth inning Luck Yee, the Chinese
pitcher threw a quick inshoot TO Col.
Inns and hit the big batter hard blow
on the arm. As Collins walked down to
first base rubbing his injured arm,
Luck zee trotted from The box and
taking Collins by the arm walked with
him to the sack, helping HIM along and
making inquiry as to the extent Of his
injury and apparently expressing his
distress at the incident. 1t was lit.
tie thing but so contrary to the usual
procedure in such cases that the fans
realized that they were witnessing an
act Of gentlomanly consideration and
the stands cheered the little pitcher TO
fan. The Twenty fifth will meet the
Chinese again on May 3lst. .'