Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-23
ANOTHER HAWAII
PHENOM PITCHER
FOR THE COAST?

Who's the Hawaii pitcher slated for
the Coast League?
According to the San Francisco
papers there is some phenom from
Honolulu who will tear things wide
open with Del Howard's team, Just as
soon as he can be transported from
here to there AT this end of the line
all Is mystery and dense ignorance.
The only prospect is big Bin In
man, who, il is rHInored, will be given
"a chance with Sacramento, but Inman
is to pitch a whole year In the Oahu
League as a course of preparatory
training, and will twirl for the Puma
hous. according to tho present under
standing. Then again, Innan is
hardly the physical opposite of B.
Joy. SO he can't be the speed marvel
referred to.
Here's the dope as printed in the
San Francisco Bulletin, and local
fans are entitled to a free guess as
to the identity OF the local wonder:
Al couple of weeks hence, when the
opposition starts after Del Howard's
pitchers and Pop" Ariett IS deferred
by some reason or other from stick
ing out his chest and scintillating in
the role of rescuer, don't be startled
to see a tall. swarthy being come
swinging from the San Francisco
bench and take his place in the box
to the accompaniment of a few bars
from Aloha
Accept the incident as matter of
course, and simply remember that
Mike Fisher turned over to j. Cal
Ewing as the head of the San Fran
cisco club, young Hawaiian pitcher
whom he signed to an individual con-
tract, no one knows how, and whose
task it will be to build up the waning
reputation of Waikiki beach as a de.
yeloper of baseball people
Title to the Honolulan, who is to
Barney Joy what moving van is to.
a cycle car. according to Fisher, was
transferred to Ewing yesterday by
Scout Mike, and he will leave for the
mainland as soon as Cal can gather
a few shekels to be paid the steam
ship company for his transportation.
1t is Fishers statement that the price
of four round trip fares would not
be too much to bring the lad here for
trial r. q T -
The facts of the case are these:
The prospect is twenty years or age
and learned the art of twirling hurI.
ing cocoanuts at jellyfish in the
shadow of Diamond Head. Fisher
says he has better control than Wal
ter johnson, and has the same Walter.
faded OF the map for speed. Accord
ing to Mike, it is as If someone
grabbed all the essentials of a sue
cessful pitcher and poured them into
the person of his protege through a
funnel szs.... .... -
The Honolulan completes the inter.
national reputation of the San Fran.
cisco club. DOC" Parramore's white
sulphur canal at Boyes Springs need
no longer be given over to the sole
occupancy of a couple of lazy ducks
during training season. The mystery
will bring along surf board with
him, and when his teammates are
busy drawing and calling in the shad-
owy recesses Of the clubhouse he will
cruise back and forth on the canal,
providing Art Hickman with a great
story to be used when the baseball
people move away and it becomes his
duty to attract other. guests.
We tried hard to get hold of the
prospects name, but neither Fisher
nor Ewing knew it, so we had to pass
the task as impossible In the alb
senee of a title Fisher wishes that
he be known as Kahanamoku. He
has ball which Mike says is as dark
as the Duke, and when it crosses the
plate, redolent of sleepy bowers and
idle vistas. its effect on the batsman
will be TO put him to sleep.
So says Mike Fisher, and it must
be true.