The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-26
VENICE TEAM SIGNEDa
UP FOR HAWAII TOUR
FAMOUS COAST COMBINATION WILL PLAY SERIES OF
GAMES IN HONOLULU DURING NOVEMBER BLISS
AND McARDLE WELL KNOWN HERE ARE COMING

SAN FRANCISCO, June "a (spe.
ciai to The Advertiser by Federal Wire.
less) Herbert a. Lowry, sport editor
Of The Advertiser of Honolulu, now
here, yesterday signed the Venice team
Of the Pacific Coast League for series
Of games in Honolulu during the month
OF November. Lowry is acting as spe.
cial representative for J.. G. Cohen OF
Honolulu, theatrical manager and gen.
efal sport fan of the Island city, who
Is backing the whole undertaking. -
The Venice team will be the first
real Pacific Coast League organization
to visit the Hawaiian Islands. Several
Coast aggregations have visited and
played in the Islands in years gone by,
but none Of them had ever been regu.
larry connected as a team with the
Pacific Coast League. ., &c.. r
z SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.--( Mail
Special to The Advertiser Herbert g..
Lowry, sport editor of the Honolulu
Advertiser and representative Of Joel
9. Cohen, owner OF chain Of theaters
IN Hawaii is here to close with Gene
Doyle, REPRESENTING President Edward
Maier and Manager Wallace Bray,
known TO baseball fans Of the. country
rs Happy Hogan, for a series Of nine
games in which the Venice team will
play in Honolulu next November,
Lowry, who arrived on the Sierra
from Honolulu with his wife this week,
Is under instructions from Mr.. Cohen
20 spare no expense in getting together
a representative ball team for the inva-
sion and, after brief conversation
With Doyle, the deal was practically
artanged whereby nine of the Venice
team, an additional battery and three
Chicago White Sox players, will jour
ney TO Honolulu in November.
xNhile the personnel Of the team has
not as yet Deen fully decided upon,
Lowry was emphatic in embodying in
the proposed contract that none but
stars would be selected. This will be
an easy matter as far as the Venice
team Is concerned for nearly every man
on the team has signifed his willingness
70 90 and, so far, Outfelders Johnny
Kane, Walter Carlisle and Dieky Bay.
less, First Baseman Boston, Shortstop
McArdle, Second Baseman Bill Leard,
4 Pitchers "Doc'' White, Roy Hit ami
JIM Hughes and Catcher Bliss are
ready to sign contracts "Death Val
ley Jim scott, one of Charley Comis-
keys main stays in the box and rated
one of the best pitchers in the Ameri-
can League with Shortstop Buck
Weaver and Catcher Ray Schalk of the
team have asked for reservations with
the excursionists.
p Lowry Is also negotiating with Pitch
en- Stroud of Sacramento and Catcher
Walter Schmidt of San Francisco, az
an additional battery to be loaned tc
the teams in Honolulu in cases of emer
geneies. Lowry is figuring that, with
Ave or six extra men along, players
eonld be loaned to the teams of Homo
lula, thereby giving the fans real base
ball While all the details Of the make
up.of the team are not complete, there
is ga possibility of one of the Coast
League umpires making the trip, Presi
debt A. T. Baum having given Lowry
permission TO negotiate with then
shUuld he conclude TO take one along.
IN speaking of his plans at the Hote
Stewart last night Lowry said:
Honolulu is ripe for big leagu
Baseball now, but it must be real liv'
hmber and, under my instructions from
Mr.. Cohen, | am to get together moth
ing but the best,
:" have lived here in San Francisco
for many years before moving to Homo
lulu, and am familiar with the class o
eball the coast leaguers put up and thinl
II the equal of any ! have seen. 49,,
tsOur teams in Honolulu show an adept
ness TO baseball which is surprising an
our Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese an
Hawaiian teams play a fast game o
ball. With a good catcher like Bliss
who is familiar to Honolulu fans, o
Schmidt or Schalk, some of our Homo
'Ililu pitchers will make the mainland
ers step bit to win" a'....