Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-14

Strong FOR
GIANTS-SOX

| in Sydney are to hand and give a
good idea of the furore created bv the
advent OF the Americans in the An
tipOdes. Superlatives by the sc"re
characterize the stories of games and
affairs arranged in the visitors honor,
and the general opinion seems to be
that no better or more gentlemanly
collection of athletes was ever gath
cred together as representative OF a
nation since travelling business ue-
came the habit it is.
Prime ministers, lord mayors and
dignitaries of every kind and descrip
ton turned out to make the ALaerl
cans welcome, and one Of them, Jo-
seph Cook, who holds the office OF
prime minister, according to the Sgd
ney Referee, Offered greetings to
men of our own race" and voiced q
warm desire to cultivate that esteem.
respect and friendship which should
exist between the two great member
of the Anglo-Saxon race. Everywhere
the visitors we're greeted with en-
thusiasm- and each community strove
to outdo the other in lavishing care
and attention on their far'traVeled
guests.
McGraw and Comiskey were re-
ceived with open arms and treated
as special emissaries whose mission
was to create still stronger bond
of unity between the two great ma
tons of the Pacific ocean Says one
paper, in presenting the duo for the
! - a. aThnV
have all the ease Of manner OF the
best colonials and a stranger finds
himself at home with them. without
any trouble. They are tactful, too"
Tie travellers were respected not
only as the greatest opponents OF base
ball, but as representative American
citizens and as types Of the worlds
most successful athletes. Jim Thorpe,
the Indian member of McGraw's brt-
gade. found special favor with the
Australians, who were as familiar with
his record as the best-posted AmerE
can, and he was singled out as an
object worthy of more than the usual
amount Of eadufation: zses5sTsssE 6. W
The Australian press conceded the
supremacy of the Americans without
the slightest equivocation and SEEM
ed more anxious to accord them credit
than the Americans were to take It.
In describing one game in which the
White Sox wiped up one of the native
clubs, the Sydney Sun has the follow
ing to say: There is plenty OF in
cident in any baseball game and there
was a good deal in this, but it must
be said that the New South Wsles men
were hopelesslF cutclassed, though
aided by an American battery"
1t continues: The local team was
not the best that could have been
chosen, but, anyway, it would not
have mattered much. Our players
looked like pigmies alongside the Am
orleans. A powerful athletic body and
mind and as fast as hares, some OF
them. They caught and tossed the
ball with the greatest precision and
ease and gave a capital shadow dis
play of the game in which their &C
tons, minus the ball, were splendidly
received"
The American slang and express
sions we're widely noted and, judg-
ing from some of the quotations ap-
pearing in print, certain Of the play
ers must have coined special out
bursts for the particular benefit of
their hearers. Umpire Billy Klein Is
credited by one paper as having asked
one of the players if he had a chick
en- ranch any place on his person
when he wanted a ball.
The accuracy and precision Of the
visitors was gobbled up with an avid
| ity which appears to have been IN
satiable NO man ever looked like
missing a catch. In fact, their catch
ing was a highly spectacular feature
of the display" said one paper, while
some of the most attractive features
of baseball, such as base running and
sliding, were much in evidence. The
| fast and accurate throwing 70 the
bases was another section of the WIS.,
itors' equipment that was greatly al-
preciated" Can you beat it?
The warmth of the Australian re-
| ception must have touched a rcspon-
sive chord in the hearts of Comiskey
and McGraw. The average gate re-
| CeiptS in Sydney tOtaled $2O,OOO, Whne
in Melbourne it was even better. Over
1000 people saw the first game and
after that it became a matter of
turning away anywhere from five 10
ten thousand The tourists must nave
left Australia many thousands of dol
lars to the good and it begins to look
as if Comiskey will have a surplus
when he arrives in New York next
month instead of the deficit which he
expected.
A phase Of the visit which appeals
to Americans was the efforts of the
Southern Cross scribes to write the
games in the manner in which it is
done in this country. They had a
hazy idea of the system followed, but
with but very few exceptions were
they able to carry it out in the way
the American newspaper men reel it
off
In speaking about an inning, one
scribe got the word frame mixed with
frameup and informed his readers
that so and so, the first man to come