The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-23
A QUEER WAY TO
!. BOOST HONOLULU
Midnight lniunctions and False
Stories ia Mainland Papers
:. Do Hawaii No Good =.

Illegal injunctions against mainland
baseball players, the seizing of the gate
receipts of these ball players and that
which belongs to the local players and
continual tendency to bamboozle the
public by certain clique who pose
as the saviors of baseball in Honolulu
Is working much harm to Fair Hawaii
on the mainland and Is causing the peo-
pie there to give the sport world Of
this city the merry Hh Ha. U.s.. 1...
A returning Honolulan from San
Francisco, who was in Honolulu during
the baseball pilikia in November, met
several Of the Venice players in San
francisco and each and every one of
them, while loud in their praise of the
treatment afforded them by the promo.
ter of the Venice series, A. l.. Castle,
the Elks, the Promotion Committee and
others, made no bones in condemning
the actions Of the Athletic Park hui.
These men, among them being
Jim Scott, Honus McArdle, Rowdy
Elliott, Billy Orr, Ed. Klepfer
and Justin Fitzgerald, were ready
and anxious to come again to Ho.
moulin and play ball but not under any
arrangements that would bring them IN
contaet with the Athletic Park hui.
Making Misstatements siS IA. ..
furthermore, ball team now on the
coast masquerading as an sAll- Chinese
combination evidently has "a press
agent in advance whose sole aim and
idea is to fool the public. The follow.
ing clipping from the Stockton Record
Is a sample of the advance stuff sent
out by the team: -.
There will be a baseball game in
Stockton on Tuesday, March 10th,
when the team of the Chinese univer.
sity Of Honolulu will line up at Oak
Park against local nine to be gather.
ed by Buck Francks.
4. Franeks has made arrangements to
have the Chinese team play in Stock.
ton as part of its country wide tour.
The players are all Chinese boys
and members of the university estab-
lished by the government at Honolulu.
Only Chinese pupils can attend the
school which is eo-educational. The
team sailed from Honolulu on March.
End. They arrived in San Francisco
yesterday, and will play their first
game against Stamford on March 10th.
Before coming to Stockton the Chi
nese boys will play the University Of
California and the Salt Lake Coasters,
the latter game being staged at San
Jose. The Chinese boys will play all
through the east after leaving Stock
ton, games being played en- route un-
til the club reaches Maine, where the
conference college teams will be met.
The tour of the county made by
these Chinese boys is being fostered
by the government in order to educate
them in American customs. This is
the third tour the Chinese team has
made of the United States. In 1918
the team won 125 games and lost 10,
and in 1914 the players took l3l games
and lost 36. -.~.
The captain of the Chinese team is
Lai Tin, who was wanted by the Chi
lcago White Sox. Tin is q whale of a
Third baseman, but the White Sox
were restrained from signing him on
the objection that Cinnamon are not
eligible for the American league"
Claims Are False
In claiming that Honolulu fosters
this puncket in order TO educate them
in American ideas is all buncombe
| surely the people Of, the mainland are
able to tell that Yamoshiro aud the
two Moriyama boys are not Chinese nor
is Kekoa, Denny Markham and George
Bush, chinese. Therefore how can
the :" university established by the
government of Honolulu in which only
chinsee can attend" be supporting the
junket,
1t is all well and good to boost Ha.
wall on the mainland and to point out
to the people, there what we have, but
10 it right ami in a clean manner. Guy
NJ. Green, sometime ago, took several
of our local players through the states
and heralded them as pure, wild, IN
tanned "savagek from Hawaii y and the
harm this billing Of the team did Ha'
wall, is still baing talked about.
Is Hurting Honolulu
The returning Honolulan also came
in contact with several Of the news,
papermen while at San Francisco and
the opinion these men of the pen have
Of the sport, some of them--but not
all of them---does the town no good.
Can one expect that fifteen bali players
who came TO Honolulu to earn their liv'
ing, only TO be prevented from working
/ by a midnight injunction and to then