Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-08
JASPER PITCHES
SHUT OUT GAME
AGAINST CO. {
A Company Wins First Game
of 18th Infantry RegimentaI
Championship 4 to O
(Sreejal Star Bulletin Correspondence)
BARRACKS, Aug. Z.

! (SpeejAl Star Bulletin Correspondencel
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Aug. L
Company A, 25th Infantry, won the
first leg in the series to decide the
regImental championship. when it
; beat Company E today to 0 in a
real game of ball.
The fans began to gather on the
ball field Immediately after the noon
meal and by IN there were two long
lines of soldiers extending far into
the field. promptly at 2 o'clock the
Quartermaster Corps detachment Of
ardent fans arrived and the game be-
gan. E Company sent Morgan to the
mound. He Is a new pitcher, but did
very credltably in this game. He al
lowed but seven hits and would have
held A Company scoreless but for the
costly hobbies of Hurt and Herring.
The former contributed one run in the
first by fumbi!ug an easy grounder
and the latter made three consecutive
errors in the fifth, each of which rang
the gong for tally.
Two Hits OFF Jasper. ~'s. .
"Old Reliable" Jasper pitched for
the first battalion team and as 1t was
an extremely hot day he was at his
best He allowed but two hits and
only % men faced him. Jackson of E
Company got the first safe bingie,
and went to second on a passed ball
by Gilbert, but he died there and in
SO doing marked the limit of Els eff
forts to score.
The bright light in the game was
Ward, T., who played left field for A.
Grafton mao nothing on him today. In
the second inning he caught a foul
off q, Hemphill's bat that rivals any
catch made. In the fourth he repeat
ed this circus stunt on Herring and
in the sixth he ran far back and pull
ed down a long drive that Hurt had
labeled for extra bases.
The game was on edge at all times,
for e Company possesses quite a NUM-
Der Of heavy hitters and one or two
terrific swipes of the ball would have
tied up the game Cullens was rob-
bed of one of these in the second,
when cambridge made a very pretty
catch in deep center. Hemphill, again
in the eighth, sent scofcher into left
which Ward gobbled after a hard run.
Luck was against the second battal-
/ ion team and A Company would not
break Except for a passed ball by
Gilbert and muff of a hard chance
| by White, Jasper had perfect field
] ing behind him. -. ..... .=..~. -s~.
Herring Was Fish. .....
Herring, the E Company captain,
who has been playing very good ball,
went all to pieces today He I'M
doubtedly could not stand the strain
and his overanxiousness and respon-
sibility caused his miscue. He start
ed at shortstop, but in the fifth he
! missed three easy ones, so exchanged
places with Cunens, the former 60
ing to first bae and the latter to
short. In this position Herring dem
onstrated that he was all kinds of a
fish by cumming the first chance to
him. Alter this error he considered
erIously taking himself out of the
game, out compromised on placing
Gullens back on first, bringing John
ME Williams from left field to short
and he, himself, going far into left
field. This was wise change for he
got no more chances in this position
and he was far from the gibes of the
crowd. .-* .s...:a r..
1 IL HdS uCSu
in the company games, when a situa-
ton like the one above occurred, to
yank out the pitcher, no matter whe-
ther he was pitching good ball or not.
1t was positive relief to the wise
guys to see the proper corrective mea-
sures taken. -
Cullens batted in hard luck, flying
out every time he came to the bat.
His fielding average was perfect; in
the seventh inning he jumped high in
the air and pulled down wild throw,
retiring the base runner. .<t,~..E. i.
1 The Els probably pitched Morgan in
the first game n order to feel out the
other team and figured that if he
could hold them they had every
chance of winning when Davis was in
! the box. The latter will pitch the
, next game, and 1t should be a dandy.
, After the brand Of baseball we have
, been witnessing here recently these
games are going to be a most vel
come relief
Hits and runs by innings. Total.
, Co. A ...........1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 o.
! Base hits ....l 0 l / % l o.
Co. E ....0 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 o.
: Ddse Illus ...'V y I'V "
, Batteries-Co. A. Jasper and Gil.
bert; Co. z, Morgan and Williams
; Struck out. by Jasper. 8; by Morgan
G. Hit by pitcher, Goliah. Passed
, ball, Gilbert Double play. Goliah to
! Webb to Hawkins Stolen base
Moore Errors. a Com. white and
Gilbert: E Co. fHerring 4, Morgan
' and Hurt. Umpires. Collins and Hol
lingworth. Tine of game, hour and