Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-03

Recruits Curray and Carter
StartIe Fans BY Their Great
Work: 20. A Wins CINE
Company a 6, Company N S.

S9ecia, -BuiietinC correspondence /
SCfIOFlELD BARRACKS, May 6
The A Company champions were ex-
pected to have an easy time yesterday
afternoon with NJ Company. but IS
il t1rned out, A Company had e.
throw all the cripples into the firing
line to win in the tenth inning M
Company's proficiency is not SUP
posed to extend to baseball, and it
was a great surprise when they gave
the AS a run for their money. .
When Curray anu Carter were an
nounced as the battery for NJ Com
pany, two new names were introduced
to the 2jth Infantry fans. two players
who had never been heard of before.
Before the game was over a thous-
and inquiries had been made concern
ing this dark-horse battery, and the
fans began to wonder whether they
had not starred on the Cuban Giants
before they joined the army. 1t turned
out that they had joined the company
about two months ago from the re-
cruit camp, aud at the same time
that Moore and Jackson were alb
sorbed by A Company These men
had been overlooked as baseball stars
and as one fan in the bleachers re-
marked, If it had been known them
two ginks could play baseball they
would never have been assigned to VI
Company" -
Curray Star. -. 49,.
Any pitcher who can hold the heavy
hitting A Company aggregation to five
safe swats is a top-noteher, and the
3rd Battalion is beginning to take
hope that with a twirler like Cur
ray in the box they might be able to
win a bit of bunting when the bat.
talon series comes around
A Company scored a couple of runs
in the third. NJ tied the score Ill the
sixth. A broke the tie in the last nalf
of the same inning when LeftfleIder
Moses let Hawkins single get by him
for a Mex" home run. NJ Company
tied the score again in the seventh,
and would probably have scored more
than once had not Slim Morgan
been yanked from the box and re.
placed by Jackson. s:.": :@,>:
Jasper Worried. ...: III. -. ="
The game began to get exciting and
A Company was clearly worried. The
veteran Jasper, who did not believe it
necessary to be in uniform against
so weak team as M Company, paced
in front of the players bench IN a
rage. In the tenth inning when the
bottom dropped out of his team and M
Company scored two runs, he began to
warm I'D. -. .......
There was one chance left for A
Company, and that one chance was
Moore, who was seated on the players
bench nursing sprained ankle. In
the last half of the tenth, after Wor-
rell had gotten on base through an
error, Moore was sent limping to the
bat, in place of cambridge. Moore
connected for what would easily have
been a home run, and hoped all the
way to second on one foot before the
ball could be relayed back to the dia-
mond. .'.< ..> H.. II:
Forgot His Limp. ~. -: -.
For some reason the umpire would
not permit Moore to be replaced by
another player, and in order to tie the
score it was necessary for Moore to
hop along two more base lines. But
when Goliah hit through Parker,
Moore forgot his sprained ankle and
dug for home at q ten-second clip, and
made it. ".......
Goliah figured out that the time
was propitious to steal third, and his
dope was correct for Carter over
threw in attempting to catch him, so
that Goliah romped home for the win:
ming run. =. ,~s.. ~
II was q narrow escape and almost
made history repeat itself, for last
year NJ Company defeated the strong
A Company team in one of the first