Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-18
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Standing Of Final Sesies
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FORT SHAFTER, Aug. IS. - +
Company, End Infantry, made an
advance up the ladder of fame BY
the game Yesterday with A Company,
the winning of which put it in the
lead in the final series. but with no
very green laurel wreath for f Com
pany, nor any credit to A Company.
For some games are interesting to
watch on account of brilliancy OF &C
t!on-not this one! Some you enjoy
on account of the crack of the blud-
geon, and the merry Waiting around
the ~bases-not this one! Some we
pardon on account of infinite va
riety. That's why this game escapes
the mill" 1t was variegated; every
thing known to baseball science was
served up for the spectators in
mess pan for almost two hours-sacri-
flee hits, double plays, squeeze plays,
sacrifice flies, pitchers assists, home
runs. errors, brainstorms, foozleS,
even to fielder playing in the ante
diluvian fashion, like grandpa, with
no glove and getting away with
hare-handed catch and Switching put
out T..
Why Sneak of Love
The pitchers were not half bad, only
hit one nan apiece. Fowler struck
out II and Simmons II, but Fowler
would let the batters hit the apple
on the eye, trusting to his fielders,
brit his confidence was misplacef.
Then, somewhat discouraged, he
would try little fielding himself, ana
whenever his conscience told him to
throw the ball he heaved it, but Ills
sub-conscious self and the rules work
ed by opposites, so his friends in r
Company always rested on base,
or tailed run or two or three. Oh,
we'll! What's a man good for II ne
can't help his friends.
!, The game was practically over in
the first inning E Company started
ir to bat around two or three times,
Fowler presented three bases on balls
and allowed three hits, and the re-
sultant score of tallies when the dust
cleared away was six runs, and again
in the sixth inning three men secuted
by the umpire to get drink, and in
the seventh and eighth two came in
each inning to the fearful total of Is
runs, while on the contrary Com
pany only allowed the poor LIST Bat
talon representatives one little run.
In the first inning Proctor tried for
very difficult chance which came
boiling hct to him. He smothered it,
and sent it by mail to first, where it
arrived before the sender, Gary, could
engage board at the initial hotel.
Black of A Company used some old
time black" art and drove a special
delivery to right pasture that rolled
into the Weeds and he was rewarded
with a three-base prize.
Notta Bad Hitter
Csernotta of E Company bumped
merry one in the second hitch which
paid for his admission to the first lap
On the runway, and, by the way, this
military Iris Speaker cracked out
four beautiful, clean singles out of
five. chances at the bat, and he made
IItih IOO, Will oOLlC
base-running, into two runs. In the
third inning occurred the most beau
tiful play of the game, when Doren
made screening drive to right, for
which Suffer made a stab with his pill
low, from which the ball attempted to
wiggle, but the guardian of the out
field mesmerized the ball and tanned
it with his rare right hand, and the
umpire named it out" beautiful
play, illustrating ballistic gymnastics.
This, with three pretty and unusual
double plays, constituted the real
worth whites of the game.
The game tomorrow. however, be-
tween D and H companies will be
some one, two, three, four, bang! and
worth while seeing. Game called ct
2 D. m