Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-20
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OLD TINE game
Rear Rankers and Old Timers
Once More Shine Upon Dia-
mond: II Was to Laugh
Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence

especial star b0tttlU Correspondence
FORT SKATER, Jan. 20-It be
ing a rare sInsniny day before The
storm Of Fridays cleaning up fol
weekly inspection, K Company decid
ed that they would indulge in a lit
tie classic game o; baseball as a prog
nostication Of the opening Of tie sea
son for the American game at Fort
Shafter. X Company, therefore
divided itself into Two cohorts. the
"OId Timers" and the Rear Rankers.
The ''antiQuarians" were determined
from the start to win that game, fol
they placed the large half back, Bruins
wick, in to pitch, and when he did
neither subdue nor over-awe the
youngsters, there was then sent into
the squared circle, | mean the hurler's
box, the mighty Scott of pugilistic
fame and he managed to intimidate
the umpire, so that many called
strikes we're mighty shady, the rear
rankers baked, but even though they
fiercely protested, their insubordfn-
ate spirit soon faded away and the old
soldiers won II to II, mighty close
score, considering the nature Of the
game and the conditions, the umpire
and the time consumed
1t is always a pleasure to see a
family feud, especially In baseball, it
causes more DISQUALIFICATION of vo-
cabularies and intensity of vocal
strain than a flourish of black thorns
at Kilkenny fair, and. when this
divorce took place in the eleventh let
ter company and was fought out in
the Wright and Dltson game by men
accustomed to the Marquis of Queens
berry rules, the scenes beat the best
Charley Chaplin movie to a frazZled
egg.
To begin with, the cantonment
parade on which the game was played,
pardon the verb, resembles a mixture
of TIE foothills of the Swiss Alps and
the canals of Netherlands, not at all
conducive to first class anything, not
even the drilling of rockies, they ever
afterwards walk with a hop and
skip and that is what really describes
this ball game, it was successful
blend, says Velvet Joe, Of a hop, skip,
fox trot and secret service perform
ance. The errors are so few, only
seven, because the balls happened
never to go near fielder, due more
to good luck than good management;
and the only sacrifice hit was the
skill of blind man cracking bulls
eye; and the gallant home run crack
ed out by the burly Brunswick was
due as much to the weeds and mud
and the ditch diggers as it was to the
welting Wallop. or else the jog trot
assumed by the big fellow would
never have brought him home, unless
on the verge of apoplexy. In the
fourth inning the old-timers had the
wool pulled over their eyes, for the
youngsters buncoed the old fellows
and the umpire also and made them
put out four men, but We will pass
this by. this episode is only inserted
to show how vulnerable human ma
ture can be and in how poor a base
ball game the American public will
take an interest.
The stars, | mean planets OF the
game, were Brunswick, Scott, Sueflow
and Rother as pitchers, Scott mani
tested the best form, he assumed a
posture and would then lead
with his right, and would get mad be.
cause the umpire would call strike"
instead of knockout" and the circus
play of the game was the double in
the third inning when Omahander and
Rother occupied the stage for a few
minutes; the catchers, Johnson and
were both good, or else
the pitchers would not hold the record
that they do on the score card. The
honors were as even as they
could possibly be, each pitcher gets
credit for strikeouts, except Sueflow
and he gets four, and with the char
acter of the batting each pitcher
should have had II or Is strikers out
at least, for the base hits show how
poor the would-e pitchers must have
been. But ali in all the game made a
pleasant change in the cantonment cir
lies, and when the cheers and triumph
ant yells were followed by the End
Infantry band concert, it was like a !
little Fourth of July; and the game
also settled a keenly argued dispute
IS to which team was the worst in
K Company, and gave the men keen
IT appetite for good hot supper-the
season now is on! /