The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1920-01-06

ed his downfall.
The visitors had a splendid oppor-
tunity TO break up the game by get
ting a big lead in the first inning.
Zenimura opened with single. was
sacrificed to second by Sasaki and
scored on Okino's smash to center
field. kurasaki was then given free
ticket, and with only one down and
Kurano up. it looked like curtains for
the local boys, but shortstop Tsunehiro
made Il fine pickup of KuranO's swift
grounder touched second forcing Kura-
sai and then throwing to first com
pleting a fast double-play. The visit
ors secured another run in the fifth
with the aid of a single, bad throw
and bunt. Their other two runs in
the eighth were scored with the aid
of two costly errors. Nakamura was
safe on shortstop Tsunehil2's error;
Zenimura hit to left and King muffed
the ball. Nakamura scoring. Zeni-
mura advanced to third on a passed
ball and scored on Okino'S single to
left after Nushida had grounded out
The winners scored a run in the
initial frame as a result of three sing
les and secured another in the seven
tn when pitcher Nakamura threw to
second to catch Nobuchi stealing.
The fireworks started in the eighth
Akita was safe on thirds and Okuda
beat out an infield hit. Nobuchi sing
led scoring Akita. Tsunehiro tried
to work the squeeze play by bunting
but the Asahis pitcher got excited
and made q target OF Tsunehiro's back
instead of the first bascman's nit
with the result that two more runs
came in, enough to win the game.
The runner advanced to third on a
passed ball and scored on Kings out,
short to first. Mitsu and Dol ended
the inning by rolling easy grounders
to short who threw them Ou. with ease.
iThn ninth inning was more formal
itv, neither eide being able to start
anything interesting.
p. A. C. VS.. ASAHIS
In the longest game played in the
series between the Asahis and local
teams. the p. A. C's Were defeated at
Waipoun fed on SUNDAY morning in
twelve innings by the score of 21.
Nushida for the winners was bit
stellier than his opponent, striking
out seven and walking none, while
Robello of tle losers also struck out
seven but walked three. Six errors
were chalked up against the p. A. C's
while only two were charged to the
visitors. Incidentally, !h2 winning
run was scored as the result of J..
Perreira's ba dthrow to first in the
18th in an attempt to complete a
double play.
The Portuguese drew first blood in
the f1rrth ]. Pcrreira was out short
to first. A PERI eira singled and went
to second on ]. Medeiroc' out, pitcher
to first, Gabriel then smashed single
to center. OkinC in center threw
home to head off runner on third,
Gabriel tri ID to max, @ocond on the
throw in but NushidG, seeing that the
runner on third was not trying to
score, threw 20 catch the runner at
second the throw beinS too hiSh to
be handled by Sasaki. The ball went
on to centoTfield and A. Perreira
scored. Gabriel ended the inning
when he tried to score on Andrade's
bunt. Kurasaki making the putout.
With the aid Of an error by A. Per
reira, the winning team tied the score
in the Sth. Kozuki, first man up, was
safe on an error at first. Nushida sac
rfficed him to second and Zenimura
flied out 10 catcher. Sasah smashed
long single to left and Kozuki scor-
ed Yamaguchi smashed out another
single but Sasaki was caught at the
plate on 4 close play. The winning
run came in the last half of the 18th
inning with two down. Matsuno
started this inning for the Asahis by
grounding out second to first. Naka-
mura got to first on thirds error and
KoZuki was given a free pass. Nu-
shida hit a double play which would
have meant at least another inning
of play J. Perreira threw Wild to first
and Nakamura scored the winning
run.
LIHUES VS.. ASAHIS
Before another great crowd at Wal
pouli on Sunday afternoon the Lihue
team, 1919 champions of Kauai, de-
feated the Asahis in the last and
most exciting game of the series by
the close score of two to one.
Although the box score will show
that they were seemingly Outplayed,
the Lihues, by taking advantage of
every opportunity offered them, man
aged to nose out their opponents.
The visitors outhit their opponents,
six hits to two but could not make
hits when they counted. In the fourth
stanza, Yamaguchi singled to center
but was forced by Kozuki, who stole
second Immediately. Okino rolled one
TO Pereira along the third-base line
which got away and then Lowell
booted Iwatas grounder, filling the
bases. Nushida, with a chance to
be the hero of the game, lifted an
easy fly to Bun Hee, and the suspense
was ended for the time being.
They had another chance in the