Saturday, October 30, 2021

Hawaiian baseball

1953 - 4 players with Yomiuri Giants article on why so few Hawaiians end up in pros 
        - conclusion: isolation
1953-10-15 Kasparovitch only non-nisei of the 12 Honoluluans in Japanese League
1960 two divisions: Military Section & Service Section
1998 AJA / Japanese Americans - really good Rural Red Sox were other Japanese club



"The next monarch, King Kalakaua, became the first Hawaiian monarch to attend a baseball game. Cartwright was the king’s financial advisor. The game took place in 1875 between the Athletes and the Pensacolas. Baseball had been growing in popularity since being played at Punahou School in the 1860s. But it is unclear whether Cartwright actually instituted the playing of the game on the islands."

"While Spalding was in Honolulu for his brief, one day stay, he seemed impressed by remarking that Honolulu had four established clubs and that baseball was fully appreciated there. " (from 1888-89 world tour)

Army baseball
player who deserted but continued to play on Pearl Harbor submarine base team for three years
1949-4-10 Will be tried. W/pic

1914 Big Leaguers beat All-Oahus Buck Lai on All-Oahu team


xtra

1907-9-03 contract offer sent for Dick Reuter (6 ft 200 lb.) for $150/month - what Joy first got
1907-12-24 Good reports on Reuter - actually $125/month
1908-1-06 Reuter description "dusky Hawaiian" also describes pitches. Works as Motorman on streetcar. Complimented by Coast Leaguers. Desha made good showing in series. 
    How the Coast Leaguers killed time on ocean voyage. 
    V. Ayau in box. Standings. 
        Barney Joy left owing SF 1/2 month's salary
1908-3-20 in fact Reuter was satisfied with terms - but according to Reuter Jess Wood butted in and demanded more
1909-3-27 Taken out for dinner - enticed to play for Oakland. 
1909-4-01 Had been about to leave for Pueblo when he was stolen away. 
1909-4-01  (SF Bulletin) beat Santa Cruz 6-5. 
    "Dick Reuter, who was introduced to Oakland fans yesterday, is a husky fellow with a side-arm delivery, and as he has plenty of speed and sharp breaks to his ball he should be very effective when he has control of his shoots. Whenever he had his spirals dropping in the vicinity of the plate the opposing batsmen couldn't do much with them,  but his walks proved disastrous." 
1909-4-03 (SF Bulletin) "If the Hawaiian has much more speed than he displayed on Wednesday he surely must burn 'em over." 
1909-4-06 "Dick Reuter, the Kanaka pitcher, won his first game in the California League but lost his second. He is very wild. 'He is the homeliest ballplayer I ever saw, I do believe,' declares Cyrus Moreing Sr., father of manager Moreing." 
1909-4-12 Knocked for nine runs and eleven hits by Stockton. 
1909-4-21 Cy Moreing, Oakland CALL MG:
    "From the way Dick Reuter was praised by those who saw him work in Honolulu, I had an idea that he was a wonder. I carried him on my staff for two weeks, hoping that someone would take him off my hands, and was finally forced to release him. He's fortunate that he didn't get as far east as the Western League." 
1909-7-30 Lost to Modesto pitching for Wiley B. Allens
1910-1-02 pic of Reuter w/ guitar "has left field of baseball for music"
1912-5-03 listed on Oakland CASL roster

1913-1-04 (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Sang for a while with July Paka, one of the first Hawaiians to go east, but is now in Los Gatos, CA. 
1915-6-01 Pallbearer at San Francisco funeral of Ben Waiwaiole, one of first Hawaiian singers to leave for mainland. 
1916-6-14 Klamath Falls, OR - Royal Hawaiian Serenaders, seven in number. 
1916-8-23 Missoula MT - will play at Bijou theater - were hit at San Francisco fair - Reuter with "Ukalelee" solo. 
1916-9-18 Ad - playing four days at the Majestic. 
1916-9-19 Ad w/ pic in Billings MT for Royal Hawaiian Sextette - described as "Hawaii's Greatest Instrumentalist." 
1917-11-20 popular in FL
1918-2-16 on vaudeville tour in TX with three others, incl. Bill Aylett
1920-2-28 Pitcher for Mana Transportation Company in Hilo. 
1920-3-02 Team won 8-3; no mention of individuals. 
1926-2-16 Father of Richard (Dick) Peter Reuter died. 
1935-4-25 Pic & profile. Motorman on Kaimuki- Ft. Shafter Line of Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. 
1953-11-29 1879-9-13 to 1953-11-26. Kamehameha School, class of 1900.Served with Honolulu Rapid Transit Co. for 21 years before retiring. 

Kamehameha was a school. 

1891-9-14 Amateur league line score; with Prince at first base.
    H.R.H. ~ his royal highness
1892-4-18 Senior League box
1892-6-28 Box + Hawaiian League standings
1892-7-11 Box + Hawaiian League standings
1892-7-25 Box; Johnny Soper
1897-3-16 "The Star Baseball club has elected Harry Wilder captain, Percy Lishman vice captain, and J.O. Carter Jr. manager and delegate to the league." 
1901-6-04 Honolulu League organized; officers elected. Season will begin next Sunday at Kapiolani Park.
1901-8-11 game accounts. Barney Joy; Nani Lemon
1902-8-26 HAC to play picked nine
1903-4-14 Bill to allow Sunday baseball killed.
1903-10-16 Planning for series of games between Elks-Punahou and Kamehameha-H.A.C. combinations resulted in fiasco. Apathy and confusion abound. 
1903-10-30 Series between Elk-Punahou-Maile Ilima v. Kamehameha-H.A.C. combinations is decided. 
1904-2-02 League meeting; season will open 4-16, and each team will play 24 games. Team representatives listed. League president: Senator D.P.R. Isenberg. Secretary: Lorrin Andrews. Various rules discussed.
    "The president, acting on a request from the trustees, asked the teams if they were willing to play under the agreement of last year as regards the division of receipts. The arrangement then was on the basis of 75% and 25% for the trustees and teams respectively."
1904-4-21 C.F. Zamloch & C. Russell coming from Coast to join Elks team. 
1904-4-23 rosters
1904-5-01 games - play by play for both. 
1904-5-08 games - play by play for both.  2K ATT. 
1905-7-07 Anyone who played in Honolulu League in 1904 or 1905, even a single game, is barred from Winter League. This is unfair. 
    Winter League schedule determined.
    Johnny Soper is captain of Diamond Heads.
1914-8-04 Lang Akana and Bill Inman have been offered contracts for Portland.
    Inman, Bill BR - pitched one game for Seals in 1914 - which write-up does not mention.
    Inman managed 1940 Hawaiian National team in Amateur World Series:
    team had former pros in Johnny Kerr, Pat Gleason, and Herbert North. North won the first pro game in Japanese history (!!!!) North had pitched for Paramount Cubs in 1935. 
1916-3-27 Oahu Leaguers (25th Infantry excepted) did not have their hearts in series v. Olympics. Cared about lucre, not winning. Some even demanded money for their play. Of gate receipts from series v. Olympics, 20% will go to the teams. The All-Chinese will receive an extra 10% of the 20% that will be divvied up between them, the Saints, the Honolulus, and the 25th Infantry. There is no good reason for this. 
    Oahu League president resigns, charging players of lackluster "5 o'clock" spirit. Also, J.A.C. representative had been unfairly turned down in application for team when magnate told him to "go and get a reputation." 
1916-12-03 Picked team defeated 5-1 by All-Americans. Rogan on picked team. 
1921-11-16 ex-Mills stars making good on Mainland
1947-4-20 Team leaders meeting to try to figure out how to revive interest in Hawaii League. Old time player - a teammate of Dick Reuter etc. on Kamehameha Alumni team - offers suggestions. 

Santa Clara College
1908-6-26 Merwyn Shafer, catcher, elected captain for next year. Santa Clara claims college championship - have beaten Stanford and Berkeley. 

1912-10-01 Nat Strong pic
1918-6-15 Daughter of Nat Strong marries Captain Roger Marcus Monsarrat

1928-2-05 About Eddie Desha. 
1931-11-29 About Sonny Cunha. He was varsity catcher for Yale for two years. Tales and pics.
1935-3-30 Old-timers teams picked. U.S. Lemon
1938-5-06 Memories of St. Louis tour of Japan in 1907. W/ team pic. 
1944-1-28 Memories of Al Castle. He threw a no-hitter for Harvard. 
    Reorganized Punahou AC in 1911. 
1946-4-26 Kamehameha old-timers listed - 1900s - with full names. 
1950-7-15 Kenichi Zenimura heard from
1954-3-28 Memories of swimming & yachting - only Al Castle is still with us
1964-4-04 Memories of touring teams. 1913-16 rosters listed. Occasion for remembrance: Bill Inman is leaving for San Francisco. 

1918-8-03 Mrs. Thomas R. Robinson - recently married to prominent ball player
1991-3-02 Memories of Lemon Family estate from nephew of Nani Lemon. Excerpt from "Waikiki 1900-1985: Oral Histories." 

REALLY GOOD

1937-4-29 Lionel Hart obit alt
1954-1-13 Antonio Damas obit. Waianae Plantion League + Commercial League. 
1960-2-07 Edward Kaleiwahea obit. Hawaii Senior League + Waianae Plantion League
1966-4-25 John Shaw obit. SLC grad, class of 1930. W/ Hawaiians in Hawaii League.
1969-6-17 Charlie Thompson dies at 90. Leaves behind 216 descendants. 
    1903-4-13 Pitcher for Wailukus in Maui. 


1928-4-01 Hits homer for the Cans.
1928-6-02 W/ American Can, Commercial League champs - play by play
1928-7-12 With Braves. 
1928-8-04 Profile. w/ vg pic. 

1924-12-20 profile of father - Manuel (Kahuku) Rodrigues - all-round sportsmen
1930-11-20 Saved 25. 
1947-10-28 Good pic. A policeman. Saved 25 in 1930 flood. 
1947-10-29 Profile at death of Manuel (Kahuku) Rodrigues Sr. - a bit of a legend. Henry Oana was his eldest son. 
1937-11-08 Career of star Braves pitcher, Manuel (Kahuku) Rodrigues, is in jeopardy - injured elbow in football game. "Delicate bone operation" will be attempted.

Lang Akana
Born: 1889-4-15, Honolulu. F. Lang Akana. 
1906-6-06 No-hitter v. Brown 
1906-7-22 Team pic w/ Harvard
1906-6-21 Biographical information for Harvard & Yale rosters. Castle is 6'0", 150 lb. 
1907-3-08 No longer on team

Charles Chillingworth
Senator. President of Hawaiian Baseball League for several years. 

Jack Desha
1908-11-26 N Letter from Jack at Harvard to father, Steven Langhern Desha, editor of Hoku o Hawaii. 


Patrick Gleason
    Did well in 1930 CENL. 

1897-6-15 One of five graduating from St. Louis College - class of '97
1900-2-15 Married yesterday to Miss Amelia Maria Kaheau Jarrett. 
    1900-2-16 Bookkeeper of Oahu Prison
1930-8-16 Patrick Gleason Jr. making hit in mainland ball
1932-2-01 With pic; thanks police for cooperating during his four-year term. He is leaving post.
1938-5-06 Pic + profile of all St. Louis alumni directors, incl. "Foxy" Pat Gleason.
1952-10-27 Died suddenly of heart failure. 

Paul Isenberg

1907-3-10 President of Koolau Agricultural Co., capital $100,000. 
1907-3-19 Finally on board of Agriculture and Forestry. 
1907-4-11 "Paul Isenberg will leave on the Siberia on April 23 for a visit of several months to Europe."
1919-4-15 Europe
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5014823.pdf Paper on effect WWI had on German community in Hawaii. Does not having anything directly about Paul Jr.

David Kanewanui

1902-5-23 Pic + profile. Died of gunshot wound at 26. Editor of weekly newspaper and player for Kamehameha. 

Bernard Kelekolio - the Boy Orator
1907-6-13 Flies to Coast with money. Has been experiencing "domestic problems." President of the Riverside League since its founding. 

Percy Lishman
1907-4-30 says insanity caused by fall
1907-7-17 good
1907-7-18 vg - w/pic
1907-8-13 Full name: Robert Hugh Percy Lishman
1907-9-17 Estate valued at $6,796.20. 
1907-4-29 vg article
1907-5-05 details of fall

Walter Foss Sanborn
http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/sanborn529bs.txt
Pro ball player on mainland before coming to work as luna on McBryde Sugar plantation on Kauai in 1901. 


1894-7-17 Admits he sold game. W/box. Sold it for $10 which he has not received, and probably will not. 
1894-7-27 Arthur White sentenced
1894-7-27 Sketches of George Wood & Arthur White. George Wood's story. White shot Wood in right hip, and also flogged him. 
1896-9-04 Punched Chinaman; acquired $2 fine and broken finger in the process.
  

1952-9-27 for 1st time in many years, some Hawaii League players received expense money
        George Rodriguez, Puerto Rican AA president for 5th time, is 30 - youngest to hold franchise in         league
1953-10-14 Lopat's All-Stars beat Rural Red Sox 15-0 - serious star-studded team

BARNEY JOY (XTRA)
Francis Bernard Joy
Born: 1882-1-27 
Died: 1938-5-25
1938 obit has good summary of life outside of baseball including post-career pic
WT: 215 source more generally known as 200+
SABR bio


1907-2-17 Barney Joy beats Johnny Williams in benefit game w/ pic
large crowd out to see Joy pitch for last time before leaving for PCL

year in PCL: 

1907-8-23 Babe Reuter, who Joy used to catch, wants to come to US and has offer from Portland. Jack Huston offered $4500 for Joy. Some club will probably have draft put in for him but he can be covered up somehow. "after game crowd of patriotic small boys attempted to carry him off field on shoulders"
Best liked on team. Rooters shout at him "hickey-hickey" instead of "wikiwiki"

1907-9-24 Called negro by Washington Post.
1908-2-15 Dick Reuter signed by SF; Joy by Boston NL
1913-7-19 Barney Joy says sorry for being ungentlemanly Honolulu Advertiser puts on the heavy
1921-8-11 is this him?

1932 account of St. Louis College sports history - H.A.C. was a team of SLC alumni
        had Henry Oana too
1938 obit good account of time w/ H.A.C. 

xtra pictures

1909 Soares/Eddie Fernandez/ Dick Reuter
1918 in retrospect Barney Joy/ George Bruns
Reuter, Dick 1909 better quality
Robinson, Foster 1914

1908-2-02 En Sue Pung in track uniform - broke American record for 50 yards
1908-6-07 Grif. Kennedy - Santa Clara outfielder.
1908-8-14 Jesse Woods - J. Lawrence Woods. Promoter of 1908 Reach All-American tour.
1911-7-14 25th Infantry - stationed at Fort Lawton - giving a hard time to some of the top teams of Seattle. 
1913-2-16 25th Infantry
1913-3-24 25th Infantry
1914-8-03 Waterhouse, 25th Infantry pitcher
1914-8-04 Hawaiian Athletes of Riverside League
1914-8-06 25th Infantry
1915-9-25 Impassioned rooting at 25th Infantry game
1915-10-05 Bullet Rogan with Allen, 24th Infantry. Pic of 24th Infantry rooters. 
1915-10-12 Hy Jasper, 25th Infantry pitcher
1915-1-0-17 25th Infantry - will meet teams of Oahu League to determine champions of Oahu. 
1915-10-18 Saki Smith, 25th Infantry infielder
1915-12-17 Dad Swinton, 25th Infantry 1b-c
1915-12-18 25th Infantry
1916-3-04 Buck Lai, manager of Travelers
1916-6-18 Hoon Ki, All-Chinese pitcher
1916-9-30 Honolulu Braves team pic
1916-11-21 three Wreckers, including Rogan
1917-2-26 Vernon Ayau 
1917-5-08 Opening day parade of Oahu Service League players
1917-5-12 Morgan, 25th Infantry, with Gov. Pinkham
1917-5-29 Henry Chillingworth
1917-6-30 Fagin, 25th Infantry
1918-4-02 Buck Lai & Charles Bender in Florida for PHI training camp.
1918-5-29 25th Infantry Wreckers
1923-1-10 Pic of Zenimura, Nushida, & Okoni, who are about to tour California
1924-9-09 Fresno Athletic Club
1928-7-12 Stanford University, coached by Harry Wolters, here on tour.
1934-3-03 Philadelphia Royal Giants, here for tour. 
1938-6-11 Two Braves stars, Manuel Rodrigues, pitcher, and George Indie, left fielder.
1944-8-28 Walt Judnich - hit five straight homers in game

1914-9-18 25th Infantry team - for tug of war
1915-6-05 cartoon showing 25th Infantry Wreckers as giants among men in the Schofield Barracks. 



1914 vs. Venice Tigers

1917-3-16 Portland stats + cartoon about their departure

            


Buck Lai 1917 picture

Buck Lai 1917 picture

Pictures:

Abe, K. 1908 first to work squeeze play in Japan


Stats:

1910 Diamond Heads vs. J.A.C 4-23 fielding 4-9 batting

1925 Hawaii Commercial League 3-14 En Sue, Johnny Williams



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