Saturday, October 30, 2021

Hawaiian baseball

1926-2-04 p.6 Good overview of leagues

VG pics
H. Bushnell In uniform. 2 3 4
N. Lemon Nani Lemon? 
JOHN KAHOLOMOANA BOLSTER in baseball uni

Good pics of Chinese teams


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
1956-2-25 Cappy Harada, Yomiuri Giants GM, responsible for the Hawaiians in Japanese ball. 
    "As a result of Yonamine's accomplishments, other outstanding local players like Jyun Hirota, Bill Nishita, Douglas Matsuoka, Andy Miyamoto, Len Kasparovitch, James Doole, Sal Recca, Kats Kojima, Shin Yogi, Brown Watabu, Tomo Kai, Dopey Morita, Dick Kashiwaeda, Charlie Luis, James McCabe, Larry Yaji and Dick Kitamura have since played in the pay game in Japan."
1960 two divisions: Military Section & Service Section
1998 AJA / Japanese Americans - really good Rural Red Sox were other Japanese club

Asahis
    "Ironically, however, that same year, the issue of race put Asahi fans on opposite sides of the fence. At the center of the controversy was Ted Shaw, an outstanding southpaw pitcher who had played with the Philadelphia Royal Giants of the Negro League. Shaw had fallen in love with the islands after playing an exhibition game in Hawai‘i—so much so that he decided to stay. He was hired as a player for a team in Hawaii’s Commercial League, and he also played for the all-haole (Caucasian) Wanderers of the Hawaii Baseball League, but what he wanted most was to play for the Asahis—and in 1933, the team was in dire need of the powerhouse pitcher like Shaw."
    Asahis rejected Shaw. 
Bad article, some decent pics - from 50s

1931-4-18 First of series. Has first team pic. 
    "Regardless of whether the Asahis come through with another victory, it is fitting that a charter member of the club, like myself, tell the history of the Asahis, as this is their silver anniversary year.     The club was formed back in 1906.
    There have been hundreds of baseball clubs in this territory, but when oldtime fans get together to discuss games of the past you hear them mention the names of three clubs more than any others, the Elks, Honirons and Asahis.
    Played at Makiki
    The Elks were members of the senior league in the days when games were played at Makiki field. Other members of the league were the H. A. Cs, Kams, Maile Ilimas and Punahous. The Elks have slipped a great deal since then and no longer make such a strong bid for championships.
    The Honiron or H. I. W. team played in the winter league at Kapiolani park, other members of the league being the Aalas, Diamond. Heads, Alohas and Makikis.
    That was in the days when De Ponte was a smart little pitcher and Mike Freitas starred with his one-handed catches of fly balls. The Honirons have been in the game since 1906, and are now playing in the Commercial league.
    Many ball fans have the idea that the name "Asahis" means a team representing Japanese ancestry, but the word really means Morning Sun. This team has represented the Japanese community in local baseball circles for a full quarter of a century.
    Divided Players During the summer vacation of 1906 we divided our players into four teams and imitated the senior league teams of those days, calling ourselves the H. A. C.s, Kams, Elks and Young Customers. We played daily, two games in the mornings and two in the afternoons. I do not know how long this nameless league operated, but I remember we were challenged by a group of Chinese boys headed by the Lai Tin brothers and by another team led by Henry Kualil and Alex. Asam. To meet these challenges we picked a team from our league and called it the Asahis."
    etc. 
1931-4-20 Got backing of Japanese businessmen after rough 1906 season. 
     Joined Riverside Junior League in 1907 - played in it three years.
        1907 team pic - won Japanese championship of Honolulu for 1st team that year. 
1931-4-21 Entered a junior team into the first Japanese League in 1908 - Asahi Juniors won championship. Full names for 1908 Asahi Jrs and Fusoos. 
1931-4-22 4th. Sailed thru 1910-11 seasons. 
1931-4-23 After twice winning the Oahu Junior League championship, entered the Oahu Senior League in 1912. Asahis have been senior league members ever since. 1912 standings and team batting for 1st and second half.
1931-4-24 6th. 
 1931-4-27 B. Last of series on the history of the Asahis written by charter member, Rev. C.P. Goto. 
    1918 season recap. Rosters with full names - scores listed. 
    "The Oahu Athletic park was finally dismantled and the baseball center then moved to Moiliili field where the new Pacific league was organized.
    The Asahi club was also reorganized and the team joined the Pacific league. The revamped team was coached by the old Asahi catcher, George Y. Murakami. Kenso Nushida, the "boy wonder", was the leading pitcher and Shinichi Yoshikawa was the catcher."
1952-4-25 B. "We've got to do something about local baseball."
    Billy Arakawa, a star of yesteryear Asahi teams of the Hawaii Baseball League, authored that statement a couple of months ago.
    And Wednesday, several former Asahi players gathered at a dinner for the express purpose of seeing what could be done to further the diamond game among the Nisei boys in Honolulu. The result -a formation of the Asahi Boosters Club.
    On hand at the eating confab were oldsters who played for the A's "And the crowds at times numbered in the neighborhood of 17,000," reminisced one of the "grandfathers."
    CONDITION FOREMOST
    He went on: "While there was money to be distributed among the players, the uppermost thought in our minds was to get into good condition and die for the glory of the Asahi.""
Recalling how the papa sans appreciated their efforts, the oldster, who didn't want to be quoted, continued:
    "We who were at the Wednesday gathering, stand ready to do all we can to bring the Japanese fans back to following the Asahi nine. Too many have stayed away in recent years.
    "We want to get together with the current bosses and the boys of the team, and work out some sort of a plan to better current conditions."
    LOST SIX STRAIGHT
    It hit the oldsters pretty hard, according to our informant, when the 1951 Asahi team ran away from the league the first half of the season, then crumpled with six straight losses to lose the title to the Rural Red Sox.
    "I don't recall," he said, "when any other Asahi team had such a poignant experience.
    "Why, in our day, it was a signal honor to be selected to play for Asahi. That was the goal of all players of Japanese ancestry on Oahu." (The Rural Red Sox was not in the HBL then. The country team entered in 1946.)
    1915 [sic] VETS ON HAND
    Present at Wednesday's gathering of Asahi old timers were some who were veterans as far back as 1915.
    The alumni included Representative Steere Noda, oldest member who played back in 1915, and Clem Moriyama, 1919.
    Others on hand: "Crook" Shizuru, Masa (Drop) Nakamori, pitcher on the 1930 championship club. Ole "Drop Ball" won 10 straight games that year.
    Masa Okuda, Sam Suzuki, first baseman of the 1926 first Asahi title nine; Bob Tominaga, "Lefty" Ohira, "Tiger" Miyagi, Tsuru Mamiya.
    "Wop" Shinagawa, Dr. Yorio Wa- Katake, Toshi Kameda; Eichi (Bayau) Hioki of the '30 championship squad; Seichi Tsugawa, Dr. Katsumi Kometani, a former franchise owner.
    George Mamiya, fireball hurler of the '26 team; Jutsumi Yoshida, Itsuko Aoki, Bert Itoga, "Mutt" Nishihara, Sadao Hedani; Dr. H. I. Kurisaki (1921), Moriso Matsuno, probably the greatest pitcher of all Asahi teams; Billy Arakawa, Reuben Kawamoto.
    Elected as officers of the Boosters Club:
    Arakawa, president; T. Moriyama, vice president; Nishihara, secretary; Hioki, treasurer; Shizuru, auditor. Board of directors-Matsuno, Dr. Wakatake, Rep. Noda T. Mamiya, Itoga and Ohira.
Advisory committee-Dr. Kometani and Dr. Kurisaki."
1960-9-22 Noda remembers original Asahis. Earl Vida once picked an all-time Asahi team - is listed. Noda and and two writers pick all-time Nisei team. Joe Takata was the first long-ball hitting Nisei - was the first Nisei to die in WWII. 
1971-7-15 VG history, with pic of original 1906 Asahis. Oldest team still active.
1981-5-05 Steere Noda is the only original Asahi still alive. Lists the great players and coaches of the Asahis. Explains some nicknames including that of Kazuo "Kaiser/Cooper" Tanaka. 
    Pic of State Sen. Milton Holt and former State Sen. Steere Noda at Cartwright's grave. Both are former Asahi. Milton Holt came home every summer from Harvard to pitch for the Asahis. 
    Holt, Milton Drafted by Cardinals in 37th round of 1971 draft out of high school. 
1986-4-02 Steere Noda obit. 
Asahi

1920-3-02 Zenimura, Asahi captain, will leave for school in Iowa. Pics of Zenimura and Nushida. 

1920-3-28 Asahis beat All-Chinese 6-5 in Zenimura's last game in Hawaii. 

Takahashi, Yoshio born in Hawaii. 
    1927-6-07 Left to attend college in America. Mid-Pacific star runner and catcher. 


    Good. Nippu Jiiji sponsored tour. 
    Eddie Kaulukukui was one of five brothers at heart of Oahu baseball from 1930s to 50s. 
    Pic of Keio University players at Cartwright's grave. 

    Japanese Balldom of Hawaii by Rev. Chimpei Goto - good early work. 

https://faroutliers.com/2025/01/01/aja-baseball-honolulu-1936/ Outcry when Blaisdell appointed Asahi coach, 1936. 





"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)

https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/item/ark:70111/48zS Grave attended by ball players. 

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
    Says was born 1877-9-13. 
1907-8-23 B. "Danny Long's first taste of Honolulu talent was so delicious that he has passed his plate out for another helping. This translated means that he is negotiating for another Barney Joy. There is a pitcher on the islands who stands six feet in his silk stockings, weighs 200 pounds, and hurls a ball so fast that it resembles a pea passing the plate. This is the sort of a pitcher Long is more than willing to experiment with next year. Barney Joy wised his manager up to the new prodigy, who has already been written to about playing in the Pacific Coast League. At the request of Long big Barney mailed a letter on the last steamer asking if he would consider an offer to play with San Francisco. Joy said yesterday that he thought Reuter, for this is his name, would come through with the big "yes." The following is a little boost which Barney put in for the young pitcher: "Reuter has pitched a lot of ball on the islands, and I have little about him not making good. He is a motorman on one of the railroads, but pitches a game a week at least. He is half Hawaiian, weighs fully two hundred pounds, and throws a ball as far as the next one. He is no southpaw, and when I left home he had as nice control as any pitcher I ever saw work. It is not sure that he would want to come to the Coast, but I have written to him to consider an offer. I have told him what a great country this is for baseball, and here is where he can get the money. I think I will be able to get him for San Francisco for next season, and I ought to receive a letter from Reuter on the next steamer. By the way, I have caught Reuter in a number of games [???] and pitched against him in others. You never saw me catch? Well, I can slam them down to second a bit. Catching used to be my long suit."
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
1909-3-17 B. Departed yesterday. 
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." 
1909-4-03 SF via Star. 
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." 
1909-5-08 B. Fragmentary account. 
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. "old baseball favorite"
1920-3-02 Team won 8-3; no mention of individuals. 
  1921-10-11  A. "HAWAIIAN SINGER RETURNS HOME AFTER MANY YEARS AWAY
    Dick Reuter, famous Hawaiian musician and old-time Honolulu star baseball pitcher, returned to Honolulu yesterday morning by the Manukai from Seattle, accompanied by his wife, whom he married in the mainland. Mr. Reuter has no set plans for the future, but may decide to make his home once again in his native city. He has been making his home  in the mainland for the past 15 years, visiting here, however, some 8 or 10 years ago. Mr. Reuter has been on the musical vaudeville circle in the mainland since first leaving Hawaii.
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." 
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. 
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
 
1916-4-05 B. Memories of 1907 St. Louis team that toured Japan. 
    "Nine years have passed and there has been a lot of changes in the players. Leslie is a coffee planter in Kona, and almost forgotten by the present-day fans. Henry Bushnell and Eddie Fernandez will once more don the uniform against a Japanese team on Saturday. Pat Gleason is deputy sheriff and still a great fan. George Bruns graduated to be a good umpire, and it is hoped that he continues to make good. Lo On, the speedy Chinese boy, is in Yokohama with a business concern, and still plays the grand old game. John Evers, the former fielding star, has been called out by the Great Umpire, while Oliver Jones is with the Honolulu Traction Company. En Sue is still fast on the bases and will play against the Waseda team on Sunday. Soares has been playing ball since and still retains his interest in the game."
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. 
1946-3-25 Pacheco. Johnnie Williams pic + profile. 
    ""Johnny," I asked, "what da you think of the influx of major leagues to these isles, along with the Seals making Honolulu their training grounds here? Do you think it helps our ball players?"
    "I never missed seeing the big leagues play when they were down here during the war. If our local ball players didn't grasp the tricks and different arts of the game, then they have missed a lot. As for the Seals training down here, I believe that it's one of the best things that has happened to the Island ball players, as well as for the fans.
    "Our boys should pick up everything they can possibly learn to better themselves. While we are on the subject of the Seals, I want to tell you that the grand old man-and I dub him the Connie Mack of the Pacific Coast league, namely, Charlie Graham-was my manager when I was playing for the Sacramento ball team. Charlie sold me to the Detroit team in the American league."
    Likens Ferris Fain to Hal Chase. 
    Says he developed his arm by always throwing rocks as boy - says that at age 16 he threw a baseball 386 feet.
    Is now a money collector for the City & County Garbage Department.
1946-3-29 Pacheco. Kan Yen (Kanky) Chun, one of the great catchers of his day. Was with Mid-Pacific and Punahou - at Punahou he and Scotty Schuman were alternating battery mates - one would catch when the other pitched, and vice versa. 
    Played with the All-Chinese from 1912 to 1915. Only weighed 134 pounds but was a heavy hitter and had a strong arm. Toured the mainland several times with the All-Chinese - a member of the Hawaii All-Stars that dominated on their tour of Japan in 1921. 
    Is presently general manager of Waikiki Tavern. [Winter League?]
1946-4-08 Pacheco. G.W. "Scotty" Schuman, baseball and football star at Punahou. Most known for involvement with football. 
1946-4-25 Pacheco. Joseph (Wee Wee) Ornellas - born in Kohala, Hawaii. Played senior league ball with the P.A.C.s from 1910-13; that league played at the old Athletic Park. 
    "One of the interesting incidents "Wee Joe" likes to relate happened in 1912.
"When the All-Chinese came back from a barnstorming tour of the mainland in 1912, they figured they were pretty good and didn't want to play any of the local teams for less than 70 per cent of the gate receipts," he recalled.
"Well neither side gave in, so the PAC's challenged the All- Chinese to play on a winner take all basis. We played and beat them, 7 to 1. We had Tony Medeiros pitching and Louie Soares catching, with "Sticks" Frazier at first base. Our team captain was Manuel Freitas, and Andy Bushnell was our shortstop."
Although he was too modest to admit it Joe was a very good hitter and a crackerjack base thief.
He said games in those days were well attended. "We always had big crowds. We played fast baseball, and it wasn't anything to finish a game in around one- hour and five minutes," he stated.
"Wee Joe" considers his greatest game the one his team played with Stanford university. After Stanford had beaten every team here, except the All-Chinese who were on the mainland, the PAC's engaged the visitors and won, 1-0, in 12 innings, at the Athletic Park before a capacity crowd. Tony Medeiros and Soares again formed the winning battery. Joe said players in those days played baseball for the love of the game.
"We had some good hitters in our time. I believe if we had the lively ball of today, home runs would have come pretty cheap," he declared.
"We Joe" still follows baseball very closely, but his chief business is his bar on Hotel street."
1946-4-26 Kamehameha old-timers listed - 1900s - with full names. 
1946-4-29 Stars of yesteryear by Bill Pacheco - profile of Judge John "Jack" Desha, with pic. Attended Harvard from 1908 to 1912 - was shortstop for their 1911 team which was 28-3. He remembers Fred Lowrey and the Witherington boys, Paul and Lathrop, as other Hawaiian athletes at Harvard. 
    He didn't play much baseball after returning from mainland, but says: 
    "In 1922 I was appointed judge of the domestic relations court in Honolulu by President Harding. However, I more or less managed ball teams after my appointment to the bench.
"We had a team called the Ha- waiians. The president was William H. Heen, now a senator, and Leon Sterling, city-county clerk, was our secretary. I managed the club which had fellows like Bill Smith, Maltbie Holt, Bill White, Ducky Swan, Lang Akana and Senator Francis Brown, who was part owner of the club. I also take take credit credit for coaching Johnny Kerr while I was managing the Kam prep team." (Kerr is player-manager of the Wanderers in the Hawaii league).
1950-7-15 Kenichi Zenimura heard from
1954-3-28 Memories of swimming & yachting - only Al Castle is still with us
1964-1-30 Yoshio "Kaiser" Tanaka is farm director and assistant field manager of the Tokyo Orions. Profile - memories of earlier days.
    "The Hawaii League had a home-and-home arrangement for years with the Big Six before the war and games between Hawaii and the Big Six drew as many as 60,000 in Tokyo." 
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.
1944-9-16 obit


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. 

Sonny Cunha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Cunha 1879-1933 - composer of Hawaiian music. 
1896-5-24 SF Examiner. Albert Cunha listed among those who sailed for Honolulu on the steamer Australia yesterday. 
1897-8-01 SF E. "From Honolulu there comes again this season to the Pope [House] Mrs. Cunha and son."
1897-8-21 SF C&P. At wheelmen's night at the Mechanic's Fair yesterday, Albert Cunha was awarded a "pocket nail file and comb and silver-mounted case" for being the "fattest wheelmen in cycling costume." His weight was listed as 283 pounds. 
1897-9-08 SF E. Performed an instrumental solo as part of the progamme at the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society. 
1897-10-16 SF C&P. "Albert Cunha of Honolulu" has joined the California Cycling Club.
1897-12-08 SF C&P. A member of the Lurline water polo club that has accepted the challenge of the Fort Mason water polo club to play for the " 'J.D. Spreckels Challenge Cup.' "
1898-4-23 C&P. "A.R. Cunha, the popular wheelman and ballplayer, will leave for Honolulu in a fortnight on a three months' trip." 
1898-4-30 C&P. Entered in annual 100-mile relay race with Bay City Wheelmen. 
1898-6-04 C&P. "A. Cunha of the Bay City Wheelmen contemplates a two months' visit to the Hawaiian Islands, beginning the middle of June." (Cycling column)
1898-7-23 SF Chronicle. "Local wheelmen will be surprised to learn that A.H. Cunha, the big catcher of the California Cycling Club's baseball team, and who is also a member of the Bay City Wheelmen, won the novice race at the last Honolulu meet. Cunha is a native of Honolulu, and went there recently to spend his summer vacation." 
    Headline: "A Good Year for Cycling"
1900-7-22 Boston. Yale catcher controversy. 
1900-8-28 B. Quoting SF. Father has ordered him to return home from Stanford. Described as 250 lb. 
1901-11-21 Boston. Quoting SF. Wealthy father described. Described as 300 pounds.
1902-5-20  Independent. "But withal the Princess is democratic, or rather neglectful of the dictates of fashion. Her intimate friend is Rosie Cunha, a half-white daughter of a Honolulu saloon keeper who stands all day in his shirt sleeves to wait on his customers, and who has amassed a half million dollars in selling rum to sons of missionaries. Her brother is "Fatty" Cunha, formerly at Yale and later at Stanford, and famous as a football and baseball player. "Fatty" is reading law, supposedly, but spends most of his hours on the beach at Waikiki where the subtle ginfizz is handy. Cunba and Prince David are chums and are usually together when the sensuous strains of the hulahula sound under the waving cocoa plumes in the moonlight, and the sinuous brown bodies of the soft Hawaiian maidens curve to the voluptuous air."

  1898-4-22 C&P. Talk.   "Manager McGlynn of the San Joses, California League team, has secured a brace of south paws, who, he thinks, will paralyze opposing batters. Wheeler, his mainstay, who belongs to the Third Ar- tillery, found it inconvenient to belong to an out of town team just now, so Mc- Glynn reluctantly sold him to Manager Bunker, and signed Thiessen and Fountain. The former has pitched for the California Cyclers' Club, and both are most effective. McGlynn has also signed a new catcher to receive Thiessen, whose name is Cunha. He weighs 240 pounds, and is said to be one of the fastest men in the game. Ford will be Fountain's battery"

1898-4-24 Stockton. Local box - Cunha with San Jose.

1898-1-21 C&P. "The third match for the Spreckels challenge cup between the Fort Mason polo team and the Lurline Swimming Club took place last evening at the Lurline baths, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The Lurline boys found the soldiers easy victims, and they won with hands down by the score of 9 to 2." 
    A.S. Cunha played right back for Lurlines. 
1898-2-18 The Lurline amateur water polo team justified its claim to the water polo championship of the Pacific Coast by beating the professional California Swimming Club 4-0.
    "Cunha is a model back. His throwing was excellent, and the ball never stayed near the Lurlines' goal long."

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

Desha brothers 
Major George Langhern Desha Jr. 1884-3-14 to 1940-8-14
Edwin Miller Desha 1885-10-18 to 1959-8-26
David Lester Desha 1887-8-22 to 1966-11-25
William Francis Desha 1889-3-10 to 1937-6-20


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


1900-5-25 Mother obit. 
1900-8-14 B. Inherited mother's estate - valued at $970

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.
1907-11-22 Star. Return. 


1908-2-15 Dick Reuter signed by SF; Joy by Boston NL
1911-8-19 B. Bats left. Is Stars' captain. 
1912-3-12 Cohn indignant to hear that Joy did not take the boat from Hawaii Cohn wanted him to take and will not report to Walla Walla until 4-03 or so.
1912-4-06 (Spokane) Will not come to pitch for Spokane - shows an indifference that does not please President Cohn. "Word from the islands" says that "Joy was way over weight and out of condition." 
1913-7-19 Barney Joy says sorry for being ungentlemanly Honolulu Advertiser puts on the heavy
1921-8-12 Pitching in Hilo. 
1921-9-05 Visiting in Honolulu from Kohala, "where he has been engaged for some time as head machinist in one of the sugar mills of that district."

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
1913-3-21 Waterhouse, 25th Infantry. 
1913-3-24 25th Infantry
1913-5-02 Dennis, Company D, 25th Infantry. 
1914-3-03 Vernon Ayau. 
1914-5-21 Keio University
    The All-Chinese threaten to withdraw from the Oahu League if they cannot play Keio under their own auspices, not through the Oahu League, which would take too big a cut of the gate.
1914-8-03 Waterhouse, 25th Infantry pitcher
1914-8-04 Hawaiian Athletes of Riverside League
1914-8-06 25th Infantry
1914-11-18 25th Infantry players Cross, Fagan, Aulston, Waterhouse.
1915-6-16 Company A, 25th Infantry, team pic. Winners of Schofield Barracks Post Championship.
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
1916-1-17 Honolulu Braves team pic
1916-3-04 Buck Lai, manager of Travelers
1916-6-18 Hoon Ki, All-Chinese pitcher
1916-6-26 All-Chinese. 
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
1917-9-10 Asahi team pic, with Nushida and Zenimura.
1918-1-10 Robert Fagin, 25th Infantry. Married. 
1918-4-02 Buck Lai & Charles Bender in Florida for PHI training camp.
1918-5-29 25th Infantry Wreckers
1918-6-03 Bullet Rogan. 
1920-3-02 Zenimura, Asahi captain, will leave for school in Iowa. Pics of Zenimura and Nushida. 
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.
1929-5-25 Chinese amateurs. With Mun Luke Lum, Mike Lum's father
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

1917 Pacific League opening

1927-5-04 Chuck Horton, who plays with the Elks in the Hawaii League and manages Mid-Pacific HS.

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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