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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
1986: Pitcher’s belly
is key to softball team’s
triple playTHE third show of the Society of Seven Saturday at the Outrigger Hotel was different from anything you've ever seen in a nightclub. The entire cast of Hawaii's "Hair" showed up with flowers and good will, took the stage with the SOS and did a medley of tunes from "Hair." It was the group's first public appearance and if gooseflesh is an indicator of future success, things look good for "Hair." Love and Peace pervaded the atmosphere and the patrons seemed to be quite caught up in the lengthy "Let the Sun Shine" finale with the cast sprinkled throughout the room. "Hairy" describes both the cast members of the musical and the Saturday night SOS show. (Oct. 6, 1969) ...
PHOTOGRAPHERS Steve Moore and Carl Lindquist are making a half-hour film on old churches of Maui and were looking for a white mule for one sequence about an old, itinerant Maui preacher who traveled on such an animal. Lindquist was all set to whitewash an old gray mule when they found a real white one, 38 years old, belonging to the Maui Irrigation Co. No one had ridden the beast in 12 years and it was some struggle, but they got the footage they wanted. (Oct. 8, 1969) ...
DR. Dean Plowman hosting dairymen to a bull session on bull selection tomorrow morning at the Waianae Library. He's a USDA sire specialist, which sounds like something out of "Myra Breckenridge." (Oct. 5, 1970) ... Those longhairs at the Hotel Hana Ranch, who stand considerably out from the rest of the guests, are the Creedence Clearwater Revival entourage, which headed for the remote Maui resort following an HIC Arena gig -- their third vacation there. (Oct. 6, 1971) ...
FRIENDLY ISLE: Red Morris has an "Only in Hawaii" item worthy of the title. Returning from a business trip to Maui via Royal Hawaiian Air Service, his plane stopped at Molokai where two passengers were to be picked up. But no passengers were at the gate so the attendant there placed a telephone call while pilot and passengers waited and, sure enough, a few minutes later the two drove up, apologizing because they thought the flight was later. Maybe we ought to change that heading to "Only in Molokai." (Oct. 6, 1976) ...
"IT was our version of Manhattan Transfer," said Jimmy Borges of the makeshift quartet jamming at Trappers two nights running last week. Joining Borges on stage were Don Ho, visiting country singer Tanya Tucker and Linda Hart, one of the Harlettes backing up Bette Midler. (Oct. 8, 1979) ...
THERE'S a slight problem at Waimea Falls Park these days -- the Falls isn't falling. Oh drought. They're hoping to cure that problem at this weekend's "Makahiki Festival," however. Not only will the Hawaiians be praying for rain, but a group of American Indian powwow dancers have been invited out to do a rain dance and help importune the heavens to open up. (Oct. 5, 1984) ...
EX-NFL'er John Wilbur and his Hawaiian Harlequins rugby team, joined by the Manly Rugby Football Club of Australia, will be flying in kangaroo meat from Down Under to use in the chili they're preparing for Sunday's HCT benefit chili cook-off. They're banking on the 'roo chili beating out other exotic recipes which include ingredients such as buffalo and rattlesnake. (Oct. 8, 1986) ... IF you're in the market for venison, give Ike Sutton a call. He picked the winning number in a drawing among 500 hopefuls enabling him to hunt a blacktail buck deer Oct. 18 in Kokee State Park. He's confident he'll fell one. (Oct. 9, 1986) ...
IT may be the most unusual triple play in softball history, or so eyewitness Charley Ushijima thinks. In the Manoa Makule League, a batter hit a smash right back to pitcher Howard Han, a massive 250-pounder, and it was obvious Han hadn't caught the liner. Not in his glove anyway -- turns out he caught it in the folds of his belly and once he unlodged it, easily turned in the unique triple play. (Oct. 9, 1986) ...
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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com
