The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19
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Defeat " arspite
at Football
3 to @.
THE CANE WAS
4 FAST ONE
Losers to Play More Football and
a Game Of Cricket at
Makiki.

Honolulu has witnessed a deal of AS
sociation football tnis year, but it has
been purely of the inter-club order and
not until yesterday has an opportunity
been offered for the local players to
gauge their merit by opposing an outside
| force, which is the only way of obtain
ing a correct line ON the playing qualifi-
cations of the home aggregation.
The only game played this season
against a visiting eleven was that in
which Honolulu team drew with the
men of H. NJ. S. Icarus. Yesterday the
enemy came ashore from H. NJ. S. War
spite The Warspite men have defeated
the Icarrians, and consequently the City
representatives were expected to find
their task a very formidable one.
The result proved this not to, be the
case. for the Honolulans triumphed by
three goals to nil Two theories have
been advanced to explain this-one that
the sailors lacked practice, and the 9TH
er that the home team has come on con-
s:derably since it broke even with the
Icarians.
The losers will certainly be benefited
by practice or two. but the latter the
DRY is the correct one. The winners
have improved wonderfully by constant
practice, and are today a formidable
pack The ball they played yesterday
was entirely different from the earlier
exhibition; Individual play has merged
| into a system of combination which won
the day.
The visitors were on the field early
n in1nipp6
| ing. They were much the lighter team.
| Their colorS are red and blue, striped
on sweaters and flag badge. The Homo
lulu team, with but three exceptions,
wore the light blue shirts and thistle
| badge of the Scottish club Honolulu
played one man short during the first
half, Soper not putting in an appearance
until half-time.
| The team was tAe same as advertised
with the exceptions that Soper and Mum
70 displaced George Davies and Boyle.
The eleven was a very strong one and
only needed the inclusion of j. w. Har-
vey to have made it the best obtainable.
| The lineup was as follows:
| Honolulu-Goal Fenwick; backs, Nc
GILL; K. Anderson; halfbacks, Soper, Bot
tomley, BIackman Captain; forwards,
Cation, Morse, Goudie, Craik, Munro.
II. NJ. S. Warspite-Goal, Northan;
! backs, Matters. Baker; halfbacks, Kib-
wards, Watson, Mccoy, Briggs, Parsons,
Mitchell.
Linesman J. Holmes. Referee, ]. L.
Cockburn.
Blackman won the toss and the ma
tives defended the Bereeania street
goal Half-hour halves We're agreed
upon.
Two minutes from the start the ball
was well up in the invaders territory
and a shot at goal failed. The locals con-
tinued to press and ten minutes later
another chance at goal was missed by
them.
spurred on by these two attempts the
Honolulans redoubled their efforts and
pretty run up by Morse netted the first
goal.
The game was very fast and the visit
ors showed themselves to be particular
ly clever with their feet
A corner for the Warspite proved flu
tile in its sequel; the sailors should have
scored for Fenwick messed the ball
somehow and narrowly averted disaster
Shortly afterwards another shot at
goal by the blue and reds resulted no
more successfully than did its predeces-
sor
Honolulu next obtained a corner from
which nothing occurred, and give and
take play until half-time saw the score:
Honolulu l. Warspite O.
| NO intermission was taken and the
leather was Immediately re-started Five
minutes later the locals scored again
ana duplicated the performance within
the space of ten more minutes.
In the face of big odds the seamen
played up nobly, but try as they might
they could not break their duck egg
land when the final whistle blew, the
nome team tripped off the field victors by
three goals to nil.
AT the conclusion of the game rousing
cheers o,,1 IL
adjourned to Mr.. L. G.. Blackman's resi-.
dence and partook of weIl-deserved re-
freshment.
Woodward and Watson did yeoman
work for the losers and are both sterling
players, The latter was at one time
signed TO Bury, tirst-class English club
ana mas also played for Motherweu. a
noticed of the 'socker' game
Matters is an old Davenport Albion
man mar, ana only last year represented Eng
anu IN the International matches under
! the Rugby code
Tn, The flagship was not represented by its
strongest team, three of the best play.
ers Messrs Boyle, Spence and P. l..
Geofge, belng on the other watch and
therefore unable to get away.
= or the winners, Morse, Blackman and
- 'Hll played brilliantly; indeed. the
as Whoie did so excellentIy that
ger discrimination would be parlo11s
Honolulu captain on being inter.
Nie.,-, after the game, said:
IL IS a good game and the winners
are n- playing the same class of han
| mat IL did earlier in the season. They
are gett-ag TO see the benefits of comb,
nation. The Warspite team containe,
some god ones, but was weak in spots
They seemed to be badly in need of
practici. The back division did good
work, but the front line was very weak"
The weather was threatening and sew
erai sharp showers fell during the prog
ress eff the game, making the ground
somewhat greasy and productive of falls
The Tendance was not so large as it
would have been had the day been more
propiJ.eus
This atternoon the Warspite players
Will o. .st.e the Scottish eleven, winners
OF the 4 cue championship. The gama
viii be .5s'ed at Makiki and will COM