The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-05
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POLO PLANNED
SCHEME FOR EN-
COURAGING FREQUENT TRIPS
FROM ISLAND CLUBS.

The polo ponies are all enjoying their
rest in green pastures until the season
comes around next spring and in an
other week all thoughts of the game
will be silent ones. Meanwhile Frank
Baldwin, who is still in town, and some
of the members of the home team have
been discussing plans for the better
ment of the game next season, parti-
cularly with regard to inter-island
playing.
The main points aimed at were ways
and means by which players from the
other islands could come down here
more frequently and at the same time
obviate the expense and risk of bring
| ing down their ponies. If the men
from the other islands. captains and
members of No. teams, could during
April May and June play several times
in friendly games against the Oahu
four, it would without doubt improve
the quality of the play all round. The
visitors would get better Acquainted
with team work and could in turn fit
| their home teams to better cope with
| the present champions so that when the
fourth Tuesday in June comes next year
matters will be so equalized that oahu
Will have to play their hardest to de-
fend their present claim on the Wich-
man cup.
The plan presented was formulated
! by w. f. Dillingham; and consists in
! brief in the establishment of club
stables at the Moanalua field which MIR.
/ Damon has promised to push to com
| pletion early in the season. Members
/ ponies will be kept there under the
| charge of club and individual grooms.
! There will also be a number of ponies
! belonging to the club for the use of
members and visitors and, during the
season, likely ponies will be sent in
from the various ranches. These will
be secured on option of purchase by
members who will train them in the
game and buy swap and sell as they
become valuable.
The club ponies will be rented out to
club members and visitors at an ex-
pense covering the cost. Several of the
! fifty members of the club have abstain
ed from playing on account of the eX-
pense incidental to keeping horses and
this plan will not only overcome their
/ difficulty but allow visiting members of
! the association to come down from the
other islands on a Saturday to Monday
| trip leaving their own ponies at home
and assured of getting mounts at Ho-
nolulu. There are many players on the
other islands who could slip away for
the end of the week trip without trou-
BILE.
Oahu men will arrange practice
games very easily and will play oftener
than once a week although the match
games will always come on Saturdays.
! Players wanting to get a game after
business hours in the long evenings can
telephone the Moanalua stables for the
grpoms to get ready their ponies and
whatever club ponies are desired. A
club wagOnnette will meet the electric
car at its terminus. Riding clothes will
! be kept at Moanalua and five o'clock
| will see the players on the field with an
/ hour and a half of day light before
them Arrangements will probably be
made for a streak at tn etea house and
the evening see a discussion of the
points of the plays over cigars and cof-
fee until the time comes to return to
town. The plan is ready in all it's de-
tails and will probably be carried
through. 1t will undoubtedly generally
bring up the standard of the game and
while not diminishing rivalry, establish
the matches on a most friendly basis
where all the competitors will be cog
infant of each others weak and strong
points, thus making the tournament
matches much more equal affairs.
On Oahu the teams of the InCas and
Hornets will be revived and altogether
, there will probably be five playing
teams in the club.