The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-23
POLO SEASON
NOW READY
First Play Will
Bring Out New
Features.

With the game at Kapiolani park this
afternoon the polo season will be for
mally opened, and the men who are to
furnish the sport for the coming three
months will be seen in silk, attempting
TO get their eyes upon the ball and ride
as fast and hard as they did in pre-
vious seasons.
The field upon which the play is to
take place will be in many ways much
superior to that formerly used. The
space will be $50 by $50 feet, the length
being contracted to escape the ditch
which marred the bottom of the field
last year The ground has been filled
and there is no doubt but the surface
will be level and safe, a consideration
for the men unused to the game for
eight months. There are several Incl
/dentals which will be made more per-
feet as the season progresses, but taken
Generally the mechanical arrangements
for the play are of the best class.
The teams which are to contest are
the Whites and the Blues. The former
will play under the captainship of Judd,
who is the acting captain OF the club
in the absence of Dillingham;. In his
team will play Henry Damon, who is
developing into a fast player; Robert
Simple, one of the most dashing play
ers of the club, and ]. p. Erdman, re-
liable man, who in all probability will
be placed at No. A.
Opposed to this combination will be
C. s. Dole, captain, who, after billing
ham, is the best all round man in the
club. with s. E. Damon. father of the
game in Hawaii and who VIII be seen
on the field after an absence of d year
owing to business cares; George c.
Potter, a player of steady and careful
methods, and for the fourth place, Dr.
McAdory and Howard Castle alternat-
ing in the four periods. The former
team has the heavier handicap and
should show the best polo. though the
Blues are likely to prove the faster
after their men and horses have been
put through at least one period
The game promises to surpass the
opening of any previous year, FOR the
reason that there are more members or
the club who Will play and more en-
thussasm among the men themselves.
There will be several others than those
E<naned who Will be given chance to
Stry out their horses during the game,
if arrangements can be made, and the
play proves to be trying on the pasture
ponies of the regular players. The po-
mics are green and the men out of prac-
tice. and the result may be expected to
be a game with a deal of rawness, all
of which will wear off during the sea-
sons play.
Dole is Handicapped by the having OF
only one horse, but he will ride one OF
Damon's ponies during the alternate
periods. Damon purchased the string
of Angus, and thus acquired at last one
of the highest class ponies ever played
here. The, gray is fast and is said to
have lost his wi1dnesS under the hand
ling of Damon. That player depends
upon Pepper to show the greatest speed
this year, but has others of merit.
The play will begin at 2:3O o'clock and
any members of the club who may wish
to play should apprise the captain Of
their desire. The play Will without
doubt be open and will thus offer many
attractions to the onlooker. After to-
day there will be a regular game each
Saturday during the demi-season, IN
til the teams have been settled down
and trials for the inter-1sland cham-
pionship games are commenced