The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-04
FOOTBALL
SQUADS Oh |
Each Club Has
Long Line Of
Players.

On three fields each evening squads of
young men in duck suits practice the
evolutions of the modern football game.
League which has set the date for its
opening as November Sth The teams are
getting into form rapidly and in each in
stance the preliminary squads are so large
that there is fine prospect that the teams
will be closely matched.
While there has been little work other
than the first movements; such as passing,
kicking, catching and falling on the bali,
those acrimmages which have been in
dulged, have shown that there viii be
points of excellence IN each of the several
elevens the Males are perhaps the fur
thest advanced in their preparation
This team will make a strong bid for the
leadership, and certainly will be in the
best shape for the opening, which will
be between the Zebras and the Punahous
The team may not be the fastest but will
have some surprises to work off on the
others, for Coach Percy Benson has the
game at his fingers ends and will pull off
some of the old time snappy plays.
There will be some new faces among
the Males. Harry Jones is showing well
| in the preliminary work as is Fred
Wright. Will Vida, the old time end, is
his preliminary exercise, and has good
chance of getting on the end as of old
Mannis, the soiuier Splinter, is also show
ing form which seems to make him sure
for one of the outside positions. Hartley,
Beckett, Greenwich and Lieut. Behr, are
doing good stunts and are adding to the
strength of the eleven There are usual
l1y two dozen men ins the practice plays
and soon as the work gets down to
hard scrimmages there will be full teams
against each other all the time This
team will be heavy and certain to hold
though not SO fast as it might be.
The Honolulu Athletic Club has fine
squad, and will soon have some new faces.
There are now not sufficient men to put
up two good practice teams, but these
will be organized soon and the work,
which has been largely of the catch and
fall order, will develop into scrimmages
between elevens. All the old time men
are on the line and there is chance that
the play will be of the usual high order
of the clubs representatives. The team
will be heavy, should be quick enough to
hold WELL but may lack the intimate
knowledge of trick plays, perhaps, which
will win the series of matches. Cunha
has not appeared with the squad and in
the center place so far the most promin-
ent candidate is Kaminsky, the pugilist
of the army, who showed such good form
on the last seasons Artillery eleven. He
is quicker than he was and is doing good
work too in coaching his guards, so LAT
the center trio will be faster than the
team had last season. 1t will be on the
line that the Athletics are strongest,
from the present appearances and as soon
as the eleven has hard scrub to play
against development of team work will
follow.
The Punahous are the last to get to
,sy,rre
practice so far There will be about two
dozen men out hereafter and the ex-
pectation is that from the list there will
be gathered 4 team which will be a
worthy successor to last years victors
Among the new faces on the team will
be that of r-rof. Anderson, one of the
new men at the college. who is not only
a devotee Of the sport but who also I'M
derstands the game from A to Il, and
who will assist Waterhouse in getting
the team into shape. Rawlins Will get
into the game also, and Hatch who has
never played here will add t. the life
and action of the game
This team should be the fastest of the
three as much from the familiarity of the
men with the play. and their training
elsewhere, as from their condition for a
hard game. The men have all pIaved
against the best that ever donned the
padded suits and they should be able to
get away quicker than any of the Others
and this ought to win games for the club
Naterhouse is hard at work with his men
and there seems little for them but TO
get into form
There is being circulated paper for
subscriptions to a purse to use in pur-
chasing cup for the winners. so that the
men Win have an added incentive for
hard work. AS there viii be four games
within a short time, there is a chance
for every man who goes out To practice
TO be called into the game. and this is
| keeping the squads up to hard work.