The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-01
TEAM WORK WINS
POLO TOURNAMENT
OAHU AND MAUI FURNISH FINE
EXHIBITION OF COMBINATION
AND INDIVIDUAL PLAYS.

The first inter-island athletic tourna-
ment successfully eliminated Saturday
afternoon in the deciding games for the
polo championship of the present sea-
son. The series will round out with a
ball this evening at which all traces of
regret at LOSING and triumph at win
ming will be merged in good fellowship
and cornwall enjoyment.
Some of the visiting teams are plan
ming to go back tomorrow. Maui men
VIII remain for another week. All will
depart, although defeated, filed with a
grim determination to reverse matters
next season and with the love of polo.
the Sport Royal, more deeply i'm
planted in their hearts than ever. one
result OF the tournament is most salts
FACTORY the organization of an Inter-
Island Polo Association, to promote
mutual rules and regulations. improve
the native breed of polo ponies and
make the sport take first place if pos
sible, in territorial athletics The
teams will meet today and decide on the
plan of the new association, appointing
committees to carry out the preliminary
work and choosing officials for the first
term of office.
Saturday afternoon was a great day
for polo, in the local history of the
game. After a series of three hard
fought battles, Maui, captained by
Louis Won Tempsky, father of the local
game, was to meet Oahu and settle the
supremacy. The outcome was hard to
foretell Compative scores compiled on
the other matches showed an appar-
emily equal issue. On the one side
Oahu depended upon keeping line that
would be steadily offensive and al the
same time impenetrable through the
ny Of
| team play, and, on the other, Maui
trusted that her brilliant riders and
superb horses would dash through the
Oahu defence and score. From the
experts standpoint Oahu should win on
combination work.
With cool heads, team polo will al
ways win. The Oahu men, besides the
five picked as their representatives can
produce a second team not so very far
behind the first. George Potter. S. E.
Damon, George Angus and r. w. At
| kinson can make matters very inter-
| esting for the champions and besides
these come such players as the balance
of the Judds and Damons, not available
| this season, and Dickey, Fleming Erd-
man. Prince Kuhio, Harold Castle,
| Walter Macfarlane and George Brown
against whom the Oahu cracks have
been practicing and fitting themselves
for the contest.
Maui can perhaps boast ten players in
all living miles apart and it is with
| difficulty that a full practice game with
eight players is arranged. Maui too
did not probably bring her very strong
est quartet. Saturdays game showed
also that the Maui imported horses
while Foxy Grandpa is uneXcelled on a
flying start are capable of being chal-
| lenged and held by native BREEDS Ha-
n 4
with Pualoa was on even terms with
! Foxy Grandpa many times during the
! game.
Both teams were hopeful, albeit a
| tritle nervous. The crowd, assembled
in the biggest turn out of equippages
| that Honolulu has ever seen, was on
the qui vive. There was no prepOnder-
ance of cOlors or cheering for the home
team. Maui supporters We're there IN
plenty and as the game progressed,
many a calm chaperone or reposeful
young matron, cast conventionalities to
the winds and waved ribbons and para
soils while screaming themselves hoarse
in the attempt to spur the players on to
even greater efforts. 1t is perhaps
heartless to mention that in the middle
of a polo field the most fervid roofing of
sisters, sweethearts and wives, comes
out as family as the echo of a muir
muring beach,
The parade was over. Fifty ponies
with reached names and duly locked
tails We're led, glossy coated, round the
field by the groOms and praised and
called by name by the fair spectators.
The field was cleared of practice and
damaged balls, the bell sounded, the
whistle blown, a new bamboo ball drop
ped into the center of the lined up play
ers and the match was on,
The first period was not exciting and
yet it told the tale. Out of the melee
Dillingham; stroked the ball to Judd
and the first goal was scored for the
Blue and Whites. Then Dole and next
Dillingham; scored while the Mauites
in the carriages that surrounded the
field waited to see Frank Baldwin on
| Foxy flash through the bunch like a
meteor. 1t came at last after a foul for
cross riding had been scored. Away
went Baldwin and away went the ball,
down the field until the sphere cracked
against the Oahu goal post when Will
bur stroked it through and all Maui
| sent up a rapturOus cry" and thought
the tide of fortune had turned. Be
fore the period ended however Single
made the fourth goal for oahu cOmplet-
ing the round of individual goal making
for the home team.
In the second, Single crossed the bah
to Dillingham; and another unit went
up on the score board and then came