The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-05

The names of the first four teams
which viii practice for the next few
weeks until the final quartet is am
nuunCei, for the intcr-island contest
were given out by the committee of
the polo association yesterday and are
as follows The four teams have been
designated under distinctive Colors and
their practice games win be fully as
exciting as the regular matches that
have been played during the league
series. The oahu COlOrs for the inter-
island match will be blue and white.
White-No. /. George G.. Potter: No.
o. George II. Angus; No. 3, W. r. Dill
lugham; No. 4, Charles $. Dole.
Red and White-No. 1, Atkinson. r..
w; No. 2, Hancock G.; No. g. Judd,
a. F.; No. 4, Fleming, j.
NellOw-No. /, Single No. ., Dick
ey; No g, Carter, A. w; No. 4, Perry,
A. w.
Green-No. I. Norton, C. H. W.; No.
D. Waterhouse, Fred: No. 3, Carter,
Cushmau; No. 4, Copp, Harry.
The committee on selection was COM
posed of w. +. Dillingham; and G.. S.
Dole and, as explained at length some
days ago i'm these columns, the No. ]
team is not at present necessarily
composed of the four players that will
ultimately represent Oahu i'm the
March inter-islaud tournament. The
In English and American colleges to
select a boats crew. a football or base
ball team or any athletic combination.
Aside from one or two, there are al
ways a number of men rating about
equally. Thus the most likely -four on
eight nine or eleven are first chosen
but the trainer is often at fault i'm his
first choice and so keeps a bright look
out for the other players and often
OIL. o.. L. T1
Representatives are picked and go into
|active training, with several subsu-
tutes for the man who goes stale on
/ otherwise gets out of condition. With
amateur associations, plenty of substi-
| tutes are vitality necessary to keep the
| men up to constant practice. Any
Islackness in praCticing in the polo club
| will be visited with a prompt relega-
ton to the third or fourth class.
In the present association Dilling-
ham and Dole are easily the best play
ers Rice was another first class play
/ eU who would nfallibly have represent
I cd Oahu had he not gone to Kauai
Then came a number Of comparatively
| equal players some of whom were per-
| haps a little better in one position thar
|another which fact has resulted in
their not being able to fit in on the
first team. Atkinson for example has
learned a place on the first team IL
lmany ways but is best at the same pc.
IsitiOn as that which Dole will play
consequently he dropped out of the No
II combination. The players that were
launched, from the outside critics point
! of view, the most equally. were: An
gus. Atkinson, Hancock and Potter
! Angus has been developing an excel
Ilcnt game and well deserves his place
lon the representative team Hancock
while somewhat huky has been con
IsIstently good of late.
Perhaps the greatest surprise is tina
Atkinson, if adjudged good enough t
Iplay No / on the second team, would
mot be better than Potter in the same
lplace in the first team. 1t is possible
| that the committee did not want two
Ios the mixers on the first team to avOit
Iappearances of favoritism, but Atkin
son, in any position is a better player
| than Potter both as a rider and di
Irectness of driving.
Matters will sift themselves in the
InCxt few weeks however and Oahl
win have a team that, if they do no
IW.n, will put up a game of polo tina
will astonish the Maui boys with it
team work and be no discredit to {
mainland club. Potter will prObabl,
get another pony before the match
He has an excellent one now but onl,
one that he plays through all of IN
periods which entails too much Worl
foI any pony to successfully keep III
flor long. The oahu boys will see tina
they are all thoroughly well mounted
When the final match day comes.