The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-15
KAUAI MALLET-WIELDERS
WIN IN BRILLIANT GAME

1t was q Kauai day on the Moanalua
polo field yesterday afternoon, the red
colors Haunted in victory over the blue
of Oahu, in the telling score of AZ to
2&. II
While the playing throughout was
not so exciting as on Wednesday when
the Kauai four showed their grit by
holding down the Oahu aggregation and
outscoripg them, yesterdays game was
characterized by brilliant individual
and team plays, riding off tactics, and a
determined front indicating that Ka-
uai was in the game to win. The dis
play of craftsmanship was magnificent
and it aroused the enthusiasm of the
spectators to the whitehead point. The
mallet work was clever exhibition of
what muscled forearms and wrists can
accomplish from such uneven decks as
the backs of cavorting ponies.
Kauai showed up at it's best in team
work, although in two or three critical
stages the red caps were inclined to
make individual efforts to try for goals,
weakening their line, but this was
largely due to a strong desire to win
the game at all hazards, and as results
show, this method did no harm. Both
teams were somewhat shy on mallet
work, successive strokes at interest
ing moments at the ball often tanning
only the close-cropped grass. Both
teams We're guilty of misses at exciting
stages when the ball was directly in
front of the goals.
Throughout the game the excitement
was tense among the spectators as both
teams seemed evenly matched, espe-
cially in view of the fact that each
player was permitted only two mounts
during the game. The Kauai ponies
suffered most on this rule, as the Car
den Island string has been subjected
to q severe strain in the three games.
Fouls, or errors, as those who do not
fully understand the meaning of this
penalty word would call them, were
frequent, and reduced the score on
both sides, safeties also keeping it
down. In the last period when Oahu
was 2A and Kauai 3A, there was fear
on the part of the Kauai side-line root
erS that their players would make an
unfortunate foul, or error, reducing the
score to an even basis, and there is lit
tie doubt but that the reds took deep
cogniZance of this possibility. The
Oahu players took brace also, and
it was an errorless game from that
time to the end
When the eight players galloped into
the field the tournament ground was
surrounded by nearly thousand spec
a in and horseback
1t was record breaking attendance
and spoke volumes for the popularity
of the game. Almost every foot of the
circular driveway was occupied: the
space on the field off the side line was
filled with vehicles and even command
ing hillocks had their quota of specta-
tors. The Territorial band, under the
leadership of Captain Berger, played
whenever the players took a breathing
spell and made the pretty valley re-
sound.
There was only one casualty during
the game. Charles Rice was struck in
the face with a maIlet by one of the
Oahu players during chase after the
bah. the mallet striking as it was be-
ing recovered from a forward stroke.
Rice's cheek was laid omen. and he was
pony as he rode from the field. The
injury however. was not serious and
Rice continued to play, making a goal
in short order in the next play.
Spalding played his tactics of
Wednesday by sticking closer than a
brother to Dole. although the Oahu
veteran occasionally broke away from
the formers affectionate hold and got
in some deadly strokes while Jimmie
iuggled back into position. The same
was true with Charles Rice and Judd. I
Both these players watched each other
like cats on a backyard fence. Their
riding-off tactics was a feature Of the
game. Arthur Rice distinguished him
self in several spectacular dashes, es- /
pecially in the last period when he car
ried the ball out of a bunch of hoofs
and got in three long strokes toward