The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-02


hard ticks during the two weeks yet re-
naming to them and the teams are al
ready showing signs of what form they
are likely to bring to the gridiron on
ing game when the H. A. C.'s meet the
Artilleries.
THE HEAVYWEIGHJS AT WORK.
Jess Woods has the FL. A. c. heavy
weights hard at work on plays although
line punching will probably prove their
strongest feature. 1t is a hard thing
to teach a composite team like the H.
A. C.'s to handle trick plays success
fully and hard also to keep the men in
training. The team is made up of men
of mixed vocations who are more or
less careless in training, as compared
with the college players or the soldier
boys, and the H. A. C.'s weak point has
always been tendency to play out in
the first half They will put up fast,
hard game on present practice form.
THE SOLDIERS GOOD SHOWING.
Coach Benson is doing good work
with theArtilleries, who have now got
down toEwork seriously. Their trouble
hithertd1has been in their taking the
game as a relief from discipline and
the tendency of a soldier to consider it
the height of smartness to get out Of
doing something, in other words to
Soldier" has somewhatretarded prog
ress hitherto. Pay days have inter-
vened also. to break training until the
dollars got scarce. Benson has got
now of medium weight and they will
prove a factor in the league games.
Lieutenant Behr plays the game well as
does Greenwaidt and one or two others.
THE COLLEGE TEAM.
The Punahou boys have made decided
Improvement in the last few days.
Williamson, who refused the captaincy,
has been persuaded to come out to
practice and will likely play quarter
back. His knowledge of the opposing
players should help to avoid falling
into the traps of trick plays and his
own good playing will materially help
the team. Punahou has plenty of good
material with several sets of backs.
Walter Macfarlane, who started the
season in fine trim from his rowing
form, is coming to the front in the va
cancy left by Percy Morse and will be
we'll worth watching during the season.
George Fuller is playing as strongly
as ever and Forbes and Marcallino are
showing up well. The esprit de corps
of Punahou is always a factor in their
play, the love of alma mater making
the collegians here as elsewhere play
a little stronger and kick little harder
in tight places than men who have no
such tie.
THE GREEN AND GOLD.
The Males, captained by Harry
James, are working mainly on old
lines and though handicapped by the
retirement of good players and the lack
of a coach, have been practicing steadi-
~ and are working well together. They
will probably play an aggressive line
| crumpling game. The Male lima
teams in both baseball and football
have been unlucky of late, but their
kahuna has assured them that 1908, the
figures of which added make Is, will see
| the spell broken. AS the kahuna's pre-
diction failed to materialize in baseball
| all hands are hoping to see the charm
work on the gridiron.
| GOOD OFFICIALS CHOSEN.
Taking all in all the four teams seem
very fairly matched and a good season
may be confidently looked forward to.
Carlos Long has promised to act in con-
cert with Hopwood as referee and UNI
pire. This gives three good men with
Mott-Smith as linesman, who under the
new rules is practically an additional
umpire. Hopwood is responsible for
IKamehameha's good showing on Satur-
day and his work as referee showed
that he is a first class choice for that
post.
In reply to number of requests for
an untechnical statement of the foot
ball rule changes adopted last spring,
the following, written by Walter Camp
u for the Yale Alumni Weekly, should