The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-11-13
kauai Will
TRY AGAIN
PIucky Wearers Of
Red Are Not
Dispirited.

The Kauai polo players will not re-
turn home without having another trial
to wrest a game from the Oahu cham
pions and the Red contingent, which Is
large one, is satisfied that they can
do 1t. on Wednesdays showing, with
little care on cross riding, they have
a splendid chance to win Saturday aft
ernoon in the final game at Moanaua.
ly getting on to the points of polo, they
are still vague in some places and a
little elucidation of technical terms
may not come amiss.
A safety" for the making of which
onc-fourth of q goal Is taken off the
score of the teams that plays the point,
is accomplished when the enemy's at
tack has brought the ball and players
so near the home goal that defense
seems futile and a score of q goal i'm
minent. A defending player then
sends, with his mallet, the ball behind
his own goal line, sacrificing ne-fourth
point against a probable loss of a
whole point. Kauai made three of
these plays on Wednesday. Their
presence in any score shows that the
goal Of the side making them was in
imminent peril as many times as safe
ties are scored.
The term foul" is an unfortunate
one. The word foul has a moral
obloquy attached to it and the words
foul play" carry universal condemna-
tory significance. Fouls" which might
better be termed errors" are very sell
dom made with intention to foul an
other player by unfair play. They are
usually errors of judgment, generally
in colliding horses, and the referee
rules whether in his opinion the angle
of collision or interference was dam
gerous to the player being charged or
interfered with. A crooking of mallets
carries the same penalty in the Ameri-
can game
Malice aforethought very, very rare
ly enters into a penalty and though
the friends Of a team feel aggrieved to
hear that their men have been penaliz-
GU ny louis, tHey sHOulu Iedu lIc
rules and achieve Wisdom, whose sister
is Silence. Players themselves are sell
dom cognizant of the angle at which
they charged or crossed and the kicks
on decisions rarely come from them.
The Kauai players offer a splendid ex-
ample of the term good losers" and
in the face of scoring more goals than
their opponents and then losing on
penalties, have never murmured. They
put UP a bully game Wednesday and
their friendly acceptance of defeat has
made them stronger favorites than
ever.
The rally of the Kauais on Wednes-
days game was very gratifying to ev-
erybody. Spalding in stalling off Char
lie Dole showed his reputation as a
first class No. 1. to be firmly founded
while his soaring goal picked up at an
angle from moving ball and duplcat-
ing a goal made against Maui by
Judd in the tournament last year, was
clever stick work. The Rice bows
showed in their full strength, Charles
playing a sound consistent game. Ma
lima rode well, hit well, only seeming
to lack direction.
Oahu's play with the big rally in the
fourth period, when Castle played his
best game, was most commendatory.
The home team plays on team work
and Captain Dillingham's nasty tum-
BILE and crack on the head demoralzed
for a while until he regained
perfect command of himself and his
team.
The government band play on Sat-
urday afternoon at the game which
at the usual hour of three
and the biggest crowd of the series is
expected to see the final tussle and
cheer Kauai in their efforts to secure
one game out of the three.