The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-05

Englishmen play football much as
some people play billiards, the only diff
ference being that in the football game
Englishmerl use their heads for
cues and there is only one ball in play.
When the team from the cruiser Am
phitrite, on the one hand, and a mixed
team from the torpedo-boat destroyers
day afternoon on the Makiki field. it
was game of living billiards
| Some of the living billiardists played
better than others. 1t was head-work
all through, and there was also consid-
cradle kicking, but kicking is permis-
sible in Association football. Some of
the cue-ends We're well adapted to the
game The Britishers certainly could
put the English" on the ball. Eng
| lish" in the jargon of billiards, being
the dexterity shown in shuntfng the
ball off on certain angles of the field.
There were red-heads and tow-heads,
big heads and small heads, and all
seemed well chalked when the ball was
put into play.
Association football is a great game
when it is played by men who have
never played any other kind of game,
and the sailors of the warships in port,
certainly play 2 prettv game. They
play a clean game, free from roughness.
They are true sports. and so when the
game ended in draw, true British
cheers arose from both sides. and the
players went back to their ships salts
fled with the sport.
At the kickoff the Amphis had the
mauka end of the field with the wind
in their favor. The sphere went off
with a rash and instantly the center
of the ffelo was full of wriggling legs
and feet, and heads bobbed up often in
attempts to bunt the ball on the fly.
The players used their heads with mar
vellous skill. They hunted it straight
up into the air. made caroms, put the
English to it, and seemed to have al
most perfect control IF the pigskin with
their head-pieces. But the foot-work
was also a credit to any team. The in
reference was good.
Davidson, the Mad Mullah," was as
wild as ever and when he went careen-
ing along toeing the ball, human flesh
gave way before him. ''Scotty," of the
Amphis, was a favorite with the spec
tators, mostly British tars, and it was
Come on now Scotty, me 'earty,
Blunt the bloomin' ball. Mitch" and
whenever big, red-headed, good-na-
tured W. Bartlett went numbering after
the ball like an ioA-wagon with heavy
load the crowd laughed him on. Well,
the Amphis made two goals in the first
half, and the torpedo men scored a
gooSe-egg.
Then the teams changed positions
and the torpedo men had the advan-
tage of the wind and they carried the
pigskin down the field at the outset
with such a rush and a display of
science, that the Amphis drew long
breaths as the ball went through the
goal Then shortly afterward the tor
pedo men scored again, tieing the
score. Then came a battle royal. Play
ers went SPRAYING all over the ground
as sturdy legs crossed with others run
ming and as the prize in sight for the
winning team was a keg of beer, it is
no wonder all worked like slaves to adj
vance the score one way or the other
Often the ball went close TO the goal,
but just close enough to be called a
miss.
when the end came, however, nobody
was dissatisfied.
The teams were as follows:
Amphitrites-Goal. Sproat; Backs,
Parker, Wright; Halves. Davidson
(Mad Mullah), Haskins, Scott; For
wards. Musson. Claridge, Liby, Kend-
rick. ]. Scott; Linesman. Ward.
Virago and Sparrowbawks-Goa Mic
oil; Backs, Essex. w. Bartlett; Halves,
Hanson, Creighton. Henderson; For
wards. Mitchell (Captain), Beer, F.
Bartlett, Randall, Farmer; Linesman,
Mackle.
Referee. ]. n. Cation.