The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-13
kauai WILL
TRY AGAIN
Plucky Wearers of
Red Are Not
Dispirited.
Visitors Prove Gallant
Opponents and First
Glass Losers.
Why Onlookers Object to "FouIs. "
What the Term Really
! Means.

The Kauai polo players will not re-
turn home without having another trial
to wrest a game from the Oahu cham
fpions and the Red contingent, which is
large one, is satisfied that they can
do it, On Wednesdays showing. with
a LITTLE care on cross riding, they have
splendid chance to win Saturday aft
ernoon in the final game at Moanalua.
while Territorial onlookers are rapid
ly getting on to the points of polo, they
are still vague in some places and a
little calculation of technical terms
may not come anliss.
A safety for the making of which
score of the teams that plays the point.
is accomplished when the eneuy's at
tack has brought the ball and players
so near the home goal that defense
seems futile and a score of goal inn
minent. A defending player then
sends, with his mallet, the ball behind
his own goal line, sacrificing one-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 dan
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 penalty and though
the friends of team feel aggrieved to
hear that their men have been Denaliz-
ed by fouls they should read the
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 splendid ex-
ample of the term good losers" and
in the face of scoring more goals than
ltheir 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. L, to be firmly founded
| while his soaring goal, picked up at an
angle from moving ball and duplicat-
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 demoralized
matters for a while until he regained
perfect command of himself and his
team.
| The government band play on Sat
Iurday afternoon at the game which
commences 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