The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-03
WATER POLO ROUGHER
THAN ALL OTHER GAMES

The two heels are placed over the kid
neys of the man attacked. Powerful
squeezing digs into these organs and
induces decline of energy on the part
of the recipient. These tactics, how
ever need be used only on a good play
er. AS rule tight squeeze from
/ legs encircling lungs or stomach Will
cause sufficient suffocation or nausea
and weakness following thereon to in
fuce the player to give up the ball.
] AS an example showing how helpless
is the referee and how well he enters
into the spirit of the game, an incident
| in one of the six tie games played be-
! tween the Illinois Naval reserves and
the Central Y. M. c. A. teams at the
| National Sportsmen's show of 1908
comes TO mind.
/ H. J. Handy, present national dis
lance swimming champion. playing
center forward for the association six.
tackled Stern of the Naval reserves,
and was getting the better of him,
when Atteridge, the Naval center, fell
| on the 1O6 pound z NJ. C. A player and
pulled him off and to the bottom of the
tank Under the water the Reserve
man, planting a foot on each or
Handy's shoulders and entangling both
hands in his hair pulled up and push
ed down.
When they came to the surface after
the argument a piece of the under
mans scalp was missing. The referee
saw the bare space where hair and
skin once had been, but had not seen
the foul committed. The game went on.
In general however, players look with
disfavor on childish malice of this kind
Atteridge was understood to be pIqued
because the smaller man steadily had
been outplaying him to the amusement
of the crowd
The most astonishing thing about the
game, perhaps, is the way a hardened
player learns to do without air. VI
course the heart of the game is below
the surface of the water the greater
part of the time, any how, but usually
it is split up into mixups OF about
fifteen seconds each. Yet often when
two game men get together they VIII
stay down for a half minute or more
at q time.
In the New York-Chicago game at st.
Louis last fall Gaidzik, the Chicago
Athletic associations forward, ball IN
hand, went down with Steen. New
York back. and the pair were deep IN
the muddy water for what seemed 10
the spectators an interminable time
Other players went down to help fhelf
teammates, but were unable to locate
the scrimmage in the water when was
an approximate thirty feet deep III tnat
corner OF the basin
Finally they did come up, and Ga1d-
xix still retained the ball and went OH
with the game, although Steen had TO
be hauled out. Somebody who nad ..
watch on the play said the underwater
choking contest had lasted minute
and six and some odd fifths seconds.
This was about the longest single
handed scrimmage on record, although
in the game between the same Two
teams at New York in February, 1906,
Bob Laughlin, the c. A. A. center Is
said to have been boxed by two men
for over a minute
The most frequent injury suffered by
a water polo player is the breaking of
an ear drum. At the national indoor
championships of 1906 nine tynpanums
were cracked in a single contest Frank
Kehoe, the captain of the Chicago /
team, lost both his drums during the /
course of the tournament.
The game is % push the palm OF the /
iidiiu SHARPLY dSaiASt tAio
breaking the membrane by the force VI
the water This practically lnhlolts
man from further energetic play, as the
pressure of the water is unbearaoie 10
the injured member
Generally the team that most COM /
pletely browns its opponents wins the
game. However, few men are drowned
entirely dead, for, as rule, the eA-
hausted player can be brought PACK
to life by a few minutes of cafeIui
and intelligent resuscitatiOn.
Water polo as played under the Eng
fish rules is exempt from roughness
and compares with the American give /
as socker football compares with the
real game. Under the British rules