The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-16
MAUI DEFEATS
OAHU At
POLO
From Thursdays Advehtiser)

more perfect day or more perfect sur
roundings for polo match than the
conditions that existed yesterday in
the first championship game between
Maui and Oahu, in which the former
proved victorious by score OF s TO
81. The Oahu team did not show up
in its regular form on account of the
sickness OF two men. DR.. w. D. Bald
win was off form, being sick before he
started in the game, and ]. L. Flem-
ing was practically out of the game
till the last period, on account of an
injury which he received through the
running away of one of Captain F. F.
Baldwin's horses.
In the first three periods the Maui
team ran away with Oahu. Walter
Dillingham; played the star game for
the local men, with Single as second,
Fleming trying hard but vomiting
every time he was off his horse. In the
last period Fleming took a brace. 1t
was do or die with the Oahus. The
score stood II against them, for
though they had scored two goals, one
had been taken away from them by
four safeties which they had been
forced TO make to save the piling up
of a higher score. They came up TO
time then In the final period they
played circles around the Maui men.
Fleming, with grit which deserves the
greatest of credit, pulled together, in
spite of his sickness, and played the
game of his life. Again and again
when his goal was in danger he saved
the day by a clean, hard stroke, and
Dillingham; and Single seconded every
play he made. Occasionally DR.. Bald
win would show his usual form, but
he never played the game which he can
when in condition.
on the Maui team all We're stars.
Their backhand work was revelation
10 the local men, Krumbhaar doing
some of the prettiest work in this line
ever seen in the city. Dave Fleming
proved himself, as always, one of the
r-St backs in the islands. and Frank
Baldwin made runs nearly the length of
Inc field. assisted by the magnificent
riding of of :. a. Baldwin. The honors
% he day rest between Walter Dill
bingham and Frank Baldwin.
Long before the game started the
autdenoDiles and carriages began TO
arrive and the largest crowd ever seen
at a polo game in Honolulu was pres
ent when the whistle was blown by
Umpire Charlie Rice, calling for the
game 10 start. 1t was a half holiday
in earnest and almost everyone prom
inent in the society and business cir
Giles of the city was on hand.
There were at least seventy-five au-
tomobiles present, each filled to the
limit of its carrying capacity with
pretty girls, young men, matrons and
their husbands, all intent on the result
of the game. Naturally the blue and
white colors of Oahu were by far the
most prominent. but Maui was by no
means bereft of adherents and many
Of the carriages displayed the tiger
colors which belong alike to Princeton
and to the Makawao Polo Club.
The arrangements of the grounds
were as near perfect as one could ask.
The automobiles were grouped togeth-
er on the Eva side of the field and
at the same level. Above, forming a
nearly complete circle, were the va
rious hacks, buggies, surveys and other
rigs in which townspeople had driven
TO Moanalua.. AS the vehicles came in
TO the grounds, the mounted police,
place and kept the most perfect order.
When the game was over the automo-
biles were sent ahead, before the car
riages and horsemen were allowed to
go, thus preventing any accidents
through the frightening of horses by
the machines. The plan worked out TO
perfection and there was not fault
TO be found The police deserve the
8 ~, ,s,al,
they handled the big crowd.
There was only one accident to mar
the success of the day, the injury to
Mrs. s. NJ. Ballou, and that occurred
just before the grounds were reached
and few heard of it till after the
game was over. The story of this ac-
cident viii be found in another column.
The accident which occurred to
Fleming was unavoidable but without
any doubt had a great effect on the
game. F. F. Baldwin's horse Niger
was tied to a fence on the Waikiki
side of the field and became frightened.
He pulled back suddenly, taking with
him the heavy rail of the fence and
running down the field with 1t dangling
from the rope by which he had been
hitched.
tlemlng was standing talking Win
some of the players at the time, and
was unable to get out of the way and
was struck with considerable force
just below his knees. knocking him un-
der the feet of another pony. The
injury was not a severe one but the
pain which resulted was extreme and
had the effect of turning Fleming's
stomach and, from the time he started
10 play till the game was over, he
was sick at the stomach and in no
condition TO take part. 1t was on
nerve and nothing else, that he finished
the game, as the Maui team was
sverse to having substitute put in
his place after the play had once start
Among those present at the game
were noticed the following: Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. Geo.
r. Carter, Hon. and Mrs. f. NJ. Hatch,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Gaines, Mr.. F. A.
Schaefer and family, Albert Judd. j.
s. Walker. c. D. Lufkin, Mr. and Mrs.
F. c. Smith, Mrs. c. s. Holloway, D.
l. Wilmington, Bishop Restarick and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Bishop, II.
F. Wichman, ]. B. Castle, Consul Ca