The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-05
KEEN SOCCER
SITUATION
Males and Young Men Will
Meet Today and the Fans
Eagerly Await Game.


the soccer league just now that is per
haps not properly appreciated by those
who are unable to get out to see the
games on Thanksgiving Day. The
Males defeated the Punahous 80 to @
and the Y NJ C. A.held the Diamond
Heads down by 5 to o.
Here is where the keenness of the
situation comes in. The Males have
been undefeated for goodness knows
how long and have won the champion
ship with monotonous regularity, but
now it looks as though the young men
were going to be able to do things with
them at the beginning of the season
and the other two teams both show
more than nascent signs of great team
work and individual excellence.
This afternoon the Males and Y. NJ.
C. A. will meet in the second game, and
everybody who understands the situa-
tion is on the tiptOe of expectancy to
see what will happen when these two
topnotch teams get together.
AS far as could be judged by watch
ing them play two different teams, the
young men have the better team work.
Individual work is about equally di-
vided-that is, they both have the best
there is; but the boys in the red shirts
played a wonderful combination game,
especially for their first appearance
during the season.
The Males appreciate what they are
up against and have been working and
practising very faithfully during the
week and improving their team work.
They have superb line of forwards,
who need only to keep more in their
places and to be fed better and faster
by their halfbacks to belong to the in
vincible variety.
The second game will be a wonder,
but viii not be much ahead Of the first
exhibition, because the Diamond Heads
and PunahOus are about equally match
ed and are very determined to make
their first mark on the official standing
of the teams
There have been one or two changes
made in the Diamond Head lineup. Bob
Chillingworth will take goal and the
Clarke brothers will play fullback,
while the forward line will be strength
ened by the addition of Sing Chong, a
very fast and certain outside man.
1t is not likely that there will be any
change in the Punahou lineup, but we
may expect to see much better team
work than they put up last week, and
they will have an advantage over the
Diamond Heads in that their full team
has played together in a match.
1t is not often that so interesting
situation develops at the beginning of
a football season, and it opens up
vista of wonderful possibilities for the
future. Everything points to a very
hardly won championship, and it is
quite possible that New Years Day
will see the two teams tied for the
championship.
The following are the line-ups for
this afternoon. The games are played
on the league baseball grounds, and the
first one starts at 2 O'Clock promptly.
Ladies are admitted free, and there is a
nominal admission for men, with half
price for the kidlets:
First game, Diamond Heads VS.. Pun
Heads: r. Chilling
worth, goal; J. Clarke and r. Clarke, |
Ziegler, Sherwood and Beck
ley halfbacks; Eddie Fernandez, Davis,
Carl Oss, Kea, Sing Chong, forwards,
PunahOus: Patty, goal; Fraser and
fullbacks; MeKinnon, Clarke
md Rothwell, halfbacks; Egan, With
ngton, Mon Yin, Jock Cation (cap-
AIM and Walker, forwards.
Second game, Males VS.. Y. M. C. A
Males: Belser, goal; McGil and
GunbOat" Greig, fullbaeks; Davis,
2enter( captain) and Andrews, half
Jacks; F, Bailey, Henry ChillingwOrth,
Anderson, H. Bailey and Dwight, for
Yards. Y. NJ. c. A: Richard, goal;
swift and Dickinson, halfbacks; Mae
onnel, J. C. Anderson and Dickson,
]. A. Maeaulay, Brown, J.
Gacaulay, Mckinley and Block, for
Yards.