The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-08-18
PERFECT POLO PLAYED
IN SPITE OF WET GROUND

Seventeen to s ga. That was the
score by which the Maui polo players
defeated their visitors from Oahu last
Thursday. The officials announced that
the visitors had made n safety at the
end of the last period which took one.
quarter of point from their score,
after the message had already been
sent to the Advertiser and too late for
correction, as the wireless office had
closed.
1t sounds like an awful beating, and
yet, without being guilty of mere ex.
cuse-making, it may truly be said that
the score gives no idea of the great
game put up by the Honolulu players
With the ground soaked by the driv.
ing rain, saddles slippery and clubs that
slid off the greasy ball, it is wonder
how the ponies kept their feet and
the riders their seats. But every one
of those players was horseman, and
the ponies, with the marvellous instinct
of their kind, realized the danger of
the slippery ground and, even in the
excitement of the game, stopped, turn
ed and started off again thousand
times without one of them falling.
1t was polo-real, live, hard and
courageous polo. The kind you read
of in novels about India, where the
hero, ga Whitehead centaur, swept
swiftly down the field, while ever be.
fore him the flying spot of white
driven bv unerring strokes of his cir
cling club. sped onward to the goal.
But in this game they were all play.
ers of that heroic description and, while
courage and GOODNESS were dominant
characteristics of all the players, it
was the Maui men who had the practise
and team work necessary to give the
one touch of superiority.
AS matter of fact il was not so
much team work that won the game as
individual practise. The Maui players
were sure in their hitting and the Ga.
huans were not sure. Many and many
time Single or Castle would break
away with the ball and seemed sure
for run down the field and score
while their team mates were doing as
fine riding off work as was ever seer
on a polo field, but the run would
nearly always end in disastrous foozle
and the ball would go back into Oahu
territory.
FOUR BALDWINS ON FIELD.
One of the most interested of the
spectators was II. P. Baldwin. He had
good reason to be interested for he
had four sons on the field. Two were
playing for Maui, one was playing FOL
Oahu and another was umpiriDg the
game.
David Fleming, surnamed 1.-THE De
mon' for Polo purposes, was playing
number Four so that, although he die
some scoring on his own account, the
brunt of this work was left to Number
One and Two, Sam Baldwin and Krum
bhaar. Frank Baldwin at Three played
a magnificent foliow-up game and MOI
only took good care of Single, but
kept behind in the rushes and sent the
ball forward again with hard swing
in several cases when Krumbaah oil
Sam had missed their stroke.
Harold Castle played very note
worthy game. Will Baldwin was TAX
ing good care of Fleming and doine
excellent riding off and this gave Castle
many opportunities of which he tool
advantage, only to be stopped by miss
ing the ball when he was right in from
of the enemies goal.
A'hlHEi' was ti'iSg NtioOhihNu. iNol
once did he do the White Knight act
but kept his seat and turned and twist
ed his pony with never firing energy
through the ruck of the mix-ups OniJ
once was there chance to look fol
X X X X X X x X X X X X 4 x X * x
Peters the home plate.
Merv Shafer famed but Brodericl
singled at the right time and botf
Byrnes and Peters. who was running
for Kennedy, ran in. This made thu
score . to 0 and the game finished will
the score on the same notch.
If En- Sue had been given safe or
second in the ninth it is quite posi-
BILE that there might have been som,
aeronautics, for the All-Hawaiis cam,
up with n rush and seemed Just righ'
to make several runs. But En- Sue 4
disposition from his right place put the
kibosh on any scoring and the game
was over in another two minutes.
The detailed score was:
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