The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-25
SOCCER ONLY
SPORT TODAY
Two Fast and Exciting Games
at League Park This
Afternoon.

The only sporting event of any con
sequence in Honolulu today will be the
big soccer event at the league park al
two clock. The Diamond Heads and
| Punahous will try conclusion the first
game and the Males and Y. NJ G. A
viii see what they can do with each
| other in the second.
! The present standing of the league
shows that the two latter teams are
| tied with five points each while the
! Diamond Heads are second with four
and the Punahous last with two. The
last named team apparently has little
chance of winning the championship OF
the series, which ends on New Year s
|, Day, provided that there is not a tie.
but they have fighting chance to make
tie all round and they are out to
do their very utmost today.
The Males and 7. NJ. G. A. teams
both, started out well by winning their
first games Then the Young Men
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torious Males in the first game the
latter have lost in many years Again
there was another surprise when the
Punahous who had lost two games, one
to the Males and one to the Diamond
Heads, bucked up exceedingly and sue
ceeded in tying with the Y. M. G. A.
who had defeated the Males the week
before.
The third Saturday more vigorous
surprises were on tap, for the great
Males could only tie with the Puma
hous and the Diamond Heads handed
it to the Young Men by the not narrow
margin of to 1.
Today the excitement is so intense
that even Captain Berger cannot keep
away and he has announced his inten-
ton of being there to blow good luck
for the Punahous through every kind
of horn in the band. Not to mention
the big drum which will have a special
function in calling up a hoodoo for all
the other teams. This because the Pu-
nahous are the tailenders and the genial
Kapellmeister s sympathy always goes
to the last in the race.
The Punahous are going to have one
addition that ought to do them whole
lot of good. Bob Cation will be out
to play in the forward line. He and
his brother are a mighty combination
when they get together and, aided by
the fleet Mon Yin, they ought to be
able to hand the sparklers something
with a lemon taste to it.
The Diamond Heads on the other
hand are also there with the big buck
up in several chimes. They came out
with some very strong team combination
last Saturday and made those red
shirts look like they had never played
together before. The latter team was
weakened by the absence of the one
pect to have good one to take his
place today and the Males must not
think they have an easy thing just be-
cause the Young Men took it from the I
Diamond Heads last time.
With the Males and Young Men, |
both in the lead, it looks very much |
as though this would be the deciding |
game of the series. The team that wins |
this game will have seven points to /
their credit and if they do not lose
next week, viii have the championship
I'll ched
There ought to be a large crowd out
o watch these games as they are thor
,ughly well worth watching whether
rou have ever seen the game or not Il
Not to mention the fact that there is
lothing else to do in the sports line.
Every fan who turns out may be sure
hat he win see two fast and exciting
James and get jolly sight more than
lis moneys worth