The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-23

Oahu Did Well and the
Score Was Very
Close.

without a struggle, Oahu polo players
went down TO defeat in the second
game of the series at Eben Low S am
phitheater grounds yesterday after
noon bv the close score of PA to 2.
Different from the first game of this
series. when the Kauai lads took the
bit in their teeth and literally ran
away with the game, Oahu was there
with all the goods yesterday afternoon.
There WASH t a minute of the classy
exhibition that they were not up on
the ball, and. by the way, the kind of
teamwork shown by both aggregations
was such as TO put the sport on high
standard in the islands. It was not
case of each man being a star, though
it must be SAID that j. Malina Of
Kauai had them all about faded when
it came to playing a way-up individual
game, but it was the manner of stick
ing together, of each man playing MS
opponent and at the same time keep
ing his weathereye on the little white
spheroid that won the small crowd OF
enthusiasts who attended the game.
Fred angus played cracking good
game at rushing the ball, and, indeed,
it fell to him TO give the Oahu polo
lists their best chances at scoring. He
is excellent on long strokes, and has
the happy faculty of being able to cut
into bunehed-up mass of horses and
men and wing the ball far enough to
one side to swing with his full arm.
Fleming made a great showing on a
great lItrie pony, MalIet. This bit of
bay horsefesh was undoubtedly the
fastest animal on the field, and the way
Fleming put him through PAGES when
after the ball or erowding an opponent
to one sue was caution.
On the whole, it seemed as If 0ahu
had the edge on Kauai in point OF
horses. This was evident particularly
after each close scramble when the ball
was shot out from under the feet of
i've or six ponies. 4 race invariably
ensued. and il was seldom that Oahu
came out second best.
Kauai has teamwork aggregation.
In this essential part of the game they
showed their steadier practise, each
man knowing exactly what to do be-
fore the ball bounded out. All in all,
Kauai out-played the local horsemen,
but this was almost made up by the
bulldog fight made by the latter.
The game started off with a rush.
swift dash, a couple of splendid
strokes, and it seemed as if Kauai was
going TO do the walk-over stunt even
as they had in the previous game.
Back again came the bali within a very
few moments, however. and Oahu sup
porters in the grandstand had their
little shout coming. 1t came - but
alas and alack! quickly died away into
a moan Of dismay when the Rice duo
doubled together, and, passing the ball
back and forth down the stretch. tore
of the first small chunk of scoring
Kauai. /: Oahu. 0.
Nothing more was doing in this can
TO, or. quarter, as it is in polo. The
ball vacillated back and forth the field
until Clifford Kimball, timekeeper,
footed the little whistle.
The second quarter duplicated she
first IN the opening stages. Kauai
scored, after Fleming had been fouled.
This latter caused the loss of half a
point TO the boys in the pink shirts.
But they were still IN the lead. Angus
and Malina had a little game all TO
their lonesome great part of this
quarter; long strokes, cross -hand
swings and short, swift dashes being
the real dope for their style of play
ing and the fast animals they were
riding. Angus waved his magic club
and started things going for Oahu in
a manner that boded Ill for Sister Kau-
al when he shot the pasty looking ball
and followed 1t up IN dangerous terri
tory. A sure arm and he would have
scored, but Malina and the Indian sign
worked a double combination that he
eouldn t overcome, and the ball took
a trip to the skies, alighting IN the
center Of the field whence Dole quickly
shot it between the two posts. This
landed the Garden Island team IL
points to the good, their foul costing
them half q point.
Walter Dillingham; started things
again IN the beginning of the third
quarter. His horse followed the ball
with keen scent, and notwithstanding
the crowding of the Riees, working him
from two sides, he had the ball near
the objective point within a very few
minutes after play had been resumed !
This was doomed not TO count anything
for the locals, however, for that bad
actor MalIna seemed TO own the eagle
eye and the sure hand when it came
to purloining from the very teeth of
the enemy. Fleming captured the lit. /
tie speck on the ground, and with two
swings, the best of the
game, had the spheroid down the length
Of the field. This was where Oahu lost
the game. 4 trif1e more to the left,
and Fleming would have been pro- +
claimed the absolute candy kid Of the
game, but his hasty shot, forced BY /
the oneoming Of Dole, missed the inner /
side of the pole b. not more than three