The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-07
HIGH SCHOOL AND PINAHOU
SECOND TEAMS PLAY DRAW
Neither Team Is Able to Score in Thirty.FNe
Minutes of Hard PIayng---Team
Work Is Admirable.


and he responded nobly. Some of his
runs were distinctly good, both in
speed and Tending off. His catch at
the end of the game from a forward
pass and the run that followed made
very clever combination.
Marcallino IS punting, for the High
School, was very good. He gagged
the wind to nicely and made proper
allowance in every case. He seemed
to be in no very good trim, however,
and few miles of country work
would do his wind no harm.
To commend and criticize thorough
ly one might SO through the whole list
and find some point in their play to
appreciate. But, outside of individual
excellence, there was that good team
work on both. sides that made me won
der at the fine work the coaches and
players must have been doing during
the last few weeks.
Sidelines Unsportsmanlike
There is one thing to be criticized,
and that not because I myself hap
pened to notice it, but because it was
so blatant that it would force itself
on the notice of any outsider. That
was the deplorable tendency of the
partisans of either team to impute evil
motives and unsportsmanlike conduct
to the other side. In this respect the
High School rooters were the worst
offenders.
This spirit can not be too severely
deprecated. 1t hurts the game, it
hurts the players, it hurts the i'm
puters themselves, and, above all, it
hurts the Islands, When two teams
get out on the field to play the Anglo
Saxon game of football, they are there
to have jolly good tussle and trial
of strength and nerve in the open air.
Each side is anxious, very anxious, to
win. But the game is one of sport,
not of winning at any cost. Those
who play the game know this and they
act accordingly. The stirring up of
any adverse sentiment cor any talk
about unsportsmanlike work is detest-
able and caddish.
The minute football begins to stir
up evil feelings it loses all benef-
cence. The great beauty of the game
is that it teaches players to be sports
men; to take no mean advantage, to
keep cool when excitement and phys
ical pain are urging the brain to wild
action-and the man who can keep
cool under these circumstances has
learned a lesson that viii last him
through life. The part of man or
boy who stands on the sidelines and
tries to stir up i'll feeling by such re-
marks as were heard yesterday after
noon is the part of one who will never
he a sportsman.
Recommendations to "Kill them
are not exactly sportsmanlike, if fair
ly venial on account of excitement.
But imputations that Charlie Lyman,
for instance, would favor his own side
when acting as referee are all the
more wicked for being so absurdiy
false.
Story of the Game.
There was little waiting around be
fore the two sides lined out on the
field and the spectators were ordered
back of the sidelines, where, under the
excellent policing of the Punahou boys,
they stayed. Henry Chillingworth and
Watson Ballentyne took the tape,
Charlie Lyman the whistle, and Bill |
Rice acted as referee.
The High School kicked off and Nor
ton made ten yards before he was
lowned Punahou made a couple of |
gains and then signaled for a forward |
pass, but the ball was fumbled and |
the High School again took posses
sion.
For the next few minutes the bali |
STAYED in Oahu territory, and down
followed down. with the ball changing |
ownership constantly. Both sides
we're using bucking tactics, with a few
forward passes, but no appreciable
gain was made by either team.
Then Punahou found half way with
, good punt and the school catcher
vas downed right on the line. Glib
cost his side five yards here by being
,fside and this seemed to give the
chool encouragement, for they ear
ned the ball as far as the Punahou
wenty-fve-y yard line after two losses.
Then followed another succession of
lard bucks by both sides. The High
school had the better of the argu-
nent and gradually closed down on
he Punahou line until it looked as
hough they would score. But White
feared with a-elean punt and Rosa
vas downed before he could make
much headwav on the return.
This took the ball into High School
erritory, but they had possession and
hey soon made inroads into Oahu !