The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-19
FAST SOCCER
GAMES TODAY
Punah0u VS.. Male and Young
Men VS.. Diamond Head Is
Schedule.

The soccer situation remains as in
teresting as ever with prospects of some
keen excitement this afternoon. The
Punahous will play the Males in the
first game and the Diamond Heads will
try conclusion with the Y. M. C. A.,
the present league headers.
The recorder of events took some
good -natured joshing last week because
he insisted on boosting the Punahous
to give the Y. NJ. C. A. hard rub.
As a matter of fact they were bound
to do it in the natural course of events
and the correctness of the Advertiser s
forecast was not due to guess but to
simply seeing what was apparent.
The Punahous clearly showed that
they had the material and all they
needed was enthusiasm. A study of
the personnel of the team showed that
said enthusiasm was bound to crop out
sooner or later and crop out it did just
when it was needed.
Just as naturally then it follows that
they will give the Males a run for
their money today. They have had
taste, just a taste, of success and
now they want some more. They have
found out what they can do when they
s., try and they are sure going to try
again today.
They will have a harder game than
they did last Saturday because the Ma
lie backs will not make the mistake
OF the Young Men and be too confident.
The red halves trailed too closely on
their forward line in order to keep
| them fed so that, when the Mon Yin
J and Jock Cation combination did break
away, there was nobody to stop them.
The Diamond Heads ought to be able
to do something with the red shirts.
| The latter will be in more or less of q
crippled condition. John Macaulay is
unfortunately suffering from a sprained
| wrist which will keep him out of the
game for some time to come and Walter
Scott, the new center forward to take
! Tom Black IS place, viii be unable to
leave business in time to get out for
the game.
The red forward line will probably
be Blackman, the Aliiolani enthusiast
who put up mighty fast game last
Saturday in spite of having served half
an hour during the morning as three
quarter in Rugby game, at outside
right; next to him Broderick and prob
ably Arthur Robbins at center Brown,
he of the swift and certain dribble,
will take inside left and Macconel, the
captain, will be on the left wing.
This is formidable array for the
sparklers to do business with but they |
need only confidence and harder run
ming at the ball by their halfbacks to |
break up any line that threatens them. |
Of those who have learned the game |
in Honolulu. indeed one might almost |
say of all the players, the two Chill
lingworths, Henry and Bob. seem to |
have the halfback stunt down to the !
finest point When either of these two !
goes for the ball he does so with ex.
press train speed and the consequence
is that he always clears way down the
field.
There is hard struggle on and both
games will be of the high up and hum.
ming variety. Here is a case where
every friend of players in the Diamond
Head and Punahou teams should turn
out to root their heads off for the
players in the tailend teams. A little
encouragement of that kind will do lots
of good, it will buck up those who are
being encouraged and make their op.
ponents buck up equally to keep pace
with them.
Nobody who has watched the recent
soccer games can disagree with the Ad-
vertiser's statement that they have
been thoroughly interesting to watch
and highly exciting at times. This
grand sport might be better patronized
and all the soecerites hope to see a bet
ter appreciation of their strenuous :
efforts TO put up rafting good exhibit
ton of the game