The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-12
MAUI SMAMPS
WHITE KNIGHTS
Fifth Cavalry Team Is Easily
Defeated by the Maui
Visitors.
Maui, 1134; Fifth Cavalry, 3.

The cavalrymen were played off their
feet by the Maui bunch in the polo
game at Leilehua yesterday afternoon,
the final score being 114 for the Is
landers 10 for the soldiers. The score,
however, by no means indicates the
interest of the game, which was not
SO one-sided from some standpoints as
might be thought from the result in
figures.
From standpoint of pluck and hard
riding the Maui men had little over
the cavalrymen. But they know the
game better, they have had more prac
tise and they have more and better
ponies-and the latter asset is a hard
one to beat The Maui ponies are fast
and they start quickly. Moreover, they
have staying qualities which are lack
ing in some of the mounts ridden by
the Army men. Several times during
the game one Of the officers got the
ball all to himself with a clear field
and fair start, but was easily over
hauled by the faster ponies of the
Mauinese.
But the cavalrymen can ride; there
is no question about that. Moreover,
they put up a good game, a better
game than they have ever played be-
fore, according to the comments of
those along the sidelines who have seen
them play other matches. They were
up against a hard bunch, and it was
only hard riding and hard playing that
kept the Maui men from pilling up the
score bigger than it was.
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| the Fifth appeared to be a lack of
accuracy They would not hit the ball
| like the Islanders, and the smallness
| of their own score and the large num-
Der Of points piled up by their oppo-
nents was largely due to this deficiency.
| Considering the distance from Homo
| lulu. there was fair sized crowd out
| to see the match. A considerable num-
| Der of automobiles were drawn up
along the sidelines, and the pavilion
| that served as a grandstand was filled
| with those who went out IN the special
| train from Honolulu. In addition to
the visitors there were the soldier boys
| of Leilehua, who were wildly enthu-
siastic every time the cavalry scored a
point or made a daring play and We're
correspondingly depressed when the
Maui team was winning.
six periods of six minutes each were
played, no time being taken out. The
Intervals were of five minutes each
except between the third and fourth
periods, when there was an intermission
of ten minutes.
The Maui team was Harold Rice
Harry Baldwin, Frank Baldwin and
Dave Fleming. The team representing
the Fifth Cavalry was Captain For
svthe. and Lieutenants Barnard, Gron
niger and Stewart. 1t would be really
unfair to make any comment as to who
played the best individual game, fol-
every man did his level best and com
| parsons are lnvidlous.
Maui scored the first goal within one
minute after the ball was put IN play
and chalked up two more points dur
ing the six-minute period, giving hel
| a good lead to start with. In the sec
ond period Maui made one goal and the
| Cavalry one. Maui, however, was OBJ
| liged to take a safety, cutting down
her score q fourth Of a point.
In the third period Maui scored one
goal. the soldiers making nothing.
In the fourth, after the ten-mInute
intermission, Maui made three and the
! Fifth made one. The Cavalry scored
the only goal made in the fifth period
In the sixth. however, the Islanders
| piled up the score, carrying the bal
| between the goal posts of the oppo
nents three times in the six minutes
of play.