The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-10
VETERAN Gypsy
IS HERE To PLAY
Maui Team Has Finest Bunch OF
Polo Ponies Ever Seen in
Honolulu.

Early this morning, soon after sun
up. the Maui polo ponies will be hack
ed up from Moanalua to Leilehua.
Without exaggeration it may be said
that this is the finest squad of ponies
ever seen on this Island. There are
new ones. veterans and Intermediates
that are just as good as anything here.
Amongst the bunch of twenty ponies
that are here for the service OF the
Maui players there are several that are
well known. There is Gypsy, the black
mare that is said to be the headiest
pony that ever played the game. David
Fleming rides her and, when you have
watched the two play the game, you
wonder who knows more about it.,
David or Gypsy. The more is that
much-taIked of but seldom seen
wonder, reinless polo pony.
Harold Rice's Queen will appear IN
her ninth polo season here. She is a
buckskin mare and as reliable pony
as anybody could wish for. She loves
the game and plays it for all she is
worth, with head, with feet and with
quick response to her riders CALL
Hawaii the Prettiest.
But perhaps the best looking pony
that will be seen ON the field is Frank
Baldwin IS Hawaii. A bay gelding bred
on Kauai by Charlie Rice and broken
to the game almost from his first year.
Clean limbed, narrow shouldered, with
a splendid poise of head, this little
| animal is one to draw the eye of a
| horseman anywhere.
With a few "pis aller' exceptions.
| the ponies that will be used by the
| different players on the Maui team
| are as follows:
Frank Baldwin-Hawaii, bay geld
| ing; Koloa, grey mare; Beeswings
| black mare; Forty-two, brown gelding
Harry Baldwin-Strawberry, roar
mare; Prospect, roam gelding; Genera
Bumps (Ye Veteran). roam gelding, anG
| a. black mare from Kauai.
Harold Rice-Dandy, grey geidlng
| Reindeer, bay gelding; Wailele, chest
nut gelding; Mice, roam gelding; Ny
| nah Bird, blue roam mare; Kolea, ba.
gelding.
David Fleming-Gipsy, black mare
| Manu-, brown mare; Venus, bay mare
Clara H., bay mare.
Yesterday morning the Maui team
went out to Moanalua and had scratch
practice They all seemed in excellen
form, men and ponies alike, and oil
man Confidence has mortgage on tn
Maui team that could not be bought a
a thousand per cent.
An Invitation Ball.
There will be an invitation polo bal
at the Moana Hotel next Wednesda
night after the Oahu-M game. TIL
| dance will commence at 9 clock an
promises to be one of the SWEETEST al
fairs brought off in Honolulu. All tn
monde with big "M' will be there
not to mention his wife and prett
daughters
The Maui team does not look upo
SATURDAYS game as anything yer
easy. They expect to win, they al
confident that they will win but the
realize than they are up against head
and courageous riders and men WI
will plav the game from start to fnisl
A victory for the White knight
J might be a surprise but not so niue
of one as people might think fro
the results of the recent games. On
must remember that the Fifth Caviar
team made it awful hard for Oahu
one game at Leilehua and have bee
| practising hard ever since. 1t is tru
that they have lost two of their pla,
ers since the last game but the law {
compensation says that no matter no
y GOOD man goes away there is alwa,
lust as good a one to take his plae
Therefore we may expect to see IL
White Knights make it hard for ii
| Mauinese.