The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-08
MAUI POLO|TES
ARRIVE TODAY
White Knight VS.. Maui Game
Next Saturday Will Be
Hard Battle.

The Maui polo team will arrive
some time today on the Claudine
which has been set ahead one day fol-
their benefit. With them Will he
twelve ponies Of the Maui variety
and that means, without exaggeration
in any line, the very best.
Frank Baldwin is already here and
has been here for some time. Last
Saturday he wandered out to Moana
lua for a trife of badinage with the
ball and was invited to get into the
game with the Oahu players. He die
get into the game and there was 8
very lively practise.
The next game in the lnterlsiand
polo series will be between the Maui
nese and the Fifth Cavalry next Sat
urday. Just where the game will be
is not really decided. 1t was SEIZED
uled to be played at Leilehua, but
there is a mighty good chance for ii
to be played at Moanalua.
In the first place it has not been
raining at Leilehua and the field
while level and well looked after, is
dusty. Moanalua was never in bet
ter condition. The bumps have been
scragged, the holes have been filled
and. with the recent pleasant weeps
from old man J. Pluvius to gree the
growing grass, the field is in perfectly
good condltion.
The matter of where the game will
be played will be taken up this after
noon and the definite announcement
made in the papers tomorrow.
The Fifth Cavalry team is minus
two players. Quekemeyer and Han
son have both left for the Coast, the
latter to sign up with the better half
of Hanson This leaves only Forsythe
and Barnard of the original team.
There is Groninger, the great third
base baseball player who plays as
courageous and heady game of polo
as he does baseball; and the fourth
man is not yet decided on.
1t is a great pity that etiquette for
bids the entry of an enlisted man in
the polo team. There are some riders
out there at Leilehua who practise polo
"inter se," just for fun and could
make magnificent team if captained
by well beloved officer.
Forsythe, for example is adored by
the men. They refer to him af-
fectionatelv as "Bill.' One of the
greatest features of polo game in
which the White Knights takes part
is to sit on the side boards and listen
to the remarks of "them there EN-
listed men, FHey there you re-
porter, say, you give Bill a boost.
Say. amt he create Aw, see that?"
as Captain Forsythe gets away with
the ball and makes a grand threaten
on the Oahu line.
This may be telling secrets on the
officers of the Fifth Cavalry, out then
Rudyard Kipling did the same thing,
only worse, long ago and those VIII,
have sense enough to take in the poo
game on Saturday will get their
hest entertainment by slipping ,ise-
lessly along towards where the enlisted
men are sitting and listening to their
remarks. They are very, very wise.
TIE Maui team is an exceptionally
good one. They have fine team work
and good ponies They rnay have a
cinch over the White Knights, but
they must not forget that tvery
change in the Cavalry lineup has been
ar Improvement, barring only the abb
souce of Sheridan. They arc up
against no easy game and the polo
exhibition on Saturday will be some
thing to go and see and talk about
afterwards.