The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-19
sE.,.;2l SPORTS.....,::Ail - z
EXCELLENT FOOTBALL SEEN
BY ONLY VERY SMALL CROWD
cFrom Sundays AdvOrtiser.)
Town Team. o; High School, 0.

Town Team, o; High School, 0.
For the first ten minutes it was fast
and clever football that was played be.
tween the town team and ,he High
School at the league grounds Yesterday
afternoon. The balance of the play
was good, but the team dwindled tribe
in the gauge and the play was slower
later on.
But II was good. honest football all
the way through and there were enough
exciting moments to have enthused
very much larger crowd than turned
out to see the first game of American
football, in which alumni or town play
ers took part for three years.
A few of the players were very bril-
liant. All of them played the game
for all it was worth and did their ut
most. The man who did the most bril-
liant PLAYING, and this without any
lapse at any time, was undoubtedly
Sing Hoon. of the High School team
His tackling was great and the way he
caught the forward passes and then
lodged on ahead with the ball for con-
siderable gains was more than worth
going out to the game to see.
The ball was only once dangerously
near either goal line, except when IT
was punted over or dropped over in
attempts at goal kicking from the field.
This was in the first half when the
town team forced the High players
right back to their own goal and were
stopped from scoring only by clever de-
tense and a final long punt by Henry
Chillingworth. after the school had
gained possession.
Townies' Skin Tackle Play.
The Townies made most Of their gains
with a play between left tackle and
end. 1t was not exactly skin tackle
play nor was it cross buck. Both
Clark and Dave Sherwood were very
successful in this during the first half.
One or other of them would take the
ball and make as though for skin
tackle, then would swerve outside OF
tackle and get through somehow. One
might call it a skin tackle buck.
In the second half, when Plunkett
took Clark's place at right half, the
same play was tried without quite SO
much success. Plunkett was there like
shot from gun but it might be sug
gested that he would have done better
with straighter bucks. When "Irish'
did get a start at the line, however
he invariably made big gains.
Crowds on the Line.
The management of the grounds wa
MT Inv anv means something to pratt,
about The crowd was small and ther,
wass NIL kinds of room on the bleacher
and benches. but people were allowed
70 crowd along the sidelines so tina
those who were content to stay on TIL
benches could not see anything. Thi
made it necessary for the ladies es
corts to conduct their fair charges t.
the lines and soon everybody wa
standing on the edge of the grldlron'
1t did not matter so much with
small and orderly crowd but, IN tn
coming interscholastic games when
huge crowd may be expected. the side
lines must be kept clear or else caus
a great deal of dissatisfaction anon
those spectators who stay IN their seat'
The Game Starts.
Rv four clock the teams were line
nm ready for the kickoff. Benny Clar
was referee, Sergeant Corey, umpire
johnny Marcallno was head linesma
and Bob McCorriston and Bill Dixon hi
Dave sherwood was doWheu on =,