The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-10
VETERAN Gypsy
IS HERE TO PLAY


Early this morning, soon after sun
up, the Maui polo ponies will be hack.
ed up from Moanalua to Leilehua
Without exagperation 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.talked of but seldom seen
wonder, reinless polo pony.
Harold Rice's Queen will appear in
her ninth polo season here. She is
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 Prettest.
But perhaps the best looking pony
that will be seen on the field is Frank
Baldwin s 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
horseman anywhere.
With few "pis aller" exceptions,
the ponies that win be used by the
different players on the Maui team
are rs follows:
Frank Northumberland, bay geld.
ing; Koloa, grey mare; Beeswings,
black mare; Forty-two, brown gelding
Harry Notwithstanding roam
mare; Prospect, roam gelding; General
Bumps (Ye Neteran), roam gelding, and
a black mare from Kauai.
Harold Rice-Dandy, grey gelding;
Reindeer, bay gelding; Wailele, chest
nut gelding; Mice, roam gelding; Ny
nah Bird, blue roam mare; Kolea, bay
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 excellent
form, men and ponies alike, and old
man Confidence has mortgage on the
Maui team that could not be bought at
thousand per cent.
An Invitation Ball.
There will be an invitation polo ball
at the Moana Hotel next Wednesday
night after the Oahu Maui game. The
dance will commence mt o'clock and
promises to be one of the SWEETEST al
fairs brought off in Honolulu. All the
monde with big "M" will be there,
not to mention his wife and pretty
daughters.
The Maui team does not look upon
Saturdays game as anything very
! easy. They expect to win, they are
confident that they will win but they
| realize thN they are up against heady
and courageous riders and men who
will play the game from start to finish
A victory for the White Knights
might be a surprise but not so much
! of n one as people might think from
the results of the recent games. One
must remember that the Fifth Cavalry
team made it awful hard for Oahu in
one game at Leilehua and have been
practising hard ever since 1t is true
that they have lost two of their play
ers since the last game but the law of
compensation says that no matter how
good a man goes away there is always
| Just as good one to take his place.
| Therefore we may expect to see the
White knights make it hard for the
Mauinese.