The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-17
WHITE KNIGHTS
!. BADLY BEATEN
(Frdm Sundays Advertiser.)
Oahu 10 goals. Fifth Cavalry 1'goal.
Oahu fined lla point for a foul.
Fifth Cavalry fined l point for 4


Oahu 10 goals. Fifth Cavalry goal.
Oahu fined ia point for a foul.
Fifth Cavalry fined l point for 4
safeties.
Official score-oahu 12; Fifth Cav
airy o.
Team work and hard hitting against
mere courageous riding and punched
work brought a. easy victory for the
Oahu polo team over the Fifth Caval-
nv four at Moanalua yesterday after
noon. The official score states that
the local team won by u TO 0. The
winners scored thirteen goals and the
losers one goal. Four times the White
Knights prevented goal by sending
the ball over their own goal line. Each
time they We're locked e-quarter of
point, this reduced their score to
nil. Once, in the third period, the
Oahu players committed a technical
foul and this set them back one-half
of point, making their score IL IL
instead of 10.
1t was a case of careful team work
against intense enthusiasm and cour-
age. whenever the Oahu team got
away with one man in the lead, the
other players were strung out behind
him in line SO that if number one
missed the ball, there was somebody
behind him to take it, and, if the sec
ond man missed, number four would
be there to carry it along. Unfortu-
nately for them, whenever the White
knights did get away, they were
punched together and, try as they
I might, they could not pass the wonder
. full backhanded defense of Walter
Dillingham; and John Fleming.
The one goal scored by the losers
was magnificent piece of dash per
formed by Forsythe and HanDon. For.
sythe got away with the ball as it
was thrown in for the opening of the
! third period and he yelled to Hanson
. to clear and get ahead.
Hanson spurred out in the lead and
s as soon as Forsythe was threatened, he
passed on to his fellow player and
Hanson, with two clear hits biffed the
ball through the goal. Then did the
military part of the sidelines go up
in the air and cheer to the great dis.
( comfiture of the Welkin.
There were several remarkable plays
, during the game. John Fleming
/ brought down the house by catching
his own ball on the fly. They were
/ playing with light balls and some OF
the harder swings sent the pillule look
I ing for the moon. John got away to q
clear field and snapped off snoopel
that sent the ball winging. He kept
going and, with swing of his club
7 caught the bali before it hit the ground
and sent it on towards the goal. One
/ more swing and he had scored.
/, When the spectators began to ar
y rive at the grounds, shortly before
clock, it was raining quite hard and
! it looked as though it would be wei
afternoon but, before the game start
! ed, the clouds had cleared away ant
h there. was bright sunshine for the en-
tire game.
|, Lieutenant Stewart of the Fiftl
/ Cavalry was. chosen to act as referee
I and the game started shortly after thu
/ time set. The mauka sideline was dec
I grated with what looked like all thu
+ autos in town. Behind and abov'
( there were hundreds of rigs, people
/ on horseback and large number o.
pedestrians who had walked out from
L the end of the Kalihi carline.