The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-09


comparatively but few, there is a
great deal of interest conferred in the |
league competition which is now be-
ing played, for a more interesting SIT /
uation it would be hard % imagine.
Here are four teams bat ling for SUI
premacy and although eight matches
out of the dozen arranged have been
played only two points separate the
leaders from the lowest Oh the list,
and it is quite on the cards that the
team which is now at the tail-end of
the table will be level with the others
before the season ends.
As a result of the play on Saturday
when the Punahous beat the Iron
Works and deposed that team from
the premier position, and the High
School beat the Males, the table has
undergone complete change. From
first place the Iron Works team drop
ped to second, tie with the High
School, which was last before the
matches of Saturday; the Punahou
team is now on top instead of second
and the Male team is at the foot of
the table. Yet the teams may be all
together again after next Saturdays
play, for all that is necessary to put
the four teams on the same mark is
that the Males beat the Punahous
and the High School and Iron Works
play a draw. When the Males and
| Punahous met before the result was
win for Punahou and it is probable
that this result will be repeated next
Saturday, for the Punahous are play
ing a better game than the Males just
at present, having only lost one match
to date The High School lost to the
Iron Works when they met in Deem
Der, but since that time the High
| School players have made great
strides and are shaping better than
any team in the league, while the
Iron Works, after couple of fine
games, made poor showing on Satur-
day against Punahou.
Though four matches still remain
to be player the writer inclines to the
opinion that the competition cham
pionship rests between the Punahous
and the High School and will hinge
on the match played between these
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teams are still in the running. Should
the Males win next Saturday and the
High School and Iron Works play a
draw it will mean that the winners on
the following Saturdays matches will
have to play off for the championship.
The situation is extremely interest
ing and the keenness which has been
infused into the games is having the
effect of drawing greater crowds of
spectators.
On Saturday there was a good at
tendance, the best of the season, and
next Saturday there should be even
more. Both the matches played on
Saturday were interesting, but that
between the Males and the High
School attracted by far the most at
tention and worked the spectators up
to enthusiasm. The play was fol-
lowed with interest by the spectators
who occasionally voiced their disap-
prevail of several of the referees rul'
ings. But that is to be expected, for
decisions as to off-side and other
breaches of the rules depend largely
on the point of view and it often hap
pens that some of the spectators can
see better than the referee, and, OF
, course, just as often vice versa.
The only score in the game between
the Iron Works and Punahou was
scored within a few minutes of the
opening, a long shot. by Bob Cation
from well on the right of goal beat
ing the custodian. The goal came as
a surprise, so well executed was the
movement which led up to it, Glib
passing in to Cation and the latter
shooting without a moments hesita-
ton. The goal keeper was in the
near corner of the goal but the ball
shot by him and into the opposite cor
ner. This success put the Punahous
on good terms with themselves and
they played up well thence EDWARDS,
though many opportunities of increas-
ing the score were afterwards missed.
The outside left threw away many
good openings by trying long shot in
stead of centering the ball, as he
should do. The inside men and the
center forward are there to put the
ball into the net after the outside
men have drawn the defense away,
and it is seldom that long shots from
the wing score, thought occasionally
. they do.
The Iron Works men were not SC