Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06
Maui The Dark
Horse In
Tourney

Polo, the king of games, will have
| its turn this month, when the Tours of
Oahu, Maui and the Army will meet on
tine picturesque M6anaTds hsids Ana C.
eide the Hawaiian championship for
the year For two months past the
men and ponies that are to take part
in the games have been hard at work.
and the teams that line up for the
annual tournament should be about the
classiest that have ever played the
game in the Islands. -.
The Maui team is the unknown fac
tor this year. That is, the players are
known and some of the ponies are
known. but the combination that makes
first class polo-the accord with which
men and mounts works the x of
the problem Until the Maui four
lines up for its first match game
against Oahu its exact worth as a
goal-scoring and oal-defending ma
chine will be a matter of speculation.
Team play can not be judged on indi-
vidual hitting or scrub practise games;
and the sideboard students will have
no chance to dope Maui until the tour
nament itself.
The play of Oahu. and to a certain
extent the Fifth Cavalry, is pretty well
known. The three practise matches
played between these tams two months
ago. two of which were won by Oahu,
and the other dropped with what was
practically a second team in the field,
AFFORDED some idea of the relative
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that time there has been marked i'm
provement in Oahu's team play, while
the Cavalry has been strengthened by
the return of Captain Forsythe, and
the contest between Millikin and Sher-
idan for the place at No. /.
A Toss Up.
AS it looks now, both of the two last
mentioned have chance to make the
place, and it will be mighty hard
and ticklish matter TO pick and choose
between them. 1t is not unlikely that
both will play, one going in against
Oahu and the other against Maui II
the Cavalry wins its first game. it is
probable that the winning combination
will be kept. intact, as common sense
dictates, but if the first game is
dropped, the change will likely be
made. Hanson will play 2 and For
sythe 3, Doak going to back In the
May series Groninger played back. with
Doak at B., but the sforn1eR is not a
member of the squad now
The Cavalry players are camped at
Moanalua, and it's certain that men
and mounts will get enough practise
In fact, they will live polo for the next
two weeks. and the question is. will
not the players have a little too much
Of the game and its environment be-
fore the actual test comes.
Oahu, on the other hand, is shy on
practise. The men are turning out
twice week, and it would be better
for the team if this were made three
afternoons instead of two. Not hard
games that would take too much out
of the ponies, but light work that would
perfect the combination
Rice Going Fast.
OF the individual players, Arthur
Rice has come on the fastest There
is a marked Improvement in his game
since he played against the Cavalry a
while back. Then he seemed to favor
the risky method of hitting under his
pony's neck toward the sideboards in
stead of backing the ball when his
goal was threatened This strike, while
effective when it is perfectly executed,
is frowned down by every first class