Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-22

the fourth knockin Arthur Rice stop
ped the ball with a clever bankhlnd-
er. which sent it rolling slowly
through the goal.
A Wild Rally.
The close OF this seventh period saw
the widest play of the game There
were several minutes OF play remain
ing after the Baldwin-Castle score.
and Oahu drove the ball to the upper
end Of the field. and made desperate
effort to score through the mauka
goal, which would have tied the score
and given the locals the down-hill ad-
Vantage for the next count. Four
separate and distinct times the ball
lowered between the posts. but each
time Frank Baldwin, or Collins, or
Harold Rice, or Fleming, made a des-
perate save, and sent IL out of danger
would, the blue players couldn't get
that much-needed goal. and after the
bell rang the ball went out of play a
few feet to one side Of the pillars.
Here the Oahu supporters almost
gave up hope. That had been the
great chance to even matters and
start off the final period with the al
vantage, they argued, and it was too
much to expect the team to continue
pressing the fight in mauka territory.
E.ut Oahu had the encouragement of
pulling down hopeless lead, which
Maui was suffering the moral handi-
cap of seeing sure victory snatched
away, and tina telement told in tue
final stages OF the struggle.
Maui Dangerous.
Maui opened with rush, and car
ried the ball down the field for what
would almost certainly have been the
winning goal, but time and again the
Oahuans made miraculous save. and
finally they worked the ball back to
the upper end, and started to make
things hot for the visitors. Sam Bald
win finally lined out shot for goal.
and Harold Castle, riding neck and
neck with a Maui man, gave it the
last touch needed to help it over the
line.
The score was tied, but four min
utes remained to play, and Oahu was
hitting down.
And in the last minutes of this red
hot game, Maui nearly turned the
trick by scoring a deciding shot
through the difficult goal.
Men and mounts were going for all
that was in them, and again Maui
seemed the stronger. But Walter Dill
bingham had little in reserve and
catching the ball on his stick as it
was perilously near to goal, he laced
it over to the Eva boards, and had
it three-quarters of the way down the
field when the gong sounded the end
of the last period.
Heaving ponies and exhausted men
came off the field to prepare for the
extra period of play that would de-
termine the winner. The luck was
with Oahu, for, although the rules
say that in case of a tie the ball is
thrown in at the center of the field,
there is no change of goal, and, on a
sloping field like Maunalua, the locals
knocking with the slope of the ground
and the wind, had a big edge on the
situation.
The Deciding Safety.
Lieutenant Naylor, hoping most
earnestly that he would not be COM
PEELED to call foul and thereby end
the game in an unsatisfactory way,
bcwled the willow between the ponies
legs. Walter Dillingham; caught it,
and sent it on its way toward the
Maui posts. 1t was. the last ditch for
the Valley Islanders, and they knew
it, and fought accordingly. Three
times a score seemed certain, and
three times Oahu missed by narrow
margins
The fourth time, instead of scamp
ering to their positions for the knock
in, the players crowded together.
What's the matter?" WAS it a
foul?'' Anyone hurt?", A volley of
excited questions was fred by the
spectators.
And then came the explanation.
David Fleming had hit safety, sub
tracing one-quarter of a goal from
the Maui score, and ending the game.
OF course, it wasn't an intentional
safety. He had seen what he thought
was a certain goal coming and had
tried to defect it from the posts, but
the Ddu ndu gone Ou HIS oGlCh dG OH
angle, and had crossed the line. After.
three minutes play in the extra
period, the game was over, and Oahu.
had secured one leg on the cup.
Maui Faster at First.
The game up to half time saw Maui
playing rings around Oahu. The
local team didn't seem able to get
going, and appeared TO he suffering
from nad attack of staoe fright.
Frank Baldwin, the mosi dangerous
hitter on the Maui team, was left
practically el0ne, to get off with spec
tacular runs and marvellous siTts that
kept the bali perilously near me blue
goal Walter Dillingham;, usually the
coolest and most reliable of players,
was missing easy backhandcls, and
wasn't paying anywhere near to form.
Arthur Rice was badly off, and Harold
Castle seemed to be having all sort of
trouble with his mounts, WHICH kept
him out of the game a 5cId part of
the time.
AL the more ,Irc,Iir then. for the