Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-29
POLO SEASON
TOOPEN HERE'
BY next week
Three Color Teams Will Play
at MoanaIua-Tournament
Planned for September
By LAURENCE REDINGTON


cato music Of stick on ball, with
the running accompaniment OF
hoofbeats on the springy turf,
will again be heard at Moana-
lna. Ponies are now being con
ditioned, and players are over
hauling their gear, and prob
ably on next Wednesday, June
5, the first practice game of the
year will be played.
Polo men held a meeting re-
Gently, and talked over plans
for the spring and summer
matches. In spite of the fact
that five of the best players in
the Islands were campaigning
in California for two months
last winter, they showed no
slackening of interest, and are
ready to play through the reg
ular Oahu season. The only
absentee this year will be Wal
ter +. Dillingham;, captain OF
the All-Hawaii aggregation,
who has sold all his schooled
ponies to other members of the
team, and who will devote his
time to working with new
mounts, in order to develop ma
terial for the next polo pilgrim
age to the mainland. He may
also have to make a business
trip to the Coast in the near fu-
ture, and did not care to identi-
fy himself with any of the color
teams, and then have to disrupt
the organization by withdraw
ing.
This year there will be three color
teams in the field, as nearly equal In
strength as the division of players can
make them, and games will be played
twice a week. Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoons. The matches will
not be cut-in affairs, but will be play
ed out between the two teams sched-
uled to appear, although the playing
time will be considerably cut in prac-
tice matches, probably only four per-
iods being played in order that the
men with only a pair of ponies may
figure. The cooperative stabling
plan which worked out SO well in the
past viii again be adopted, and al.
ready Peter Hanon, the veteran train
err whose fine work with the string
was largely responsible for the All
Hawaii teams success on the coast is
established at Moanalua. The ponies
which made the California trip were
cut to pasture as soon as they re
turned, but they have now been
brought up. and show no i'll effects
from the hard play of the mainland
season.
Three Teams.
Three teams, Blues, Greens and
whites, have been formed, each team
having five men on the list, so that
there will always be the makings o.
a four. The division of players is as
follows:
Elues-R. w. Single, Walter Mac
farlane, Guy MacfarIane. Robert Nc
Corriston and III. G. Smart.
Greens-Harold Castle, Henry Da
mon, Lieutenant F. NJ Andrews, Ro
bert w. Atkinson and A. Magoon.
Whites-S. M. Baldwin, Arthur
Rice. Lieutenant B. r. Peyton, Free
Wichman and "Haole" Sumner.
Smart, Wichman and Magoon ar,
recent converts to the game. ant
this will be their first season on tn,
local field. Lieutenant Peytbn playe,
the game at Schofield Barracks, wheI
attached to the LIST field artillery Tn
other players were all seen in tn
saddle last season. and can be COUNTIES
this year for some hard-riding enthus
iasm.
The captains Of the three teams
who have not yet been chosen, wi
form board of managers to arrang
a schedule of matches, and decid
ether points connected with tn
games.
Tournament in September.
Next September it is planned
hold tournament between the tire
teams for the championship of tn
season, and in the event of MAJ
sending polo team to compete,
picked Oahu team will defend tn
title won last year. The 4th cavalr,
stationed at Schofield Barracks. wi
he asked to put a team in the ffel
for this tournament.
There will be more interest show
in the off-field department of til
game this year than last, owing to IN
fact that Hanon brought back fro
the coast sixteen green ponies, som
OF them barely broken. and that thes
will have to be schooled and CAREFUL
worked with for some months befol
they will be allowed to play a mate
Walter Dillingham; will devote a GOO
deal of his time to handling the: