Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-19
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While ii is gratifying TO learn that
the Hawaii polo team captured the
Junior polo championship at Coronado
yesterday. the win was 10 be expected.
and IL would have been a big surprise
TO followers of the game here had the
news of a defeat in the finals been
flashed. Hawaii had out and out the
class of the tournament, and in fact,
has the edge on any 12-goal team in
DE country. that handicap being the
maximum for junior competition.
IL would be hard to find combina-
tion averaging three goals per man
that would have show against the
Hawaii players. Pasadena was an
easy mark, the score, as reported in
the Star-Bulletin yesterday afternoon,
being 16 to Az,
The play of the locals on California
fields has shown that the players are
much under handicapped. When a
team eau meet with hard luck, suffer
accident 10 player, and then hold a
20=goal team like Coronado TO a DIFF
ference OF half point, that team is
certainly good for more than IL goals,
the handicap Of the All-Hawaii COM
pination.
The reason that the locals got off
with such light handicaps Ii that the
committee which did the handicap
ping had nothing TO go by In determ-
lining the degree of skill of the men.
Heretofore the ratings have only been
local, and when 1t came To fastening
Polo Association ratings on the Ha-
swaiians, the committee had to 40
keDme guessing.
So many visitors hailing from the
region of Burlingame and San MateoI
have patronized the play at Moanalua,
giving the impression that the article
eanded out on the coast was far SUI
Berior, that the local committee has
plenty of excuse for fixing the handi-
caps of Dillingham;, Frank Baldwin
and Castle al 3 goals, and that of Ar
, thur Rice and>Sam Baldwin at 2. Then
again, the handicap committee for
Hawaii was composed OF Charles Rice,
Frank Baldwin and Walter Dilling
ham, and il is hardly to be expected
that the two players last mentioned
would care to run the chance of overs
estimating their own skill, for the
possible amusement OF the coasters.
It is pretty certain, however, that
next year Castle, Dillingham; and +.
+. Baldwin win be about 5 goal men,
with Arthus Rice possibly one point
behind.
The preliminary games to decide
the personnel OF the polo team to play
the invaders from England for the In
ternational championship will be pull
ed off on the private grounds on
George Gould, at Lakewood, conf
'mencing April I. Three games will
be contested each week until the /
middle OF May. when the SCENE of ac-d
ton viii switch TO Long Island. The
meeting with the English team will
take place In June. As might be ex-
pected this is not free-for-all compe
tition, such as was neld when the
United States team was selected for
the Olympic games. The polo associ-
alton has taken pains to inform the
public that invitations have been sent
cut to those who will compete for
places on the team. The list is as
follows: Deyereaux Milfburn, Law
renee Waterbury, J. M. Waterbury, l..
L. Stoddard, Malcolm Stevenson, G.
C. Rumsey, j. 5. Phipps. n. c. Phipps,
r. Agassiz, Joshua Crane, p. f.
Renne, b. w. Harrison and X. L. Mon |
Vague. This list is sufficient to salts |
~ the most critical that the team will
conform strictly to the idea of anna /
teur sport for those who do not have
to work for living.