Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-18
CAVALRY AND S.
MAUI FOURS
!. CLASH NEXT
Valley Islanders Figure to Beat
Soldiers by Easy Margin on
. Handicaps and Horses
By LAURENCE REoINoToN.


The next polo attraction Is schee
duled fer Saturday afternoon. when
the 4th Cavalry team VIII meet Maui
for the right TO play Oahu. in the finals
for the cup. The Valley Island play.
ers are not due here until the morning
Of the match, but their ponies are on
the ground and they are at no special
disadvantage in arriving at the elev-
enth hour.
Maui has a formidable aggregation
IN Arthur Collins, Frank Baldwin. Da.
vId Fleming and Harold Rice, who,
II is announced will line up in the
order named and q week ago this team
was strong fayorite for inter-island
honors. Three victories over Oahu
during the present playing season
seemed to give the Valley Island four
the inside chance, but the Oahu team
as IL stands today is a stronger COM
bination than that which faced Maui
in the first two games Of 1914 and In
the last game played on the latter's
home grounds. David Fleming was
too strange TO the other three to do
himself or the team full Justice. II
was very ragged team work that Oahu
showed in the earlier contests but tho
game against the Field Artillery We'd
nesday indicates that the four men
now wearing the blue and white can
really play polo as team and Oahu
stock has taken boost
Oahu figured to give the Artillery a
10 goal handicap and this same figure
applies to the Maui and Cavalry fours
The horse soldiers total two goals.
while Maui appears on the books Of
the American Polo Association as a
12-goal team. The individual handi-
caps Of the two teams. provided the
Cavalry makes no shift in its lineup,
are as follows:
Maui-Arthur Collins. No. l. 2; F. F.
Baldwin. No 2. 4: David Fleming. No
5, 3: Harold Rice. back, 8; total, IL
goals.
Cayalry-Iiert. S. IA. Cook. No. 4. o:
Lieut.. r. KimbalL No. 2, i: Lieut. G.
X. Lyman, No. 8. 4: Lieut. H. w. Hail.
back. 0: total. goals.
Taking into consideration expert.
enee, individual hitting ability and
horsefesh, the Maui four should be |
able to deliver the goods on handicap
figures. That Is, they should finish 10
goals ahead Of their opponents, al.
though the Cavalry viii certainly
make more than two goals. Allowing
the horse soldiers the same number
or goals earned as the ARTILLERY. they
should run their score UP TO fye.
which would force the Maui men to
score Is to keep up with the handicap
figures. of course these matches are
an scratch affairs In which allow
anees cut no figure. hut STILL for the
sake Of argument. the 10 goal handi-
cap may be taken into consideration
as about representing the difference
N ability between the two teams The
writer has never seen Lieutenant Kim.
bali. the recent acquisition OF the
Cavalry. In action On the polo field,
but he is rated as a one goal man on
the national handicap list and for pur-
poses OF fcrecasting he may be taken |
at this rating.
Maui is very likely to get the jump
on the Cavalry four. quick start be-
ing an old trick Of the Valley Island
ers Maui Is a heavy team that goes
better I'm the first half of the game |
than fin the last, probably owing to the
fact that two Of the players. Collins |
And Rice. are undefhorsed for their
weight To borrow term from the |
Cavalry. the ''shock action" Of the
Maui team is apt 10 carry right
through the soldiers for some periods.
There Is q lot of momentum to the
Maui attack and unless their combi- !
nation Il broken up right at the start. !
they are apt to open up quite gap J
on the score board