Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-29
BIG POLO Event
FINALLY SET FOR
LATE SEPTEMBER
Four Teams viii Clash Here for
Inter-isIand Championship
Next Month

ship viii be held the latter part OF
next month. Since the opening OF
the season the matter of the big tour.
nament has been unsettled. owing to
the absence of Walter Dillingham;,
regular captain of the Oahu team II
has been hoped all along that Dilling.
ham would return from Washington
in time to take the saddle for the
local club, and as Maui wished to
meet Oahu's best. and the army teams
welcomed the chance for added prac-
tice and pony schooling, matters have
been allowed to drift.
Now, however, comes q letter from
F. +. Baldwin. the Maui captain, fol-
lowing up several conferences that
were held when the Oahu team made
its last trip to the Valley Island. Bald
win thinks that some definite date
should be set. owing to the fact that
the ponies have been up for a long
time, and that there is q good chance
of their going stale il the tournament
is put off much longer. The uncer-
tainty of Dillingham's plans. and the
evident justice of Maui's proposal, has
decided the Oahu players to take ac-
ton Immediately, and play for the
championship is now down for the lat
ter part of September. probably the
week following Regatta Day. which
falls on September 10 this year, This
leaves trifle more than three weeks
for preparation, and all the teams will
be busy in the interval.
Oahu and Maui will both be repre-
JyhfIa fhara uyfIl ha ftur army
teams in the field. one from the 4th
Cavalry, and one from the LIST Field
Artillery This will make four cor
nered tournament. which will likely
be decided by elimination, requiring
three matches in all. For the last
three years. with only three teams In
the field the round robin system has
been in vogue. each team PLAYING the
other two. This made possible mo
tournament" deadlock. such as came
off in 1911. when Kauai beat the 9Th
Cavalry, Oahu heat Kauai and the
Cavalry beat Oahu. With four teams
in the field drawings can be made
for the original pairings, and the win.
pers of the matches play OF for the
championship.
The Oahu club has never been so
short of players as at the present
time, and the loss of Dillingham; was
one that seemed fatal. until Arthur
Rice announced his intention Of turn
ing out to take the fourth position on
the team Rice hasn't been playing
polo at all this year, but he has come
to the front in time Of need. and will
be regular from now until tourta-
ment time. He Is gu experience play.
er. and was a member Of the Alba
wall team that went to the coast last
year. He is rated as 9-goal man
by the American Polo Association.
The addition of Ar'-ur Rice to the
Oahu team means another shift OF
players, and probably everyone viii
be playing new position when the
whistle blows fer the first match. The
team has been forced to make con-
slant shifts and changes this season.
but 1t looks as though the proposed
lineup would give the maxium hit
ting and defensive strength. The pres
ent plan Is to play s. A. Baldwin at
No. 1, Harold Castle, No. q; Walter
Macfarlane, No. 3, and Arthur Rice,
back This means shift from to
8 for Macfarlane, TO for BALDWIN,
and 8 to 2 for Castle. Rice, although
he played No 1 on the All-Hawaiian
team, is more at home at back. SO
he is going back to his regular posi-
ton
Sam Baldwin is even more effec-
tive at / than at 2. He is not such
vigorous rider-off. as Macfarlane,
but he is so snappy with his stick and
SO well mounted that he changes the
general system of the game, and puts
the opposing back in the position OF
chasing him. Castle is originally
No. 2, and plays this position better
than any other. For 10 years he
played to Walter Dillingham's 3.
Macfarlane has the strongest back
hand of any of the local players. and
will make an excellent No. 3, he has
played back once or twice this sea-
son, and has showed to advantage In
the second line.
The tournament will be played at
MoanaIua, as heretofore, there being
no time to consider putting the ka-
piolani Park field In shape.