Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-08

W4o coula NOT play On account Oh IN
| juries.
Slippery Field.
| The field was too wet and soggy
for fast play and on many occasions
the back would slip and lose ground.
On dry field Saturday Mckinley
would have had further advantage, so
| 1t is hard to abb the defeat for Kan.
They did not use judgment in the first
| place on their plays. They had
enough good formations and q variety
OF plays that would send any team
through game, but the players lost
lsomething--it would take q psychol0-
gist to explain IT. and consequently
failed. Gibson did not run his team up
to standard. And De la Nux called on
Hussey to make q drop kick in the
last quarter. Mckinley had a lead Of
is to 0.
Hussey made great play OF it and
booted the ball sQparely over the
posts and was q hero for the mo-
ment, but De Ia Nux wasn't. A long
forward pass at this stage of the game
II successful would have meant q
Touchdown and the resultant goal kick
would have given Kan victory. 1t
took three goals from the field to
win, and why the Kan quarter tried
this play has never been published.
Coach Booth must have said some
thing under his breath when the play
was staged.
Girls Roofing Stars.
The crowd was one of the best Of
the year, and the roofing sections
acted In real big league fashion. The
Mckinley yell leaders, Joe Stickney
and Roy Bush, we're on the job from
whistle to whistle and the high
school rooters acted like fanatics
when Melim crossed the goal line.
Across the field the white dresses Of
the Kamehar1neha girls were set off in.
q background Of the cadet gray.
The one bright feature Of
the cheering Of the day was the work
Of two girl yen leaders on the Kane
hameha side. They had a yell that
sounded something like this: Kan
get q rat trap. bigger than cat trap.
Fivo, vivo. bum, bum, buss." Anyway,
It sounded like Serbian war whoop
and the young feminine yell leaders
got enough action into it to shame
the yen leaders on both sides.
Saturday the officials kept the,
teams moving and aside from q little
oyer-anxiousness on the part Of some
OF the Mckinley boosters there was
little coaching from the sidelines and
rough play was eliminated after the
first scrimmages. The officials sent
the play away fast, but there is still
room for improvement. When the
work Of the officials is handled as it
was most Of the time on Saturday,
then the spectators may expect a
dashing game free from sQuabbles.
Play BY Periods.
In the first quarter the two teams
struggled back and forth across the
field, the feature OF this period being
a run by Hussey of 80 yards. In the
second period Clifford Melim carried
the ball often and Fred Carter stop
ped the Kan offense dead. Tyau
tackled the onrushing Kan back after
punt and set him back five yards.
A triple pass in the back field and q
heave to Andrade scored for McKin-
ley, but the touchdown was not al
lowed on account of .offside play.
Harry Melim made brilliant running
tackle In this period. A place kick;
play failed for Kan.
Andrade stopped the Kan back in
the first Of this quarter, and the ball
went back and forth in the center of
the field. At this stage the two Car
ter boys were in every play, Ind spill
ed the attacks of Ioane and Bertef
mann. Mckinley scored In this pc
Rod In the last quarter Kan kicked
to Mckinley and after no gain Nc
Kinley punted Hawkins got Bertel-
mann By a tine tackle. A triple pass
forward to Fred Carter netted rs
yards. Clifford Melim made first
down as the game ended.