Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-14
PUNAHOU should
HAVE HARD TILT
With SKATERS
Benefit Game at Alexander
Field Wednesday is Talk of
Post; Big Crowd Expected
special star Bulletin CorrespOndencer


FORT SKATER, Nov. HIT vas
n remarkable thought to unite the cd
Tnfantry-Punahou football game and
the Army Relief Society, a happy I'M
ion of two Of the most popular army
ideals.
For the interest in the game and
the cause Increases with every mo-
ment, and the entire post Is ablazes
with enthusiasm and can hardly wait
until Wednesday, and the interest has
spread to Department Headquarters
and the commanding general, who al
ways has been enthusiastic about the
Relief, had the news Of the great foot
ball game sent over the wires 10 all
the posts of the Hawaiian Department.
The officials for the games as arrang-
ed now will be Lieut.. Philoon, referee;
Capt. McAndrew, umpire; Aide-de-
Camp Charles Lyman, head linesman,
and Gen. Samuel Johnson. timekeeper,
so that all branches of the service will
be represented and the officials are
all men who know the game thorough
~. which will be most satisfactory TO
the audience as well as for the play
ers. The I'd Infantry team was in
splendid spirits after its rest over
Sunday, and Capt. Scott put them
through hard and grueling scrim-
mage with the splendidly drilled scrub
team of substitutes The contest was
a game of skill and brought out little
defects of the linesmen, and several
ways in which to weld together more
perfectly the interference.
Both Hanson and Donahue were
used as centers and Brunswick was
out again at his old position at half
back and the way he ripped open the
defense of the linesmen and second
airy defense of the backs of the scrub
team was caution to the Punahou
team. The exhibition of tackling as
given today should please the old vete.
rams Of the game. as the grip of the
knees and the fali-of the body of the
tackler will remind them of Hinkey
and Johnnie Poe and Bucky Vail in
their best days of yore.
The forward passing is as mathemat-
ically perfect as the personal equation
will allow, and the rudiments of the
game from A to z have been dr,lied
and redrilled so that it is hoped
no one in the stands will be able to
offer the time-hackneyed criticism
don't know the rudiments of foot
ball"
Punahou is being carefully drilled
for this game and the work of the
backs will be hard to circumvent, but
1t is hoped that the superior weight
and skill of the I'd Infantry team will
win out in the end.
Punahou is practising some new
songs for the occasion and with the
cheers of the soldiers, songs of the
Oahu songsters and the excellent mu,
sic Of the I'd Infantry band, the gay
uniforms of officers and fair ladies,
there will be treat long to be re.
membered.
Let Honolulu take advantage of this
unusual mid-week game and show
their deep interest by investing in the
price of ticket-25 cents-for the
cause of the Army Relief, and this
crowd in the mid-week may encou: age
other dates between Saturdays, which
real football enthusiasts always vel
come. But the patronage at this game
will tell-turn out and cheer, Let's
take an afternoon off and join the so.
clal game of the year, especially as it
promises to be one of the fastest and
best, if the coach of Punahou, Mr.. Mid.
XIII. and the coach of the I'd Infantry.
capt. Scott, can make it so.