Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-22
MCKINLEY TEAM .
HAS PROSPECTS
OF HARD Fight
First Weeks Practise Finds.
Black and Gold Plugging
for Coming Series

The Mckinley high school football
squad has IN uphill fight ahead Of Il
this season. With but four Of the
1915 eleven for q nucleus, Coach
Dick" whitcomb IL trying to perfect
! football machinery with loose eogS
and wheels that do not seem to at to-
gether readily.
The few pieces Of the ground-gain.
ing machine he had last fall are Robt.
Chang, John Nua, Johnny Thompson
and Tsukiyama. Chang's weight WIN
help McKinley's line materially. and
he will be tried at guard. Paired with
him is q big man also. John Nua.
These two look, well on either side Of
the lengthy but husky lad who is tel
best bet for center. Murray HemiSPl
ger. The latter gets the ball aw6y{
with great speed even this early I'M
the season, and with the keystone
position filed the line will assumo
quite formidable aspect.
Veterans In Line
The other veterans are in the back.
field. John Thompson and Tsukiyams,
who was such a ground-gainer in the
Kamehameha game at the end Of the
1916 season. "Tsuky" Is making the
eyes OF his admirers glisten as he
runs down the punts in the practising
on the Makiki gridiron. He is
fast man and hard to touch once he
is going
But Thompson can show the best
Of the Punahou or Kan backfeldl
men one trick, and that Is going to
be a feature of the playing of Nc
Kinley this season. He can straight.
ARM and it is good to see this early
in the season the Makfki institution
has hard row to hoe.
The line is thoroughly shot to
pieces, and whit" Is making his big
drive building up line that can block
on the defense and open up holes on
the offensive without going to pieces.
1t is no small job to manufacture Q
consistently-work line out Of al.
most entirely green material. This II
what Whitcomb has set himself to do.
New Men Willing Workers
Some of the green ones are VIII
liam Chang, Cooper, David Heile, and
Jacobson, but most of these men do
not know how to handle themselves
In true football style. They have
more than the ordinary roughness to
be worn down. They must be taught
the rudiments of the game, from the
art of falling on the ball to tackling,
and from taking punts to blocking
their men in the line. .>-
However, such men as Tokioka are
enough to inspire hope in the heart
of any coach. He tries hard, and
seems to have the football sense de-
veloped to a considerable degree in
advance McTaggart is another man
who comes under this class, although
he has the game to learn. His pass
ing is free and gives promise Of ac-
curacy. Itsuta Sato, Wickander, OIL.
veria, Chiffon Jones, Joe Leong and
Kuni are others who may be found
useful in building up the high schools
machine, but they, like the others, are
terribly slow In getting away.
1t is not hopeless task with the
good spirit that the boys are show
ing all around, and this is one thing
that makes the rooters at Mckinley
look up and hope for the best. Time
will tell, and time is all that Whit
comb needs. He is confident that he
has the men behind him, and the mem
are equally certain of the interest.
and sincere effort that the big Wash
burn man is putting into his coaching
this year as last.