The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-11-08
Wailuku Wins by
Goal From Field
Pogue Makes Long Drop Kick
When Last Quarter of Sec
ond Football Game is Draw
ing Near to End.

BY a beautifully kicked field goal
from the boot of Captain Pogue Wal
luku won from Paia by a score Of 80
a football game which the spectators
had grown to expect would end in a
scoreless tie Sunday afternoon on the
Waikiki grounds. Practically evenly
matched they had battled through the
afternoon with the ball in mid-fCld
much of the time until the sun had
gane behind the West Maui mountains
and The summit Of Faleakala was
bathed in a pink glow that preceded
dusk. There was but a scant four
minutes left for play when from far
back in the field the pigskin covered
oval scared high in the ali and settled
behind and well between the goal
posts Ior the winning score.
Paia Grows Desperate
Earlier in the game Captain Pogue
had made two fruitless efforts. n
from a bad angle. to score by a field
goal and his final success fO~ a mo-
ment stunned with surprise The ma
room j%erseyed Paias and the crowd
alike. Then the latter awoEe and The
Wailuku roOters went wild for q few
minutes. Goaded to more intense er-
forts and with only three and a half
minutes to play the Maroons started
a march down the field. D~esperatelr
they ripped and tore through tho Blue
Itae straight towards the goai. cover
ing more than ha'f the fed. hut the
great effort came too late and the
whistle blew with the ball almost in
striking distance Of the Wai'ukI lire
The Blues, fairly swept Of heir feet
for a few minutes had rallied Just ir
time. 1t was the second time thcy
had held almost in the last trench.
1t would be difficult to find two
more closely matched football teams
than are the Wailukus and the Paiaa
a. shown by the SUNDAY afternoon
game. The Blues had materially
strengthened both their ofiense and
defense and their imp owed play was
a surprise to the East Maui players
The Waikiki line held far better than
in the first meeting and there was a
marked improvement in aggressive
ness. Even with such improvement if
was impossible to break down the
Paia defense sufficiently to score a
touch down and punting ard forward
passes were of necessity resOrted to
Both sides attempted the latter play
repeatedly and there were three or
four that were splendidly executed.
In the kicking game Wailuku excelled
but Paia was cleverer in running back
the ball.
Line Shift Gairs
In its offense Paia worked success
fully a line shift with variations of
plays from behind it, now a line
plunge, again betWeen enc and tackle
and yet again around the open end.
II was a play that the Wailukus found
difficult to fathom and would have
produced at least one score l. eXecut-
ed with a little more speed and SNAP.
Waikiki showed Door judgment in
punting across the goal line on more
that one occasion early in the game
instead OF punting Jut Of bounds near
the goal line and yards wer9 lest as
a result but later on that fault was
not manifested. Fumbling and inten-
tiOnal roughing was notably absent.
In the first quarter Paia, working
the line shift frequently took the ball
into Waikiki territory only TO Jose it
and the Blues then forced ii into the
Maroon ground and kept it there ill
the close of the quarter. Through the
second quarter Waikiki had a shade
the better of it most of the time and
it was then that Pogue twice tried
for goals and the half ended with just
a shade of advantage for the Rlues
In the third quarter Paia carried
the ball Town the field to the Waikiki
eight yard line, a fine forward pass
helping largely in the rush goalward.
There, however, the Blue line held
like a stone wall. For the greater
part of the quarter the ball was be.
tween the two 25 yard lines,
Score Near End
In the last quarter the ball seesaw-
ed back and forth and both sides
booted it freely when held by the
strong defense developed. Finally
Waikiki got the ball almost in mid
field and carried it to the 25 yard line
where the backs were thrown for loss,
es. Then Pogue dropped back to the
40 yard line, received the pass Clearly
dropped the pigskin to earth and
caught it with his toe just as it start
ed to rise. over the heads Of the
Paia eleven ii scared, higher and high
err, then settled slowly earthwdrC
again. Squarely over the cross ban
between the uprights il had passed
The game was won. Then came the
Paia rush which must have won hat
such desperation been shown early il
the game.
In ground gaining Kalua and PoguC
starred for Waikiki and Chartrand
Souza and Machado for Paia, The
weight of the latter telling repeatedly
in line plunge. frankie Bal and Emo.
both showed some excellent tacklina
but it is difficult to pick stars wher,
OH tho individual hers of tho fVy.