The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-11-29
Waikiki Is Easy
For Marine Team
Pearl Harbor Boys Play Rings
Around the Blues and Score
Practically At Will With
Varied Attack.

Varied Attack.
Outclassed in every point Of the
play and Utterly helpless to withstand
the attacks of their opponents or to
gain upon them, Wailuku's football
eleven went down to defeat by the
Marines Sunday afternoon by a score
of % to o. Only once did Waikiki
make a first down and its only other
substantial gain was when a Marine
player fumbled a punt and a blue
jerseyed player fell upon it. On the
other hand the "Leathernecks' gained
practically at will, through the line,
around the ends or by means of the
aerial route. Not satisfied with exc
cutting forwards passes for themselves
they took attempts way from the
Blues and scored upon them.
1t was difficult to understand how
a team that had twice beaten Paia
could make such an exhibition of in.
efficiency against a team that had a
hard tussle to score twice upon the
Maroons and equally difficult to under
stand why Paia had been such a hard
nut for the Marines to crack if Wailu-
ku were such easy pickings."
Time and again a Marine player
would catch the ball on an attempted
forward pass by the Blues and go
streaking off with it. On the other
hand it was i%nfrequent that a Waikiki
player was able to spoil a forward
pass for the Marines. Waikiki lines
men were put out of the play repeat
edly and on the defensive seemed to
be paying all attention to the man
who had the ball and little or none to
the man against whom he was pitted.
1t was a trained team that had been
drilled for weeks against II that has
had but little experience in playing
together.
First Score
The Marines scored their first touch
down after a few minutes of play. At
the start of the game they kicked off
to Waikiki who ran the ball back to
their 80 yard line. Two attempted end
run and a line buck proved futile and
Pogue punted to the Marine 40. Then
the fireworks started. Ripping and
tearing, diving and lodging, the
"Leathernecks" (who would better be
nicknamed Cannon Balls,') started
their march forward, a march that the
champions of Maui were unable to
halt until the six yard line had been
reached. There, however, they held
and on fourth down Pogue again punt
ed, the Marine fullback receiving the
ball and bringing it back to the 80
yard line. Once again the smashing
drive through the Waikiki line, this
time successful, and a Marine went
eros the line for the first touchdown
which was converted into a goal.
Twice again did the Pearl Harbor boys
pass the blues" goal posts in the first
quarter converting one and failing to
make the other a goal. When the fiji
teen minute whistle blew the score
stood, Marines 20, Waikiki O..
Wailuku Helpless
The second quarter saw the score
roll up to "a to 0, the Marines twice
crossing the line in that period and
both times placed the ball between the
posts on the kick. In this quarter the
blues" squad were made even more
helpless by the loss of Pogue who sus-
tanned a dislocated shoulder in tack
ling a Marine who had just received
a forward pass for a substantial gain.
George Murray was sent in at full to
replace him and did good work. In
this period the champions made their
only first down of the game, a forward
pass Murray to Norris gaining IA
yards for the Blues" That glimmer
of hope was but short lived for on the
next play another attempted pass was
intercepted by a Marine player who
galloped down the field 25 yards and
scored.
Marines Jubilant
After the first quarter the result of
the game was never in doubt, a fact
well realized by the invaders, who
from that time on scampered and ca
pered about in anticipation of an over
whelming victory. This too, added
greater vim and dash to the maroon
clad boys and they charged where
they would with apparent ease and
little waste of effort. No matter how
hard the blue" line would struggle to
hold, it would crumple and break
against the onslaught of a far heavier
team.
"Blues" Tighten Once
In the third quarter Waikiki show
ed signs of r%egaining the confidence
they had lost earlier in the game.
Throughout this entire period they
held the Marines scoreless and twice
held their charging opponents in their
tracks when on fourth down and but
a scant yard needed TO make the re-
quired distance. This, however, seem
ed only to force the Marines TO harder
efforts in the last quarter when they
scored three more touchdowns, one