Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii - West Oahu: Honolulu Record Digitization Project
Honolulu Record, Volume 10 No. 15, Thursday, November 7, 1957 p. 4
Sport Shorts
Four Straight for Rough Riders?
Four straight? Roosevelt supporters are not only talking of winning this year's Honolulu prep grid crown to make it three straight but are already looking forward to 1958 when they hope to stretch it to four consecutive titles.
The last time any team made it over two in a row was the old Punahou Academy team of the pre-1920 era. The Puns won three straight.
The great Kamehameha School team of the early "30's almost strung together five championships. Kam took the 1931-32 then lost the title to McKinley in 1933 and roared back to win the crown in 1934-35.
The Rough Riders played like true blue champions as they crushed Punahou 28-0 at the stadium last Saturday afternoon as upwards of 25,000 fans looked on.
It marked Roosevelt's 21st straight victory in league competition. Their victory skein started in the latter part of the 1954 season. The Riders have bowled over all of their opponents in blitz-like fashion thus far this season.
They have only Farrington and Kaimuki to play before ringing down the curtain on the '57 season.
Other “big game” results: The Roosevelt-Punahou tilt was not the only "big one" played over the weekend.
Over at the Stadium the Kaneohe Marines and the University of Hawaii Rainbows hooked up in a real good old-fashioned donnybrook Sunday afternoon. The final result: Marines 7, Rainbows 7.
Another contest, billed as the Maui interscholastic loop "game of the year" saw Coach Norman Oda's Lahainaluna Maroons run roughshod over Baldwin 32-7 in a Sunday afternoon game played at Lahaina.
The Lunas turned what was expected to be a closely contested game into a complete rout by playing one of their best games to date. They now lead the league.
The defending champion Baldwin High Bears were recently held to an upset 0-0 stalemate by Maui High.
HILO CAGE LOOP GETS UNDERWAY. The Hilo Senior Basketball League, the Territory's oldest all-civilian casaba circuit, blew the lid of its 1957-58 season last month at Hilo's brand new civic auditorium.
The star-studded Keaukaha Tigers, loaded with ex-prep standouts, are the four-time defending champions. Tommy (Kihei) Brown is coach of the team.
Other teams in the league are: University of Hawaii Hilo Branch Little Rainbows, Waiakea Pirates, Lincoln Wreckers, Piopio Bears, Wanderers and Eagles.
Games are played on week days and on Saturday evenings.
So Hilo gets the jump on the rest of the Territory, basketball-wise.
Incidentally the Hawaiian Seni9r League here in town will get going within the next few weeks. The league is composed of service teams and one civilian team, the Balfour Jewelers.
The Balfour quintet will be coached by Jimmy Aiona and managed by Ah Chew Goo. Both Goo and Aiona starred for Hilo High in the mid-1930s. Aiona played in the Hilo senior loop for many years, while Goo was the talk of Honolulu basketball circles in the late '30's and early '40's with his cage wizardry.
Goo was tabbed the Mandarin Magician by local scribes during his playing days. He played for the Hoffman Cafe team, later for the Airport Chicks and U.S. Life.
KONA BOWLING PICKS UP. Kona bowlers are all hepped up over the opening of the Kona Recreation Center's alleys. Complete with automatic pin setters, the alley was reopened with a brief ceremony on Oct. 31.
In charge of the establishment are: Dr. and Mrs. Chisato Haya-shi, Fumio Matsuoka and Robert Aoki.
Regular leagues for men and women will be organized.
Big Isle “Big Game.” Coach Rocky Sugino's undefeated Honokaa High Dragons are favored to take the measure of Coach Kazuma Hisanaga's Hilo High Vikings in the Big Island prep league's "little big game" this Sunday afternoon at Honokaa.
The Dragons handed the defending champion Vikings a 35-6 thrashing in a first round game played in Hilo earlier in the season.
In recent games played, Pahala High's Trojans won a moral victory by coming up with a 19-19 deadlock against Hilo while Honokaa warmed up for the Hilo fiasco by overwhelming Coach Harris Moku's Kohala Cowboys 34-0, for their fourth straight win.
Bird Hunting Season On. The hunting season in the Kohala Mountains and in Waikiki, on the slopes of Mauna Kea, opened on Oct. 19. Fish and Game officials of the Territory, however, predict things will be a little tough on the hunters this year.
The reason: lack of rain in the hunting areas during the spring and summer months, which mean birds will be scarce.
The opening-day results are proof enough. There were 401 hunters. They got 292 pheasants, as compared with 626 brought down on the opening day in 1956.
Besides the pheasants, here is a breakdown of other birds shot down on the first day: 91 California quail, 30 Japanese quail, 76 chukars, 41 pigeons and 1 dove.
Maui Lads Grace UH Roster. Did you know that some of the outstanding players on the University of Hawaii football team are from Maui? Here are some of them:
Louis Silva, Roland Laanui, Kenneth Kitagawa, Clarence Nihei Abner Delima, Ben Holokai, Ben Rivera, Donald Botelho and Bill Tam.
Other gridders from the Valley Isle who performed for the Rainbows in recent years were: Johnny Dang, Karl Teshima, David Taku-shi. Yoshiji Asami, Ken Kawaguchi, Donald Yap and Rocky Sugino.
The Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Pro Game. The San Francisco 49ers versus Detroit Lions thriller-diller, played in Kezar stadium, S. F., and heard over radio station KHON last Sunday afternoon, is why fans flock to see the pro games. This one was a game which would have done injustice to Frank Merriwell himself.
Picture this situation: the 49ers have a seemingly comfortable 28-10 lead with about 9 minutes left in the game. The Lions, however tally two quick -TD's on Tobin Rote's passing arm to close the gap to 23-28.
The game is not yet pau, though, because the Lions recover a 49er fumble on SF's 7-yard line, from where Detroit racks up 7 points in quick order to forge ahead 31-28.
The Lions look like sure winners at this stage of the game. But the 49ers are not dead yet.
They take the kickoff and surge back to score on a 71-yard drive —a circus catch by rangy R. C. Owens on the goal line from Y. A. Tittle culminating in the pay-off counter. And this one coming with only about 10 seconds left in the ball game.
By this time even the announcer is limp with excitement and pandemonium breaks loose in the stands. This is about the fourth time that the 49ers have come from behind in the waning moments of the game to pull the game out of the fire.
Shorties: Joe Miceli of New York won a split decision over Ramon Fuentes in a 10-round middleweight bout Monday night at the Civic. It was Joe's second win over Ramon. The fight drew a disappointingly small crowd of a little over 1,600 fans. It shows that local fans don't go top much for a bout between two "foreigners."... Bill (The Knee) Pacheco was granted a boxing license by the Territorial Boxing Commission. His matchmaker will be Eisho Toyama, who managed Philip (The Wildcat) Kim a few years back.
The next main event on Boxing Enterprises smoker will pit Bonnie Espinosa of the Philippines against Lem Miller. This will come off next Tuesday at the Civic .
It is only common humanity to feed the hungry. If our hospitals are too big, too complex, too impersonal to do these small kindnesses for the sick, something is very wrong.