The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-13

CE lOI the SEIdcuSt WI
No more races for a while. Every
ones energies are or should be bent in
the direction Of the Kewalo track.
The regular annual 25-mile road
race will be held in San Francisco on
Washington's birthday. The event is
causing no small interest and specula-
ton here as some OF the riders are
known to various wheelmen in the city.
T. W. Davis is doing rushing bust
ness at the academy in Independence
park pavilion His work goes on, rain
or shine.
The various bicycle agencies report
business brisk"
In dispatching Joseph NJ. Hill on a
Journey around the world the SYRIA
cuse Cycle Company have undertaken
an enterprise that is new to the bicycle
industry 1t IS already assured that at
many points which will be an object
OF visit he will enjoy special advan-
tages through favors from the highest
officials. In China a welcome will
await him from the Viceroy of the En-
pire, Ii Hung Chang, himself an
adopted chief of the Sycamore Tribe.
1t is not too much to suppose that the
of the Syracuse Cycle
Company will be accorded honors by
the Viceroy that no other commercial
could command. Mr.. Hills
is not that of a selling agent.
1t is in the mind of the Syracuse Cycle
Company TO obtain through the in
quiries and observations of an expert
an accurate knowledge of the growth
of interest in wheeling throughout the
wide world. One of the points in Mr..
Hills mission was TO see Fred Water
house who had sent an order for the
celebrated Crimson Rims" The
wheels have not yet arrived but Mr..
Waterhouse knows every point about
them in advance. Mr.. Hill knows his
business.
Here are some points taken from
people who wax funny on bicycle
matters:
Headquarters in the saddle is a
club motto recently adopted.
Don't be too caustic in your criti-
cism of someone else as he appears in
passing. The kindness of nature is
shown in the fact that we cannot stand
on the curbstone of the boulevard and
see ourselves roll by"
BE aisy on the barking dog. If you
can't be aisy, try ammonia-in the kiyi
pump"
Don't sit on your wheel like lump
of inocuous desuetude; it hurts the
wheel, somehow"
''Politeness is like a pne umatic tire
in that it eases many jolt in the
journey of life"
RACKET AND BALL.
Tennis is just now claiming no small
part of the attention of those interested
in the game. The tournament of course
is the main topic of conversation. The
raising of the standard of playing in
Honolulu has put matters in altogeth-
er a new light from the years or even
a year ago. The additions of clubs to
the ranks of the tennis fraternity
bringing with them new talent and
the constant hard practice of all the
tennis men during the past two months
has caused the greatest uncertainty as
to where the championship will go.
With the Pacifics, the Beretanias, the
Valley Club, Punahou and Kamehame-
ha in line, constituting in all some loo
men, the tournament must needs be of
the most intensely interesting and eX-
citing kind. The competition will be
most keen.
AS TO a meeting of the Hawaiian
Tennis Association il must be called
for today as this is the last before the
18th of the month, and the constitu-
ton of the organization states that it
must be held before that date. At the
meeting the date of the tournament
will be decided on and other matters
pertaining to tennis, will be arranged
Last years tournament was a great
success. and it will be remembered
that it took place during the month OF
MAY. This time was chosen after due
deliberation, it being found after the
days are longer and cooler and people
more disposed to turn out than later
in the year. The same holds true foI
this year. and il is hoped that although
the month of September has been
spoken of by many of the tennis men
May will still hold the fort
Ladies' Day at the Courts of the Be
retania and Pacific Tennis Clubs. are
being very we'll attended and the mem
| bers are gratified to see that more
! strangers are being brought around by
their friends For the Pacifics the banC
! concert on the Executive building
grounds Wednesday afternoons have
! been a most pleasing feature.
/ The junior members Of the p. T. c
Will give their seniors a good tussl'
in the next tournament and it wOulC
not be At all surprising if they were
| TO win honOrs. Such players as Willie
Roth, Wilder Wight and George Full
| Ter are not TO be taken as any small
| factors in the tournament.
Only about six men play regularl.
at Punahou, but there is good materia
even within the ranks of such a limited
number. Messrs. French and Rabbit
may play together. and if the do. be
ware Kamehamehai
On the P T. G. courts Thursday
! Messrs Babbitt and French PLAYED
against George Fuller and Willie Roth
. The Junior p. T. C.'s We're beaten. bu
not until hard fight
1t is understood that Messrs. r
| Woodward and a. 4. Macurda will rep
resent Kamehameha in the tourna
ment They played against Messrs
Rabbit and T. HOrner on the Puma
hou grounds the other day and wer