The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-28
PONG
PLAYERS
EIks' Tournament
Will Open
Today.
LIST OF ENTRIES
AND THE PLAY
Drawings for the Contest Made
Saturday-The Preliminary
Rounds.

| The drawing for the ping pong tour
noon in the Elks' rooms, took place
Saturday evening.
There are fifty entries and the play
| ing was arranged by chance, the num-
bers and names being drawn by the
committee = Couzens. Andrews and
| Hartman, and e. r. Adams and H. p.
Roth.
The preliminaries will be played this
| afternoon from 4 to o'clock, but there
will be no playing this evening, as the
nall has been otherwise engaged. Those
in the preliminaries will be expected to
play off Tuesday and Wednesday.
| The following are those who will play
| in the preliminary rounds, with the po-
sition of the contestants and order of
play:
| c. Taylor VS. H NJ Hepburn, G. w.
Waldron VS.. A. L. c. Atkinson. Geo D.
Gear VS.. E. Clark, F. NJ Brooks VS. J.
l.. Rockwell, e. r. Adams VS.. E. Wa
! termann, w. H. Coney VS. a. j. Block
man, C. S. Holloway VS.. II. E. Picker,
st. c. Sayres VS.. Prince Cupid, Dr. Ray
| mond VS. a. e. Murphy, j. o. Young VS..
j. A. NJ Johnson. E. E. Hartman VS..
T.. Lloyd Jr., j. A. Tuthill vs.. Stuart
Webster, II. P. Roth US. DIR. Howard,
Allan Dunn VS.. E. May, C. II. Norton
VS.. L. Davis, i. O. Lowell VS.. Prince
David G.. Angus VS. G. Wilder and s.
f. Chillingworth VS.. A. F. Judd.
The byes who will follow the preIimi-
nary rounds are F. r. Woodbridge VS..
Louis Homer, n. D. Couzens VS.. A c.
Clark, A. n. Webster VS.. r. n. Moore,
c. Girvin VS.. Bye, DR.. High VS.. Bye. s..
D., Sinclair VS.. Lorrin Andrews. b. r.
Rice, VS.. b. Boyden ond c. F. Chilling
worth VS.. G. Waterhouse.
After TO-DAY the tournament will con-
tinue daily from to o'clock in the
afternoon and from to 10 o'clock at
night.
The umpires who will look after the
play of the contestants are ]. L. Rock
We'll Louis Horner. F. e. Thompson, f.
NJ Brooks, Henry Roth and A. E. Muir
ply
The rules governing the contest, as
drawn up by the committee, are as fol-
lows:
ball shall be called the server, and the
other the striker-out-
2. The ball shall be served from be-
hind the end and within the limits of
the width Of the table. The server
shall stand. either behind, or with one
foot only forward of chalk-line to be
drawn three feet from the edge of the
table.
8. The service shall be strictly I'M
derhand, and from behind the table;
that is to say, at the time of striking
the ball the racket may not be over
the table, and no part of the racket,
except the handle, may be above the
waist
4. The ball must drop on the table
top beyond the net, and is then in
play. If it drops into the net or off the
table it is called a fault" and counts
to the striker-out.
8. There is no second service, ex-
cept when the ball touches the net or
posts in passing over and drops on the
table beyond the net, when it is called
let" and another service is allowed. |
6. If the ball in play strike any OBJ |
tect above or around the table (net or
posts excepted) before it drops on the |
table,, it counts against the striker.
Z. The server wins a stroke if the |
striker-out fails to return the service, |
or the ball in play.
s. The striker-out wins a stroke if |
the server serves a fault" or fails to I
return the ball in play SO that it falls
off the table.
9. No volleying is allowed, whether
or otherwise, and if any
ball shall be. touched before striking
the table it counts against the player
touching it, Should, however, a ball
pass the limits of the table without |
dropping on it. it is dead, and counts
against the striker |