The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-08
THE GOLF
CHAMPION
Jess Woods Wins Honor
in the Final
Match.

The final for the Manoa Golf Club
Championship was played off yester-
day afternoon between Jess Woods and
Harold Giffard. These two had play
ed through a long list of ambitious
golfers and it at last came down to
to be one of the hardest fought match
es that ever took place on local links
and it took the full IS holes to decide
it.
hole and lost on the next two. This
put Giffard one up, but the lead was
soon cut down, Woods coming in two
up On the first round. Giffard took the
10th and 18th holes making all even
From there on it was fight for blood
with some good golf being played. On
the 10th hole Woods was one up, but
Giffard won the 18th, again making a
tie. On the 18th hole coming home
Giffard with the honor, drove off poor
almost to the green. Woods holed out
in four and Giffard in 5, Woods win
ming by one put and hole.
On account of the wet weather no
record was broken, but considering -all
very good golf was played. This gives
Woods the Championship cup and Gift
fard second prize also cup.
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except those whose enthusiasm has
led them to do a little private summer
practice-are soft and short wind
ed, so the coach gives them nothing
to do but to kick and fall on the ball,
with perhaps a few sprint starts and
some short dashes. After each practice
the squad runs around the track a few
times and makes for the dressing
room. The shower bath over, each
man sits around on his towel awaiting
his turn for a rub" When it comes
he stretches out on a plank like
corpse on dissecting table while the
rubber annoinus him with a biting lima
ment. works out the sore muscles and
replaces lost skin with cotton and coll
lodion
By dinner time he is hungry enough
to eat horse-and. if training table
tradition may be believed, he does
down large portions of that animal UNI
der the title of beef. The old meat
gorge theory of training, however, is
a thing of the past; nearly anything
a sensible person would eat is allowed
on the modern football bill Of fare.
The lack of pie, cake, tea, coffee, not
bread. fried stuff and fancy dishes is
made up by an abundance of meat,
milk, toast, eggs, and fruit.
The rundown and the training Ia
BILE continue about the same through
out the season, but the practice gradu-
ally increases in severity. After the
first two or three days the squad Is
set to work on the dummy, which
is nothing more nor less than stuff
ed figure swinging from a cross-beam.
On this the players are taught to leave
their feet for a tackle and to correctly
estimate the distance for dive. When
the form has been mastered the squad
is set to tackling man with the ball
and practiced in bringing down run
ner in the open field
In the meantime the backs have been
coached on catching punts, hurdhng,
side-stepping. using the straight arm.
dragging the runner and the dozens of
little tricks essential to a good ground
gamer: while the forwards have been
drilled in charging, breaking through,
using the hands. elbows, shoulders,
knees and other things the giants OF
the team must know.
Thus the first week or ten days Is
spent in acquiring the rudiments and