The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-14
HOW MAUI WIPED HER
SACRED SOIL WITH OAHUANS
By Jack Denshan.

tennis players defeated the visitors
from Oahu by the overwhelming score
Sof Ill games to So and held their OPP
kponents down to one actual match vic.
g tory at Puunene today. Out of seven
a matches of three sets each Puunene
Srwon six and Honolulu one.
~ The Maui players started out with
a rush from the very first and pre-.
vented their visitors from ever gain
ing any lead. Both sides played re-
markably fine tennis and the score
gives no real idea of how closely some
of the sets were matched and how the
home racquet wielders were forced to
work hard all the time to keep the
BOYS off the steamer from catching up
to them.
A !. Messrs. Cooke and Waterhouse were
only Oahuans to win match ana
(H3'[t had no easy time doing this.
Ash and Tougher were their oppo.
Ap3s, both classy players and in ex-
snt FORM In fact the first set of
!. '7* s'.'''s match made it look as though the
! n ,nolulu players would not be in it at
Walsh and Tougher won the first
lhme without the other side scoring.
Then Oahu took game and Maui the
Sird one Cooke and Waterhouse pull.
b themselves together for the fourth
lind won il, but the others took the
shext four games and the set finished
Fac.
But the Oahu rooters had chance
n in the next two sets for their men took
them in jig time, lie and 40. This
was the only occasion on which the
visitors looked dangerous. The first
match had gone to Maui Ga, Cd,
i 6-1, making eighteen games for the
n Cooke and Waterhouse played in the
q. second match which started soon after
the first one on Number Two Court.
Z When the latter had won their victory
it reduced the lead of the home play
ers from nine to six and, if some of
the other Oahuans could have done the
same thing, Judge Ballou would not
have had the presentation Of the cup
to do. @ .,
;sR~ GAMES ALONE COUNT.
There were seven teams of doubles
lon each side. The two players to go
ion the court together were selected
Inv choice and the teams that each
should meet were decided by lot. Each
4 team played three sets with no advan'
I tage score. That is, the set was over
I when one side had won six games no
matter if the other side had scored
five games. The number of sets won
! by each team had no bearing on the
! outcome of the tournament. The total
number Of games alone was taken into
consideration, which was a good thing
for the visitors as, if sets had been
counted the home players would have
scored an even more sweeping victory.
By nine O'Clock in the morning the
g courts were occupied by members of
- the visiting team loosening up for the
"a serious work to come. Shortly a1ter
that hour the grandstand was filed with
n fair spectators and the benches INSIDE
tbe grounds bore a bonnie burden of
feminine partisans of both sides, SO
that the mere men spectators lay on
the grass or stood up against the fence
" THE FIRST STROKE.
The first match was between Searby
and Savage of Maui and Steere ane
Meade of Honolulu. They took the
court next to the grandstano and Steer'
served first. The first stroke OF tins
tournament was watched with great in
Z terest. Steere swung his racket hlgi
and sent the ball flying close over tn
net. 1t bounced just inside the lin
and Searby missed. sigh of relic
went up when the umpire said ''Good
u and Steere walked over for the mex
service.
4 This time he sent fault but follow
Il ed it with a slow twister that cam
back to Meade. The latter returne'
hard to In, utter court and Savag
failed to negotiate. This made tn
score thirty love. Twice more Steer
served and each time the ball stage
in, the opposite court and Oahu ha
won the first game and love gam
at that. fha
as. The Honolulu rooters and Mauines
X. eered alike and everybody though
nop at this was q good omen for the visi
ms. But, alas for omens and thei
1ell known contrariness. Searb
GEtoved nearly as fast server a
fteere and the second game went
..d;rIaui. When it came to Savage Is tur
1bao serve he showed marvellous dexte
Aity and shot the balls over in gres
~ hape. .'Dexterity" is the right wor
loo use in this connection for Mr.. Sa'
age has but one arm and he is force
n to toss the ball with the same han
s u that holds the racquet. He has tn
20 down to fine point, however. and ca
find the inner court with hard Sc
S vice as unerringly as the best ma
with two arms.
The Maui team won the first set
IA @ to A. the second by the same amour
Fl and the third by 6 to /. Each gan
q was hardly contested. and in the Sc
81 ond set there was series of 'vantai
n PLAYS that kept the spectators breat
Il less with interest. In one game Il
score zigzagged back and forth fro
deuce TO vantage in or out no lie
than ten times, when hard one fro
Saarhv IA the outer line finally W.