The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-25
CASTLE WINS
CHAMPIONSHIP
After Losing Two Sets Castle
Wakes Up and Defeats
R. A. Cooke 3-2.

A. L. Castle won the tennis singles
championship of the islands yesterday
afternoon on the Beretania courts. by
defeating R. A. Cooke and now holds
the title. as VIII Roth will not contest
for it again this year. His score was
4-6, SO, 10. 6-3, 60.
Mr. Castle won the championship bat
he had no easy work doing II. 1t was
nip and tuck up to the very last game
AID he won by sheer force of staying
Flower. 1t is an extraordinary thing
about this racquet wielder's playing
that he will, apparently, be a sure los
er for the first set or two then make
a sudden squirt as though determined to
win just one set anyway. A casual OBJ
server would say that his efforts were
merely flash in the pan and that it
would be impossible for him to keep
that pace up. But the more people
expect him to fall down, the harder and
the better he plays and. finishes tri-
umphantly, apparently fresher than
when he started.
Yesterday he gave a correst imita-
tion Of his own style of play. 1t seem
ed as though he were simply handing
the first two sets to his opponent, Il. A.
Cooke. The latter was playing well
up to the net and placing the balls
where Castle could not reach. He won
the first two sets in Ga, 6-S, apparently
without exerting himself.
All along the line of spectators one
could hear such remarks as "CoOke s
got him now" "Not a chance for
Alf'' and other comments of a similar
nature. But Castle fooled them all.
He began to wake up in the middle of
the third set and he played an entirely
different brand of tennis from that
Which he had been showing before.
In the third set Cooke took the first
two games then Castle won one and
kept winning an occasional game in
desultory way until the score stood
49, Castle won the next two games
making it "a in his favor. Then the
scrap began. Cooke won the next and
tied the score and the next game went
to deuce. Here was where Castle 8
fighting blood really began to assert it.
self. Alternately the score went to ad-
vantage in and out so many times that
people got tired of counting. 1t seemed
as though the game would go on for
ever until finally with a neat backhand
ed cut Castle put the ball where Cooke
could not find it and won the game
after the eighteenth deuce.
Castle won the next game, and with |
T. the set, rs. After that both play !
ers took good rest, and then went
out for the fourth set Castle and his |
opponent had been working like Tro- !
ians over the last set, but neither !
seemed distressed, and Castle especial !
" seemed filter than ever. He won |
that set, 6-3, and was playing very !
brilliantly at the finish
In the last set it was Castle who
STAYED near the net, while Cooke had !
.retreated a trife and was unable to |
Teacn the bdAAS tAA'A1 $1,000
placed exactly where he wanted them
in difficult parts of the court.
The final set was fairly easy for !
Castle. and he won by o., thus win !
ming the championship after one of |
the most thrilling and closely-eOntested |,
singles matches ever seen on loca! |
courts.
IL. IL. fC,a hlfr
great exhibition of nerve and skill !
In the first set neither OF them did |
himself Justice but after they had |
warmed up they began to play tennis. |
The critical audience, composed en- |
tirely of tennis players, watched the |
play with breathless interest as the |
match progressed, and comments were |
soon reduced to involuntary exclama- |
tions of approval over some clever shot |
or seemingly impossible return.
The entries for the men s doubles !
have closed and the drawings already
made. The result is as follows: w. /
/. Warren and A. R. Cunha. a bye; !
II. Castle and +, f. Steere. a bye; f. /
G. f. Forster and P. J. Harwood.
bye; A. j., Castle and r. A. Cooke. .
a bye; L. $. CONFESS and c, II. Ather, |
ton, bye.
On Monday at 4 O'Clock c. G. |
Bockus and j T. Guard will play c. |
NJ. Cooke, Jr., and l.. Lewton Brain;
at 1870 clock. Theo. Richards and }. !
A. Richards will play J. P Cooke and
:. A. Baldwin; ar the same hour H.
:. Grey and r. L. Booth will play w. |
II. Rabbit and W. Williamson.
These matches will all be PLAYED on
the eourts of the Beretauia Club.
FROM CANADA.
Mothers nave me same terror of