The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-14
By Jack Densham.

PUUNENE, Aug. 1.-THE Maui
tennis players defeated the visitors
from Oahu by the overwhelming score
of Ill games to 80 and held their OPP
ponents down to one actual match vic
tory at Puunene today Out of seven
matches of three sets each Puunene
won six and Honolulu one.
The Maui players started out with
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.
the only Oahuans to win match ana
they had no easy time doing this.
Walsh and Tougher were their oppo..
nents, both classy players and in ex-
cellent form. In fact the first set of
the match made it look as though the
Honolulu players would not be in it at
all.
Walsh and Tougher won the first
game without the other side scoring.
Then Oahu took game and Maui the
third one. Cooke and Waterhouse pull.
ed themselves together for the fourth
and won it, but the others took the
next four games and the set finished
GO.
But the Oahu rooters had a chance
in the next two sets for their men took
them in jig time, 1-6 and 4-6. This
was the only occasion ON which the
visitors looked dangerous. The first
match had gone to Maui Cd, Cd,
81, making eighteen games for the
home team to nine for the visitors.
Cooke and Waterhouse played in the
second match which started soon after
the first one on Number Two Court.
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 Ballon would not
have had the presentation of the cup
to do.
GAMES ALONE COUNT.
on each side. The two players to go
~
by choice and the teams that each
should meet were decided by lot. Each
team played three sets with no advan,
tage score. That is, the set was over
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 clock in the morning the
courts were occupied by members of
the visiting team loosening up for the
serious work to come. Shortly after
that hour the grandstand was filed with
fair spectators and the benches INSIDE
the 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 and
Meade of Honolulu. They took the
court next to the grandstanG and Steere
served first. The first stroke of the
tournament was watched with great in.
terest. Steere swung his racket high
and sent the ball flying close over the
net. 1t bounced just inside the line
and Searby missed. A sigh of relief
went up when the umpire said Good
and Steere walked over for the next
service.
This time he sent fault but follow
ed it with a slow twister that came
back to Meade. The latter returned