The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-27
CASTLE WINS
CHAMPIONSHIP
tFrom sundays Advertlsera

\ 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
As, SO, rs, 6.9, 60.
Mr.. Castle won the championship but
he had no easy work doing it. 1t was
nip and tuck up to the very last game
and he won by sheer force of staying
power. 1t is an extraordinary thing
about this racquet wielder's playing
that he will, apparently, be sure los.
err for the first set or two then make
n sudden squirt as though determined to
win just one set anyway. A casual OBJ
server would say that his efforts were
merely a 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-
lion of his own style of play. 1t seem
4 ed as though he were simply handing
4 the first two sets to his opponent, Il. A.
Cooke. The latter was playing well
up to the net and placing the balls
4 where Castle could not reach. He won
/ the first two sets in Ga, 6-3, apparently
4 without exerting himself
All along the line of spectators one
4 could hear such remarks as Cooke s
i got him now.' "Not chance for
4 Alf'' and other comments of a similar
4 nature. But Castle fooled them all.
He began to wake up in the middle of
the third set and he played an entirely
4 different brand of tennis from that
which he had been showing before.
i In the third set Cooke took the first
1 two games then Castle won one and
kept winning an occasional game in
desultory way until the score stood
making it ga in his favor. Then the
scrap began. Cooke won the next and
4 tied the score and the next game went
q TO deuce. Here was where Castle 8
fighting blood really began to assert it
4 self. Alternately the score went to adj
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 neat backhand-
ed cut Castle put the ball where Cooke
8 could not find it and won the game
after the eighteenth deuce.
Castle won the next game, and with
it the set, rs. After that both play
ers took a good rest, and then went
8 out for the fourth set. Castle and his
opponent had been working like Tro.
ians over the last set, but neither
i seemed distressed, and Castle especial
~ seemed filter than ever. He won
that set, 6-S, 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
reach the unerring balls that Castle
placed exactly where he wanted them
in difficult parts of the court.
The final set was fairly easy for
Castle, and he won by go, thus win
ming the championship after one of
the most thrilling and closely-contested
singles matches ever seen on local
courts
1t is impossible to give sufficient
credit to both of the players for their
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
1.-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 mem s doubles
have closed and the drawings already
made. The result is as follows: w
u. Warren and A. r. Cunha, bye;
II. Castle and F. E. Steere, bye; r
G. +. Forster and p. J. Harwood, a
bye; A. L. Castle and R. A. Cooke
! a bye; L. s. CONFESS and G. H. Ather
ton, a bye.
On Monday at o'clock c. G.
Bockus and ]. T., Guard win play G
M. Cooke, Jr., and L. Lewton- Brain;
lat 4t30 o. clock, Theo. Richards and J.
"a. Richards will play J. P. Cooke and
is. A. Baldwin; at the same hour II.
is. Grey and r., L. Booth will play W.
III. Babbitt and W. Williamson.
These matches win all be played on
lthe courts of the Beretania Club.