The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-28
sporting page of a newspaper.

oPol Ing page OF newspaper.
Judging by the somewhat prolix
communications received here. the
whole thing started in misnnder
standing. The parties concerned i'm
medlately rushed into print. the which
is always liable to cause trouble. In
this ease it has been worth it, on ac-
count OF the very excellent sugges.
tIons made by DR.. Hand with regard
to the sporting seasons. The latter
nart OF his letter which appeared in
yesterday Advertiser was a master
piece. II Honolulu amateurs would
get together and adopt some such
monthly schedule, we would have
sportsman s paradise indeed This is
Mr. Soares letter:
The following statement, partly a
correction of a former statement made
by me, and partly in reply to the arti-
Gle by DR.. E. H. Hand of the Y. NJ.
=. A, IN this mornings paper, will,
think, make all things clear in the mat
ter OF the basketball controversy and
should settle all misunderstanding
FIRST for the corrections. In the ar
ticle published on the Sports page of
Mondays Advertiser, the writer said:
"On Wednesday, the 18th inst, Mr.. E.
B. Blanchard, manager of the High
School basketball team, spoke to Mr..
NcCaughey of the Normal School in
regard to playing the Normal boys on
the following Wednesday afternoon,
the Goth inst
When first spoken to, Mr.. Blanchard
said that he was not quite sure wheth-
er it was Wednesday, the 18th, but he
knew that he had spoken to Mr.. Nc
Caughey some time during that week,
and on being spoken to again today,
he said the same thing.
The statement in Mondays article
that during the noon recess Of the
day on which the High School boys
were expecting to play the Normals,
one of the players on the Normal
School team came to the High School
and said that they were unable to play
as agreed, as they were not yet in con
dition,' is almost entirely incorrect,
and was put into the article through
d misunderstanding No member of
the Normal School came to the High
School on that day to say that his
team could not play. The refusal was
made on the morning of the day when
Mr.. Blanchard telephoned to the Nor
NAL School to make sure that the
game was to be played. This was on
Wednesday, the Goth.
On being spoken to this morning, Mr..
MeCaughey said that this controversy
has been brought on through some mis-.
understanding; that he has no connec-
tion whatever with athletics in the Nor
NAL School; that athletics have just be-
gun to boom in the Normal School and
that he was trying to help the boom
along; that he spoke to Meinecke, the
captain of the basketball team, on the
morning following the afternoon IL
which Mr.. Blanchard had spoken to hin
| in regard to playing; that Meineckt
had spoken to- him in regard to playing
that Meinecke could not see Mr.. Blan
chard and hence the lateness of tht
refusal to play.
This statement, together with the cor
rections, should make all things clear
and blast all illfeeling between the
adherents of the two schools.
Now in reply to DR.. Hand: The Doc
tor says, 90. p Soares may not have
known anything about the Normals get
ting ready for basketball. As he i:
neither member of the High Schoo
nor its team, he was not supposed tx
know
This all may be very true, but as ;
matter of fact, o. P. Soares did know
something about the Normals getting
ready for basketball, for not only ha(
one of the players on the Normal Schoo
team told him that they were out prae
Using, but he was up at the Norma
grounds one evening and saw the Nor
mails practising, and spoke to the cap
tain and other members Of the team
during the time they were practising
and after they had stopped practising
for the day.
o. P. SOARES,
| Honolulu, January q, 1909.