The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-11
REVIEW OF
TENNIS PLAY
(Pacihc Weekly.)

With one exception the tennis tour
nament for the championships of the
islands has been remarkably success
full. The mixed doubles proved to ba
far the best ever seen here and the
same is true of the ladies singles, while
the mems doubles were of excellent
quality. In the mems singles the ten
mis- seen was very poor. Gee, who |
won the championship, far outclassed !
any player in the tournament and had
too easy time to make things even
interesting.
The feature of the tournament was
the playing of Miss Miriam Hall and |
Mrs. Renton Hind. Either of these
ladies can make any man in the Ter
ritory watch his game when playing
singles. Both play steady games and
have unusually good back hand strokes.
Miss Hall has an overland volley
which is exceptionally fine and Mrs.
Kinds service is superb.
In the mems doubles Gee and Cunha,
who won the championship, met their
hardest match in the first round, when
they defeated David Anderson and Cap
tain Lowe. Had the latter been IN
better condition they would have won,
as Gee is much stronger in singles than
in the double game. Greenfield and
McKeever, the Eva pair, got up to the
finals, but were beaten by the steadi-
ness of their opponents and their own
wildness at critical moments.
Taken all in all the tennis was
good, the interest was greater than in
any tournament for years past and
everything points to good season. 1t
is expected that an invitational tourna-
ment will be held in November, when
good play should be seen. The courts
of the Beretania club, which is now by
far the strongest organization in the
city. are in perfect shape and the mem
bership is full with nearly a dozen
names on the waiting list 1t is very
evident that the game is on the boom
in this city.
! I1Xt&3CEX1EE05CNSX&E&&&NN&He
to have said that the Korea would
be withdrawn from the transpacific
line because it was not doing a profit
able business. what I said was that
unless we obtained assistance for the
merchant marine all our steamers
would have to be laid up, for -condl-
lions were bad and getting worse. l
cited the Korea as an instance, for
she promised only $4,000 for the voy-
age, which is far from what the bus1-
ness should be, as every business man
knows. The Korea will be kept runn-
ing as long as the rest of them.
- PLEASED BY FAST RUN.
Schwerin was in a genial mood
when the Manchuria was released
from quarantine, following the fast
est run of her career from the isl
ands. The austere manner for which
he is voted was not noticeable, and
he even vouchsafed the Information
that he had not "butted in with the
running of the Manchuria, not even
visiting the bridge, where the canny
skipper, Captain Andrew Dixon, had
everything his own way.
= Schwerin inquired anXiously con-
Corning his chief, Mr.. Hartman, of
whose serious illness he had just
heard. It had been rumored that
Schwerin's return to the coast was
Tor the purpose of making a business
Trip to New York to meet the direc-
tors of the Pacific Mail Company, but
he denied this. 'T made the trip to
\ Honolulu with my family for health
and pleasure, and we got both, ap0
= no special mission calls me back"
he said.
Then he turned to his assistant,
Mr.. Frey and William Chisholm, the
: superintendent of the Pacific Mail
Company, and began a long confab
over affairs of the steamship COM
pany. That things have been run
ming smoothly during Schwerin's alb
sence was apparent in the counter
ances of the three men. Soon after
the liner locked at Pier A, Schwerin
was whisked away in his yellow au-
tomobile to his home down the pen
Ursula.