The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-27
DR.. HAND ON THE
SPORT SEASONS

DIR. Hand sends In the following let
ter with regard to the recent High
School Normal basketball controversy:
CATER reading the challenge of the
Normal School and the answer to same
by Soares, think it due both sides
think there is a misunderstanding on
both sides. During a conversation
with Mr.. Blanchard, few days pre-
vious to the closing of the schools for
the holidays, discussing athletics in
general, [ learned from him that the
schools were planning to play soccer
after the holidays / made comments
on the fact of their playing soccer dur
ing basketball season, Mr.. Blanchard
replying that they were ready to play
basketball then but could not get the
Normal team to play, so I volunteered
to see the Normal boys. I saw Mr..
Meiuecke and he informed me that
he could not get his men together, as
they had all made arrangements for
the holidays, but that they would be
willing to play after the holidays, with
couple of weeks praltise. / told
Mr.. Blanchard that. He replied that
if they did not play before the schools
started soccer they would not play at
all, so I took the responsibility and
told the Normal boys to 60 ahead and
practise and that a Y. M. G. A. team
would give them a couple of practise
games and that they might get some
games with the Shafter team; SO they
practised three times the first week in
were at the Y. M. C. A. for practise,
to have me coach them, as well as to
get used to the floor. They played a
| practise game with the Y. M. G. A.
team on January 10 and match game
with Fort Shafter January Is.
con January II Mr.. McCaughey of
the Normal School met Mr.. Blanchard
and arranged game for the thir-
tenth, doing so without consulting the
captain Of the team, and as result
the team knew nothing about the game
and did not show up. .. 2. Soares
may not have known anything about
the Normals getting ready for basket
ball. AS he is neither a member of
the High School nor its team, he was
not supposed to know.
eff the High School team did not
know of it, it was no fault of the Nor
NAL School boys And I will also add
that the schedule for the soccer games
was not drawn till after January 20.
Ny greatest reason for breaking into
this discussion is that it is the playing
of games out of their regular season
that has had a large tendency toward
driving most of the athletes into the
all-round- year baseball game, for one
does not like to train for one thing to
have it declared off, and then train for
another with the same result. And the
final result is that they all take to the
one game, which if played the year
around viii kill itself, and then what
Ny suggestions are for the benefit and
encouraging of sports. January and
February are basketball months, and /
uphold the Normals in that respect.
The seasons of the year should be dl-
vided as follows: September l to De
eember /, collegiate football; Decem-
Der l to January Is, soccer football ;
January Is to March l, basketball;
March j to May l, field and track
meets: and last, but not least, is base
ball. from May l to September l. If
three full months of baseball are not
enough. with one month to get in
shape. making practically four months,
then the baseball tiends had better
take a rest. 90 +. II. HAND,
Physical Director. Y. VI. c. A.