The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-12

Though rain threatened early I'm
. the evening, ana sQualIy weather
seemed impending. the third series of
matches iu the Manoa clubs night
/ tournaments were played of at the
/ Nauoa Valley courts last night A
slight shower about seven O'Clock pro-
missed more, but at the time set for
! the starting of the first match the wea-
Their had cleared of The grass was
damp and the seats round the courts
were wet, but This did not keep spec
tators away, for there was another
good attendance. During the evening
light showers fell at intervals, and
once or twice squalls swept across the
court, but the squalls were of short
duration and the rainfall was light.
Many of the spectators took refuge in
the club house, but the majority re-
NAMED ON the lawn and brayed the
elements.
Play was of an interesting character,
all of the four contests being marked
by patches of brilliant play. Three
singles were set down Tor play, but
as Captain W. w. Low has retired
| from The tournament one Of the match
es was abandoned A. NJ. NOVEL; win
ming by default The other two sin
giles were good games, the one be
tween Atherton Richards and J. Guard
particularly so, but the Sayage-Water-
house match resulted in a compare
lively easy win for Savage.
Richards played a steady game
against Guard and won seven out Of
the first eight games, Guard falling
on yolleys and long drives. Richards
displayed excellent judgment and Dla
ced the ball dozens Of times within an
inch or two of the back line, but Guard
in essaying similar strokes sent the
ball out OF the court In the eighth
game Guard made brilliant effort, but
fell down towards The end and when
deuce had been called thrice he put
Richards game with a double fault.
Guard won the next two games but
It was his final effort and Richards
ran out by winning the next three.
Guard used a good back-hand stroke
and won several points by placing on
Richards left, and he also occasional
ly employed a cut which netted him a
point or two. On one occasion Guard
put tremendous bottom on his ball
with the result that after crossing Tho
net into Richards court the bal
bounced back across the net It II
seldom, indeed that such a stroke II
brought off in a tournament The
service Of both players was fair; occa
sionally a cord Swimming ball was sen
across, but on the whole the frs
ball Of each service was wasted.
[ Enthusiasm was worked up during
{ the progress of the match between tn,
t EVA and Honolulu representatives
t Greenfield and Savage were oppose,
7 to Gray and Steere. All through th
+ match rallies were frequent, bu
Greenfield and his partner dispaye,
the better form from mid-court an
the better from from mid-cour
and yolleyed in name
which reused the spectator
to continuous applause. Ora
and steere had a fair share Of the pla
in their favor, but both fell down o
comparatively easy shots, after brinl
ing off brilliant returns. Steere
L back hand strokes were eective. Fly
Of the sixteen games went to deuc
in one instance sixteen aces being NJ
cessary to win the game, in two other
twelve ana once ten. Savage mad
three double faults and each one Of tn
other players made one. Thong
Greenfield ana Savage led by five I
one at one stage, after that play wa
more even and of the next ten game
each side won five, victory Resin
with the Eva representatives by te
to six.
FAST play characterized the mate
Il in which Novel; and Guard beat X.
n Cooke and Bockus. Novel; and Guar
X got into their stride from the outs'
v and won five out of the first ST
y games, three being love games. Cook
Y opened with a double fault, but Bockr
went one better and sent down thrC
!. successive doublefaults In the'
= games Bockus was often at fault, b
y ing unsafe to return the ball, while h
y partner was also weak. But from Il
y end of the sixth game EDWARDS the
' was a great difference in the pla
, Bocltus commenced to toss and
= played remarkably well for a viii
though a couple of points had to
y replayed owing to the ball striking Il
N overhead wire. At the same tin