The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-16
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NIGHT TENNIS MEET
At MANOA CLOSES
NOVEL; Wins SingIes-Ather-
ton Richards and Clarence
Cooke Double VictOrs.

/ \. NJ. Newell was the last survivor
! of the fourteen racqueters who entered
! for the Manoa Valley night tennis
/ tournament. which overran week.
| Atherton Richards and Clarence Cooke
/ got away withzthe men 5 doubles which
! makes Cooke a double champion, having
won the mixed doubles feature with
/ Mrs. Ethel Coulter the night before.
/ NOVEL; wrested the final honors in the
individual play from Dick Cooke, whom
he defeated last night, 81, H6, 81.
! Cooke was as game as they hook them
until the last set of the session, and
NOVEL; had to play him out to get him.
/ In the first set Cooke had the best of
it five to one before NOVEL; was able
to haul up to him. Then Cooke gained
two laps more before NOVEL; scored the
first down. In the second period Cooke
ran it up to three love, and he captured
the three more while NOVEL; only land
ed two pair. In the last set the victor
got Cooke under control and landed
him by the score of six to one. Young
Atherton Richards and Clarence Cooke
put Dick Cooke and C. G. Bockus out
of it two straig ht, by Ga, Cd.
The usual multitude of tennis fans
turned ont to witness the finish, and al
though it showered hard couple of
times they defed the elements to drive
them to cover, and each time the rain
ceased when the assemblage proved able
to ignore it.
The Moana Valley night tournament
I ale 10 bac a
Of the longest series on the courts, and
has attracted the largest attendance of
any tennis function this year. While
some claim that it isn't tennis. because
) they can knock the ball up above the
lights and win by confusing their OPP
| ponents, the majority seem to think
, that it is tennis. all right, if they don t
make it point to take advantage in
this way of the outer darkness or de-
, liberately drive the ball high enough
to force their opponents to meet the
glare of the lights with their eyes to
keep the missile within their vision.
The matches started a week ago last
Thursday night. There were fourteen
. single entries; nine teams went in for
: the mems doubles, and five teams COM
! peted in the mixed doubles. Rain neces-
STATED postponement for three evenings
and there were no games scheduled for
. Sunday, so there were six nights of play
, as was originally scheduled. Following
is tabulated summary of the entire
meet:
Mems Singles.
H. f. Savage beat f. E. Greenfield,
= lot
y A. NJ. NOVEL; beat F. E. Steere,
: 10-
: Capt. W. W. Low beat Noel DEER,
16-l4
, Gerald Irwin beat w D. singlehurst,
, 10.
Atherton Richards beat ". T
Schmidt. 10-1.
: Dick Cooke beat Harry Gray. 10-3
: Fl. F. Savage beat Johnny Water
. house. 10-2.
, A. NJ NOVEL; beat Capt w. W. Low
. by default.
y Atherton Richards beat Jack Guard
! 100.
) Dick Cooke beat Gerald Irwin, 10
Dick Cooke beat Atherton Richards
11-9.
A. NJ. NOVEL; beat H. f. Savage
10-3
A. NJ NOVEL; beat Dick Cooke, 81;
4-6; 6-1.
Men s Doubles.
A. NJ. Newell and Jack Guard beat
: Johnny Warehouse and W. H. Babbitt
e 10-6
e Atherton Richards and Clarence
Cooke beat Hemenway and W. D
Singlehurst 10--1.
w T. Schmidt and L. J. Warren beat
S McCallum and Macintyre. 10-7.
!. Greenfield and Savage beat Gray and
:. Steere, 10-6.
Il Dick Cooke and C. G. Bockus beat
5 \. NJ Novel; and Jack Guard. 10.
$ Dick Cooke and c. G. Bockus beat
d Greenfield and Savage, 10-2
Atherton Richards and Clarence
: Cooke beat w. 7. Schmidt and L. j
y Warren. 10
Atherton Richards and Clarence
: Cooke beat Dick Cooke and c. G
| BOckus. Ct: ca.
Mixed Doubles.
Mrs. Ethel Coulter and Clarence
q Cooke beat Mr.. and Mrs. Waterhoust
n l0-2
a Mrs. Ethel Coulter and Clarence
q Cooke beat Miss Lucy Ward and Gerald
Irwin 10.
Mrs. Give Davies and D. W. Ander
son beat Miss Patty and W. H, Rabbit
| 10-4.
: Mrs. Ethel Coulter and Clarence
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