The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-23
/ TENNIS TOURNAMENT
OPENS DESPITE RAIN
Six Matches Played on Town
Courts-Manoa and Neigh
bOrhOod Too Wet.

Six of the seven matches scheduled
3 for the first days play in the f. 0.
4 Hall cup tennis tournament were play.
ed yesterday but only two of the four
d clubs courts were used. The rain was
Il rather more copious in the vicinity of
j the Neighborhood Club and out at Ma
q noa than in town, so the games We're all
& PLAYED on the Beretania and the Pacific
a Club courts.
j Only two Of the back of scratch men
4 had their turn yesterday These were
A. NJ. NOVEL; and Atherton Richards
4 Novel; played Singlehurst, beating him
4 two straight sets by the scores of Go,
s a.
4 Richards and Johnnie Waterhouse
4 each won set Richards landed the
4 first 6--3, and Waterhouse tool his set
n BY Sc Darkness prevented settle
q ment OF the controversy and the two
i will play it off this afternoon, begin.
ming at half past four clock on one
q of the Pacific Club courts.
d W. T. Schmidt. Johnnie Waterhouse
is a scratch man, Schmidt is allowed
n thirty point handicap and Atherton
s. Richards is behind scratch, each start
81 ing game at owe fifteen.
8 In the Novel; Singlehurst match, the
u former started owing fifteen and the
# latter had a ffteen-point handicap.
81 The other back of scratch men viii
play their first games today. They are
AL Castle. Capt. w. W. Low and Dick
Cooke. Castle plays Gerald Irwin who
is scratch man. Low playes G. War,
y rem, a scratch man. and Cooke plays
Il Eklund, who is allowed a handicap of
d fifteen.
D C. G. Bockus went into action with
II the Nav Sutton stroke yesterday and
81 trimmed II. s Gray 6-1. 81. Bockus
is a scratch man and Gray has fifteen
q points handicap. Bockus was first al
A lowed fifteen points by the handicap
j committee but he objected so strenu.
msly to get into the scratch class that
j the committee relented ard the Sutton
stroke artist had to win out SO as TO
y show them.
W. It. Schmidt VS.. W. L. Stanley was
Z the only match that went three sets,
q Schmidt winning 10, 6-3. 6-9. Noel
D Deer and II. Z. Savage We're the only
& ones who did not play their match.
u They were scheduled to meet on the
u TIL, lint ha
q vented. They plan, however, to beat
B the rain to it by getting out at half
II past six this morning to settle the SUI
& premaev question and r. Sinclair. who
Il defeated Jack Guard 81, Cd on the
q Beretania courts Yesterday will play
& the winner of this before breakfast
n match. These four men are in the
IL scratch class.
q P. D. Collins put Theodore Richards
e out of it Yesterday, 6-3, 6-3, on the
& Pacific courts Collins, who IS III
8 teen point handicap man. will meet
Il Novel;. one of the five starts today.
u Bockus. who defeated Gray, will go up
U against one of the Eva champions, +.
&E Greenfield. F. f. Steere and W. A.
WAL. VINO drew byes will meet today
s Steere is a scratch man and Wall has
b fifteen handicap Following Is a faou-
e hten of the tournament so Tar:
b Beretania Courts.
q Novel; heat Singlehurst. 60, 6-4
s Boekus beat Gray, 81. 6-l.
B Sinclair beat Guard. 81, Ga.
0 Schmidt beat Stanley, 10, 6-3,
80.
B Pacific Courts.
q Collins beat r. Richards, 6-3, 6-3.
Waterhouse beat A. Richards, IS,
Sc
Re Beretania Courts Today.
Low vs. Warren.
D Novel; vs.. Collins.
Cooke vs. Eklund.
q Pacific Courts Today.
Bockus VS. Greenfield.
q Waterhousc VS.. A. Richards.
b Schmidt vs.. winner of Waterhouse
Richard
IS Manoa Courts Today.
Steere vs.. Wall
Sinclair vs. winner of Deer Savage
satrb
DEER vs. Savage.
Neighborkood Courts Today.
Castle vs. Irwin
Players Under Scratch.
Castle, Novel;, Low. Cooke and Ath-
stOn Richards
Scratch Players.
IS Theodore Richards. Jack Guard. K.
snelair, Noel Deer, II. f. Savage
ohnnie Warehouse, G. G. Boekus,
N@rald Irwin, G. Warren. F. E. Green
ed and f. f. Steere.
20 Fifteen Handicap.
&. Snglehurst, p d. Collins, II.
Gray, W y. Fkluud and W. A. Wall.
Thirty Handicap.
T. Schmidt and W. L. Stanley.
all the re4uiar matches today will
art at four thirty o'clock.
GET IT TODAY.