The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-10

lof big soccer matches in Ireland and
England are eager to introduce base
ball The soccer matches draw
enormous crowds and the promoters
figure that baseball could be played
at profit II the right organization
were formed. Sphinx figures that a
daily attendance of 1000 will easily
support a baseball club.
American Women Play Golf in Eng.
land.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Five young
women aspirants for the woman's
golf championship of Great Britain,
which will be contested in the tour
nament at Port Rush, Ireland, sailed
from New York on April 20 for
Glasgow, Scotland. The tournament
opens May IS.
Among the golf players in the
party was Miss Dorothy Campbell Of
Hamilton, Ontario, the American and
former English champion, who ex-
Nects to regain the honors taken
from her by Mrs. Grant Suffice, the
lpresent champion.
with Miss Campbell we're Miss
Mary Fownes and Miss Louise B. Elk
ms of Pittsburg and Miss Florence
Harvey and Miss Eff1e Nesbit of
Hamilton. Ontario.
international Polo Plans.
The six British army officers, who
have come from England and india
to give battle for the international
polo trophy, May 81 and June 3, ex-
pect to do most of their practlcing
at the Lakewood, N. J., field of George
]. Gould
The all-American team will doubt
less be made up of H. P. Whitney,
captain DevereauX Milburn, back,
and the Waterburys. They are the
four players who went to England
two years ago and recaptured the
trophy, which John Watson and three
British army officers had carried of
from Newport twenty-three years
previously Lieutenant e. w. Y.
Palmes furnished the most sensa-
tional kind of polo playing at the No.
2 Georgian court field on April 80.
Practically alone he won the game
against the Reds by earning every
one of the six goals credited to his
side. At the end of the game the
score stood England Az goals, Reds
1. Aleck Brown was the only man
able to score against Palmes.
The English team was made up OF
Palmes, Edwards. Cherpe and Lloyd.
Their adversaries representing the
Reds, were Wilson and Bennett sub
stitutes on the team that went to
England Keene, Brown and Ramsey,
high class handicap American polo
lists. And yet Palmes beat them out
by his wonderful playing.
American outwrestIed by Pole.
Zbvszko defeated Gus Schoenlein,
the American, in a finish wrestling
match in two straight falls at Balti-
more, on April 2S. After wrestling
for an hour and four minutes, during
which both men wriggled out OF
many tight places, Schoenlein stun
bled and fell on his back, with the
Pole on top of him. The second fall
was gained in twenty-six minutes.
Frenchman Defeats Briton.
The covered court tennis cham
pionship of England was won on
April % by 'Frenchman, A. H. Cob |
ert, who defeated the veteran Eng
ishman, M. J. G. Richie, 80, in
he final singles at Queens Club. On |
he following day Colbert defeated F. |
J. Lowe, the holder of the title,
30.
Portland Ahead in Coast League.
AS the result of the matches played |
between April 2Sth and May End,
heads the Pacific Coast
baseball league, having deposed San
francisco on the Goth ult. However,
when the Siberia left there was very
little difference between the position
Of the two teams, the Seals having
sustained just one more defeat than
he northerners.
After winning three games in
from San Francisco |
starting from the 2Sth, the Oaks went
down to a III defeat in the second
game on the Both ult. On the goth,
Oakland won 1872, getting eight runs
in the ninth inning and batting three
Of the Seals pitchers out of the box,
OF the four games played between
Vernon and Los Angeles during the
period under review the Angels won
one only, the scores of the series be.
ing 80, 5-3, Sc, and 90 in favor of