Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-31
THIS YEAR HAS
been GREAT ONE
FOR ALL SPORTS
Hawaii Came Into National and
International Promin e nee
Owing to Work of Her Ster-
Iing Athletes = Nineteen
Twelve Marked New Era

HoNoLuLu,S. 1912, CHAMPIONS
Soccer footbail-r;ieh School Team.
American footbaiI-oahu College.
Lawn Tennis. Anterior Richards,
singles; w. r. Dillingham; and w. p.
Roth, doubles.
Pclo-oahu Team: Sam Baldwin,
Harold Castle, Walter Dillingham; and
Arthur Rice. E....-
Golf-George II. Angus. i. III
Rowing-Alameda Rowing Club.
Healanis made best showing of local
organizations.
'frans-Pseific Yacht Race-Schooner
sLurIine, of San Diego.
RasebalI-Japancse Athletic Club
winner of Oahu League pennant. ALL
Chinese team has six straight wins
over best local teams including J. A.
c's. since return from mainland tour.
Swimmina-Duke p. Kahanamoku.
WaIking-Nigel jackson.
Distance Runnine-John Hau,
Soldier King and, Jimmie Fitzgerald.
Team Bowling-"S tragglers" (spring
series), Hcherries" (fall series).
Girls BasketbaIl-Y. w. C. A. team.
ST. Andrews' Priory team winner
league series.
This has been big year in sports
for Hawaii. Never before have the
islands figured so prominently in ma
tional and even international events,
but during 1912 is was hard to find a
newspaper that did not have some
mention of Hawaii or one of its cham
pions in the sporting columns.
Duke Kahanamoku started the ball
rolling by making trip to the main
land in the early spring, invading the
east under unfavorable weather con-
ditions and without much experience
in competition, and winning the ma
tional championship for the 100 yards.
This was an eYeopener for the A. A.
u. officials, who had looked with
great distrust on the worlds record
marks made here by Duke in 1911 for
the 100 and SO yard events. Duke
made a place on the American
Olympic team, and won the 100 metres
at Stockholm, afterwards making a
new worlds record for that distance
OF I'm LBS, at Hamburg, Germany.
He swan in number of events in
the east, returning to Honolulu Oct
l after giving Hawaii much desirable
publicity
Next to Duke, the Hawaiian pro-
ducts to receive most attention in the
states were the famous All-Chinese
baseball team. This organization tour
ed from coast to coast for more than
six months, playing games with some
of the best amateur and semi pro
teams, and winning majority. The
showing was so excellent that tie
team will make another baseball pill
grimage next spring.
Hawaii didn't fare so well on the
water as in, it. The Alameda Rowing
Club sent a crew down here to COM
pete in the annual regatta, which
the Coast crew won after a heart
breaking race with the Healanis. This
race attracted much attention on the
Coast, and in all probability will lead
to regular annual meetings between
oarsmen Of California and Hawaii.
The biennial trans-Pacific yacht
race fell in 1912, and in this deep sea
yachting classic, Hawaii had to be
contented with second place. The
Lurline, of the San Diego Yacht Club,
took the race, but the Hawaii, Captain
Stroud, was a good second
This has been a banner year for
polo. and the fine showing made in
the inter-island championship tourna-t
ment, which was won by the Oahu
team, has led to arrangements for
sending an All-Hawaii team to the
Coast this coming month, to take part
in the big events at Coronado:
Some of the best tennis players in
the world were seen in action in Ho-
nolulu early in the year, when the
American challengers for the Davis
cup returned from. their unsuccessful
Australian tour. Maurice McLaugh-
lin and Beals Wright played several
against local players. Of the
Honolulu players who appeared on
mainland courts, ]. .Atherton Richards,
the present Hawaiian champion, and
Alan Lowrey, made excellent show
ings.
In eastern college football, Homo
lulan and former Punahou player, Rex
and played in all the good games.
Honolulu was represented in PROBES
sional baseball by Johnnie Williams,
who made good with Sacramento, of
the Coast League, as a pitcher.
Purely local performances are too
to mention All in all it has
been a great year for clean sport in
Hawaii, both amateur and profession
al. Splendid performances have
gone down on the records, but best OF
all the year has been free from
scandal. and no single branch of
sport has fallen into disrepute through
abuses.
FROM THE STAR-BULLETIN TO
EVERY TRUE SPORTSMAN IN HO-