Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-18
CHAMPIONSHIPS
FOR LATE
JULY
Tennis Titles Will Be Contest
ed When Eastern Cracks Ar
rive-BockuS On Sport.

The Hawaiian championship tennis
events have finally been set for the
latter part of July, when the class
of Island racquet experts will he here
to take part This announcement was
made this morning by e. c. BOckus Of
the Hawaiian Lawn Tennis AssOcia-
ton, who returned Thursday from
trip to the Coast The probability Of
this action was announced some
months ago. but MIR. BoCkus' an
nounCement Is the first official word
that has been given out.
In July several of the local players
who are attending school and college
In the East will be back for the sum
lend considerable interest to the Ha-
waiian event Heretofore the cham
pionships have been held in May, but
the number of first class players here
now IL so few that II was thought to
he in the interest of sport to postpone
1t. and. he II said to their credit. the
players now here. whose chances Of
winning are far stronger now than
later. were as keen as anyone for the
postpOnement
A. ]. Lowrey, who plays on the Har-
ward tennis team. will be on hand for
the Hawaiian championships. He will
bring two friends, both crack tennis
men, back with him for the vacation,
and these will also play. Stanley Ken
merry of Stanford and Atherton Rich
ards. who Is attending school in the
East. are two other cracks who will
L.. h., ,,,1 A
present champion, will return from his
European trip in time to defend his
title
In National Body.
Mr. BoCkus has just received let
ter from the United States Lawn Ten
mis- Association. stating that the Ia-
waiian Association had been elected
n member Of the national body. This
gives the local association more pres
; tige In the tennis world, and carries
several other advantages
With the return of Bockus tennis
may be expected to look up locally
| for he Is one of the real live wires OF
racquetland
Il saw Mclaughlin, Long and sew
eral other players known In Honolulu
!
said "They all sent their regards tC
| friends in Hawaii and said that they
would be back here the first chance
that came up. Baseball Is the big
! sport on the Coast now, though. The
/ people all over the Coast League cir
cult are baseball mad, and they fair
I ~ mob the parks to get in. | saw all
the teams in action except SaCra-
mento, so didn't see Johnny VIII
! liams play. He is certainly making
good, and is well liked on the Coast.
Likes Roman Sport.
Book" was in Los Angeles for the
| big Shriner dOings, but he found time
to give the world of sport a whir
while there.
Il can't decide whether the chariot
race mt Pasadena or the Santa Monica
auto race was the greatest sporting
| show" he said. THAT chariot rae,
, was certainly marvel. and they wen
at 1t from the drop of the hat Foul
horses abreast to each chariot, thu
car loaded with a thousand pounds
of lead, and the drivers strapped in
I The auto race was a crackerjack. too
and it's a wonder someone wasn't kill
ed the speed they made and the way
they took the turns. saw som'
championship golf in San Francisco
and, believe me. I got a whole lot o
points on the dignity of the game
, Why, those fellows make our mos
ponderous players look like a band o
wild Indians. They wrap themselve
in coats and in frigid silence, anC
when they follow the ball they don
walk after 1t. they stalk"