Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-31
THIS YEAR HIS
!. Been GREAT)NE
FOR ALL SPIRITS
Hawaii Came Into NatioaI and
International Promie nee
Owing to Work of Hester
ling Athletes. Milteen
Twelve Marked New FL
HoNoLU LIps 1ei2 cHAMPlAs

II Soccer footbail-rIigh School Fam. l.
Il American football-Oahu Collie.
i Lawn Tennis. Atherton Riclrds,
IsineIes; w. r. Dillingham; and p.
Roth, doubles.
PoIo-Oahu Team: Sam BaIyfn,
Harold Castle, Walter DiIIinghantnd
ARTHUR Rice.
II Golf-George II. Angus. I
4 RoWine-AIaneda Rowing Cd.
Heaianis made best showing of kal
organizations.
4 Trans-Pscific Yacht Race-Schoer
Lurline, of San Diego, ST.
acknowledgements Athletic CD
winner Of Oahu League pennant. l.
Chinese team has six straight WE
lover best local teams Including J.
les. since return from mainland toi
/ SWlmming-Duke p. kahanamoku
i WaIking-NieeI Jackson. II
Distance Runnino-John Hal
Soldier King and Jimmie Fitzgerald
Team Bowling tragglers" (sprin
series), "Cherries" {tfall series).
4 Girls BasketbaIi-Y. w. C. A. team
lst. Andrews Priory team winnel
1 league series. ].
Il 4 LIS pCCtI DlS OdI pOElS
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. mot have some
mention of Hawaii or one of its cham.
pions in the sporting columns.
Duke Kahanamoku started the ball
rolling by making a trip to the main
land in the early spring, invading the
east under rtnfavorab1e 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 BIZ Duke in 1911 for
the 100 and 80 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 a number of events in
the east, returning to Honolulu Oct
1 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, ind winning a majority. The
showing was SO excellent that TIE.
team will make another baseball pill
grimage next spring.
Hawaii didn't fare so we'll on the
water as in it. The Alameda Rowing
Club sent crew down here to COM
pete in the annual regatta, which
the Coast crew won after heaft-
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 good second
This has been a banner year for
polo, and the fine showing made in |
the inter-isiand championship tourna- !
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 !
matches against local players OF the |
Honolulu players who appeared on (
mainland courts, ]. Atherton Richards, /
the present Hawaiian champion, and !
Alan Lowrey, made excellent show I
ings.
In eastern college football, a Homo
lulan and former Punahou player, Rex
made the Harvard varsity,
and played in all the good games
- Honolulu was represented in PROBES I
sional baseball by Johnnie Williams,
who made good with Sacramento, of !
the Coast League, as 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 years has been free from
scandal, and no single branch of
sport has fallen int disrepute through
abuses.
HERE'S SHARPLY NEW YEAR
FROM THE STAR-BULLETIN TO
EVERY TRUE SPORTSMAN IN no.
NOLULU.