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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

When get to the
stage of retiring from he game and
sitting in the chimney corner and
drooling about what / used to do. "
said Del Howard, the former club
utility man, the other day, I'm going
to tell my grandchildren the story o.
how / won the worlds championship
by making the worst blunder of my
life. On second thought, | think FL
tear up the score and leave. the blind
er part of it out of the story.
But, it is true, and if you don't he
lieve it look at the score of the l@ist
game between Chicago and Detroit the
first. time they battled for the worlds
championship, that extra-inning samc
that ended in a tie that practically
ruined Detroit's chances for the cham
plonship in 1907. You won't see How
ards name among the three-base hits
or home runs, but the fact is he won
that pennant by saving that game, and
le did it by striking out. If ever there
was a fellow who was crossed up,
fooled, puzzled and made to look bad.
it was Howard, tut that made no diff
ference.
They had us licked by two runs in
the ninth and our fellows commenced
TO get a start. We had chance to tie
/; up when Tinker came to bat. Fin
ker hadn't been hitting. Donovan: at
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
Del Howard Tells How He Won :
The Pennant By Striking Out

all; | believe he had struck out cou-
pie of times, and Chance signaled to
me to come on and bat. There's where
Howard gave a wonderful display oil
club swinging. The Srst two shot oyer
the plate so fast was hardly able to
SET myself and swing up befofe I4s
imp was yelling strike H.
L" made up my mind that Donovan
was going to waste that ball and that
[ was going to lake one large, heal: ay
smash at it, because l. rather like \
hit those high ones when they werent
too far away. | started to walk In a
bit to crack the ball, when | Saw 1t
coming low and fast and aimed about
al my knees. 1t looked for an in
slant as if that ball was going to get
tangled up among my legs. / took a
fine swing-and don't think | missed
the ball more than a foot.
Then I heard howl, while the ball
was going back to the stands 1t had
slipped through Schmidt and got away
30 far that the score was tied. ffTne
chances are that if Donovan had vast
ed the ball, as | expected him to DO,
Id have been a hero or a dub,o with
tho chances in favor Of the dub. am
that Detroit would have won the 1rst
game and had running start toward
thu championship. 1t ended in tie,
broke their confidence and we won in
straight heats"
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SWIMMERS
TO TRY THE
CHANNEL

( LONDoN-Rose Piton0f Of Boston
will have strenuous competition In
her effort to swim the English chan.
mel; in fact, there is to be regular
channel derby as soon as the Neap
tides come, the latter part OF August
Besides the Boston girl. Lilly Smith.
champion English girl swimmer. and
four msn will attempt 10 equal the
feat ofIWebb and Burgess. The men
are Jack Weidman, who accompanied
Burgess on his 1911 swim; Ted Hea-
ton of Liverpool: Jabez Wolfe, who
nearly got there, and Fred Record.
r. Arrangements are now being made
for long swim OF particularly inter-
esting character between Miss Pito-
nof and Lilly Smith, which will be in
the nature of practice for the chan
mel swim. 1t will be over course
twenty miles In length. Miss Pitonof
is creating by far the greatest 10.
terest OF any of the aspirants. She
has an American flag in her sitting
room which she declares she will
plant In the sands of France between
Calais and Grisnez. She is now swim
ming grandly and is full of conf
depce.
The favorite among the men Is Jack
Weidman. He holds the Burgess
medal given those who accompanied
the champion and looks forward
cheerily to when his own profile viii
be struck in silver.
ALI the swimmers have completed
their arrangements for the departure.
each having booked tug and select
ed a party. The cost of the trip. iu
Guiding training, is about $780,
1t is expected that after the recent
heavy storms the weather viii turn
very favorable after the Neap tiles
appear, but all the swimmers detlars
that when they start there will be no
peace for the channel.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

LONDON. Aug. lO.-Holy Russia is
unfathomable. Only in holy Russia
do worldly men get et stacteS OF eXal-
tation and become monk: miliiC.'aire )
voluntarily turn beggars. princes d.
vide their lands with mouths. and
happy brides suddenly fly to hummer
les.
And only in holy Russia do they
come back. This month has brought
back to the stage of Moscow's Mali
theater the nun Mile. Lurmila Seliva-
noff. the prettiest and best Russian
actres. of modern plays. For three
years Ludmila Selivanof lived either
il a convent or in 4 ''skith" "a remote
cell in a wolf-naunted forest. For six
months she saw no human face. and
took her food through ole in door,
But today she is tripping the stage
in Paris gown and receiving gems
from her adorers.
Ludmila Selivanoff is III actress o.
the school of the late Vera kommis-
.a1zkevskaya. who had her own the
alter in ST. Petersburg. and was the
Muscovite Rachel Selivanof next
Joined the Moscow Theater KorSch,
She had a great success in big roles,
lived a lively life before marriage,
and after marriage-to the millionaire
conces sionaire Mamontoff-a livelier
life still Mamontoff divorced his
first wife to marry SeIivanoff. Wen
he had lived three weeks with SeIiv-
aEoff he fell passionately in love with
his divorced wife and again paid
court to her She laughed at him,
whereupon he cut his throat in his
hath. SelivanofT wcpt over his death.
and forthwith played in modern
comedy.
Had "caIr' to Become Nun.
Then Selivanoff said she had "a
call" She announced that she was
weary of worldly vanities and would
abandon the stage. for acting was
wicked. People laughed, increduleusly
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03

A curious story is being told in con-
nection with recent banquet given
by the Kaiser William. One invited
guest failed to arrive at the last mo.
ment and the emperor, directed that,
contrary to custom the vacant chair
should not be removed. Toward the
end of the dinner the emperor was
observed to grow suddenly excited.
He half arose from his chair and re-
sumed it only to grow ashen pale.
Quietly. the guests withdrew. one by
one. His imperial majesty said later
in explanation of the incident that
he could have sworn >the old duke of
Cumberland was sitting in the vacant
seat. grinning at him. 1t is the first
known occasion where the Emperor
William has betrayed a weakness to.
ward superstition. The old duke
once laughingly declared that he
would haunt the Hohenzollern as long
as the latter held possession of his
SeQueStered estates.
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BOXING NOW AN
OLYMPIC SPORT

One of the biggest boosts the box
ing game has had in some time was
the recognition given IL by the 0lym
pic games committee at Stockholm
but which has passed almost unnot
iced. Charley Harvey, who is score
tary of the New York State Athletic
Commission. which controls boxing
in New York, went to Stockholm, and
while there he prepared statement
to the Olympic committee, in which
he requested that boxing be given a
place on, the program of the future
Olympic games. 4.
The matter was taken UP and act.
ed on by the members of the inter
national committee, with the result
that Mr. Harvey was assured that in
the future boxing would be given its
proper place on the program: in fact,
1t was announced that the fistic art
would form part of the program.
This should be a big help to the
boxing game. for 1t will mean that
all countries taking part in future
Olympic meets will be obliged to
take up the fisticsr end and send
entries. ~ -st... q
1t will bring about better under
ax fegafds- the gHf1e, TOO,
and may result In the establishment
of q uniform set of rules and weight
classification, something the writer's
Of the United States, England, Aus
tralia and Canada have been endeav.
oring to bring about for several
years. aN -. r.
OF course, the boxing events at the
Olympic games would help the pro-
fessional side of it as well and should
bring the two closer together as re-
CARDS rules and the other branches
of the sport.
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VIEW "Y' ATHLETIC
2 OFFICIAL. is VERY
SPEEDY TRACK MAN

la w. L. Johnson, the new,assistant
physical director, the local Y. NJ. c.
A. has secured crack-a-jack athlete
Of national prominence, besides a man
well up in the special duties of "Y''
work Mr.. Johnson arrived on the
Sonoma yesterday. accompanied by
two trunks containing cups, medals
and diplomas.
johnson graduated from the Uni
versity of Missouri this year, after
cleaning up about all the running
events of the Middle West.
AT the Big Eight conference meet
Of 1911, he won the mile in the record
time of 4:27. and later set new
mark of 56:6 for the 10-mile distance.
He was also a member of the winning
Missouri team that captured the two
mile and four.mile relay races.
The new assistant physical Director
Intends to devote most of his time to
the boys department of the "Y" and
will start in next week with a gym
class for employed boys.
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HENRY, OF PRUSSIA
Anglers RADICALS

BERLIN, August 1O.-The Social
lists and Radicals of all shades are
uniting In bitter denunciation Of the
Lord and Overload" speech OF Prince
Henry of Prussia The Vossische
Zeitung SAYS such conceptions as
those announced by the prince have
no place in modern CiSilization and
that Prince Henry is even more out
{: touch with the. advancement of
the German pc 1ple than Is lie Kaiser
VI lillian, whom nhhirT seems to
trach to hold his tongue.
A number of Americans were
among the guests at the banquet to
the Marksmen at which the speech
was delivered. He attacke& the So
cIa.Ists in bitter phrases end wound
up by saying:
81 desire not to let this day pass
without addressing an appeal to you
alto the depositaries Of the ma
tional idea, to the nonsocialiSt (Bu-
gerlichl parties. He who today does
not openly confess emperor a. em-
rire does not belong 10 us.
Demand for conic$SS2 :.
anu west, men VI every German race
Fave congregatsd here. Let every
race be true to its lord (herr). and let
us all be true 10 orr overioril ('i"1:-
neI1. his ma,eSsS, the- German cn,
reror. Let this festival lot pass With
lat vigorous fetf{ssh.n nf cpl eror
2nd empire and"the German ideals,
freff is Triumph! For The citizen
let trumps be obedience ard order in
he state. Rise from your seats and
raise your glasses with the cry Long
live the emperor. whom God pro-
tects!"
In diplomatic circles much diSsatis'
faction is expressed over The an
nouncement that the British foreign
office plans 10 offer considerable
number of British Officers to the
young Turk government at CONSTANT.
nopie, ostensibly for the purpose of
Ieorganizing the Turkish gendarmes
and wedding out the militarists who
are accused of conspiring to set up
| a reactionary Dictatorship.
The lack of an executioner is the
sole cause for delay in the decap!ta,
ton of two Germans, now under con.
finement in German South West AT.
RIGA. Under peculiarly callous cir,
cumstances they killed a police ser
geant and were duly condemned to
death. The law in German South
West Africa provides that all white
men convicted of murder shall be be-
headed. There is. however. no Off
cial headsman and no one can be
found who is willing to undertake the
office of executioner.
Duke Haunts Kaiser.
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HAWAII CHALLENGES
M0lCll0U FOR RACE
TO MAUI AND RETURN

+. And now along comes a challenge
from the yacht Hawaii to race the
Mollilou to kahului and return, for
chalk. marbles or good cold coin. A
few keen Sachtsmen who are in the
habit of sailing the Hawaii. and know
her like book, think that they can
nail "Drydock" Smiths colors to the
mast In a race to Maui and return.
They are willing to merely round a
mark off kahului, and shake her out
again for home, if time is an object,
but would prefer to lie over for day
or SO in order to see something OF
the Mauites. adding the elapsed. time
for the run each way, and then cor
recting it at this end OF the race
This offer should arouse Skipper
Smiths sporting blood. and another
good contest may be the result.
+ The Mollilou and Kamehameha re-
turned at daylight this morning, hav.
ing left Kahului yesterday afternoon
at 4 O'Clock. On the run back the
Kan caught wind and wave to her
liking, and ran before them like a
scared surfboard, completing the voy-
age in trifle better than IL hours
This was faster than the Molly made
1t, although the latter did not sail
quite as direct route.
The returning yachtsmen report a
bang-up time on the Valley Isle.
where they attended a big lCau yes
terday.
Everyone who called the race was
enthusiastic, and deplored the fact
that with conditions so ideal for rae
ing and cruising, so little advantage
is taken of the opportunity by local
SDOrtSmen,
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HiIo Players All Here For
Inter.lsIand Ball Series
First Game, Scheduled for
Tomorrow Afternoon, Looks
Good on Paper-Fans Keen
for Sport

! If Manager Jack Easton of the Hilo
team is as keen on the tricks Of base
ball as he is on the strategy of war
fare, the local players will have a
hard time holding onto their belong
ings, from regulations. TO spikes. 1t
was Easton who, as captain in the
National Guard. raided the enemy's
camp in the dead of night in the re-
cent unpleasantness between the Reds
and the Blues, and took an officer
prisoner. Easton has been coaching
his players in the same high-handed
methods, 1t is said, and it is quite
possible that before the locals come
to bat Easton will send out a patrol
with instructions to steal all the
bases, thereby cutting off the enemy's
lines of communication.
All the Hilo players are now in
town, Ed Desba, Willie Desha, Hisa-
maya. BrickVood, Watson and More
head all having arrived on the Ma
una Kea this morning. The remain
der OF the invading team have been
here for the past week With the Hilo
company Of the National Guard. and
there is no question about their be-
ing in training for hard campaign
on the diamond.
Honolulu will putsa strong picked
team in the field, Clarke of the P. A.
Cs being slated to do the boxwork
against Kekoa, the Hawaiian speed
burner. Tomorrow game will be
called at 4:30 by Umpire Bert Bower.
who will officiate alone throughout
the series.
Following is the probable lfns-1p OF
the opposing teams: ~ =. :.
Schuman, C; George, Clarke, p;
Dreier. ID; La Mere, 2bi. Markham.
3b; Chillingworth, SIS; ID. Desha. If;
En- Sue, CT; KurisakiS RI.
HiIo - Hisanaga, C; Kekoa-Hisa-
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=; IT,: :: 4s =: STAR BULLETIN SPORTS :::s
EDUCATED PARROT is AN.
ACCOMPLISHED BALL FAN

IT. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.--This
e is a true story, honest Indian it
e is.
d. In back OF the right-field fence
d: at Recreation Park lives a lady
=. who owns a regular green par
(. rot. This parrot is given a deal
z. of freedom, and sits on the fence
q: and watches the game. He pipes
(. the players going to and from
- the clubhouse, and, in short, has
(. become regular fan. He knows
t: all the players by their first name
&. or. at leas., Bill R-ldy says he
F.. does.
{: Honest, that old parrot is the
q. worst pest in the world" says
(. Reidy. "Hc is hollering at me
=. all the time, wanting to know
4" who is going to~pitch and that
9, line of junk. He asked me yes
. terday, and when told him
{. 'Arlett,' he replied:
/: Say. you amt going to stick
/: in that busher before this big
t. crowd
(. so, you see. even a wise old
g bird may be fooled sometimes.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
AT Ter OLYMPIC
GAMES FOR
Orient

The Far East is hard hit by the
athletic craze, and now there is sug
gestion to hold Olympic games, which
would1giv the stars Of track and field
in China, Japan, the Philippines and
other Eastern countries. a, chance To
compete against each other, and to
generally raise the standard of sport
The following des ERUPTION, OF the
plan Is taken from the China Press Of
recent date: Il. - ...E#.
Captain William Tutherly of Manils
while In Shanghai last week made q
suggestion which should meet with 2
warm welcome among the many ath
letic organizations of this city. His
idea put briefly is that all the athletic
clubs of Shanghai and the Yangtsze
valley should be federated, that those
Of Hongkong and vicinity should form
a similar organization and that those
of Northern China should do likewise
He thinks also that the organizations
of the Singapore district will be will
ms to form such an organization and
that Japan too would come in. :
This would make. with the Philip
pines, where the athletic organizations
already have been federated under the
name of the Philippine Amateur Ath.
letic Federation. no less than sig
federated socities. Each would have
a committee and these committees
combined would form general com
mittee for all the organizations. Fo'
lowing out the idea to it's logical con
clusion it is the captains idea that NJ
stated periods. Far Eastern Olympic
Games should be held, first at one city
and then at another. He leaves it to
the general decision as to weather
these meetings be he'd every year.
every two years, three years or four
years.
Philippines PREPARED.
Our Philippines Committee to the
general committee will consist of Gov
ernor-General w. Comeron Forbes: Mr.
Elwood S. Brown, athletic director Of
the Y. NJ. G. A. in the Philippines and
Secretary-Treasurer of the Philippine
Amateur Athletic Federation.
while here had hoped to discuss
the matter with some of your local
athletic leaders but did not have
time However, | hope they will take
the matter up with me by mail. J
would suggest that public meeting at
which the various cluts would be rep,
resented be called and that this meet
ins name committee to work out the
details. When | reach Hongkorg
shall make a similar sugget ton J.ere
and through correspondence | exnect
to start the movement at the other
centers in the Far East There SHOULD
be no trouble about getting the move
mert launched and once started
think it will go forward on it's OVID
merits to genuine success. II IS
Snmathinc Mo need in tho East
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ACTRESS LIVES FOR YEARS AS NUN
AND THEN RETURNS TO THE STAGE

But one night, when she was an
nCunced to play. she did not appear.
She had fed by night to the Moscow
PCkroff Commune Of Holy Women
and swore she would be nun.
Soon afterwards she was "clipped.
That is the Russian expression, be,
cause nuns first at is TO cut on
her hair. while monks is to let his
hair grow. Nothing more was heard
for a time of the Nun Mariy1. as she
vas called. She lived hidden in Ier
convent for two year; Then she DIS
GOV cred that convent life was too
v orldlv and vowed that SLe would re.
treat to hermitage or SIXTH.
A hermitage is attached to = mon,
astery for particularly holy monks. or
to convent for particularly holy
women. Compared with it, the cot
vertual coll is palatial. 1t is hut
in 2 remote part Of 4 forest. and
sometimes for warmth il * q dugout
hole. Wolves roam about it at night
SelivanOff retired to such hermitage
and swore never igain 10 TOOK on
human iace.
In Strict Retirement.
She>took with her three cotton gar
meHts, sheepskins for winter, copy
OF The SlavOnic Go; pels and a history
o. ecclesiastical Russia. Three times
weekly food and drink was brought
to her. The food was black rye bread
with sailed Eerring. and the drink
was water. They were left at hole
in the hermitage door. The "ctress
hermit never saw the foO1-bringer:
she left her Int rarely fora fear Of
wolves. and then alone.
That stage Of retirement lasted
from April last year till October.
Meanwhile Selivancf grew thin She
vowed that she would spend the win
ter in the hut even if the wolves ate
her. But after the first snowfall
three sturdy nuns kidnapped her by
night and brought her back to the
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
MRS. BARTfLs IS
STILL TENNIS
CHAMPION
Defends Her Title as Best Wo-
man Player of Hawaii in Clev-
er Style

Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence
:IIIL0. September 2.-The final
came in connection with the Ladies'
Singles championship of the Island
II Hawaii was played off on Saturday
afternoon last on the Hilo tennis
clubs courts.
The battle was between Mrs. Bar.
els and Miss Fox and resulted in a
win for Mrs. Bartels after strenn.
gus game. This makes the second
inc that Mrs. Bartels has won the
championship.
Although Miss Fox was not con.
ceded to have much of chance with
he winner, il was not thought that
he would put up such good game
as she did. Nearly every point was
fought OFT to finish and II was .
good game TO watch.
The other games of the tournament
are nearing the final stage, and this
afternoon it Is expected that the
finals of the mems doubles will be
played off. The weather has rather
nterfered with the games up to the
present time and the tournament.
which should have finished last Sal
1rday afternoon. VIII not be through
until some time this week.
The tournament has heen quite
society affair aud the courts have
leen crowded every afternoon. 'Fhe
aides took turns to provide afternoon
tea and the games have been very
successfully managed Alyah A.
Scott is captain of the courts this.
year and is running everything very
we'll.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-03
BRITISH DEFEAT
STILL THE
TALK

LONDON-All English newspapers
still angered Ly the Britiih defeats
and American successes at the Olym-
pic games at Stockholm unite 4. an
appeal to wealthy and public spirited
Englishmen to subs cribe to a fund
that will enable English athletes to
compete in a Thoroughly trained condl-
ton.
At the next Olympic games, to he
held n Berlin in 1916, the Times. Mail,
Standard and Express go further, de-
claring that Americas success is due
large to the fact that she is able to
draw upon the natives or Hawaii, red
Indians, negroes and defendants OF
a hundred nationalities that make up
the citizenship of the Republic. and in
sisting that at the next Olympic
genes Britain shall he renrasentad.. hg
teams fecruisted from all the colonies
Of the empire. ..s.. ..
Might Have Been Second.
Figures are cited to prove that if
successful contestants from British
dominions and oversee possessions
had been counted as Britons England
would have been second at Stockholm.
L II this suggestion becomes effective
the London press Is confident that Eng
land will sweep all before her at tn =
next Olympic games, generally speak
Ing j.
While the American triumph hurts,
the English press has been uniformly
fair, attributing the success to spec al
ization, fine team work and the thor.
ough training of the American ath.
lete.
Dcprecate Yankee Triumph.
One or two minor organs aqect to
deprecate the American victories by
sneering at the representatives of the
United States as semi-professionals
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, not content
with enrolling the Canadian. Austria
Ian and South African athletes as
Rritishers, would go further and see
whether among Ceylon or Malay swim
mers, Indian runners and Sikh Wrest-
lers we cannot find winners among
the cOlored races for the British EN-
Lire.
Already movement has been be-
gun. which it is expected will tie head
ed by Lords Lonsdale. Desborough,
Esher, Ampthill and other sportsmen,
who are peers for the organization of
the Imperial Athletic Union, to pro-
vide funds for training and representa-
ton under one flag of all athletes of
the British Empire at the Berlin meet
ing.