Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-13
Tennis DOUBLES START With
EXCITING fIVE7SET MATCHES
Sixteen Teams Put Up Good Exhibition of the Game at Three
Local CIubs-MatcheS Today Should Be Interesting and
viii Largely Determine Tournament Winners-GosSip of
. the Courts
BY LAURENCE REolNoroN.
TooAYs MATCHES.
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i2~.a> TopAYs MATCHES.
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p. ns-Littlejohn and Warren W.
Cooke and Cooke; Roth and piIIina
ham We. Hoo0s and Hoogs.
$50 p. m.-Gusrd and Collins W
GLIB and GLIB. .
p. m.-castIe and Richards W
Barnes and Richards. -.
1.-TWO RED.Hor fiye-set matches,
and several others that provided
fast tennis, marked the opening OF
the mems doubles championship
yesterday afternoon. Games were
played on the Beretanla, Pacific and
Neighborhood courts, but the major.
ity OF the spectators gathered at the
former club. and were rewarded for
their attendance by some of the most
exciting tennis ever seen on local
courts.
The game OF the day from the spec.
tators' standpoint was that in which
Clarence and r. A. Cooke defeated Eu.
gene Horner, the Hawaii champion.
and r. Sinclair, after dropping the
fourth set so. II was great tennis to
watch, with games dropping first on
one side of the net and then on the
other, and not until IL was almost too
dark to see the balls did ball on
Horner's racquet pop through q hole
close to the top of the net and end
the match. AT that, II was a hard de
cision for the umpire to see, but the
defeated pair raised no question OF
whether the ball was through or over
and were c0ngratulating their oppo-
nents almost before Castle had pro-
nounced judgment. There is no doubt
about the ball going through, but 1t
was 50 dark that anyone might have
been excused for questioning the play.
Fast Tennis.
Il was good tennis most Of the way.
for the Cooke pair we're very steady.
yolleying everything from the mid
court and placing nicely throughout.
In fact, the winners feIled on place
rather than pace, and lost many sure
aces through failure to make easy
smashes. Rather than pound the ball
they .volleyed softly, and about half
the time their opponents got the ball
back for the winning point. Had they
hit harder at the net the Cooke pair
would have won by larger margin.
Horner and Sinclair were better off
the ground. than their opponents, both
men being right on their drive, and
scoring many clever passes, both
cross-court and 70 the corners. What
errors they made were mostly nets by
Sinclair and outs by Horner. The lat
ter scored a number of service aces,
but made more double faults than any
of the other players.
Sinclair and Horner captured the
first set Ga and dropped the next by
the same score, after many bitterly
contested deuce games. At 81 in IA
yor of Cooke and Cooke in the third
set, they had no less than seven
deuces, and were point-set five times,
finally losing the game to Sinclair and
Horner, who worked like nailers to
save the set. The Cooke brothers fl
nally ran out the next two games and
the set. after some stellar work. The
fourth set found the players shifted
TO the grandstand court. and for a
while II looked to be all over with
the veterans, Horner and Sinclair run
ming out love set. The final set was
wildly exciting, the Cooke team COM
ing to life and putting up a grand
fight They won out rs, after the
last Few games replete with spectacu-
lar recoveries and apparently impos-
sible shots. ~A.-
Eva Players Lose. r. -.
The other match to go the full
length was on the Pacific courts, be-
tween Guard and Collins, winners, and
The latter lost the first, but took the
second rather easily, and the third 81
after desperate struggle for the COM
inanding lead. They tired in the next
two, however, getting only four games.
Another Eva pair, Eklund and
Greenfield, lost their match to Castle
and Anterior Richards in straight
sets. The latter team snapped up a
love set at the start, playing the plan
tation men right off their feet They
won the next two sets rather easily
by hard net play and accurate passing
on the sidelines. Richards was driv-
ing as well as usual, while Castle was
singing 'em at the net, sending the
ball over the backstop when he got a
healthy swipe at it. Greenfield was
bit off, and netted many balls, while
Eklund didn't do himself full Justice
and developed a penchant for putting
deep smashes out of court.
oId-Tlmers "cone Back" -s>. 49,
Walter Dillingham; and w. P. Roth,
both former Hawaiian champions,
"came back" in fine style by winning
their match in straight sets. They
had an easy mark in Hairy Gray and
C. G.. Bockus, and 1t remains to be