The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-04-27
future OF SPORTS !.
in FAIR HONOLULU
Tennis, Swimming, Polo, Regatta
and Maybe National Pastime
viii Soon Be In Vogue

May will usher in the outdoor
sports season in Honolulu, and what
the harvest will be for the fans is
causing them no little worry. First
will come the baseball seaon, the Oahu
Leaguers starting their 1915 season
May 2. Later in the week the inter
island tennis championship series will
be inaugurated. june, IL, will come
the annual swimming meet of the Ha-
waiian branch Of the Amateur Athletic
Union. September 20 will be Regatta
Day.
For the baseball season, the fans will
have the Asanis, Punahous, st. Louis
Alumni, All-Army and Portuguese Ath,
Ietic Club teams Of Honolulu and the
Stanford University team of California
IN a series of games. Later on the All
Chinese team will take part in the
series. a. ~
For the tennis matches, the followers
Of this sport will have the mems SIN.
giles and men 3 doubles, the ladies sim
giles and ladies' doubles and mixed
doubles for the championships of the
Hawaiian Islands. There win also be
the inter-club matches for the Wall &
Dorgherty cup.
For the swimming races, it is ex.
pected that the best men and boy swim,
mers of the Islands will compete, and
likewise that there win be an event for
women swimmers. Whether an effort
will be made to adopt the Australian
system Of handicap races remains tt
be seen, but it is the consensus of
opinion among the deyotees of the pas
time that this system be adopted, for
ID will greatly help to bring the pas,
time up to the high standard it de
serves. ~
For the regatta, it is the intention
of the Honolulu Yacht Club to seek
admission into the Hawaiian Rowing
Association and to enter crews in the
various races pulled of on Regatta Day
Should the HOnolulus be admitted to
the association, rowing will take step
forward. In the past but two clubs,
the Healanis and Myrtles, have com.
peted, and these meets have lacked real
enthusiasm. The men handling the
meets have been painstaking in their
and TO make the meets worth while, but
lack of real competition has hindered
their efforts. With a third club in the
swim, interest is bound to become
greater. and the competition keener.
Some time between the first of May
and the last of October the Hawaiian
Polo Association will pull off their pre-
liminary matches and Island champion.
ship matches, and with two teams from
Oahu, two from Mani and two Army
teams in the fray some decidedly inter
esting matches can be expected by the
followers of the enlivening pastime.
Prospects are bright for the playing
of many of the polo matches at Kapio.
lani, Park, and efforts are now being
made by the Polo Association toward
securing long term lease on the park
for This purpose. Not decrying Moana.
lua Field for polo matches; Kapiolani
Park would be better, for then every,
body interested in the pastime could
avail themselves Of the opportunity of
witnessing this great sport. Within a
short time il is expected that the ar,
engagements for the use of Rapiolani
Park as a polo field will be completed
and the field put in proper shape for
the playing of the preliminary and
championship matches.
OF course the golfers will continue
driving the little white globe through
valley and over the hills at the Oahu
Country Club, at Moanalua and at
Sehofeld Barracks. :
Outside of baseball, none of these
sports I'LL in continuously on Satur
day and Sunday. Therefore, If the
national game is de trop here for the
time being what is the follower of out
door athletics going to do for his amuse
ment2 ..
Bicycle and motorcycle racing might
be brought into the limelight, and with
the fans not likely to fall over each
other in quest Of baseball, the staging
of bicycle aud motorcycle races looks
like a good proposition for some sport
lively inclined promot, =. Interest in
bicycle racing is only waiting for some
thing TO turn up. 2 The Adtertiser media
race at KapiolaRi Park last January
brought out big crowd, and so die
the meet held by the carnival sport,
4 committee. Several weeks ago severa
gentlemen interested in bike racing
looked over the field and showed AZ
inclination to start something. Then
their interest waped and since tAer
little has been Said about reviving tn
pastime.
Boxing is pau here, and even tn,
bona fde amateur cannot den the mitt!
without taking a chance, OF running
afoal Of, the law. Moving pictures Of
fights do not seem to be tabu, though
but one who cares for boxing does mo-
care for the pictures.
Horse racing is likewise pau in Ho
nohlln, and not sign appears ON tn,
horizon tending TO revive the sport, anC
the chances of pulling of a race NEE
here are US remote as having a boxing
match,
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