Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-01

SPORTS BOOKED
FOR THIS YEAR
rRy Associated Prsssl

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/ NEW YORK, N. Y.--While the Eu-
ropean war his killed all chances of
international sports competition on
the scale of the Olympic Games and
the Americas Cup Regatta. the com
ing year will not be without its inter
sectional and International contests.
| In fact the indications point to a
wider range of sport meetings during
1916 than ever before in the history
of amateur competition in this roun-
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National championship contests are
expected to draw entrants from all
parts of the continent and with the
interest of all sections bound up in
the play of their respective contest
ants the dearth Of international
sports, planned for 1916, will be par
tally forgotten. The Pacific coast
win send powerful and well-balanc-
ed tennis team to eastern courts for
several months of tournament play;
Stanford University will enter team
in the intercollegiate track and field
championships and the winning crew
in the Far Coast intercollegiate regat.
Ia will row at Poughkeepsie.
An Easter polo team will play in
the Middle and Far West while one
or more from these sections will COM
pete in the national championships
later In the summer With the COM
ing of autumn International football
games will be more frequent than
ever, the South, East, Middle and
Far West elevens meeting in numer-
out gridiron contests, .:.>E.
The outlook for International meets
is not SO promising, although there
will be some events along these lines. |
The baseball team of Waseda Uni.
Versity OF Japan will tour the coun.
try, playing the leading college mines;
several Australian boxers are already /
planning to invade the states; Christ
ian Mathewson, the worlds champion
skater, is expected to compete against
the leading professional speed skaters /
or America during the winter: severa. |
South American rifle teams are plan. !
ming to shoot in the national tourna-
ments and the invasion of the United !
States by large track and field /
team from at least one foreign nation
is possibility. - 7 -
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Censor Sports. = 80. s
English war censors work Just as
carefully with blue pencils and shears
on American sporting matter cabled
to Euprope as they dc, on news of far
greater Importance. The score of the
football game was held I
up for more than IL hours, much to +
the disappointment of Harvard alumni Il
who had gathered to. dine and cele-
bratei the forecasted victory. The
score OF the recent six-day bicycle
race was received with the daily rec.
ords of the teams eliminated to a
point where 1t was impossible for
English sporting editors to make head &
or tail out. of what was left. Results
Oh boxing bouts in Australia are made 81
public from one to two days late, Sc
that the sportsman at home has little a
advantage over hiss brother in the
trenches.
Shorter training trips and fewer
exhibition games are predicted for
the big league baseball teams during
the coming spring campaign of pre-.
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No Pot Hunters Here.
Wisconsin tennis authorities have
decided to stage state championship
tournament open only to players who
are residents of that state. The state
Will be divided into sections and
each club asked to- hold a tournament
. decide the club championship.
These title-holders will, in turn, meet
n series Of divisional matches and
when the lists have been reduced to
winner in each section, such survivors
will meet in round-robin series for
ne state title. Pot hunters from 9TH
n states will have to confine their
activities to such invitation tourna.
nents as offer prizes in keeping with
heir ideas of their own drawing pow.
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