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O i LAURENCE REDINGTON SPORTING EDITOR THE TRUTH ABOUT SPORT IS NEVER A KNOCK HONOLULU -STAR-BULLET IX,- TUESDAY, J ULY 16, 1912. A at mwm IS A PUZZLE America the Winner, but Hono lulu Waits Anxiously for Swimming News United States ....,.'.128 Sweden ........................ 104 . Great Britain 66' Finland "46 Germany . . ..... . . .'. . . . . . . . .... . . 24 With the above core of the five lead ing contestants, the tixth Olympic game closed at Stockholm yesterday. The victorious American team ls.sched uled to pall for home today, but wheth er the athletes will come direct, or whether they will return via Germany and England, giving exhibitions there, Is not known, here. V Honolulans are purpling over the exact status of ..Duke Kahanamoku, Since the cable received here some days fl pa a nnnn n1 r rr tVii 4 1 a 1 fi A tvn ni pona had been "reMvum' there hasn't: been I, a word of definite pews as to the Island swimmer. ' -' . , .' ' ' It looks aa 'though there had been a mix-up In the cables, and that when the King of, Sweden asked Duke to the royal box It was ;to congratulate him on ?ivlng won the final of the 100 meter event. This pounds more rea Konble, on itn face, for: surely suchan Important -event as the bwlmmlng sprint would not have been left, out of the Associated Press dispatches. ' A 1 ll " 1 . A . A. A. - A aiu, ii wouia. seem mai me evu , meter . relay swimming race .won by America last Friday must have been a qualifying heat, as the dispatches yes terday, stated that America took feec . ond.,to Australia In'lhls event. These points wiU - not , be d$flnlely decided Until- the mainland paper bring full accounts of the Stockholm spofts. Apparently the other countries came up with a rush, and .America's . final victory was much closer than was -expected about the middle of the week, when the'f?tars and Stripes, was flying from the stadium flagpole most of the "f time. , ' meeting makes the, Hxth straight win Tor America in the Olympic games., At Athens In 1S96, Peris 1900, , St Louis 1904, Athens ' again i$06, London" 1908, and finally "at Stockholm, this year, American athletes have proved, them selves the r beat and most consistent performers in the -orUT. , The many disappointments his nu merous pitchers are handing him this season makes tl)d work of Eddie Plank look all the brighter to Connie Mack, wizard? of the Athletes. The veteran of the squad and a player whom some of the critics have' for several seasons been relegating to the "has been" class. Plank keeps right on delivering the goods-in masterly style, - It was Plank who kept the Athletes out of. last place all ahrough tbe early weeks of the ' season last year, and again It is Plank who Is doing most of the winning this year. His left hand crossfire Is as deadly as of yore, and his painstaking methods in preparing ' for the baseball season leave no cause for such excuses as lack of control and overweight Plank knew what was coding and prepared to give his best efforts at a time when good work Is most needed. CEUIOUT DCLMOMT 2H X UEDOKA2tf AN ROW COLLAR. with the Ara-Notch in place of the bothersome buttonhole 15c. each 2 for 25c duett, reabbdr & Co Makers There Is Only One Ho del Sanitary Barber Shop Three First-Class Artists at your Bervice. BETHEL 4XD KING. E. G. SjlTester and E. Schroll, Props, E0H!E Fuffl IS kid's iiEST A I V PUBLIC APPROVES POSTPONEMENT OF TENNIS MATCHES No Conflict Now Between the Big Championship Events of j Next week Hara rracuce. The decision of the committee In charge of the championship tennis tournament to call off play on the two days when It conflicted with the polo championships. Is the best news that the sport-loving public of Hono-1 lulu has heard for some time. First class events of tnis sort come too few and far between here to make a choice between the two necessary, and tennis enthusiasts will be just as glad of the chance to see the polo, as the polo devotees will be to see the court stars In action. The tennis tournament will start as schedule on Monday, July 22, but there will bo no play on Wednesday ; or Saturday of next week, the only two conflicting dates., . ; ; , ; ' Tennis , men arc hard at work get ting a I fina polish on their games. Every afternoon there Is a consider able showing at Beretania and Pacific, arid there have been some hot prac tice matches of late. ' '.About the fastest double seen to date w;ere played yesterday afternoon - Tetania, when A. L. Castle and Alan Lowrey paired off against A. M. Nowell and Eusene Horner. These two teams will line up for champion ship honors In the same order, and while ivesterday's game wasn't much more than a practice. In which the players took lots of chances that they would fight shy of In tournament play. It nevertheless gave the snec tators a good run, and provided a line on form. The Castle-Lowrey combination won 6 -0, 4 , 61, after some brilliant rallies. Horner Is the champion' of Hawaii, while Lowrey is captain-elect of the Harvard tennis team for 1913. The latter plays a hard-hitting, dastv ing style of game, .delivering his sec ond service as hard as his first. As & result he double faulted often yester day, but probably in match, play he will be a deal more careful on this point ; ' IIss pouise Phillips and Miss E. Phillips, two Chicago players who will play In the Jajfea' events, : were, out practicing yesterday afternoon, and showed good form. made at noon Saturday,' when the pre liminary round games will be sched uled so aa to divide up the" early matches between the Pacific, Neigh borhood and . Beretania clubs. irasTiiis IE)(T MOiH. The men behind the proposed auto-1 f""81 be given axhance to stretch aum . . ct , their legs over their mounts before mobile gymkhana got together last start - match nlav a eame is night at a meeting held at the Young I jfjjg Pranged 'for tomorrow Hotel,, named officials djald tte S'seconT pr..eram-.. '-.,,ale.-" , :m.elnnf- This should afford an Interesting com-which-will be held at Kapiotanl Park, arlson between the play of the In- wrL , nr fUgUSi 1 ; vaders and the Oahu firsts, for polo The following officials were appoint- followers are familiar enough' with ea: , (Seneral committee A. L. Castle, D. William Douthitt, I-Yed Wichman, Nor man B. Courtenay and Sidney It. Jor dan.. ; - Judges E. A. Mott-Smith.' U. W. Shingle and A. Gartley. Starters D. W. Douthitt and Fred Wichman. Timekeepers Senator C. F. CThll llngworth, L. Redlngtoh, G. F( Affonso, Ralph Lyons and Doc. Monsarratl , . Clerks of the course-A. L. Castle, N. B. Courtenay and fc. R. Jordan. , Governor W. F. Frear will be waited upon by a committee of the club and asked kindly to officiate in starting the lirst meet. :, . The program for the meet will be the following: - l Barrel race, (noveity, quarter or a mile. 2 Hupmobile race, three miles. 3 High-gear race, quarter of a mile. 4 Roadster.. race, up to 50-horse-power, two miles. . 5 Motorcycle racb, five miles. 6 Roadster race, up to 50-horse-power, ffve mile's. 1 7 Time race, one mile. 8 Marathon race, one .mile. 9 Automobile race, free for all, five miles. . 10 Automobile race, ten miles. TAKE FIRST VACATION IN THIRTY-NINE YEARS Rev. and Mrs. John C. Davison, for the pat thirty-nine years Methodist Episcopal missionaries in Japan, left on . the Shinyo Maru this morning en route to the mainland, where they will enjoy the first holiday they have had in thirty-nine years. At the end of a year they will return to Japan and wprk for ten years, at Knmamoto, their headquarters, a large city in the southern peninsula. Dr. Davison -is district superintendent of the work there and, besides, has charge of twenty-five Methodist churches in the adjacent district. While here Rev. and Mrs. Davison were the guests of the Rev. and Mrs. John W.Wadi nan at Manoa Valley. Eddie Madison has started training for his,-August 3 jdate with Johnny McCarthy. It's to be hoped that mat ters pugilistic will go more smoothlv than was the case last time. Maui And Oahu To Playi mi .v;.. J 1 -.5 ' -5- .'V . " Hfl'J- ..- Am. i S . ir. iv. kick, ox OAHU'S FIRST TEAM WILL N : UNTIL THE INITI The four men, who: will carry ' the colors of Oahu in the . coming inter island, polo championships are pau rractice. and will not take the saddle Saturday afternoon," in the opening game of .' the series. . 'Although the game is' foiir7 days away, ;Captain Walter Dillingham feels' that the rest will do" both the men and the ponies a World of good, and that they will go into the match in better shape to put up a hard fight if ,theyv lay off for the !ast. few days; ;: The ponies Will, or coufse; get the right amount of exer cise; 'but there will be no chances of losing the best 6f the' string, through iast-minutc ill luck,, such aS cutting down a mount in practice. wThe Maui team will be on hand "to morrow, and as the Valley Isle play the general form of the home team to be able to size up opposition against the Reds. - . - -V - -' . r NEW YORK, NJ Y. Chief John lioars th nninnp riis- . tinction today of being the first Indian , baseball player to have his position in the batting order changed so as to pre- Vent -opposing pitchers from giving him too many bases on balls. For thrpp seasons row the bier In diah has hfn aiiriwpW to mirsnp his J.. u hard-hitting way just above the pitch- er. When McGraw first put him there he did not realize, perhaps," that Mey ers was going to prove the ' most nat ural hitter in- the league. When Bres nahan was with the Giants his hitting ability Was responsible for his batting fourth. Sometimes he led off. But Meyers was getting along so well way down the list that McGraw decided to leave him there. '- It so happened that, the chief was frequently called upon to clean up the tases, and he made good so often that the opposing pitehers were forced " to figtire out a scheme to. offset that ter- rible wallop, They did this IV giving him a base on balls Whenever; there were runners on the sacks, preferring to take a chance on the pitcher, who i-s usually weak with the willow. Is Deliberately Walked. . r 1 In the fir&t thirty games played this season Meyers was purpose' walked no less than sixteen times.; This grad ually cut down his run-driving power, and then it was that McGraw began to figure. The result was that he mov ed the chief up a peg in the batting order and put a good hitter behind him. If the chief is given a base on balls now, the opposing pitcher will find a strong young batter like Fletcher or Groh ready to take up the war club and whoop. ' ; . Batters who are good 'waiters" are frequently moved up to the head of the list so as to get as many bases on balls as possible, but the chief happens to be the first to be moved round to 1 get away from it. So far the change has worked ; well, and Meyers can now go ahead and crack the" ball just as hard as he pleases. K 7 - v - . 1 . .S' ' j I f .- ' : TOO Illy FREE RIDES ID FIRSF 1 Reds Are A Practice Game V 1 waialeale 0T MOUNT AGAINj o AL CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST Only three of ' the Maui regulars will be available tomorrow, but they will requisition" the' services of some Wlman to miJjL. -v. e waul sinng. oi iweniy ponies came in on the Likelike yesterday "12. . 21-4; Jose de Coito won- from mues,, aa y morning, and were taken right out to Chris. Benny, 21-4, 21-9;. L. Souza And ears ago. This year4 the distance the . Moanalua . field. All stood the Antonio Nunes broke even, the time was 4CL20O meterswhlch figures trip down -in good shape, and the in- limit putting off the rubber. Nunes. about 2q.5 miles. This Is the .fast vaders aVe sure' to be well mounted 21-17; Souza, 21-11. -ih 'i est Olympic marathon to .aat-- when the real test comes. ' - c; ; v. . i " Y'i't YVO The Cavalry players have about practice being ' scheduled for this afternoon. The Fifth is better mounted than ever before,' two new mounts, purchased on Kauai, having been added to the string within the last few lays. The race between Lieutenants Sheridan vand Millikin for No. 1 has ended in the former's favor, and he w.ill swing a stick In the front line VUV- r?u . next Sunday, and some of the threat Harold . XV. RiceV Mauis No. 2, ening looks and mysterious plottings whose picture appears above. Is pre- - , . . ... -pi.. vented by business from arriving in Honolulu un;irthervery tetoment. hoiti xr o-?iortnn hir Sarnrnav mnrn- uuiuk caulm ucic oaiu.uaj mum- ing. Rice has represented Maui in two former championships, and is considered, one of the best players on t he team. He is a very powerful "hit ter and a superb rider, 7 ; Changing positions of batters is a thirier thnt McfJraw rarelv ever does For two seasons he did not budge bis batting order. " The amazement of the fans can be appreciated, therefore, when in the opening game at Brooklyn the Giant irwnaw took onp solid crack at the list of names and shufried them un from top to bottom. With Devore and Doyle out, a good waiter had to lead off, and , Snod grass was elected to the - iob. Becker wilt now bat second. Mur- ray or Herzog third and Merkle fourth or fifth. LIBERTY TEAM HAS NOW ISSUED WHOLESALE 0EFI After severely trouncing two crack junior nines with decisive, scores Sunday, one of them the champions of the Plantation le ague,, the Liberty players come out with a challenge to any junior baseball team in (he Isl ands. Manager lily of the Libertys yays there are no exceptions to this challenge. -.; The Ltizons, the Filipino team that has : swept everything before, it, in playing other teams in the Plantation League, were the first to go down to defeat Sunday, the score at the con clusion reading Libertys 16, Luzons 2. Following, this game another was played with the C. Y. team, a collec tion of young Chinese players who fared somewhat better than the Fili pinos but were nevertheless defeated, the score being 5 to 2. v- . Now the Libertys want to play any junior team in the Islands. Be Prepared. Buy it now. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is al most certain to be needed, before the summer is over. Buy it, now and be prepared for such an emergency. For sale at all dealers. Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd., agents for Hawaii - mm DEFEATS AT T Morning Match in "Y" Tour nament Brings Out Some Fair Play A. E. Larimer won from It Cross this morning in a hard-fought tennis match played on the Y. M. a A. courts at. Hotel and Richards streets, in the ilrst round of the Y- tournament which started yesterday. The match went to Larimer In straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, the second being by far the best from a tennis standpoint In the open Ins ess Ion both men played overcare- fully, the result lelng some tedious pat- ball. In the second both let put a wrap, and sent the balls spinning over the net to good effect. IJaldwin and Nelson had a long winded argument yesterday . evening that had to be called on accountof 4" Tc '' , t;r T lng set 6-4, but Nelson came right back and annexed the second 6-3. The third was very even, the games falling first on one side of the net and then on the other, until they reached 7-alI. It; was then too dark to see the balls, and the match was postponed. It will be fin ished tomorrow afternoon at 4:30, ; In the only other, match played to date, C. Hoogs beat DrYScudder 6-0, 6:2. v'vy : -t. This afternoon at 4:30 Rletow plays Johnston, and at 5:15 Dodge and;Red Ington w'ill hook up, Edgecomb finds It Impossible to get into town and has defaulted to Jack Guard. : tn n Sn L tuZ K-n- . CROSS 1 Opening play in the handball tour- Hayesv- mark In X-ondon but , the nament for employed boys of the" Yif.Marathon ; race has varied In length M. C. A. yesterday resulted as follows: fri th? different 01ymplegaroes,. fron A"rtnur"NeIson' beat Cecil Brix - Cabrel, the fast young pitcher of last Sunday by striking out. 15 of ther opposition in the game between the Saandards and the Kewala Giants, The final score was 11 to 4 In favor of the former. Chan, the losins twirl- er. accounted for six bv the strike-out "route. . r , The Stars are plotting revenge for T . n,B ,i tK iJtV""SS. ... . 7 anvnne tvho will listen that thov ran ??ZUl IV-SIaL?, turn the same trick next Sunday. If the Stars do win the next game watch for a reversed situation next Sunday. Sporting Editor, letin, Sir: Honolulu Star-Bul Will you kindly settle a discussion regaraing an incident during tne prog ress 01 a oau game, ine gisi 01 iqq argument is; . y A player is on second base, and an- other is on third. A double steal is . . . m . . a i attempted, out tne player wno leit third is unable to reach the plate. An auempi is maae to tnrow nim out, out during the exchange of the ball in said attempt the player from second runs down and touches third. There is a fumble and the player gets safely back to thirds and. the player who ran; . . f .. ,6w .j original base A says the player that occupied third base originally Is out for the rea son that the player running from sec ond and touching third forced him. ; B claims that neither player was out, because it was not a lorce and it would have been necessary to" touch either player with the ball. C argues that after" the player who ran from second touched third, ail that was necessary was for the catch er to touch home plate and the player who tried to steal home would be out. PLANTATION FAN. B is right. A and C are both wrong. No player can be forced from the base to which he Is entitled ex cept by the batter. DR. MORRISON TO RETIRE. , PEKING, China, June. 21. Dr. G. E. Morrison, Peking correspondent of the Times, leaves for Japan early in - July. It is understood that he is retiring from journalism and that David Fraser succeeds him. VI Dr. iiorrison returns to Peking in September, and then proceeds to Aus tralia, where magnificent political chances await a man of his splendid experience and - knowledge of foreign politics and profound ability. He will probably sell his celebrated and unique library, which is valued at 4200,000, be fore his departure. ' "I : - ' ' " 1 1 .! k THE SPORTING EDITOR SAYS, SEZ-ZE, ABOUT AS G A11LE dispatches received here, 'announcing the win of Kenneth McArthur In the Olympic mara thon were misleading. In that they gave the Impression that the South African was a rank outsider, not conceded a chance by even his trvmen As a matter of fact. the reverse wag the case, and J n gtudent8 expected to see the lan- Tran8Vaal policeman finish very !. Zt Mi..mn head of the column. ilcArthur has an unbeaten record in the five principal Marathon races held in Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colony during the past, four years, and within the same per'od has estsb-: llshed two separate records , for tbo distance. His best Marathon time id (26 miles 385 yards) 2 hours 42 mln utes 58 15 seconds. The state of the South African roads makes this much better thari'it reads on paper and McArthur Is ios- sibly the best Marathon rtmner, araa- -LVLoti tho mniir of teur or professional, In the empire of Great Britain. From the .cable accounts it would seem that McArthur came very near duplicating the unfortunate ' perform ance of Dotando Pietri, who. in the last International marathon - race, wilted with victory in stent, and was disqualified thanks to the over-zealous English judges, who tx'ed to b"st the American out bv yanking the Ital ian over the line. The dispatches say thai McArthiif reached the flnifh. nd then fainted, being caught as he fell over the line. It's a safe bet, though that his friends saw. to it that no one lent him a helping hand before the finishing post was reached,, for. ; the Dorando-IIayes controversy must still be fresh in the minds of all athletes whri matt$Vjnarathon are m,ention ed. . . ; MoArthur's 'tlme,: 2 bonrs35 min utes fs nearly-2ft minutes faster than Americans as a ruie, naya, a louy disregard : for the abilities At tofeten athletes, i That.- Is, the sray-at-Kpmo Africans have. Those who, , havp actually .'competpd JagainstHhe ifst rore,n taient,. owunesseu compeu tions, have ; no such illusions. - - The Idea seems to prevail In some circles mac we nave me oniy reai athletes in the world, and certainly RACE FOR 2ND v I While there are still some of the Na- tionaH League managers and owners i Who believe that their teams are go- fng to pass the Giants in the face for the championship pennant of 1912, the general followers of the sport are con- ceeding the right- to represent, that league in the world's championship series next October Is already assur ed to the Giants. Their present lead is 'certainly very impressive and the only team that has so , far been able to give them a serious argument is Pittsburg. The race for second position is just Tln7 f ho mnst . fntprpstlnf fpaturp et WITOffl " " c - tflill.l 91UI V Ul J L III lUPl ijuan- th series. Pittsburg, and Chicago are fyin5 round, McDermotfs chances of hating a great battle for the honors iowerinj? tne co!ors of ,ne fading f:ng and neither one seems to be able to ll5h anJ Scottish professionals vanish get a very substantial lead over the cd lnto thin air. He did better at the other. The teams are fairly well -rond attpmnt. cfttimr well down in matched although Pittsburg looks, at lone ranee, to be rather stroneer.es- - w - - peCiaUy m me Dauing aepanment 01 the game, and most Of the followers of the older.league expect to see Man- ager Clarke's men finishing the sea- son in second place. UNION CHURCH MEETINGS . WILL BE HELD AT BIJOU A series of church meetings will be held here for six weeks, beginning the first Sunday in (August. in which, at "the suggestion of the church federation, all the churches will join. . These meet ings, which will be held in the Bijou Theater, are to be conducted by the Rev. Frank 'Lincoln Goodspeed. pastor of the First Presbyterian church t of Oakland, Cal., who Is to arrive in Ho nolulu on July 31. During the same time, Dr. Dorcmus Scudder of the Central Union church will occupy the Oakland pulpit for a period of five Sundays. Rev. A. A. Ebersole will return next week from his vacation and will. be . at Tantalus, although he intends to assist at the union Sunday evening services.. " WELL DRILLING. Investigation of the fact that most Of the deep drill holes for wells in South Africa deviate rrom the per pendicular, generally toward the north, has led to the conclusion that the drills vith which they were madej were influenced by magnetism. ( . 9i MWTi 6 r;eigt4 track men the point scoro of - the Stockholm meet to date indicates that wo havo about. the best men, Lut this doe3 not necessarily mean thnt Gcrr.:a athletes come Jnto the stadium chew Ing bologna sausage, or that tho Uu3 sion shot putter practices with a bcmb Sweden has turned out a flr.o bunch of track and.flM men for h?r own games, and. certainly -South Affi ca has made good with first and sec ond .place in tho greatest events cr the entire" Olympic yrosram, tho rr.a rathon. i - m f - i Barney Joy pitched exactly 01 bal'V In eight Innings of that sensational championship baseball game, at Ath letic Park Sunday afternoon, and Lithe-disastrous innins:,. when ho b up, he pitched, pnly fourteen, ta" The number-of bulls he-threw in t first Inning was not'countlK bat It safe to sey tbat'it'was not more tl. . nine or ten,makhig t3 total for t.Vi game about 100.. .. This is "some pitching Uuzh H. Fulcrton, probably tho Lest ir.r:r: ed baseball writer in Anrrirn, ii last issne' of 'the. American says that tle fewest nimib-r c' ; -ed balls be ever counted In a r. :r 3 was SS ' hrrwn - hv T--1 V.'s' S fv- faraou3' old Chicago twlrlrr,. Ono cf the greatest number of pitched ti!!i rn'a; major league ganie," he says, wr. 3 throTi;-b yGeorgo "Rube' Wadi:ll. ' tie !gr eat' eccentric pitcher formerly with the Philadelphia -Athletics who1 threw 211 falls, wpra; kimsrlf cut : ! and Jost the. pa me,. " f -J Here- is the " number of Harney's q pitches per inning: second, C, tLirJ, lift? 10;. fourth, 6; fifth, 18; sixth, 13; seventn, la; eigntn, iu, anu ninths 14, IEIC1 How much the mental side enters jnt0 the game of golf, particularly as applied to champWships. must be a j lt ' ' m , . question which the events ol the Ust ew wecK aDroaci nave causeu many enthusiasts there seriously to consider. Following closely upon the heels of Frederick HcrreshofTs failure in the tij-j, amateur championship comes the -ffic( that jack" McDermott, th 1 native-born American who ko cleverly won the United Ktate title a year agn, failed miserably in the big open cham- pionshlp event overseas. -!.. . . ... f t. u tne 80's, but even so, the aggregate wa ...m . r,,r, nuitiv 1. V J ItliT V V iOtr I ' V tlrernent from the tournament To Mrrvrmott the failure, even nualiry, is doubtless a hard blow.' but he can take heart of grace from tho" fact that "Willie" Anderson, the great est golfer this country has ever seen, once found himself in exactly the same position. ' ' ' ' ; ' : ' . BURSTING A WHIRLWIND. John Sloan, a Kansas farmer, claims that he has caused more than one incipient whirlwind to disintegrate by firing a load of two of buckshot into the revolving mas3. Service Is Always Good at the UNION BAHBSPx. SHOP Cunha's Alley, Next Un'on Grill, on King Street BRO. BEJ!JSr,!!!l J. COUGH l REMEDY V For Throat. Chest rJLunj i Trouble, Grett for At!w. Coasunptioa CotmK Xs..., etc Prrce 50c AiuLl . - RI UVUllLA ' it '