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EVENING BULLETIN, HONOLULU, T. H., TUESDAY, FEB. 7, 1911. H5S It you want a nice piece of Furniture which feel able to buy f you do not n s Bin kfjet SI a leek YI35 3B AMATEUR PROFESSIONAL PO LOCAL FOREIGN RAIN SPOILED OUTDOOR SPORTS Basketball New Attracting At tention Series Starts Tonight. Kain interfered with nil outdoor sports yesterday which were scheduled to take place, and for the next few clays, lhu results of the rain will ho Knell that there will lie hut little do ing in different lines. At ( lohu College the singles tennis championship is still undecided, as it w.ii impossible to play on the courts yc tcrday, when the linlshiug touch was to bo siven to the tournament by tins two men hatllins for the honor. Then the doubles which were to have ben continued were postponed also, ai"l H will he Thursday probably be fore, things get in jhape so that the coi-.rln can lc used again to advantage. Then Kamehameha had its share of thi! hard Inch in athletics, for the soc cer .Tame scheduled, for yesterday was eallfd off on account of rain. The Athletic Park was so wet that it was impossible to tret inside yester- j day, and a rain like this one just he life February Hi! will put the place out of business altogether for the big Mar-) Htiun. '' Indoor spurts are tin: only ones which are sure of coining off these days, and the handball and basketball series planned and heing played are the only forms of sports which the fan can get to set! with any degree of certainly that they will be played us scheduled. This evening the lirst game ill the basketball series between Palaina and Kurt Shatter men will he played at the settlement, the next game sched uled heing at the fort, and then, if 'thorp' Is a third to decide the series, it will he played at 1'alama. ISasketball at Y. M. C. A. is on every week now, and practise games and reg ular matches are heing played, this being the game which attracts the greatest attention at this time of the year. an:: DOTS AND DASHES. TENNIS TOURNAMENT AGAIN POSTPONED On account of the unsettled condi tion of the weather the two tennis tournaments have again been post poned. The Wall Cup tournament will be on March 1st and the Hall cup tourna incut on March 15. t: :: -DOTS AND DASHES. Muntell of Manila has built a Hying machine to exhibit during Bud Mars' Mights at the carnival this month. They say that there are going to be some lights at Asahi Theater on .Sat urday night. The men are in shape and will put on a good evening's entertainment. Saivone has accepted the challenge of lllooin of the fifth and the men v ill meet in the near future in a tight promoted by Nelson. They, will make l:!H pounds ringside. It was a weary-looking lot iff birds out in Kapiolani Park late yesterday afternoon. The peacocks anil other feathered attractions did not take kind ly tip the water which overflowed their usual feeding grounds, and when the shades of night began to fall they roosted high on the roof of the house. Kamo and Ouhu will meet on the track in a lew weeks if arrangements can he made. This was practically decided upon by tiie Kanie at a meet ing held last evening. :::::::: k n a :::: :s :: SPORT CALENDAR. It Tuesday, Feb. 7. :: Uasketball, Series Fort Shatter vs. Palama, Starts. Five Match es to bo Played. Saturday, Feb. 11. Fights, Asahi Theatre Fink-Hardiif- Go Main Event. Monday, Feb. 13. Soccer Kauni vs. High School, Makiki Field. Wednesday, Feb. 22. Soccer Kams vs. High School. Kani Field. Marathon Race King, Kami, Automobile and Motorcycle Hares . at Hilo. Wednesday, March 1. Wall Cup Tournament Iiegins. Wednesday, March 15. Hall Cup Tournament Hcgins. Friday, March 10. Grammar School Track Meet. Sunday, March 23. Annual Halelwa Houd Kaeo Starting from Aula Park. KIRISS DANCE everybody Jit wati hing, and Aquatic sports were all the go during the high water yesterday. Fishing parties were on at the duck ponds, and even the pigs tried to swim and start ed out to sea by way of the creek at Kapiolani. Aiont 100 hens belonging to one woman near the park were unable to keen on top of the water anil so were drowned in the muddy stream. w a a a a a a a a a a a :: a a a a Ihrnls tin the surface from the Contra Costa coast, clings to the feathers of t lie ducks like glue and renders them helpless. The weight of. ihe sticky ! substance submerges' the birds until I they are lorcod to swim with miiy I heir hills protruding from the wator. They are unable to search for food I and starve quickly. The coaling of I oil makes them unfit for food and I ruins Ihe spoil. Those thai live are ' so iveak that they could be slain wilh ' a slick. San Qrtentiti." Jan. 'J!. Ducks cov ered' wilh crude oil lillcr the shore between hero and McNear's ixiint. William Kenny, a local liolelman and siKiitsmairr reports over L'dO dead this morning on the San Quenlin beach. Crab ami shrimp fishermen, declare thars tit least PHiO ducks have died this week in San Pablo bay and along 1 1 1 o Novalo shore. The oil, which , .. -t-- - New York. .Ian. 2:5. llillis Iiurgess. a well known yachtsman, returned today from llevinudu afler complet ing arrangements for the annual race oT sailing yachts from the United j statou to Permuda. The race will ! start June :: from Boslon. Among the entries Is the schooner Vigilant, owned by Harold S. Vandcrhilt, which won Ihe race last year. i THE SECOND WEEK OF OUR GREAT s aermce Clciriiicc Sale WILL BEGIN A MONDAY MORNING, FEB. 6th Our Great Sacrifice Clearance Sale is the talk of the town. Through every department articles are marked at half and some at less than halt of their former prices? offering rare opportunities to purchase at little cost a supply of good Dry goods. j v You have seen many Dry Goods Clearance Sales; you have seen odds and ends that were .offered you;, you have noticed the left behinds the Dry Goods that were in vogue several seasons ago; you must not compare such fabrics with our offerings, for these are all NKW GOODS. The huge reductions speak for them, selves. The opportunity, is )iow,U"i COME ONE "k! ' COME ALL COME EARLY WILL BE PRETTY Because he forgot the clanger of his situation while rubbering through a Held glass to watch eight 'pretty girls going through the graceful steps of an oldtime French pastoral dance, a mall on the roof garden of the Young Hotel marly lost his life, by falling six sto ries to the pavement below one day last week. Nor was he the only one who was in imminent danger, for sev eral others, perched along the wall alid on the Ktone copings under the win dows, hud to be dragged back by friends from their dangerous positions. People on the street below thought there must be a lire somewhere that the windows above was onsiderable excitement was caused until the matter was ex plained. As Is well known, the upper Moor of the ( idil Fellows' Hall, a block away from the Young, is in full view of the upper windows of the hotel, and people in the latter place call easily see what Is going on In the ball. Fight young ladies, under the leadership of Miss lla;.el lliickland, were practising for shepherdess dance that Is to be given under the auspices of the French booth at the Mid-l'acilic Kirmcss on .Saturday, February 18. Somebody in the Young spied tiieni and immediate ly ran for his opera glasses, crawled out onto the stone coping of a llflh story window and endangered bis neck. His strange actions were observed by the occupants of other rooms, and It was only a few minutes until every window was full of people, while a number perilled precariously on the copings and on the parapet of the roof garden, staring with all their eyes. J. A. MAN, Shipping and Commission ' Agent for Arthur Sewall & Co., Bath, Me. Parrott fc Co., San Francisco Badger Fire Extinguisher Co. General Fire Extinguisher Co. ,S'JV,'i:iJ. AUTOMATIC SFRINKL1-R) Neuinan Clock Co. fWJTCKMAN'S CLOCK) . Royal Standard Typewriter Aachen & Munich Fire Ins. Co. FORT STREET. JiEAR MERCHANT 1 11 i- - - I Mail' from tvlmlt Hewitt inn XlriGCL31 ""'"PPlt-s itl tli bent irHm'd ram- mjkiu'. At il NoUu RouiititliiA find 8tirie Arctic Soda Water Works Honolulu JiMrilmtiirs Pinwutni Syrup for n' on hot rnkfH, wtifflt' fie. A iltrHi'inus Jlavoriiiy for iuiiht's juttl Uv cream! A t All (Irowurti PINECTAR SALES CO., LTD. ATHLETES, DO NOT ALL SPEAK AT ONCE NKW YoHlv, Jan. 111. A novel chal lenge has reached America from Chus. Wibon, all-round champion of Man-i Chester, Kng., bidding for a match wilhj any all-round athlete III the United' States for. the championship of the, world. The contest which he proposes includes almost everything In track I athletics, and also takes in swimming, cycling, rowing ami tumbling. The suggestions for the various events to he contested are as follows: Swimming, half mile; rowing, onc foiirth mile; plunging of one minute duration; running, 1U0 yards und one mile; walking, one mile; lno yards hurdles; shot put; hammer throw; run ning high Jump; running broad jump; pole vault; one forward spring jump and ten forward spring jumps, with weights; three forward spring jumps without weights; live backward spring Jumps with weights, und eyclinif from live to ten miles.. :: :: n DOTS AND DASHES. WARNING All customer:; of The Iliw.tiian Electric Company ure hereby warned against admitting to their houses any person claiming to represent this company unless that person cun show hadga of the company. The Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd. .Manila's fourth annual horse show was held in that city for three days, commencing January !!7. It was the I largest und most successful held. 1 Fort Street Opposite Catholic Church of any Sergeant Robinson, Troop K, ll'th Cavalry, will run against Corporal An drews of the Tiritlsh army, who lias captured most of the sprints ut Manila Carnival In the past two years. Kid Parker of Shanghai recently ar rived In Manila and is looking for goes in the inlddleiweight class. II" will take on Klnny, Martin, Wheeler or Mo lilalia, all in the iniildlelwcight class. Promoter Price arrived In Manila January V. (I'rlduy) on the Jean from Hongkong. He told the reporters there that Mars was coining direct to that city, as It was too cold to lly in China und Japan. Our Specialties LOS ANGELES BOHEMIAN BEER, BROWN LABEL ROEDERER CHAMPAGNE. WATHEN KENTUCKY WHISKIES (2 to 6 yean old). MUNRO'S HOUSE OF LORDS SCOTCH WHISKY. GOLD LION COCKTAILS, CALIFORNIA WINES of the Italian-Swiss Colonj of California. GONSALVES & CO., Ltd., 74 QUEEN STREET Joe Klllott of Camp Stotsenbiirg and A. Chlsholm of the Asiatic Siimdron fought fifteen rounds to a draw Janu ary 7, at the Olympic Alhh tic Club, In Manila, with the lightweight champion ship of the Orient at stake. Try the famous "New Orleans Fizz" Only at The Criterion Saloon Cincinnati, Jan. 21- K H. Wilhurn ami Jefferson Livings1 ''ip? left C:t elniiati last night for b:ui Fr.inci-ieo, whence they will sail i'l ah nit a week for Australia.' II is nndt' -s'.)o, ihey expect to formulate Uut plana for n major league lu Aiihim'.'.i heli ii; re luming to litis (onntir. Sole Agents ALEXANDER YOUNG HOTEL LAUNDRY. Our wagons pass your door twice daily. Evening Bulletin 75c. Per Month