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The fourth annual, aquatic carnival was held in the Yamba Bay on New Year's Day.
The weather was everything that could be desired and an enormous crowd lined the shores of the bay.
As soon as the boats arrived the contests were commenced, but owing to the tide being unfavourable some of the races had to be abandoned.
It is a great pity that such was the case as the championship race caused much disappointment and ill-feeling, a protest having been entered against the winner, which the committee has set aside for hearing.
Otherwise the sports on the whole were up to expectations.

The following officiated: Judges, Messrs. A. McLachlan and W. Peoples; starters, H. M. Henderson and W. Craig; committee, Messrs. E. J. Gibson, T. Walker, H. Till, W. Craig, L. McDonald, H. Smith, H. Englert, P. Kingsbury, C. G. Englert (secretary), O. Notley (treasurer).

Results:-
Boys Campionship, 15 years and under, 5O yds.- M. McDernid and J. Englert (dead heat) for first; Bawden second.
Youths Handicap, 15 years and under, 50 yds.- V. Shore, 1 sec, 1; M. McDermid, scr., 2.
Won by a yard.
100yds Championship of Clarence River, trophy valued £2 2s.- G. Phillis (Harwood), 1; A. Henry (Grafton), 2.
Time, 1.14.
Other starters: C. McGrath, A. Saul, Jack Spring, A. Evans, Rowell.
A protest was lodged against winner.

Brace Relay Ràce, 200yds.- 1. Englert and V. Shore, 1; Henderson and S. Keogh, 2.
100yds. handicap had to be abandoned owing to insufficient water being in the bay.
After lunch sports were held on the ocean beach.
The members of the Surf Club gave a very creditable exhibition of life saving and shooting the breakers, T. Walker being very brilliant in his surf board display.

Trove
1915 'LATE SPORTING. YAMBA SURF LIFE SAVING BRIGADE.', Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 - 1915), 5 January, p. 7, viewed 9 June, 2012,
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At Yamba on New Year's Day Sam Waker, a member of the Life Saving Club there, gave an interesting exhibition of
shooting the breakers on a redwood surf board 11 ft. long and 3 ft. wide.
Getting well out on the edge of the break, Walker mounted his board, whistled "Tipperary" for a few seconds, and then found
himself back on the beach again.
It was fine to see him standing (sometimes on his head) on the board, sailing in at a fast rate of speed.
It is remarkable to see him maintain his balance on the board, for a person would have to be an athlete as well an being an expert
surfer.
We can safely say that in Sam we have a great rival of "Duke" Kahanamoukua, who is at present creating such a sensation
amoungst the surfing fraternity of Sydney, remarks the "Advocate."

Trove
1915 'SHOOTING THE SURF.', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 9 January, p. 4, viewed 4 June, 2012,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72106349. 

A strenuous fight is on in Honolulu on the matter of the proposed amusement pier, application for a permit for which is now before the Harbor Commissioners.
Advocates for the project claim that it will be an asset, while opponents hold that It will mar the beauty of Waikiki and interfere with bathing and surfing.
....
Duke Breaks Own Record.
A cable message from Sydney announces that Duke Kahanamoku had made 100 yards in the remarkable time of 0:53 4-5, or a full second less than he made the distance in Honolulu last June.
Cunha, who is also participating in the Australian swimming meet, also defeated Barry, the crack Australian swimmer, according to the cable.
 

The Maui news. (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, January 09, 1915, Image 6
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Despite the continual outcry against surf-boards, the danderous aids to shooters are still being used, and one last night at Coogee hit Mrs. Martha Green, aged 60, with such force that she is now in Prince Alfred Hospital with her right leg broken in two places.

Mrs. Green, who lives in Burren-street, Eskinville, was enjoying a dip close in shore, about half-past 8, when a shooter, some
distance out with a board, caught a forceful breaker.
In the dark Mrs. Green could not see him coming in, and the man crashed into her leg, board first.
She was knocked over and endevored to struggle to her feet, but finding the task beyond her, cried for help.
Two men carried her to shore, and the Civil Ambulance rendered first aid.
She was then taken to hospital.

Last night Alderman Railton drew the Manly Council's attention to the dangers resulting from the careless use of surf boards at South Steyne.
He asked the council to prohibit the surf boards altogrther on the beach, as the people who used them would not keep outside the
area of the ordinary bathers, as instructed.
Ultimately it was resolved to issue instructions to the bathing inspectors to enforce strictly the rule.
Anyone, therefore, using the boards in the vincinity of the surf bathers will be prosecuted.

The hot weather of last week had its dire effects on surfers, especially on the younger members of Neptune's adopted family, who come down annually from the country to pay their visit to his watery realms.
Father Neptune and Father Sol had a merry time of it, and together they basted and grilled many a poor back to torture point.
Sunburn has been causing real suffering in the ranks of surfers.
Doctors have been called on to proscribe for bad cases, and the only alleviation of the pain is found in the fact that the doctor sometimes prescribes no school until the burn is off - and school began last week!
So a few more holidays are added to the already generous that, and the envy felt of "Grammar" and'"High" scholars, whose term began with the current month, is lessened along with the fiery pain of the sunburn, which just now is making many backs tingle.

Sunbasking is responsible for most of this excessively painful effect.
Some wise folk rather frown upon the basking, and declare that our youth, if they keep on at it, will develop into the bone-laziness of the Italian larzaroni, who literally bask in the sun as long as he is in the sky.
It cannot be denied that too much of the basking enervates the surfer, and seems to cause an evaporation of all the invigoration of the surf.
But, of course, a short spell and then a plunge back again into the briny curlers will never cease to charm, and, as long as the golden rule of moderation is observed, it may be used to add to the gloriously healthful result from the surfing.

In passing, I may note that surfing is more popular than ever.
Every season sees an increase in the numbers of the family, alluded to above, and this year promises to show the same rate of progress.
A proof of the benefit which all derive from surfing is shown in the number of middle-aged, and even elderly ladies who go in for it in zest.
Most readers were struck with this on seeing the account of a painful surfing-board accident recently, when the age of the victim was given as 60.
But this poor lady- whose leg was broken by a surf-board which a young man was using- is only one of many of that age, or thereabouts who take thelr daily plunge, and would miss it sorely if thelr annual month at Manly, or Coogee, or Bondi did not include that joy.
The effect is seen in the bright eye, alert glance, and happy expression of the bather.
"It does brighten one up wonderfully" is the general verdict, and the popularity of the sport increases.

Baskers are usually trying to acquire a lovely blown, and to help forward this desirable end they use cocoanut oil, which is about the best thing to employ to prevent painful sunburn.
But the oil should be applied first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
After the burn has become acute oil is useless.
The best remedy is hot water and boracic when the blisters break, which they should be encouraged to do, but not pricked.
The water should be as hot as it can be endured, and no clothing, except a thin shirt or blouse, should be allowed to touch the skin; legs and arms are better left bare, and it is usually here that is found the painful part.
Some cases are so bad that patients must remain in bed, there being a certain danger of blood-poisoning.
For ordinary tan and freckles, there are so many excellent face-creams and ointments now on sale at the chemist's that any special recipes of the old-fashioned, home-made type are not worth the trouble of making up.
A cream that is non-greasy should be chosen.

Surf-boards have evidently to be reckoned with nowadays, for nearly every small boy now rejoices on one.
Those most in use aré very small, some looking suspiciously like the kitchen chopping-board, which, no doubt will be found missing next time it is required in a hurry.
These small affairs really are only very slightly dangerous, being quite unlike the huge board made popular by the Hawaiian Duke.
- MARTHA.

The work of the Mid-Pacific Magazine is getting recognition from magazine men and boosters of the mainland.
The following letter from Franklin Adams, editor of the Pan American Bulletin, shows the cooperation that the Mid-Pacific Magazine and the "Hands-Around-thePacific" movement are securing in influential quarters.

"My Dear Ford;
"I have been thinking that It would be a very good plan for us to publish, from month to month, under "Miscelanea," in the Spanish, Portuguese and French editions of the Bulletin, a little story dealing with some one of the countries on the other side of the Pacific. We aim to make this miscellaneous material of real interest to our readers and as you possess some of the most attractive pictures that have ever been produced I am putting the matter, right up, to you.
We would like to have each month ssy, three or at the outside- four pictures, some of the most, unusal one, to run with a small amount of text.
I have in mind the surf-riding- pictures at Honolulu; then probably some New Zealand pictures; then on around the circuit.
We would give due credit to the Mid-Pacific Magazine for their use and see that they were returned just as soon as they left the presses; agreeing, also, to keep them in good condition.
Does the proposition appeal to you?"
...

Honolulu star-bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1912-current, February 12, 1915, 3:30 Edition, SPORTS, CLASSIFIED AND SHIPPING NEWS SECTION, Image 12
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The new directors of the Outrigger Canoe club met at dinner last night on the grounds at Waikiki to outline the work for the coming year.

In another week it is expected that all of the new buildings on the recently acquired property will be completed when there will be room enough for more than 600 members in the men's department.
It was decided last night that the new lanai overlooking the sea should be turned into a smoking room, so that now the women have their own exclusive lanai near the lagoon, while the  big hau tree lanai in the center of the grounds is the common meeting place for both men and women

It was, decided to enter canoes in the Carnfval water events.

As this meeting was devoted almost entirely to the proposed work of the  new house committee a speial meeting will be called before long to take  up active plans for canoeing and surfing during the coming year.

A sterilizing plant is to be placed on the grounds so that every towel and bathing suit as it is washed, will be sterilized.
The commissary and kitchen will be housed in one building, which closely adjoins the servants' quarters.

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Last Saturday Neil Peter Nielson, 27, was drowned near North Steyne, Manly, through being caught in the undertow.
At an inquiry held on Tuesday by the City Coroner, Alfred Ferns, 10, stated that he and Nielsen were bathing together.
The former was carried out about 200 yards, and the boy says that he went out and tired to save him.
Messrs. Claude West and Williams went out with a line, and brought the man and the boy in.
The boy was all right, but Nielson did not recover consciousness.
A verdict of accidental death was returned.
At the request of the relations of the deceased, furthci evidence as to the accident will he taken on Thursday.

John Henry, the Washington catcher who was here with the All-Americans last December, took more than an average interest in local baseball conditions  and when he returned to the mainland he was in a position to write and tell a lot about the game in
Hawaii.
The following notes on Island baseball appear in Boston Herald of recent date:

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The Australian Gazette is full of interesting events, and is bound to be popular.
...
The great swimmer Kahamanoka will also be seen at a surf carnival giving an exhibition on the surf board.

Trove
1915 'AMUSEMENTS.', Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 - 1915), 9 March, p. 7, viewed 4 June, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61646571

Unfortunately, the film is apparently now lost.
See:
Australian Screen - Australasia Gazette
http://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/australasian-gazette/

Speaking of  diving reminds me there is a young Punahou Academy girl who is quite the rage in diving, in fact she often attracts an admiring audience when she is doing some of her graceful stunts on the stand before the Outrigger Canoe Club.
A fraction of this audience practises the dives early every morning so that he may perform in her presence in the afternoon.
She dives better than a great many of the men.
If there is any interscholastic competition this year such as there was last year the girl will carry off the honors.

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The first freighter to call at Honolulu in more than a year flying the five-starred pennant of the Australian commonwealth came into the harbor when the steamer Werribee was brought to the Inter-Island Steam Navigation buskers to discharge 4177 ton of coal.

Capt L. Thompson last visited the islands ten years ago.
Today he found a totally different city.
He was much impressed at the facilities offered at the port for the speedy handling of coal front ship to shore.
He brought news that Duke Kahanamoku sweeping everything before him in the, series of swimming contests in the Australian cities.
The Werrihee is owned at Melbourne.
It steamed from Newcastle, N. S. W., Febuary, 20, taking 23 days to complete the voyage.

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Spencers are maintaining their reputation for high-class programmes.
At the Princess Theatre the new bill presented last evening embraces some very fine subjects.
The feature of them is the Spencer exclusive art film, "The Children of Captain Grant," adapted from Jules Verne's great story.
It is 5000 feet in length, and is shown in seven parts.
The story deals with an expedition which has associated with it many adventures, earthquakes, escapes from death, the taking of a child into the air by a condor, and other sensational events.
It is a highly interesting production.
"The Unknown Country" is another drama of much merit.
It featured happenings of an entertaining and thrilling character.
A war topical subject which is more than usually attractive is "With the Belgians in Action," while the picture "Bully Boy" depicts the No. 4 series of war cartoons which have been cleverly executed.
The only humorous feature is "Biff! Bangl Wallop!" an amusing item.
The "Australian Gazette" embraces the following topical subjects:- Sydney- Delfosse Badgery, the Australian aviator, does some most sensational flying at Victoria Park, including bomb-dropping. Melbourne- The state championship carnival; Duke Kahanamoku gives exhibitions on the surf board; and cartoons by Harry Julius, which form an entertainment by themselves.
The new programme will be repeated this evening, and finally to morrow night.

..
Last Saturday at the Freshwater Club's Carnival the club won Mr. Arthur Griffith's trophy for the 1000 yards surf relay race.
This was the second consecutive win.
The race was won fairly easily, and as all the members are young, the prospect for future years seem very bright.
Manly also gathered the senior and novice alarm reel races.
The display given by T. Walker on a "Duke" surf board was very good indeed.
The canoe and surf boat competitions provided some good exhibitions.

The management of the Mid-Pacific Magazine announces that from now on this interesting journal will go in actively, for home promotion work.
Following out this policy the best three articles in the April number are by youths of Hawaii between 14 and 17 years of age.

The Mid-Pacific Magazine is seeking to train the young men of Hawaii to write about Hawaii.
The leading article is by Lorrin P. Thurston, on the subject of surfboard riding in Hawaii.
Young Thurston is atm at Punahou Academy, yet, Jack London, who is an authority says this is the best article that has yet been
written, on-surf-rlding.
It took A. H. Ford, the editor of the Mid-Pacific Magazine, some months , to persuade young Thurston to write what he knew about surf-riding, but so excellent was the result that during his Christmas holidays he was given a position on one of the daily papers.
The article itself, now in print for the first time, is illustrated with, both, halftones and color cuts of surfboard riding at Waikiki.
...
The most interesting page in the magazine, for April, however, is that on which is announced the fact that with the next number of the magazine will begin the publication of the "Log of the Snark," appearing in print, for the first time.
This will be continued from month to month, as will be a series of Hawaiian-South Sea, articles from the pen of Jack London.
 

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No fewer than six carnivals were held during the week, and as in the majority of instances the weather was not suitable, a test was placed on tbe enthusiasm of the followers, with satisfactory results.
Particularly was this tbe case at the Surf Bathing Association's gala at Bondi Beach last Saturday, when,  besides the cold, the spectators and performers suffered much discomfort by the sand being carried by the southerly into their faces.
However, a large crowd remained in attendance until the end of what was a far too lengthy progrnmme.
But for forfeits in some of the events and a cancellation, the sports would not have concluded until too late.
The contests proved most interesting, and if a third ot the items had been eliminated the whole function would have been more enjoyable.
Several of tbe beltmen and swimmers were quick to see the effect of the current sweeping from north to south, and make good use of it, but others made poor attempts.
The pennant teams were the exception, and a close contest between Bondi, Cook's Hill, and Coogee showed all the men alive to the advantages and disadvantages in the weather.
Bondi were just a little ahead of Cook's Hill in their water work, while the resuscitation was very even.
The introduction of a surf board exhibition during the latter competition was a good move, and brought out three very fine exponents.

Frederick H. laukea, for years identified with the police department, who has won promotion from roundsman and clerk to first-class sergeant, will tomorrow morning don the star of captain of police, taking over the position vacated by the resignation of Captain Duke Kahanamoku.
...
The sherriffi this morning received and immediately accepted tne resignation of captain Kahanamoku as a police officer.

Kahanamoku was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
Investigation of charges had reached a stage where the officer volunteered his resignation rather than
face a civil service hearing of a series of allegations filed with the sheriff.

Captain Kahanamoku asked to be relieved from firther duty," said Sheriff Rose today.
"About all I have to say is that I have accepted his resignation
As far as I known, any charges that may have been filed against the officer in the department has been dropped.

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SAN FRANCISO, March 26.
...

Passing out at the opposite side of the aquarium, one pauses to rest on a seat at the base of a wonderfully beautiful group of surf-riders by Mr. Gordon Osborne.
This group, done in brown clay, represents three figures gracefully balanced and poised on surf -boards, their hair blown by the
wind,  their arms charmingly out stretched, a happy radiance to their faces.
Two children have fallen into the billowy sea and their happy faces smile upward toward the riders more fortunate than they.
This is a group of which Hawaii may well be proud.

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Duke Kahanamoku and George Cunha, Hawaii's speediest sprint swimmers, and Francis Evans, were returning passengers from Australia in the steamer Niagara yesterday.
Kahanamcku and Cunha went against the best men in the Southland with uniform success, while Evans acted as manager of the trip, and looked after the business end.
The trio left here November 30, being absent from Hawaii a few days over four months, during which time they visited all the large cities of Australia and New Zealand, and had an exceptional opportunity to get in close touch with Antipodean sport.

Champion Duke has nothing but praise for the treatment received in Australia, though on a number of occasions he was handicapped so heavily that he had no chance to win his events.
However the big Hawaiian says that was due to the belief on the part of the handicappers that he was consistently many seconds better than most of their own men.
"Their handicapping system is a fine thing for the younger swimmers and ought to be worked up in Hawaii," said Duke, today.
"It gives the new fellows a chance and makes the old fellows swim their best to win."

Campaign a Hard One.

Duke found the campaign a hard one physically and comes back five pounds under his usual swimming weight.
Traveling a good deal, kept up night after night by the evening swimming tournaments which are the usual thing in Australia, and with constant changes of food and water, he felt the strain of competition to an unusual extent.

"Great," said George Cunha this morning, when asked about the trip.
"We had such a good time that I don't know where to begin to talk about it
We did a lot of swimming, and as for seeing the country and meeting the people, why we had so many invitations that we had to refuse a lot of them.
It has been a trip that we'l never forget and never regret."

Kahanamoku established a new world's record for the 100-yard swim. of 53 4-5 seconds; Cunha made an Australasian record of 63 3-5 sees, for the 100 meters.
Duke is credited by the newspapers also with a new world's record for 50 yards, of 22 3-5 seconds, made at Auckland, N. Z., in a handicap race March 13, but whether this will stand is doubtful.
There seems to have been a mix-up in the timing, and whether the announced time will be declared official or not is a matter of conjecture.
The race was won by Cunha in 25 seconds flat, he having a handicap of 3 seconds over Duke, who was scratch.
Most of the watches caught Duke at 24 flat.

Difference in Stroke.

According to the returned swimmers, great interest was shown in the events in which the Hawaiian speed merchants took part.
The first night at the Domain baths, in Sydney, the paid admissions were about $3250, which was high mark for the trip.
"There is a decided difference between the stroke we use here and the Australian crawl," said Cunha, in reply to a query as to relative swimming styles, "Down there they time their kick with their arm movement instead of making the two independent ...

They claim that our stroke is the harder, and, we found it the other way around.: l guess it's just a matter of what you're used to.
Some of the kids down there have already picked up the Hawaiian stroke and seem to be doing well at it".

"It would be impossible to give visitors better treatment than we received," said Evans.
"They are the squarest sportsmen in the world, Australians and New Zealanders, and we haven't a single unpleasant criticism to make.
It's too bad that Duke and Longworth couldn't hook up for the 220 and 440, but Longworth was sick when they were supposed to have come together, and we traveled around so much that we couldn't make connections afterwards.
In the first  meeting Duke won the hundred easily, Longworth being fourth.
Longworth then went into the half mile, and after that he was taken sick, and couldn't get into the 220.
He was as anxious as anyone to meet Duke, but the doctors wouldn't hear of his competing.

"Talk about hospitality," continued Evans.
"We must have traveled 20,000 miles, and the only distance we did under our own motive power was in the water.
It was automobiles, trains, steamers and launches all the time. No chance to walk at all."

Surfboarding was a big hit in allparts of the southern continent.
At first Australians inclined to the belief that pictures of Hawaiians standing up on a board were "doctored" and it took a few demonstrations by the local bovs to convince them.
Then they went wild over the sport.

According to the local men, Australian swimming authorities are most anxious to have a Hawaiian team of five or six men go down for a series of meetings next year.
Team matches and relay races are favorite events in Kangarooland, and in the opinion of the Hawaiian trio a team from here could more than hold its own with anything that could be put against it down there.

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Left to right, the men in the picture are Francis Evans (manager), Duke Kahanamoku and George Cunha.
This trio, which has just returned from a grand swimming tour of Austra lia and New Zealand, has nothing but praise for the southern continent.
Besides returning as boosters, they bring back some excellent ideas for putting swimming here on a substantial and well organized basis.

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Each and every country of the Pacific will be represented this afternoon at Waikiki when Jack London and Fletcher S. . Brockman will be the guests of Alexander Hume Ford and the Mid-Pacific Magazine in the big canoes of the Outrigger Club.
To meet them has been invited one long time residents of each Pacific land and after the surf-riding is over, about twenty of these will meet together in the new lanai of the Outrigger Club and over their poi-bowls discuss with Mr. Brockman concrete plans for firmly establishing Honolulu as a publicity and commercial clearing house for the whole Pacific.

This work is beiig undertaken around the Pacific and Hawaii by the Hands-Around-the-Paciflc movement, and concrete ideas will be gathered tonight from the following participants in the movement, who were either born or have lived for a number of years in the countries for which they are asked to speak:
Harry L. Otrango, Alaska; Clinton G. Ballentyne, Canada; Riley H. Allen, Washington State and the Pacific Northwest: G. H. Tuttle, California; W. D. Westervelt, Mexico; Thos. P. Sedgwick, Peru and South America; L. A. Thurston, Hawaii; A. U C. Atkinson, Russian Asia; Dr. Doremus Scudder, Japan; J. W. Wadman, Korea; Lorrin Andrews, Shanghai and China; W. H. Babbitt, the Philippines; Algeron Halls, Australia; C. F. Maxwell, New Zealand; H. A. Kearns, Fiji and the South Seas.

If the Honolulu president of the Hands-Around-the-Paciflc Club, ex-Governor Walter F. Frear, is physically able to be present, will preside at the meeting.
This will be the first of a series of Pan-American gatherings which the Mid-Pacific Magazine is promoting to further the interests of Hawaii as a clearing house of Pacific effort.

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Duke Kahanamoku. the great swimmer, and Hackenscnmidt, the Russian wrestler, both claim that a great deal of their physical perfection is due to sleeping on hard boards with but scant covering.
At that rate a lot of our gobs who can sleep soundly on the declr almost any time, with a pair of shoes in a ditty box for a pillow, ought to make good athletes.

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Here's a picture of Duke Kahanamoku, taken in the Domain Baths, Sydney, where he established a new world's record for the 100 yards.
Needless to say, Duke didn't break any records with the craft in which the camera caught him.
Kahanamoku, Cunha and Evans are still talking of their trip to the antipodes, and telling their friends what royal sportsmen the Australians are.
The two crack swimmers are taking a lay-off just now, but before long they will beg.in to think of the swimming events at the Exposition, to which Hawaii is expected to send a team.

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- JAY URICE: I don't mind doing promotion work, but I object to getting sunburned teaching surf-riding to tourists.
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- DUKE KAHANAMOKU: There certainly are some pretty Maori maids over in Australia; and lots or them have money to burn, but I didn't pick one out because I was afraid she'd make me stay in that country.
Australia is a fine land and its people are mighty nice, but I'll never make my home anywhere but here.

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Accompanied by Governor Pinkham, Mayor Lane, the Royal Hawaiian band and Duke Kahanamoku. the members of the legislature paid their usual biennial visit to the leper settlement on Molokai last Saturday, making the journey in the specially chartered, vessel Mauna Loa.
Contrary to custom the visit this time was not made on Sunday, the legislature adjourning Friday afternoon until this morning.

Of the more than 100 persons in the junketing party not more than 25 were actual members of the lawmaking body- about 20 members of the house and five senators.
...
The Mauna Loa left Honololu at midnight arriving off Kalannapa at daylight the next morning.
Because of the high surf no landing could be made in the small boats and after 8 o'clock even then the task of getting ashore was a somewhat risky undertaking, carrying a degree of danger that thrilled the adventurers.
But all save Representative Crocket took the chance and reached land without untoward incident.
Crockett frankly declared the thing did not look good to him, and he remained aboard tbe Manna Loa, not setting foot on the island.

Trip to Brother Dutton's Home.

The majbrity of the legislators witn the committee clerks and officials and special guests at once started on Ihe jaunt across the narrow peninsula on horseback and in the one carryall for Kalawao, the large village on the windward side of the island, where the Baldwin home and the headquarters of Brother Dutton are located.
...
The visit was finished and the party had ridden the three miles back to Kalaupapa before noon.
At the latter place, from the time of its arrival, Capt. Berger's band had given the people a continual musical entertainment from the village bandstand.
Tarry Wile (sic, ?), and the music paused only daring the noon luncheon hour and the speech-making which followed.
...
At noon the visitors partook of an excellent luau prepared in their honor at the home of Superintendent Jack McVeigh, at long tables set in the yard under a canvas canopy, entertained the while by the wonderfully sweet singing of a chorus of men and women of the colony, led by a big, brawny, sightless young fellow who once was a member of the Honolulu police force.

The population of the settlement was reported by. Superintendent McVeigh to be as follows: 745; divided patients, 633; male, 387, and female, 246; kokuas (supporters), 25 males and 15 females; not patients, 28 males and 23 females; non-leprous children, 9 males and 11 females.
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On the recommendation of GovernorPinkham the supply of saddle horses will be cut down to a few for each patient that more cattle may be given pasturage.
 

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Jack London and Alexander Hume Ford acted as guests to the Japanese and Americans who came early and enjoyed the surf riding in the canoes provided by the junior members of the Outrigger Club, who by the way have taken enthusiastically to the idea of helping to entertain the fathers of the boys of many nationalities with whom they play baseball.
...
Frank C. Atherton and Harry L. Strange were appointed a committee to confer with Secretary Thayer and to arrange with the Outrigger Club for an afternoon of water sports for the visitors  to wind up with a Hands-Around-the-Pacific luau on the grounds, at which there would be a speaker from each of the country about the Pacific to tell the national lawmakers something of the new Pacific patriotism, and to hear from them what in their opinion the various races of Hawaii can do to bring the whole Pacific into a friendly relationship and united work.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatches from Chicago last night stated that the world's record for the 100-yard swim had been broken by A. C. Raithel of the Illinois Athletic Club, who covered the distance in 54 3-5 seconds, one-fifth of a second faster than Duke Kahanamoku's best mark, according to the Chicago report.

The world's record for the century swim is 53 4-5 seconds, made by Duke Kahanamoku at the Domain Baths, Sydney, January 2 of this year.

No doubt has been cast on the authenticity of this record, and news papers throughout the United States generally printed it as a new world's mark when it was flashed out by the cable.
The Australian system of timing is most thorough and complete, and the officials of the championship meets over there certainly know their business.
The meet at Sydney was a championship affair, and the mark made by the Hawaiian swimmer is most unquestionably a real world's record.
Possibly the Chicago officials are mixing A. A. U. and world's records when they claim a new mark for Raithel.

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In the May Mid-Pacific Magazine, on the newsstands today, begins the story of Jack London's cruise around the Pacific on the Snark.
Never before has this tale of his wife, Charmian Kittredge London, been published and it throws side-lights on the famous author that are interesting in the extreme.
The first instalment tells of the building of the Snark and of her trip to Hawaii.
Both the Londons are now regular contributors to the pages of the Mid-Pacific Magazine and are deeply interested in its work of creating a patriotism of the Pacific.
The May number is filled with articles from around the Pacific, among which are the following:

Hawaiian Views for Mid-Pacific Readers; The Log of the Snark, by Charmian Kittredge London; New Zealand, Mistress of the Pacific, by Sir James Mills, K. C. M. C; A Day at Myajiraa, by Alexander Hume Ford; The Psychology of the Surfboard, by Jack London; What a New Zealander Thinks of Sydney, by Thomas L. Mills; Blackbirding Days, by C. F. Maxwell; Tragedies of the Maui Mountains, by C. W. Baldwin; Motoring in Java, by Teda Kapong; Sight Seeing in Seattle, by H. H. Mattison; Pottering Around Perth, by Joseph B. Stiekney: People of the Philippines, by Dr. Merton Miller; Capt. Cook's Monument on Hawaii, by Thomas G. Thrum; From Macao to Canton, by Oscar Vojnich; Rounding the Horn, by C. F. Merrill; A Forgotten Corner of Kauai, by J. M. Lydgate.

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Whether an All-Hawaii swimming team, with Duke Kahanamoku and George Cunha as headliners, will take part in the exposition water meet next July, depends on just one thing; funds.
Communications are now being exchanged on this subject between local swimming authorities and the San Francisco officials and it is hoped that satisfactory arrangements can be completed.

"It all depends on what the fair people can do for us in the way of expense money," said V. T. Rawlins, president of the Hui Nalu and Hawaii's chief swimming booster.
"The exposition meet will be held in July, and we certainly hope to send an AllHawaii team to compete."

San Francisco keeps a close watch on Hawaii swimmers, and their doings are pretty freely chronicled and commented on.
William Unmack, the swimming, expert of the San Francisco Call, recently devoted about a column to the performances of Kahanamoku and Miss Ruth Blacker.
Here are the comments:

Date, March 13; event, 50 yards; straightaway course; place, Auckland, N. Z.; winner, Duke Kahanamoku; time, 22 3-6 seconds a new world's record.

This is the news received here yesterday from the antipodes.
It proves that the mighty Duke is still the greatest of them all - and instead of going back he is smashing records galore.
The Duke's' trio, through Australia and New Zealand has been one great series of winning races and eradicating records.
His latest record for the fifty beats his own former record of 23 2-5 seconds by four-fifths of a second, a remarkable cut from a
world's mark.

The breaking official records by such a large margin brings to mind the time when Duke first sprang into the limelight at Honolulu, in 1910, when he clipped more than a second off  the  world's mark.
Proper application blanks were made out for the record and sent to New York, but Duke's anounced time was scoffed at by Eastern officials and even the late James E. Sullivan raised his eyebrows and whistled when he read the time.
He wrote to Rawlins of Honolulu and asked for further particulars, but all the particulars had been given.
Still the big chief was not quite satisfied and could not credit such a performance and in writing to Rawlins later he said: "World's records are broken by fractions of seconds and not by more than a full second."

Rawlins bided his time, put Duke on a steamer for San Francisco and shot him overland to New York and eastern cities.
The first night Duke collapsed in the 220 national championship.
He bad never been in a small enclosed tank and was not used to the fresh water which almost choked him when he tried to turn. The next morning Duke went into the tank and trained all morning on the turns.
That night he came out and won the 100 so easily that the East gasped again.
Since then he has been doing nothing else but break records.

Speaking of records calls to mind that, the Honolulu papers have been discussing th matter of records and give Dorothy Becker the credit of holding the American record for 50 yards.
Under A. A. U. rules Dorothy Becker did hold the record with 35 3-5 seconds, but she does not hold it now, the A. A. U. time being held by a local girl, Frances Lyons Cowells. with 34 4-5 seconds, application for which has reached the hands of the local records committee and will be forwarded to New York.

Dorothy Becker made her time in an unsatisfactory race at Honolulu in February, when she was given a decision over Miss Ruth Stacker, the Hawaiian champion.
Frances Cowells made her time in a meet at Alameda two weeks ago, and won with ease.
She has shown considerably better than 33 in training.

When the Hawaiian girl made her record girl swimmers were not recognized by the A. A. U- but the time was legitimate in every respect and stands today as the fastest fifty yards ever swum in this country by any girl, though officially in the A. A. U. record
lists Ruth will not be given credit for the mark.
She is an ambitious girl, however, and is anxious to set the record, which she can secure if she is fast enough to beat Frances Cowells, who will be able to show far more speed inside two or three months, when Miss Stacker is expected here to race her.

Miss Stacker is a remarkable swimmer and holds, many other unofficial records, though her mark of 7 minutes 8 seconds for the 440 yard event, made at Honolulu in February, is an official American record for girls, and has not been approached in competition anywhere in the country.

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Friends of Miss Marget Jones who is well known in Maul where she visited a few months ago, are much concerned over the news of the sinking of the Lusitania, for Miss Jones is understood to have been a passenger on that ill-fated vessel.

Mrs. Alfred T. Wakefield, of Honolulu, who is also known on Maui, was also enroute to her old home in England on the Lusitania.
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On Thursday evening the visitors were entertained at Puunene, first with an exhibition of swimming by Duke Kahanamoku and a number of lesser lights in the swimming firmament, in the big tank of the Puunene Club; and later by a most enjoyable dance in the club house.
The affair was a very pleasant one both for visitors and hosts.

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Waikuku, May 7.
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Fully 1500 people turned out to extend a genuine Maui welcome, and from first to last, the affair was a distinct success.

Duke Kahanamoku was the star of water sports, and his work was watched with great interest by the visitors, for whom whom he gave demonstration of the various swimming strokes, besides capturing the 100 yards event and two relay races.
The Puunene boys showed theirskill in high and fancy diving and tapeze work, all of which proved of considerable interest tothe visitors, a number of whom were witnessing water meef for the first time.

The Puunene tank inclosure had been specially, decorated and remodelled for the occasion, and additional stand on one side of the plunge being reserved for the congressional party.

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The people of Kauai will have a Iong-anticipated opportunity to see Duke Kahanamoku in action during the visit of the congressional party to the Garden Island.
Duke, who is traveling with the distinguished visitors, gave an exhibition of his swimming skill at Puunene, Maui, and it occurred to representaive Coney of Kauai that it would be a fine thing for the Kauai swimmers if  the speedy Hawaiian champion could perform there also.

W. T. Rawlins and Duke were called into consultation, and as a result Duke will swim at Hanalei, and at Niumalu, Mr. Coney's place on Kauai.
At both points  there is a landing stage that offers a good vantage point for spectators.
 
 

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After the luncheon, moving and group pictures of the party were taken on the lawn of the premises, and then Duke Kahanamoku and young Oliver gave an exhibition of speed swimming in the Huleia river.
Oliver had a fifty yards handicap and gave the champion a close rub.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin.  Honolulu, May 21, 1915, page 10. Dorothy Becker, San Francisco Mermaid, May Go on the Stage. Word has reached local friends of Dorothy Becker, the little San Francisco swimmer who took part in the Carnival swimming meet, that she is contemplating a stage career.  A good deal of press "dope" has been prepared, and Miss Becker may blossom forth in vaudeville at any time. Although only a youngster, Miss Becker is a very, speedy swimmer, and besides is a diver of exceptional grace and ability.  She would fit nicely in some mermaid act and should make a success. While in Honolulu, Miss Becker learned to ride a surf board like a native, and some excellent pictures of her indulging in the sport are being used to good advantage in publicity work.  Above are two views of the little Coast swimmer, the upper one showing her executing the very difficult feat of riding the board standing on her head.   Honolulu star-bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1912-current, May 21, 1915, 3:30 Edition, Image 10 Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014682/1915-05-21/ed-2/seq-10/

Either the swimming appropriation of the P.-P. 1. K. is sadly strained, or else the San Francisco official are
indifferent as to whether the world's champion and other great water seders from Hawaii take part in the Coast
irect or not.
There is a hitch in negotiations between the local A. A. U. and the San Francisco management, that may mean no Hawaii entry in the big races.

The exposition swimming officials have made an earnest request for an all-star Hawaii team to take part in their meet, with Duke and Cunha, of course, included, said W. T. Rawlins, president of the Hawaiian branch of the A. A. U; and of the Hul Nalu, this
morning.
"However, they are only willing to put up $500 towards expenses, and we figure the cost of sending a four-man team. Including hotel and incidental traveling expenses, at about $1100.
This leaves a balance of $600 on the wrong side of the ledger, and we can't see our way clear to putting it up.

"A counter proposition made by the exposition people is to pay $330 toward the expenses of Duke and trainer, or Cunha.
That is somewhat ambiguous, and can be read to mean Duke and a trainer, Duke and Cunha or Cunha and a trainer.
I'm not sure just what it does mean." .
It would be a great pity, if Hawaii was not represented in the exposition swimming championships, but it would seem that the San Francisco officialsare hardly liberal enough with their contribution if they expect to get an all-star Hawaiian team.
Heretofore, Hawaii has contributed liberally to sending swimming teams from home, but in, this instance it looks as though the exposition people would be the big gainers.
Duke Kahanamoku is probably the best advertsed swimmer in the world today, and George Cunha, by his fine work in Australia, has made himself a big swimming card.
With "Stubby" Kruger and Clarence Lane as the two other members, a Hawaiian team would nave a good chance of cleaning up the relay event.
The ' P.-P. 1. E. is bringing crack swimmers from New York and Chicago and it would be interesting to know whether they are to receive only a portion or all of their expenses.
As matters now stand it looks as though Hawaii's participation In the swimming meet might be called off, although there is the chance that the Chamber of Commerce will step in and take a hand in the finance proposition.
 

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Some one said that a sailorman was good for nothing but to chase about the world and send people presents.
Pearl Smith had known this all her life, though perhaps she had never resolved it into just that expression.
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 He was an American bluejacket, boatswain's mate of the destroyer Shark.
There is one amusement the Hawaiians have which Americans do not possess.
We are enthusiastic surf bathers and are good swimmers, but a sight that is seen in Hawaiian waters is never seen on an American coast
A Hawaiian takes with him to the beach a board, usually about twice his length.
This board he carries out as far as he can then, placing himself on it, it bears him, forced by the waves, back again to the beach.
Those who are not expert at this exercise may lie flat on the board, but those who are trained to it stand erect, balancing their bodies as they roll toward the shore.

He met Pearl at Waikiki beach.
She was shooting the surf when Heine saw her first standing upright with outflung arms, she balanced on her polished board of kamani wood as it raced ahead of a giant breaker.
Swift as the wave she flashed past the swimming sailor, but as the waters broke over his head he remembered every line of her beautiful body. The grace' of her attitude struck him harder than the wave.
Turning, he swam strongly toward the beach, where the spent roller had land ed the fairy surf rider.

Half a dozen men were begging Pear] to be allowed to take her board out to the reef again, but she laughed them away with a flash of milk white teeth and struggled out alone.
Heine met her a hundred fathoms from the beach, where the water came almost to his shoulders as he stood on the sand.
"I'll carry your board for you!" he cried as the girl broke through a wave almost upon him.
Startled, she turned her head, and the board slipped, striking on her flower mouth.
As the blood came Heine caught her in his arms.
The wave, receding, shut the other bathers from view, and for ten seconds the sailorman held the girl close to his heart
"My lip will swell!" she panted, struggling to free herself.
But Heine jollied her, just as he jollied the commanding officer of the Shark, and within half an hour she had checked her surf board and bathing costume at the bathhouse and was riding back to town with him, holding her handkerchief to the swelling lip.

Three days later the fleet was ready to sail.
Dusky singers with their tiny guitars strummed the sad "Aloha Oe" - "Farewell" - in every street.
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Dr. Allen Dodson, of this city, created quite a sensation Sunday by introducing something new in the way of water sports.
The Doc has made a surf board which he ties to the rear of his speed boat, and rides upon it with the boat going at full speed.
From the looks of the sport it must be very exciting, and the Doc got several duckings before he mastered the new stunt.
It took well with the motor boat owners of this vicinity and several already have declared their intention of securing a surf board this summer.
 

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin.  Honolulu, July 26, 1915, page 10. Motor Surf Board is Final Word in Aquatic Sport Here The motor surfboard has arrived. No longer must the surf rider wait for favorable rollers and, after a brief and exciting shoot on the crest of a comber, paddle laboriously out again for another try.  Now, he need merely give the starting mechanism a spin, jump on his board and beat it across the briny. Owing to the low freeboard of the surfboard, however, it is necessary to have the motor ahead of, and slightly above the body of the surfboard. The above picture shows Harold K. Castle (right) and E. K. Miller racing on motor boards.  They are seen holding to the mechanical contrivance which connects the motor with the board.  No picture of the motor is available, as it is a secret invention of Mr. Castle, who jealously guards it from possible patent thiefs.

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From a humble beginning seven years ago, the Outrigger Cance Club has grown to be the largest social organization in the Hawaiian Islands,
a membership cf considerably more than 1000, with a waiting list of several hundred.

The Outrigger Canoe Club was ord primarily for the purpose of giving the sport of surf-board riding, which had almost completely died out,  where there were eight white men and boys who little more than a half a dozen years ago could ride the surf board; but today there are hundreds; with the revival of surf-board riding and surf-canoeing grew the social element in the club, so that today $2000  is being spent on improvements, although it is but six months since improvements costing an equal were completed.

The Outrigger Club has never borrowed money, and when the present improvements were contemplated it was merely stated that about $2000 would be spent on the big pavilion dancing lanai facing the sea, and in two afternoons more than 100 members of the club had pledged about $1200, and it was suggested that on completion of the new lanai that opened with a dance to whicheach member of the club would beasked to subscribe five Tickets at $1 each.

Ladies of the Woman's Auxillary,  to make these tickets even more attractive, offered to provide a chowder for each ticket holder, so that on afternoon and evening of August 27, the next full moon date, there will be monster entertainment, a chowder to be followed by a dance.

Members Being Pledged.

The committee in charge is hard at work, pledging each member to underwrite his five tickets, and as the women were providing the chowder and supper, each subscriber will know his dollars will go directly into the improvement fund.

It costs a good many, thousand dollars a year now to conduct the Outrigger Canoe Club, but in the early days
its total annual income was but $300 ($500?).
The hau trees on the grounds were made to serve as shelter for the picnic parties and  a tent house didservice for the men and boy bathers, while a simple Hawaiian grass structure was turned into a bath house for women.

The idea of the Outrigger Club was born in the brain of a malihini- in Hawaii they call a stranger a malihini.

One day two malihinis walked along a little stretch of beach at Waikiki and lamented the fact that the great hotels and palatial villas of the rich had so encroached that practically there was no public entrance to one of the most famous beaches in the world.

The two malihinis looked out on the sea where there were three boys riding on their surf-boards.
They asked if it were possible for them to learn the art of standing on the waves on these chips of wood and were told that it must be learned in childhood.
One of the malihini, a man of 40, proved a doubting Thomas and induced the three youngsters to show him the way on a board out to the big breakers.
In six weeks of hard work, eight hours a day, he mastered the art of standing and riding on the Hawaiian surf-board.
Furthermore, he discovered that by being shown the trick of starting and guiding the board, a novice could learn how to master the surf in a few lessons.
He observed, however, that the beach was practically closed to the small boy of Hawaii who would not afford the daily bath house free (sic, fee).

Howl of Ridicule Went Up.

"Why not organise a surf -board club," he said to some of the young men and boys who were expert surf board riders, "and secure a place on the beach on which to build a clubhouse for those who wish to learn to ride a surf-board?"
There was a general howl of ridicule at the idea of any one, a malihini least of all, securing a bit of property facing Waikiki beach; but the malihini didn't see things just this way.
He found out that one of the leases for an acre and a half of ground would soon expire.
This acre and a half faced the sea between the two great Waikiki hotels and was the property of the Queen Emma Estate.
Here, on these grounds in years gone by, Kamehameha the Great had landed with his war canoes the warriors who conquered the island of Oahu.
Here Queen Emma had learned to ride the surf-board.
Here was built for her one of the old native grass houses and daily with her retainer she would go out as a child to the big surf and come in standing on her board.
It was the most historic bit of ground in Honolulu and the trustees of the estate expressed a willingness to turn over the property to a club that would perpetuate the Hawaiian water sports of which Queen Emma had been so fond.

Thus it was that for a nominal sum this valuable piece of property was turned over to the malihini, on the condition that he organize a club that would make it easily possible during the 20 years of the lease for every grown person and youngster in Hawaii to learn to become an adept In the art of guiding Hawaiian outrigger canoes and riding on the surf-board.

Began With 100 Members.

The Outrigger Canoe Club sprang into existence with 100 members and within a few months more young people were riding the surf -board and steering canoes than had ever done so since the days of the landing of Kamehameha's fleet .
To the astonishment of the people of Hawaii it was found that not only could men of all ages quickly learn the art of riding the surf-board, but that even young girls and women rapidly picked up the accomplishment.
That first summer of 1908 the club was in full swing and the requirements of giving the grounds a Hawaiian effect were carried out.
There were two real Hawaiian grass houses on the island cf Oahu that had been built with all the ceremonies attendant on the construction of such buildings by the Hawailans.
The posts were of real ohia wood lashed together with grass ropes, the walls were lined with pandamus leaves and the whole thatched with the real pili grass used by Hawaiian chiefs on their buildings.
Those houses were secured and moved to the grounds of the Outrigger Club.
Rules were made forbidding the harboring in the grounds of any kind of craft other than real outrigger canoes.
Once a year the native Hawaiian canoeists of the island were invited to make the Outrigger grounds their homes for several days.
Old Hawaiian sports of every kind were revived and it was a unique sight even to the people of Honolulu to see crews of native women in sailing and paddling canoe races.
On the grounds from 50 to 100 Hawaiians lived in the native style in the grass houses, the women pounding taro into poi, the menbaking pigs in imus, or .underground ovens, and everything proceeding as it did in the days when Kamehameha landed on this spot.

Women Became Interested.

The club grew in influence and importance and soon became an institution.
It now became necessary to interest the gentler sex.
A grass bathhouse was built and a part of the grounds set apart exclusively for a women's auxiliary, which soon numbered 40 members.
The hau trees were jacked up on cocoanut posts and trellises and formed into splendid outing places for picnics and parties.
In the great wide lagoon adjoining the Outrigger grounds was built a big thatched dancing pavilion or lanai.
In everything the Hawaiian effect was maintained.

Through the, courtesy of Frank Clark of around-the-world-crulse fame, magnificent silver trophies for the best boy and girl surfboard riders and canoe surfists were offered as an encouragement to those who would be come adept in these sports.

The waters of Hawaii remain at about 78 to 78 degrees of warmth the year around.
It is in summer, however, when the school children have their vacation, that the waters of the bay are crowded  with canoes and surfboards and the grounds with merrymakers.
On the grounds the boys make their own surfboards and the paddles with which they guide the canoes before the great rollers.
Here too they fashion the outriggers and lash them to the canoes.
Once more the old Hawaiian sports are being revived and bid f sir to excel in every way anything accomplished in the days of old.

Has Helped Save Lives.

The revival of the surfboard has also had its useful side.
Many lives have been saved in the surf through the use of the board.
One member of the Outrigger Club has saved as vainy as eight human lives, all with the use of the surfboard.
The surfboard can be propelled through the water very much faster than anyone can swim.
It cuts through the incoming waves and quickly reaches anyone in trouble in the big surf.
The drowning man is placed on the board and the board shoved toward the shore.

There is also the esthetic side to the Outrigger Canoe Club.
There are occasions when scores of canoes are beautifully decorated with lanterns and a night water carnival prepared for the delectation of the members ashore.
Not only that, but some of the youngsters have learned the secret of touching off red fire on the tips of their boards just as they catch the wave and their illuminated figures are seen In outline on the foaming crest.

Perhaps one Hawaiian sport that the club has done least to revive has been that of native fishing.
Still there are members of the club who do sometimes go far out to sea in their canoes and spear the multi-colored fish that swarm in Hawaiian waters.
The usual method is to take a glass-bottomed box and a twenty-foot spear.
The edge of the box is held in. the teeth by the swimmer and the spear in the right hand.
As the fish is seen twenty or thirty feet below, the spearman aims his spear and pierces the fish.
That is how it Is done in the day time.

There are probably as many canoes in the Club grounds at Waikiki as there are outside of the grounds on the entire Island of Oahu.
There are three canoes, however, not on the club grounds, but down at Pearl Harbor, that the club envies and which have been promised.
Two of these canoes are 100 feet in length and it takes 14 paddlers at least to man either one of them.
These are the two largest of the old native canoes left on the islands, and it is the intention of the club to keep them as state canoes for distinguished visitors who come to Hawaii.
The club will also make a collection of Polynesian canoes from all around the Pacific; in fact, a start has been made in this direction.

Twelve Hundred Members

Today, the Outrigger Canoe Club has a membership of 1200 almost equally divided between men and women.
When it I needs funds, the proceeds of a single entertainment is all that is necessary to prevent the club from establishing the precedent of borrowing money, and it is expected that the treat moonlight dance and chowder next month will be recorded
as one of the monumental entertainments given in Hawaii.
With the other desired improvements ; made on the Outrigger grounds, it is hoped and believed that the younger element will once more come to the front in the development of surfing sports and carnivals.

The Outrigger Club has from its inception been one of the great promotion assets of the Hawaiian Islands.
It was through its initial efforts that the A. A. U. in Hawaii was organized, and the Islands have much to be proud of in the direct and indirect accomplishments of the Outrigger Canoe Club at Waikiki.

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Atlantic City. July 31 .
Cottagers have clashed with the city authorities over the legality of the "mackintosh law," which compels all bathers passing through the city streets to wear some covering over their surf attire that will stretch well down below the knees.
...
Gallant life guards have refused to enforce the edict that all bathing skirts must be within six inches of the knee.
The edict was issued by the city fathers, but the "llfe catchers," backed up by Chief Surgeon Charles Bosset, czar of the beach patrol, announced that they would not go up and measure the skirts with tapes, and besides they were supposed to watch the people in the surf and not the paraders on the beach.
Let the beach cops be the censors, they requested, but the bluecoats manage to dodge the responsibility, so the girls are appearing in their bloomer suits and abbreviated skirts just as before.
...
Motor pursuit contest are now engaging the athletic youngsters along the ocean and inlet fronts.
They fasten their surf boards behind motor boats, climb aboard and then balance themselves as the speedy hydroplanes yank
them across the billows.
The skill required to remain right side tip when the speed boats are making thirty miles an hour or better means practice for
weeks, and the spectator are given some real thrills in watching the youths skip over the waves.

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Atlantic City, Aug. 14.
The August rush is on, and it is bigger than ever this year.
...
Inner tubes have replaced surf boards in popular favor for ocean use in coasting over the breakers.
Motorists take some of their old tubes, have them vulcanized and then carry them to the beach.
One tube will support a half dozen people without dllllculty, and those who do not swim grip the tubes while they bun nee over the combers.
The swimmers take them out into deep water, fit them over their shoulders and behind their legs and then sit for hours, bobbing
up and down on the long swells.

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Waikiki surfrlding is getting some indirect publicity through the press-agent work on behalf of little Dorothy Becker; the girl swimmer, who came here some months ago and was the winner of an unsatisfactory 50-yard race.
Miss Becker is shown in a 3 column photo in the Chicago Tribune doing a "head-stand" on a surfboard and . an accompanying. article tells of the pleasures and popularity of surf-riding.

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The annual report of the Lyall Bay Surf and Life-saving Club states that the membership has been well maintained during the season.
Notwithatanding the call made by the Empire on members, the active work of the club has been well attended to, and it, is hoped that those remaining wiII do their utmost to retain the good name of the club.
Life-saving has received due attention during the season, and the committee is pleased to report that the beach has been free from accidents.
The finances have improved considerably during the past season, and it is anticipated that they wiII remain steady during the coming season.
The report refers to the visit of the Hawaiian swimmer Duke Kahanamoku, and says that the thanks of the club are due to Mr. Heu Heu Tekino and his wife for entertaining the team at the Bay, thereby relieving the club of a. great deal of the necessary entertaining.
The report also expresses the thanks of the club to Sir Robert Stout, Messrs. J. E. Henrys, L. P. Blundell, and A. Levy for the practical interest shown by them in its work.
The balance-sheet shows: Receipts £22 5s, expenditure £13 2 4d, cash in hand £9 2s 8d.

The Waihee beach last Sunday was the scene of several bathing parties, and the number of bathers, surf board and canoe riders, gave it the appearance of a tourist resort.
The various beach houses along the shore from Waiehu to beyond Waihee were occupied, and it being a splendid day, an
enjoyable time is reported all along.

At the Penhallow beach house a party was given in honor of the Palama Settlement basket ball team.
Bathing, surfing, and canoeing was indulged in by those present, after which a fine lunch was laid out of which all partook.
The party returned to Wailuku late in the afternoon, tired but happy.

Among those present were: Major and Mrs. W. E. Bal, Mrs. G. D. Schrader, Mrs. A. Garcia, Mrs. Frank Aki, Jr., Misses E. Cunningham, Achoy Ahu, Mabel Titcomb, Lizzie Ianua, Lillian Biart, Mary Luhan, Bernicia Lane, Elizabeth Akana, Jennie Hoina, Mary Honman, Jennie Kahalekal, Ella Bal, Esther Tallant, Girlie Hart, Gladys Hart, L.ouise Robinson, Pet Robinson, Tweet Robinson, Lovey Robinson, Messrs. Archie Bal. Jean Bal, Ernest Weight, Susie Baldwin, John Robin-,son, Henry Robinson, Alvin Robinson, Foster Robinson, Robert Smythe, John M. Brown.

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The Sherlock sisters' singing and dancing have attracted attention at the Gayety this week.
While playing in San Francisco several months ago the Sherlock sisters accepted a dare to take a night with Lincoln Beachey, the famed birdman.
They soared over the Presidio, over the bay. and back over the city.
They were so delighted with the experience they have never been contented since with any other form of locomotion and avail themselves of every opportunity to take a flight.
...
The Sherlock sisters find outdoor life an essential and with other accomplishments are expert swimmers.
Several years ago, while playing in Hawaii, they became exponents of surf-board riding.
Under the tutelage of Duke Kaunupauhola (sic) winner of the Olympic swimming contests at Stockholm, the sisters soonbecame experts in this thrilling diversion.

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The usual crowd of young folks are spending this afternoon and evening
at the Outrigger Canoe Club.
After a swim and surf ride they will enjoy a picnic supper under one of the hau tree pergolas and then resort to dancing in the new pavilion to the strains furnished by a Hawaiian quintet.
The party will be chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. W. P. S. Hawk.
Among those invited are: Miss Mid Hawk, Miss Dorothy Hawk, Miss Helen Center, Miss Mae Walker, Miss Dorothy Walker, Miss Florence White, Miss Florence Davis, Miss Louise Girvin, Miss Clemence Glfford. Miss Mildred Chapin, Miss Ruth Stacker, Miss Miriam Stacker, Miss Gertrude Ripley, Miss Peggy Richards, Miss Gladys Traut, Miss Dorothy Winter, Miss lima Woods, Miss Rachel Woods, Miss Peggy Briand, Miss Rhoda Ballentyne, Sam Carter, Frederick Carter, John Gifford, John O'Dowda, Gustave Ballentyne, Lorrin Thurston, George Lindey, George Bromley, Arthur Brown, Dr. Jack Pedeh, Shirley Bush, LeRoy Bush, Albert Bush, Edwin Ideler, Jerry Smith, Gornony Gubb, Ernest Mott Smith, Allen Davie, Chester Taylor, Billy Noble, Stafford Austin, Henry White and Sam Stacker.
 

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Drifting far out to sea off Walkiki, an empty 14-foot new fishing boat, painted a sea-green, was picked up a few days ago by Capt, Albert Frederickson, skipper of the aOhu Shipping Company's nower schooner Makens.
There is no name on the boat and nothing to indicate to whom it belongs.
In the boat were fishing lines, a sail and a surf board, but nothing to indicate the craft's ownership.
A pair of oars lay in the boat. ,
The little boat is at Pier 9, and Capt. Frederlckson is waiting for a claimant to appear.
Whether some one hired the skiff rowed out to sea and committed suicide by jumping overboard is a matter of speculation.
It is thought, however, that it may have become loosed from its moorings and drifted .away.

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With onlv three dava left before the Hill liner Great Northern ties up at Pier 7 Friday morning and pours a crowd of eager tourists into Honolulu
entertainment plans for the. visitors are practically completed and only a few finishing touches remain before everything necessary to Insure a representative Hawaiian welcome will have been done.
...
Saturday afternoon will probably be turned over to surf riding and bathing at the Outrigger Club, G. H. Tuttle, president of the organization, having expressed his willingness to have the visitors entertained there.
Boys will be provided to captain the canoes.

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A trip through Haleakala crater will be shown In motion pictures by R. K. Bonine at the opera house tomorrow night.
Since Kilauea also is to be shown there will be an opportunity to see Hawaii's two greatest wonders.
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Another film that should be of great interest to Honolulu is one which shows the best features of some of the recent Mid-Pacttlc carnivals.
Those who have attended carnivals time out of mind will have some old days recalled to them vividly.
There will be floral parades, the landing of Kamehameha at Waikiki and other scenes.

Unusual motion pictures of surf riding were obtained by Mr. Bonine by building a stand far off shore, where the best riders, unwilling to remain inshore with the beginners, take their boards.
This stand was braced against the surf, and, as an extra precaution, several canoes were placed about It, manned by good swimmers and canoe boys, to rescue Mr. Bonine and his camera if the stand should go down with the surf.
The surf riders move into the eye of the camera at high speed.
As they had passed by the time the surf struck the stand, Mr. Bonine was able to cease unreeling film and hold to supports while
the stand shook with the rush of waters.

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Cecil Martin of  Los Angeles ; has beenj elected as the instructor at the manual training class at the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Martin is an experienced shop man and a woodworker of note and classes were held on Monday and Wednesday of this week, and six boys
enrolled to take advantage of the course offered.
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One boy has planned to make a surf board while another is working on a model yacht.

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All the proposed changes in the organization's bylaws went through without opposition Saturday afternoon at the Outrigger Canoe Club's special meeting of members called to vote on the changes.

This means an increase of the initiation fee from $5 to $10 after January 1, and a boost in the annual dues from $6 to $10.
The dues for visitors and guests will go up from $1 to $2 a month.

President G. H. Tuttle of the club said this morning that the new scale of initiation fees and dues will bring in enough money to enable the erection of another locker room.
The club now has 634 members, but its locker space is only designed to care for 584 men and boys.

Improvement of the club's kitchen will be started soon, and the space covered over with a roof.
The new locker building will be completed before the spring and summer rush begins.
Secretary J. Ashman Beaver said today that 30 new members have been admitted in the last four or five weeks.
 
 

Sixteen Gorgeous Pages Give Characteristic Views of Island Scenes
Christmas is coming and the Christmas issue of the Mid-Pacific Magazine is here.
Tomorrow the January number, which is the holiday issue of this magazine "Made in Hawaii," will be on the news stands and
a new achievement in magazine-making in the territory will be accomplished.
This holiday number is one superbly gotten up.
Only once before in Hawaii have such color-pages come from the press.
That was in the latest-special issue of the Star-Bulletin, and this number of the Mid-Pacific is from the same establishment the
printing department or the Star-Bulletin.
The cover is a deep, royal purple, against which background is shown a single and perfect hibiscus in its own inimitable colors.  The lettering is in white.
Then follows 16 pages of Hawaiian scenes in colors, colors gorgeous, dainty, redolent of the islands.
The subjects are successively bougainvillea tree, surf -board swimming, night-blooming cereus, cane field and mill, Waikiki scene, pau-rider in floral parade, Haleakala canyon, Waimea canyon, Nuuanu pali, moonlight night in Hawaii, volcano of Kilauea, Hawaii's painted fish,  Olokele gulch, sugar harvesting scene, snow-covered summit of Mauna Kea.
In text description and information the contents of the issue are also noteworthy.
Outside of the color pages the book is printed in duotone brown and the page borders give a handsome effect

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Surf boards are bringing Hawaii to the front in the publicity line if the number of inquiries regarding the boards is any criterion.
In the last mail the Promotion Committee received two requests for surf board dimensions and the materials they are made from.
One of the letters came from Capetown and the other from New York.

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Surf-riding is becoming more and more popular at Lyall Bay, Wellington.
Since the visit of Duke Kahanamoku and his swimming partner, George Cunha, and their notable exhibition of the art of riding the surges, many swimmers have taken up the sport with entusiasm.
Now it is an every-day sight to see many bathers with surf-boards, disporting themselves more or less skilfully on the breakers.

Starting to-morrow, Bondi will be en fete for a week, and many of the attractions offered are entirely new.
The carnival week opens with a procession from Queen street, Woollahra, at 2 p.m.
Among the items are tableaux (on lorries), representing the Allies, the Dolly Vardens, the Dickens, France as it was yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow, Returned soldiers, Tingira boys, friendly societies, sporting bodies, tramway tableaux, etc., and numerous brass bands will be present at the beach.
The programme includes the Freshwater Duke surf board display, surf events by leaders, surfers, athletic events and novelties by East Sydney Amateur Athletic Club, "The Anzac Derby," physical culture display by Tingira boys, greasy poles, duck hunts, etc.
In the evening a Scotch concert will be held. .

The carnival week at Bondi Beach, which has been arranged in aid of the Mayor of Waverley's patriotic fund for wounded or distressed soldiers or dependents, opened on Saturday.
A procesblon marched from Ocean-st, Woollahra, to the beach, the streets through which it passed being well lined with people, who evinced great interest in the pageant,.
It was headed by a military band, and comprised some striking tableaux, one by the Anti-German League attracting a great deal of notice.
A company of French soldiers with a field gun were well received.
Prizes were given for the best arranged displays, that representing Father Neptune being placed first, Nurse Cavell second, and France third.

Arrived at the beach, the sports programme was carried out, also exhibitions of life-saving by the Bondi club, and a surfing board display by members of the Freshwater Club.
A number of boys from the Tingira also gave an exhibition of physical culture drill.
In the evening a Scotch concert was held.
The carnival will be held each evening till Sunday next, when there will be a "gold rush" on
the beach.

North Steyne Surfbathers Lifesaving Club held its annual carnival at Manly on Saturday.
The first of four contests for the Cecil Healy Memorial Shield was the principal event, and the
competion was keen.
In the senior alarm reel race, Harold Hardwick and Harry Hay (beltmen) provided a close and exciting finish, Hardwick just winning.
Cecil Healy Memorial Shield, Surf Point Score Competition
- Manly Lifesaving Club H. M. Hay, N. C. Smith, S. O. Wright, M. O. Crackanthorp, 1,
Cronulla R. Bowden, H.R. Congdon, F. Maguire, F. Sandon 2
Bondi H. Fletcher, W. Douglas, E. Clark, R. Stewart, 3
Life Line Rescue: Manly B team, 1, North Steyne and Cronulla, tie, 2.
Sack Race: L. Maguire (Cronulla), 1, P. Schaffer (Bondi), 2, L. Quinn (Collaroy), 3.
Senior Alarm Reel Race (teams of five): Manly A, 1, Manly B, 2.
Surf Board Display: C. West (Manly); 1, S. Dowling (Manly), 2.
Beach Flag Relay Race: Coogee A, 1.
Wheelbarrow Race: E. Wigney and A. Hilder (North Steyne), 1, J. Dempster and O. Cunningham (Dee- why), 2.
Junior Alarm Reel Race: North Steyne, 1, Manly C, 2. Manly A, 3,
Surf Boat Race (crews of five): Freshwater A (R. Matheson, captain, H. Lassoo, D. Matheson, S. Barker, and A. Colter).
Surf Race: E. O. Watson, 1, R. E. Brown, 2
Tug-of war: Collaroy 1, Manly, 2.

The weather was growing hotter and hotter.
Up in the hills the white Christmas bush was flushing and ripening.
Down on the beach the sand was too hot to walk on barefoot, and gave off a glare that was almost blinding.
None of the Noah's Ark people bathed in the middle of the day, not wishing to have their skin stripped off by the sun, so I was able to get a good long morning surf myself, and even sent to Sydney for wood, made myself a seven- foot surf board, and, after many spills, succeeded in learning to ride it standing either on my feet or head and hands.

But it's a lonely game surfing with no one to yell "Don't go down the mine, daddy," as one poises above the drop of a ten-foot wave, or to play that time-honoured game which never loses its flavour- i.e., to spot a wave with concealed dumping powers, to swim furiously towards it, yelling "All abroad," and then to hop neatly off it and watch the casualties.
I found myself looking forward to the mornings when my late enemy, Andrew, the fisher lad, came along for an hour or so to swim with me.
Little by little we were making friends, though he still disregarded my notices.
I came to like him well in the end- him and his people, and once or twice I went down to their huts about 1 a.m., when they were all waking up, ate their rough breakfast with them, and went out in the darkness with the boats.
It was an eerie sort of hour, depressing in the extreme with the whispering silence of the sea closing round the boats till one wanted to shout aloud- but didn't because the echoes would have been so beastly.
I didn't wonder after the first night that fishermen were superstitious and quite realised how the legend that the Day of Judgment was close at hand must have spread among the North of Scotland fishing boats.
There's a tense feel in the air just before dawn as if something much bigger than commonplace
daylight were coming up out of the sea- something big and terrible like the horsemen of the Apocalypse or the dragon with seven heads and 10 horns.
Andrew's old father knew the Book of Revelations backwards, and I always remember how one hot windless dawn he stood up suddenly in the boat and said loudly: "A sea of glass mingled with fire" and sat as suddenly down again.
Which was just what it was- I've never seen anything like that sea before or since.
(To be continued.)

Autographed Postcard, Feb 11, 1915.  E. S. Marks was  prominant in Sydney sports. Sydney's premier athletic track is named The E.S. Marks Field. Postcard reproduced from private collection.

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