The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-09

Healani and Myrtle clubs for the
championship and cup and the
honors and booty thereto belonging
has now become 4 matter Of past
history the race having occurred
on the afternoon of the 9TH inst, on
the course which bounds the west
erly end of the beautiful Pearl
River peninsula. The race was
set for 4 o'clock P. NJ. and the
Oahu railroad company made ar
rangements to convey the public
thereto cheaply and carefully; all
the trains were crowded and extra
cars had to be furnished at the
last moment to accommodate the
large gathering which clamored
for transit to the scene of action.
Friends of both crews were
plentiful on the peninsula and
many fair maid with the ma
genta colors of the Myrtle could be
seen in playful badinage with
bronzed bearer of the blue and
white of the Healani. In the
lagoon the yacht Hawaii piloted by
Capt. G.. l.. Garter and the Bonnie
Dundee, captained by Oscar White
spread their white wings to the
gentle breeze and bore their yalu-
able cargoes, of gentler sex, to
points of interest. The Hawaii
positively displayed the Myrtle
colors while the Bonnie d. doubt
fully foated the white and blue.
The last trainfull of people ar
rived from the city about 8 80
o'clock, and, few minutes after,
the Myrtle crew boarded their
shell (Myrtle?) and pulled from
their house for a warming-up spin.
The Healani crew soon followed in
their beautiful shell the Fred Mac
Both crews received ovations from
the crowd. Promptly at 4 o'clock,
Capt. J. A. King dropping for the
occasion his ministerial title), the
judge for the Myrtles, Walter M.
Giffard, Esq, judge for the Hea-
lanis, and Mr.. J. G. Spencer, ref
cree and starter, appeared at the
starting point. Mr.. William A.
Wall was chosen timekeeper. Capt.
King, Mr.. Giffard and the repre-
sentative Of the ADVERTISER board
ed a steam launch which had been
provided to allow of close inspec-
ton by the judges of the phases of
the race, and Mr.. Spencer called
the boats to the starting point.
THE RACE.
At 4 :07 the competing teams
came to the line, and to one who
might even be judge in such mat
tiers the crew of the Healani would
be chosen as the favorite. The toss
for position gave the Myrtles the
inside and Coxswain Arthur Will
der soon had his boat on the mark.
Starter Spencer was particular and
caused both crews to pull and haul
until he felt satisfied, then he
nearly over-strained himself in a
frantic effort to discharge a rebelli-
Gus firearm which Captain King
had supplied him with, minus the
necessary instructions. A second
lining up became necessary, and
when accomplished the start was
given by word, "go" sending both
crews off and together.
Together they were, but for the |
first stroke only, the Healani's crew
by strength and weight fairly lift
ing their boat to the front at once |
and under the impetus of a 50
stroke. The Myrtle crew, by those
"to the manner born" of their
stroke, noticed, in wonder, a quick
ening to 80, as if in an endeavor
for a front place Immediately. The
grand and united effort made by
the Healanis was continued to a
point nearly opposite the Myrtle
club house, Spencer, the stroke, be-
ing responded to by his crew, and
they had gained nearly length,
causing their constituents and !
hackers to feel that victory woulG
again grace the "blue and white"
Al. Carter, the stroke of tbs Myr-
ties, seemed to be attending strict
ly to business, the 80 stroke not
being changed, Notwithstanding
the seeming necessity for
"spurt." And now the "blue and
white seemed sin it." Cheer
upon cheer, urging that crew
onward, while the Myrtles friends
lent voice as if to a lost cause.
Opportunity forbids a detailed
account of what happened after
passing the Myrtle's clubhouse,
but at that point the stentorian
voice of Charlie Mccarthy was sup
posed to have been the cause of
unseating No. 4 of the Healani
crew, and from thence on the Myr-
ties took the lead, turning their