The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-13
YICT0RS AGAIN.
Rah ! Rab! Rsb! Who Are We?
We Are We Are,
NJ B. G.!
Two Crews Beat the Championship
Record

The annual contest for the title
OF champions of The Honolulu Row
ing Association between senior and
junior clubs OF that organization in
q mile and half straightway row.
ing race took place at Waipio bay,
Pearl harbor, on the afternoon and
evening OF last Saturday, aud the
championship OF each event was
won by senior aud the junior crews
Of the Myrtle Boat Club, the cham.
pions of last year. The other crews
competing we're from the Healani
and Loilani clubs, and those crews
finished in tho order in which they
are mentioned. The time (minutes)
in the junior race was: Myrtles,
10291; Healaui, 10.45 1.5, and Lei
lani 11,45. Ia the senior race, the
Myrtles won in 9min. SO /. 5sec, the
Healanis coming in second in ex-
actly 10 minutes, both crews beating
the former mile aud half record of
1908 The darkness prevented the
Leilani's time being taken.
PRELIMINARY.
The event OF all events which most
particularly attracts the attention
of the boating public aud works up,
for season, an almost shoulder
striking relationship between the
partisan members of the three boat
clubs Of Honolulu, is the annual
contest for the pionship be-
tween crews from the Myrtle, Hea-
lani and Lelani clubs. This, the
event in boating circles, OF this mid
ocean country, was set to take place
this year, and did take place, on
Saturday last, the 18th inst, over
the. usual course at Pearl Harbor,
the distance being mile and half
straight way, the contestants being
crews from the clubs above men
toned. Amongst those "who knew"
the Myrtle's, champion of last year
were still the favorites, but the
blithesome aud confidential air of
the Healani coacher, backed by the
Drawn and muscle OF his crews
made that clubs stock reach high
water in the estimation OF many
sports. The Leilani crew were an
unknown quantity, as a crew, and
Manchausen stories of 44.stroke
pulled over the entire course by the
Juniors made people cogitate on a
possible dark horse. Such was the
status of the crews when the first
train from Honolulu arrived out at
the Peninsula at 2:30 p. m. Engin-
eer Jack Murtey having safely pilot
ed the Kaala and Conductor Gill
comforted the heavily pressed
human freight Of 500 people, to this
long looked-for promised point of
landing. On arrival the released
five hundred scattered themselves
along the beach, and while some in
terviewed Senator Warehouse and
heard the story relative to a defunct
l0.foot shark which lay anchored in
shoal water at the r. r. wharf,
others meandered within the con-
fines of, the Bennington's survey
party premises, or accepted the hos
FATALITIES of various friends, amongst
whom Messrs. Allen, Stillman, Won
Holt, and others had latch strings
out. Coacher Carter Of the Hea-
lani sent the junior crew out foI
last instructions and practice in
start and squirt strokes, thirty min.
utes OF labor in the hot sun an hour
before the race being his idea Of
necessary fitting for successful
pull. At 4;45 the Lanakila train from
town arrived, Conductor Cooley in
charge and Cottrell holding the
throttle. From the cars there tum
bled out about 900 more people to
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