The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-01
MYRT.LE''AIDS WIN
Stranger Crew Could Not
Catch Them.
Start Out in the Lead and Do Not
Change Through the
Whole Race.

in the barge Alice NJ, succeeded in de-
feating their heavier and more expert
enced brethren in the Stranger yester-
day afternoon, and the dinner was on
Frank McIntyre.s Both crews pulled a
fine race from start to finish, and
showed that they meant business.
However, the Stranger was too heavy
boat to succeed in eclipsing the Alice
M, and it was a case of fully Ia Sec
onds ahead that the latter succeeded in
passing the finish line.
Shortly before $50, the time set for
the race, the officers in charge of the
race. B. Wilson and A. G. M. Rob
ertson as judges, and George Harris
as time-keeper-arriv at the starting
point, and sooD after the Stranger
crew, with William Love handling the
ribbons came out with steady stroke.
1t was not long before the Alice M.
crew, in their red jerseys, shot down
toward the judges boat, with young
so on.
Quickly the crews took their posi-
tons, with the Alice NJ. on the makai
and the Stranger on the mauka course.
Coxswain Love kept edging up toward
the Kinau wharf, and hated to go back
to the Fort street wharf.
At the warning: "Are you ready?"
both coxswains answered: eyes," and
the starting shot was fired. The Alice
MS crew started. Off with a big lead.
It was soon noticed that Coxswain
Love had taken his position too far
| up, and it was necessary for the
Stranger to cut across some two boat
lengths before getting into any kind
of a position to pull. However, the
"beef" was there and the Stranger
caught up a bit. The kids" took a
| little quicker stroke, and at the light
house were about four lengths ahead
and still gaining. II was just at this
time that the Stranger crews hard
stroke began to tell, and half way
down the channel were close upon their
opponents.
Just before coming to the knuckle
buoy it was noticed that Coxswain
Love had his boat pretty far over to
leeward and out of his course The
Alice NJ was keeping on her way un-
touched by the efforts of the heavier
crew.
Turning from the knuckle to the
spar buoy, it was noticed that the
Alice M. was about length and half
ahead of the Stranger. The Alice M.
made the turn around the spar buoy
in six minutes after starting The
Strangers made the turn about two
lengths behind.
The Strangers crew started out on
business bent, and kept crawling up
on the Alice w., but as soon as the
kids" found their opponents getting
too close they put on a little more
speed and shot away again. 1t was this
way the whole way up the channel.
At the light house the Alice M. made
| a little squirt and came past about
three lengths ahead Of the Stranger
The Alice M. passed the line in the
very good time of 1924 49, This is bet
ter than the time made by the same
crew against the Leilani crew in the
pulling off of foul. The Stranger
was IA seconds later.
The crews were as follows:
! Alice M.-Damon, stroke; Harris,
Lishman, Vida Clark, Harris, and
Giles, coXswain.
Stranger-Lyh, stroke; Crozier,
Martin. johnson, Lemon, Crane, and
William Love, coxswain.
| NOTES.
George Harris became so interested
in the race thai he failed to push the
button on his watch in proper time.
The Strangers crew kicked, because
they didn't think they had been given
square deal il the start-off.
The Bulletin, Independent and Adj
vertiser were represented in the judges
boat. *
1t is the option of the judges and
others that witt the same kid" crew
in the Alice. M. that pulled yesterday,
no other cofnbiation in the place can
beat them. Thy seem to fit the boat
perfectly. Ever change in their po-
sitions might soil the crew.