The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-08
GREAT INTEREST IN CHAMPION
EVENTS.
Large Crowds Going by Rail and
Water and Road to Scene of Excite
ment.

Today is the day when the amatuer
sports in the islands reach the pinna-
Gle of public interest and the admirers
of Drawn and grit shut up shop and
flock to Pearl City to cheer their faVo-
rite boating crews to victory and to-
nights the night when all the good
fellows" from all the country round get
together and tear things wide open.
It's like Christmas. 1t comes but once
year and why the hotel bill every
body should not enjoy themselves has
never been a subject for discussion.
Let the world slide and let the
world go
"A fig for care and fig for woe" is
every ones motto today and every
with might and main. All the world
and his wife may not be lining the
banks of Pearl Harbor this afternoon
but all the world of Oahu and his wife
and his cousins and his aunts will be on
hand. Bright with colors, strong of
lung, high with hope and bubling with
spirit the thousands will watch the
struggles for the classic events of Ha-
waiian sports. And after the races
have been run and the shells housed
and the crews dispersed and the crowds
gone home scores of the fellows will
still be bubbling and with spirits too
but they will wait until they get back
to dear old Honolulu before they cut
loose and blaze cocktail route toasting
the victors and the vanqushed
After weeks of hard training a few
changes, but general good fellowship
the representatives of the Healani the
Myrtles and the Lealani boat clubs will
meet at Pearl Harbor this afternoon
and row the race of their lives to cap
ture the cups for the senior and junior
races. The two first clubs have crews
in both events while the Lealanis are
represented in only the senior race
( That both events will be fought from
one end of the mile and ahalf course to
the other is certain. Each crew has It's
following and while sympathies will
move the crowds on the shores 1t won't
| bulge any of the crews an inch
Nothing but a good hard true stroke
with a squirt when it's needed and the
heart to keep in the struggle will make
| 1t blue or red or black and gold The
general opinion seem to favor the Myr-
ties winning the senior event which is
the biggest race. The Healanis are
rated as having a trihe the better
chance in the junior race, while the
Leilaris crew is the long shot in the
single race in which they have enter
ed.
But money is not the only thing
which is talking in these races. Pro-
positions, freakish and wild and wierd
are being made by the followers of
| the various crews. One of the Myrtle
club members has declared his confid-
ence in ihs club crews to be so great
that he will wager anything from a
poi eating contest to chewing the rag
| with officer Hanrahan on the Myrtle
senior and junior crews winning. Here
are some of the bets which he has left
in the hands of the sporting editor:
/. Will run one of Pains car track
scrapers from the head of Fort street
to the water front, if the Myrtle SEMI
ors do not win.
2. viii run a japanese ice cream
wheel barrow around town, ringing the
little vendors bell the while, If the
Myrtle juniors do not win.
8. Or will sit in the cage with the
Hotel Arlington apes and eat peanuts
from to o'clock next Saturday after
noon.