The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-09-01
YACHT RACE 70 LAHAINA
PALOMA AND DEWEY TO START
THIS AFTERNOON.
viii Take Same Course and start To-
gether From Both Parts OF Race
Boating Crews.

The yachts La Paloma and Dewey will
start at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the
race to Lahaina and return for spc-
cial $50 challenge cup. G. w. Macfar-
lane Will sail the schooner while =. W.
Hebron who has leased the Dewey will
sail the sloop.
According to the terms of the race
the yachts will take the same course
from an imaginary line drawn r'Dia he
light house to the boat houses Straight
to Lahatna buoy. There the tire III
be taken. 1t is expected that the boats
VIII make Lahaina in twenty hours and
they will wait until late Sunday when
the wind comes up and start together
FOR home. They will finish at the spar
buoy as Mr.. Macfarlanes boat will b.
unable to enter the harbor in the light
wind so well as the other sloop yacht.
The average in time will then be taken.
The Paloma expects to beat on the run
home but Hebron figures on being able
to make the run down in fast enough
time to more than compensate for the
loss coming back. Mr.. Macfarlane will
take Bert harrington, Harry Wilder
and j. o. Carter, Jr., as his guests.
After this race an attempt win be
made to get up another race in which
the Helene, the Eva and the Bonnie
Dundee will participate with the Pa
Iona and Dewey.
All of the boat crews have settled
down to business now and no change in
the personnel of any of the teams is an
ticipated. More than usual interest is
being taken in the rowing races which
occur at Pearl City on next Saturday
afternoon, the Sth. The crews of the
Healanis, Mytrles and Leilanis are reg
ularly put over the couse in the har-
Dor every night and the greatest care
is being taken in rounding them into
shape.
The boys leave on the late train every
night for Pearl Harbor and then don
their rowing suits and go to work. The
seniors and juniors are the two crews
which will row. The Myrtles expect
to retain both cups this year, but the
Healanis are said to be showing I'M
expected strength and in spite of the
difficulty they first experienced in Sc
lecting crews, are rowing with a strong
and even stroke. The new men have
dropped naturally into their positions
and If the Healans are defeated it will
probably not be the fault of their hav-
ing been new men substituted a week
or so before the races. Merle Johnson
is one Of the new men on the Junior
crew. He is not inexperienced in this
character of work as he was the cap
tain of the freshman crew which has
been training for the race on Saturday
the 18th in this city. He showed such
fine form in his work with that team
that when Waterhouse had to leave the
Junior team, Johnson was at once Sc
leCteG to fill the vacancy. James Lloyd
the new addition to the senior of the
Healanis in the place of Damon is an
expert oarsman and is rowing like he
had been worked with the team from
the start.
The committee is beginning to work
for the various races for the follow
ing Saturday, the 18TH which occurs in
Honolulu harbor. This will be an all
day program and in addition to the leg
itimate events which will prove eXcit
ing there will also be some humorous
features provided. The yacht race be-
tween the Bonnie Dundee and the Eva
over the three legged course from the
harbor to Diamond Head, to Pearl Har-
Dor and back is causing much specula-
ton. The Eva is likely to be favor
tie in the betting but Captain Merry
has been able to train his green crew
so well that the marked Improvement
which they are showing, together with
the excellent Seamanship showed by the
skipper is influencing a large following
for the long, low rakish craft.