The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-03
HEALANI AND MYRTLE CREWS TO
MEET.
Annual Rowing Contests at Pearl
Harbor Will Start at $3.50 O'clock to-
morrow Morning-The Creys.

The biggest even. in athletic sports
in the hawaiian Islands will occur to-
morrow morning at Pearl Harbor. The
annual championship rowing contest
will occur. The Myrtle and Healani
CLUBS will send their respective crews
over the mile and half course for the
senior championship and the Junior
shen event The crews have been in
training since the early part of last
month for the two events. That the
races will be close and exciting, seems
certain.
Special arrangements have been made
by the Oahu Railroad Company to han
die the large crowds which will go to
Pearl Harbor to witness the events.
A special train will leave Honolulu at
S:45 a. m. tomorrow and arrive at the
Peninsula shortly after 8. At $3.50
o'clock after the arrival of the crowds
and the people have secured places of
vantage from which to view the race,
the first race will be started. This is
the senior shell race, the championship
event which each club would rather
win than any thing else in rowing con-
tests during the year. In other years
the Junior race has been pulled off
first but the rowing committee desires
to assure as good weather and smooth
water as possible for the big contest
so they have decided to hold the big
event first.
The crews are as follows:
Healanis, stroke, Paul Jarrett, No. 8,
Dan Renear, No. 2. Fred Damon, bow
Sam Walker, coxswain Charles Rey-
nolds.
Myrtles, stroke A. Giles, No. 8, Girvin,
No. 2, Armstrong, bow, Lyle, coxswain
Lincoln Wheeler.
Thus far the Healani crew seems to
be the favorite in the betting. But lit
tie money has been wagered however
regarded as being well posted on row.
ing matters are forced to CONFESS being
in the dark over the outcome of the
senior race. The Healani crew is con-
sidered heavier than it's opponent but
as 1t will row in regular Cambridge
shell it is expected that this will to an
extent offset whatever surplus weight
1t and it's coXswain may have. The
Myrtle senior crew was formerly in
tended to row in the junior event but
the boys developed such surprising
superiority over the original Myrtle Sc
niors that they were substituted and
the old senior crew thrown out entirely
Captain Judd of the -1yrtle club saws
he is well pleased with both of his
crews and he is confident that they viii
both give excellent accounts of them
selves in the races. Captain Atkinson
of the Healani club is equally well
pleased with both of his crews. They
are a gritty lot he SAYS and both will
make desperate effort to win.
The junior event will be rowed imme-
diately after the senior race. The crews
are composed as follows:
Myrtle, stroke, Ross, Mo 8, Sam John
son, No. 2, Allan Judd. bow, Mclean
coxswain, Milton Alvarez.
Healanis, stroke. Webster No. 8,
/ Tracy, No. 2, Murray, bow Walcott,
coxswain, "Toots" Lansing or Henry
Steiner.
There is quite disparity of weights
! between these two crews, the Myrtles
being the heavier. The Healani crew
has had the advantage of more train
ing than it's opponent as the Junior crew
was put together by the Myrtles on
short notice. All but Mclean are ex-
perlenced oarSmen and the only thing
against them is that they are not quite
in as good condition as the Healani
crew. The betting is slightly In favor
of the Healani crew. The wise ones dc
not admit any marked superiority how
ever of the Healani team and it is more
than likely that the betting will finally
shift down to even.
A number of yachtsmen will go down
this evening or early tomorrow morn
| ing in their boats to Pearl Harbor To
witness the races. The big crowd how
ever will start tomorrow morning on
the S:45 train. Many VIII also drive
down to Pearl Harbor. Immediately
following the races the special train
Will return to Honolulu arriving in
town before noon. The Healani club
announce open house to their members
and friends from to 6 o'clock in the
afternoon at the club. A number the
boys from both clubs will also go out
to dinner at the Moana hotel.
Following are the various officials
having the races in charge: Judges s
10. Il ~ n
Robertson, starter. A. w. Carter;
time keepers, q. II. Paris. G. H. Angus
F. j. Kruger and c. ]. Willis; regatta
committee. A A, Wilder. chairman, F.
j. Church, S. e. p. Taylor.
The races will be started at the head
of Pearl Harbor on the Eva side and
finish at the little wharf just Waikiki OF