The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-27
Crews Of HeaIani
and Myrtle to
Race.
PLAN FOR BIG
RACE MEETING
Hawaiian Jockey Club Urged to
Declare Its Policy for
the Future.

Two crews of Healani and Myrtle Boat
Club members are in training for a race
TO take place next Saturday afternoon
They are composed of married and sin.
gle men and are made up as follows:
Benedict-O. Sorenson, James LLOYD
= A. F. Judd, w. Lyle.
. Bachelors-Paul Jarrett Dan Renear
: A l.. c. Atkinson, W. Soper.
The race will be over a course ax-
tending from the knuckle buoy to the
lighthouse.
'Dink' Davis, the well-known heavy
weight boxer, rifle shot and baseballist.
ran up against snag last week in the
matter of an informal match with gall
, lery rifles
} Meeting Bob. McCord. Fred. Smith and
. another local sport ''Dink'' offered to
, shoot them for three neckties The match
was made and the quartet repaired 10
the nearest gallery to settle the dispute
When the smoke had cleared away it
was found that the cravats Were on
Davis.
Not satisfied with the result. pink"
} proposed mat the party shoot for a
supper and once again the - expert was
stuck
Lets go again for the good drinks, =
suggested the victim, not realizing the
! enormity of the proposition. The crowd
cheerfully acquiesced and wiped their
mouths on their sleeves in sweet anticl-
patton.
The target showed one bulls eye and
two magpies- and revealed the sad fact
that, as on the two former occasions, the
genial ''Dink" had ''also shot"
The last heard of Mr.. Davis was that
he had ordered two carloads of glass
bottles and 1000 rounds of ammunition
and was practicing assiduously in his
back yard with view to possible chal-
lenges.
special from Kansas City Mo, dated
February IS, says: Terry McGovern is
idisgusted with the stage and will tread
the boards" for the last time in April
Although his theatrical tour has been a
financial success, he would rather box
than attempt to act. Manager Harris
said today:
Terry will finish up the season April
Is, in Brooklyn. On Monday, April s,
we will start for San Francisco where
Terry will fight Tim Hagerty before the
Twentieth Century Athletic Club,
| April 2S.''
Tim Hagerty will be through here on
the Sonoma, due next Tuesday.
| fFOSpeCtS seem GOOD Tor a race meet
/ ing on March 16. Virgie A and Agra
walton have already been matched to
run seven-eighths of mile for $500 and
| other matches are likely to be consum-
mated in the course of a few days. Tom
/ Ryder will probably try conclusions
once more with Silas S. and Ayres P
| (2O31D the old horse that holds. the
worlds record for trotting with run
ning-mate, is likely to be accommodated
with race by local owner who is
anxious to match an old horse of his
against McManus veteran, best three
| heats in five for $500.
Work on the Kapiolani Park track
commenced yesterday morning at the
instance of the Honolulu Driving Asso-
citation, and will be actively prosecuted
until the circuit can be traversed with a
lessened degree of danger to track and
tendon. Local owners are getting to-
gether and planning for the approac hing
campaign. and two weeks more will see
"a number of horses stabbed in the shad-
ow of old Leahi.
The situation waits upon the Hawaii /
an Jockey Club. The Driving Associa-
ton is out of funds and is not in po-
sition at present TO take the initiative in
framing the future of local racing. Its
policy will be to live up to its contract
with the Jockey Club by putting the
track and stables in good repair and
then pass it along to that august instf-
tuition to declare its intentions. Should
it refuse to do this, a reorganization
Will doubtless be effected and local rae
ing interests entrusted to the care of
men who will act on behalf of the sport
loving public and not entirely as suits
their own personal convenience. /,
The Hawaiian Jockey Club has in the
past occupied an impregnable position;
its members owned the majority of the
race horses in the Islands. and they
brooked no antagonism. They raced
when it suited their own convenience. OF
late years the organization has lapSed
into the innocuous desuetude of a fat
tening institution that takes as much
of the public's money is possible and
gives as little as possible in return. Its
races were framed to suit the horses of
its members and no Inducements We're
held out to the small owner who was
as good as told that his entry was not
wanted, !
During the past year, however, a radi-
cal change has come over the situation
The class of small owners has grown
till it has become large enough to de-
mand recognition. 1t is now for the
Jockey Club to decide whether it will
deal fairly with the newcomers or by
declining to do so, force them to coop
crate and provide their own races.
The Hawaiian Jockey Club has been
the mainstay of racing here in the past
and a timely display of energy and lib
"Reminiscences on it's part will gain
for it the friendship and cooperation of
every local horsepower. Racing in
-hese Islands has a great future but its
conduct must henceforth be in the hands
If wide-awake, enterprising individuals
Or the inevitable result will be la
nentable fiasco.
An immediate meeting of the directors a
If the Jockey Club is eminently desir- \
able and is being awaited with ill-con- +
.ealed irnpatience by Hawaiian horse I
men who want TO know what induce /
nents will be offered to put their stock T
n training. Coast owners are also d. L
Getting their attention to the Hilo and j
honolulu tracks and a coming to life +
N the part of the alternating directors J
# Hawaiis leading racing institution e
will assuredly be followed by enquiries Il
nd very > possibly by equine importa- t
ions.
Bob" Ballentyne, owner of Amarino.
vas in town yesterday and says that
ION he -