The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-30
AGAIN TIE
BARGE RACE
Fair Play" Throws
More Light on
Matter.

Editor Advertiser-The gentleman who
is mot a member of either club@-prob-
ably because he feels that the monies
which would be necessary for the pay
ment of dues are more usful to him than
to the club which his sentiments, as ex-
pressed. clearly show he should belong
to-has seen fit to accuse me of narrow
mindedness because l have, in my letter
which was published in your issue of the
9th inst, presented only the Healani
side Of the question. In reply to this, l
beg 10 call his attention to the first few
lines of the aforementioned letter in
which | said: He feels it only right
that the public should have the Healani
side of the question presented
1t was my intention to present the
Healani side of the question and none
other. the Myrtle side having been aired
for d week The belong
to-either-club quotes Rule II of the Ha-
waiian Rowing Association, which is as
follows: mo boat shall be allowed to
accompany a competitor for the purpose
of directing his course or offering him
assistance. The boat receiving such di-
rection or assistance shall be disQualiti-
ed at the discretion of the judges AS
a matter of fact, the Myrtle captain in
his protest made much Of this very
point and the reason that the Healanis
did not lose the race on such a tech
nicality' was because following this
same Rule II, the judges acted on their
discretion, considered that neither club
had the best of it in the matter of pro-
test, and decided that the race should be
rowed over. He takes the judges to task
and backs the Myrtle captain up in his
decision not to abide by the decision OF
said judges.
| Mr. 'Not-a- member-of-e ither-Club' will
greatly increase his knowledge of the
j rules if he will continue beyond Rule II
and read Rules Is and 49, which are as
| follows:
| Rule 1S-The decision of the judge:
shall extend over the race, and all mat
tiers connected with it, from the time the
race is specified TO start until the tina
! termination, and their decision in al
cases shall be final without appeal.
Rule 19.-Any competitors refusing t
abide by the decision of the Judges shall
be disqualified.
| How can my friend, who is not a mem
Der of either club. get around the above
! Neither Capt. Harris nor anyone els'
had a right to question the decision o
the Judges OF 10 rel use 10 dblut NItI'bS
Now, as TO the judges themselves;
tried in my previous letter to point on
that owing to the unfortunate misunder
standing of signals on the tug, not on
of them was in a position to decide Of
the foul, as to which crew was at fault
They weighed carefully the two protests
and the various evidence brought in, an
finding that said evidence was event
balanced, they acted entirely within thei
Jurisdiction and ordered the race rowe
over again. The man without country
excuse me, the man without club,
perfectly right in his view that it woul
be hard on the crews to row over agar
but in view of the fact that both crew
wish to row over again, and that if the
should row over again they would ro'
on an absolute parity, his arguments d
not amount to much.
; The gentleman without club accuse
me of narrowness. Why, then, does /
write an infinitely more narrow artic
. than mine, for l made no claim beyon
the fact that 1 was stating the Healal
side of it? Why does he so careful
J avoid Rules T. s, 9. 10 and 16, relative
fouling, caused by one boat getting I'M
another boats water, and the penalty
Therefore, in reply to his would-be sa
! castle remarks concerning races in Il
past l can only say that if he conside
2 freshman and junior races as equal
: the senior races in point of impOrtanC
) he is welcome to whatever satisfactiC
. he can gather therefrom, The facts r
9 main that it is five years since the My
9 ties won a senior barge race, and tn
( the Healans have won three out of t
. last four shell championships. He
9 perfectly welcome to go back to the Ia
2 century and get what joy he can out
y - L. | or pr,1Nr that I
: statements that my arguments a.
: words tend to throw discredlt on t
9 Myrtle club are rank injustice. Not on
. was nothing further from my though
= but only the extreme narrow mindedne
3 of the writer could twist such a meant
e out of my letter.
= There is no one, not even the most G
thusiastic of Myrtles, who admires the
8 more than I do; their pluck, the way
{. which they back up their officials,
= the way in which, after their WaterI
= at Pearl Harbor, they gathered the
z selves together to such an extent II
q they won every one of those races II
e were finished on Regatta Day. My CT
{: tention is simply this, that the airs
f. ments and evidence relative to the mu
q discussed race are about equal. II
{. the judges when they decided that
e race should be rowed over, acted clea
= within the rules, and that just as clea
q, by the rules the Myrtle club has no RIG
g to protest against the decision of
g Judges, for otherwise the rules would
Z a farce; and lastly, that in view of
"a fact that both crews and by far
q major portion of the members of b
g clubs wish the race rowed over aga
e that there is only one thing to do, q
&, that is, settle the question on the wal
8 In conclusion I can only say that If
G gentleman without a club cannot
g one. that he can probably get an {