The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-06
LA PALOMA WANTS A TRY
FOR HAWAII CHALLENGE CUP

Local yachtsmen are endeavoring to
revive contest for the big Hawaiian
Challenge Cup" valued at 1915 and at
present held by its last winner, Ex-
Commodore T. w. Hebron of the Ha-
wall Yacht Club and owner of the sloop
Gladys. To that end they were en-
deavoring to get the trustees to admit
La Paloma into the competition, mean
ing to hold such a race on Saturday
week, September 10, that being the
local Regatta Day.
CONDITIONS OF THE CUP.
The Hawaiian Challenge Cup is open
to all yachts over five and not exceed
ing ten tons measurement, this limi-
tation not applying to yachts which
were in Hawaiian waters and entered
for the race previous to July 4th, 1899.
The course set runs from Waikiki to
Pearl Harbor and back, finishing off
the Oceanic wharf, making a course of
twenty-three miles. The Helene is the
only yacht admitted of over tonnage,
she having entered for the race in ac-
cordance with the limitations. Time
allowance for tonnage under the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club rules is given
and allowed according to the condi-
tons.
The cup was originally donated by
the Hawaiian Rowing and Yachting
Association, the conditions under which
it was sailed being drawn up at a
meeting of the Association in the To-
lani Boat Club hall on June %, 1889.
Their resolutions placed the cup under
the control of the following trustees:
G. B. Wilson, j. M. Dowsett, c. P.
Iaukea and w. M. Giffard. Three
hundred and seventy-five dollars was
appropriated to pay for the cup which
was to be annually sailed for by yachts
over five and under ten tons excepting
boats already in Hawaiian waters and
entering for that years regatta. CThe
Helene thus qualified).
WINNERS OF THE CUP.
The history of the cup is as follows:
Won first by yacht Hawaii" July
4, 1889.
Won second by yacht Hawaii" July
4, 1890.
Won third by yacht "Healani,'' July
A, 1891.
Won fourth by yacht Bonnie Dun
dee" July 4, 1892.
From this time the cup lay fallow
| for seven years until the advent of the
Gladys into our waters. A race
was then sailed between the Bonnie
| Dundee" (now Mary LID, and the
Gladys on September 10, 1899, when the
| Gladys won by % minutes or one min
ute to the mile. Governor Dole sailed
the Bonnie Dundee and T. W. Hebron
| the Gladys.
ATTEMPT TO CHANGE CONDI-
| TONS
| In August 1900 the Myrtle, George
| A. CroZier. and r. H. Brotherton own
eEs, was DESTROYS of entering for the
| cup but was debarred by the action OF
the trustees who claimed that the cur
had been given for the purpose of en-
couraging the large yachts. C. B
| Wilson, trustee for the cup and chair
man of the regatta for that year, held
| further that according TO the terms OF
| the resolution neither the trustees OF
the cup nor owners of eligible yachts
had any authority to change the limit
of measurement or waive the condi.
| tons
LA PALOMA INELIGIBLE.
The La Pa1oma. Commodore T. W
Hebron, is, under the original terms
| not eligible to compete Present eli
gible yachts are the Helene. Marion
Mary L. Donnie Dundee), Dewey ant
Gladys. Believing that the cup wa:
intended for the larger class of yacht:
and knowing that since her overhaul.
ing and remodeling his sloop, once &