The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-21

The third race was one that delighted
and pleased the visitors from the fleet
q dozen Juxom Hawaiian women, in
led, in white, and in blue. manned three
dainty little canoes and padded out
from the Outrigger beach. The little
cockleshell canoes bohbed over the
waves, battled with the surf, and as
the starting gun was fired from the
judges stand they got "busyn in real
earnest. The girls in blue took the
lead and kept 1t. The whites almost
swamped, and an enthusiastic bather
seized the outrigger of the red canoe
and almost eapsized it. Nevertheless
it was an exciting race, and one that
the men in white ashore sought to en-
core
The four-paddle canoe race. the
fourth event, was by long odds the most
closely contested and exciting. Each
club put its best men in the fastest
boats. The Outriggers' picked crew,
Atherton Gilman, Lane Webster, Ken
NY Brown and Zen. Genovas, manned
Walter Dillingham's Malolo, while Or.
Wallis canoe, the Halekulani, and the
Kamehameha 8 Keawamalie, were in
charge of some of the best native pad
| dlers in Hawaii. 1t was a splendidly
| punched race from start to finish, down
| to Browns and back, and the Outrig-
gers won, not hands down, but by
| good honest length, with the Haleku-
lani at their heels.
Even the appearance of the yacht
Hawaii, which put her nose around Dia-
mond Head during this race, did not al
together distract the attention of the
eaoer multitude.
The single-paddle canoe race was
participated in by the crack native
paddlers of Oahu, and was another
punched event. A. S. Robertson's
LEAH won, with Piikai in the Leipi-
kake close second. and J. X. Apio
in the Hanamikiai third.
SURFBoARD CONTEST.
The surfboard contest was the sixth
and most thrilling event. At signal
| from the judges stand, about twenty
| contestants sprang upon their surf
boards and launched them in tho break.
ers. \ long swim out to great blue
pillows, and the excitement began.
! Suffers were hurledS backward over
waves and their boards sent high in
air; others caught the wave and came
rushing on, now lost in foam, now
leaping to their feet, two red -costumed
lads always to the front True, they
had the longest and thickest boards
known to Waikiki. Harold Hustace.
the champion surfer of last year, turn
ed in vain on his diminutive board to
/ ride backward and did his usual fancy
stunts but the great, long boards of
Kenneth Winter and Sam Wight kept
the waves long, long after the smaller
boards disappeared behind the rollers.s
!, The effect from the beach of these two
youths coming ever forward on the
waves was thrilling in the extreme, and
it is safe to say that the fashion in
boards, which has followed that of the
Hustace boys for year past, will now
I, turn to something long, thick and mar
row. Harold Hustace will allude TO
them in vain as canoes and demon
strate that he can stand and paddle
/, upon his rivals boards, but the long
type of surfboard will come to stay,
and their opponents of yesterday will
receive medals from the fleet commit
l. tee in lieu of a divided cup.
There was a four,paddle, fatbottom-
ed canoe race, won by the Kalikianaia,
and a three paddle, fiat bottom canoe
race for women that brought everv
man and many ladies down to the very
edge of the beach. This was won by
the Kalahikiola, of the Kamehameha
Aquatic Club. Then there was the old
J STYLE koawood sailing race from Wal.
: kiki to Castles point and back, vi
sion of white butterflies, won by the
: Lanakila, Harry Harris boat.
: race for two-paddle canoes was
won by. the Hanamillioi, with the
LEAH second and the Malolo third.
The great event looked forward to
by the officers of the feet was SO sue
cessful that it had to be repeated. The
siX-paddle canoe race between the
: crews from the Connecticut, Vermont
and New Jersey elected protest from
the boys from the Kansas because they
had been left before they reached the
starting post, and another race was or
ganized to include them. Thus it hap
pened that every crew entered by the
!. fleet won a cash prize-and that was
as it should be.
The two paddle, fiat -bottomed canoe
race was won by the Kalahikala and
the Hikipaluka.
The boys surfing contest was won
/, by Lane Webster and Harry Steiner.
: and the modern Hawaiian canoe sailing
1 race ny the hlOkallna ana the hameha-
meha. This race was started from the
Outrigger Club beach, more than a
dozen white wings being entered, the
Hawaiian flag flying from the mast of,
each. The three war vessels of the
Lahaina feet passed across the horizon
during the running of this race, which
was straight out and back, but the
bobbing flecks of canvas held the at
tention of the crowd. Some of these
!, canoes on the return course took the
largest rollers and surfed for long dis
tances, the winner catching long roll
er that swept her up to the beach
quarter of mile ahead of her nearest
competition.
Scarcely less exciting was the run of
, the big canoes in the closing event. of
! the day. A dozen, perhaps, went out
: to the big waves. One by one, how
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