The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-01
SURF PRACTISE
RESULTS IN FUN
KaHaaina on Surtboard Beats
4 Tyros in Canoe---Ward
Walker SkidS.

There were great doings among the
outriggerites in the surf at Waikiki
yesterday afternoon. Nearly every
small boy member of the club was out
in canoe, or on board practising for
the events next Saturday.
There was a practise race between
a surfboard and a canoe out to the deep
surf, with the most astonishing results.
A new chum ran amuck across one Of
the big waves and the tiniest surfboard
rider in the world made her entry as
contestant for the biggest prize offer
ed for the full moon day regatta.
As a result of the impromptu surf
board and canoe race yesterday, a
race of this description will be one of
the events to be pulled off next Sat
urday and, strange as it may seem, the
odds are on the surfboard.
Board VS.. Canoe.
Marston Campbell Junior and the
futile brothers, who are just learning
to handle canoe, started out from the
beach just as Kenneth Atkinson began
70 hoe out on his board. Gwen race
4 bu, :" piped up Marston. 81 m game -
rbellowed back the Outrigger captain
as he dug his arms down into the water
and sent his board speeding ahead.
The three small boys bent to their
paddles and the arms of their opponent
began revolving around with that wind
mill stroke that never tires Kenneth
Atkinson. At first it seemed as though
the canoe would have it all its own way,
but little by little the board and its
single rider began to catch up. A quar-
ter of a mile was covered and board
and canoe were neck and neck. The
three boys strained to their task and
Kenny dug his arms more deeply into
the brine. When the line of outer
breakers was but a hundred yards away,
Kenny was forging ahead.
"Gee,' exclaimed Marston, the other
two paddlers stopped to see what had
happened and the race was lost. At
kinson now offers to race any beginners
out to the big surf and back, they in
their canoe and he on a surfboard.
Ward in Trouble.
score of small boys who were be
ginners two months ago went out TO
meet the big waves yesterday. Some
of them were frst-timers and some rare
sport was anticipated by the old timers
and it surely came.
\ great wave approached and every
man and boy bent to his task; some
plunged down before the wave, others
mounted its crest and sank back, while
number fairly caught it, leaped to
their feet and began their mad race
Rto the beach.
Look OUT cried Harold Hustace,
''there's Ward Walker on his first big
wave Ward would weigh a ton or
Whereabouts If he were full grown; as
it is, he is not diminutive. Riding
board in the big surf is not like rush
ing before the small waves near shore,
and Ward quickly discovered this fact;
his board went kapakahi, took the
monster roller on the bias, and every
body in his path prepared to dive or
get out of the way.
Now, on the sideways slant of a
wave, scientists say that board may
acquire a speed of forty miles an
hour On came Ward across the wave
Kenny Atkinson dived gracefully. |
Harold Hustace threw a backhand
spring, Clipper Gilman stepped grace
fully from his board to a canoe that
was descending the same wave that he |
had caught, and Ward cried "Whoa'
with all his might. Then he turned |
a somersault with his board clutched
in his arms, came up breathless and |
seemed undecided whether to hoe for
shore or try it again.
But this was only for moment and |
he soon made up his mind to have |
another try, which was more success
full Harold Hustace accompanied him |
standing on his hands on his board. q |
very wonderful feat to see, but APP |
parently nothing for this youngster, |
who is as much at home ON a board /
as fish in the water.
Sea Nymph Enters.
Little Kinau Wilder, just FIVE years |
old. if you please, has learned to stand |
on her surfboard and is entered for
the girls surfboard contest on Satur-
day. and Kinau expects to win prize.
certainly if grace on the board is the
ichlef point considered, this winsome
little nymph viii come out ahead. |