The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-20

swamped, and an enthusiastic bather
seized the outrigger of the red canoe
and almost capsized 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
nv Brown and Zen. Genovas, manned
Walter Dillingham's Malolo. while DR..
Wallis canoe. the Halekulani, and the
Kamehameha Keawamalie, were in
charge of some of the best native pad
dlers in Hawaii. 1t was splendidly
punched race from start to finish, down
to Brown s and back, and the Outrlg-
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
eager 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 a close second. and J. *. Apio
in the Hanamikiai third
SURFBOARD CONTEST.
The surfboard contest was the sixth
and most thrilling event. At a signal
from the judges stand, about twenty
contestants sprang upon their surf
boards and launched them in the break
ers. A long swim out to great blue
pillows, and the excitement began.
Suffers were hurled 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 redcostumed
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.
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 a year past, will now
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 feet commit
tee in lieu of divided cup
There was a four-paddle, fat bottom
ed canoe race, won by the Kalikianaia,
and three-paddle, fat bottom canoe
race for women that brought every
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
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 Hanamikioi, with the
Leah second and the Malolo third.
The great event looked forward to
by the officers of the fleet 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 a protest from
the boys from the Kansas because they
had been left before they reached the
starting post, and another race was or
gained to include them. Thus it hap
pened that every crew entered by the