The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-09
CUPID CONFIRMS
H|LO REPORTS
Veteran Sportsman Denounces
HiIo Horse OWNERSHIP
Exaggeratien.

Prince Cupid, one of the three
Judges at the Hilo race meeting, ar
rived on the Claudine yesterday morn
ing and fully corroborated statements
of crooked work and graft that went
on in the Hawaii capital.
81 never saw anything like it, said
the Prince. Being from Honolulu and
one of the judges I saw that it was up
to me to make roar and l did. The
other two judges, Moir and Woods, are,
as everybody knows, two as good
sportsmen and as far above reproach
as you could want to find, butt the Hilo
bunch was trying to fimfam them all
the time and that is something I
would not stand for.
"The reports in the Advertiser as to
the combination effected in Hilo to
take the dollars away from the Homo
lulu visitors, were by no means ex-
aggerated; you might have said a
whole lot more and then not reached
the real truth of the matter.
"For myself [ am disguised. /
never want to officiate at any such af-
fair again. The japanese races were
a pleasure to Judge. The horses were
all run to their limit and there was
not sign of crooked work but, when
it comes to the other races, Auwei =
and the genial sportsman held up his
hands.
.sWith regard to the suggestion that
racing association said the Prince,
81 think it is a very excellent one.
Why, goodness we used to have the
finest Kind of sport here in the old
days, before the bunch from the Coast
came in and made the game crooked
Such thing as throwing race was
no more thought of than any real
sportsman would think of throwing his
own honor away.
"There is no reason why we should
not have some good racing here. We
have had it. It was clean, straight
and good. We used to bet our heads
off, certainly, but we took our losses
smilingly and there was never any i'll
feeling nor SO much as a murmur of
bad doings.
There is no reason why we should
not have clean racing here. We have
the horses and plenty of clean sports
men to run the thing right. The trou-
BILE is that the crooks get in and run
the game themselves. Immediately
racing gets black eye.'
The Prince s sentiments are echoed
all over town. F'Why is it9' they
ask, "that we should have to go to
Hlio to see horse races, when we have
so many good horses on this island
Let the sport be revived here and
put in charge CT some good ones.''
There were others besides Prince
Cupid who came back from Hilo on
the Claudine and they all grinned sar-
donically when they were asked about
Hilo
Huh said one well known sports
man. "Four of my friends and myself
wanted to ride to the Volcano House
in an auto. We asked driver what
ne would charge to take us up and
back. He thought that 800 was very
cheap but we told them gently that
We did not want to buy his machine. .
The suggestion, emanating from one
OF the real sports in Hilo, is that there
should be an interisland racing asso-
citation in charge of men of unimpeach-
able integrity-and there are many of
them to pick from-which shall have
charge of regular circuit with tracks
on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii.
Owners shall have nothing whatever
to do with the association, but will
merely be allowed to- enter their horses
and run them squarely, or else be ruled
off the turf
While the crooked work at Hilo has
been very @eplorable, there are few
clouds without a silver lining and it
may well be that owing to the fuss
created by the Hilo bad biznai. the
grand sport will be revived on this
island and run as it should be and