The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-06
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TAKE BOARDS
Members of Outrigger Club
Are Annoyed by Board
Borrowers.

As usual on holidays, and, nowadays,
on any afternoon, the surf, especially
the small surf, was crowded yesterday
afternoon with all kinds and sizes of
surfboards The large surf was very
poor, but the small surf was particu,
larly good and the two hundred or so
riders had a jolly time of it.
1t would be interesting to know who
It is that takes all the boards from the
Outrigger clubs Those who go in the
surf seem to have very little idea of
Meum and Tuum' and private
boards are taken without as much as
''Thank you
1t would not be SO bad if the boards
were taken only by members of the
club. But people who have no con-
nection with that institution whatever,
walk III and appropriate the best look
ing board they can find. Many of these
are Hawaiian boys, but they have taken
example from haole grownups who
ought to know better
This is one of the most annoying
forms of petty larceny that can be
imagined. There are only few lock-
ers for boards at the club and these
are all taken, so that other members
must be satisfied to leave their boards
where they can be taken. To 60 out
to the beach with the expectation of
a fine ride in the surf and then to find
that someone has taken your board
away is not only distressing, it is mad
dening in the extreme.
There is no need for this. People
who have learned to ride the surf know
that all the boards al the Outrigger club
are private. Those marked o. c. are
public to the use of any club member,
but nobody else Those with other
initials are private and are not to be
used, save by the owners or those who
have permission from them to do so.
One or two local army officers had
their boards taken yesterday and there
were several others who were robbed
in a similar fashion. 1t would be a
very good example if one OF THESE peo-
pie with more gall than decency were
to receive a hard and conspicuous biff
in the face when discovered in the act.
There is another thing about which
people show very little sense in the
water. Recently parties of girls and
men with surfboards have insisted on
hanging round the beach where the
surf is at its best, leaning on their
boards and talking, but making not the
least attempt to surf. They are not
only keeping some live ones from using
the boards, but they are endangering
the lives of the girls with them by get
ting directly in the route Of the suffers.
Most of the riders are easily expert
enough to guide their boards away
when there is fear of a collision, but
there are many who are malihinis and
cannot control their little craft to a
nicely. Again it is very annoying to
be forced to lose a good wave on ac-
count of giggling community of in
capables who merely gasp with terror
when they see a rider approaching
| them.
The surf does not belong to the riders.
They do not claim that it does, but
there is only small space for them and
it would at any rate be courteous if
those who do not wish to tackle the
waves, should keep out of the way as
much as possible and enjoy the water
+. where it is not peopled by the active
riders.