The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-08
ADVISES OUTRIGGER
CLUB To DRAW LINE
Or. Hand Says Boys Owning
Canoes Should Be Allowed to
Take Tourists Surfing.


Canoe Club are still at variance on
the question regarding the scope of
tbe term amateur as applied to this
oroanization and in discussing the
various problems which may fall to
4be lot of the board Of governors of
,be local branch of the A. A. T. to
decide as soon as the charter is grant
ed by the national union to the Ha-
waiian Amateur Athletic Association.
Doctor Hand saIu Yesterday: s'Here
Is one which ought to be threshed
out"
There has been a good deal of con
troversy in this club over certain of
the younger members taking tourists
ont in their canoes for financial
consideration This is held by some
of the members to constitute profes-
sionalism The sports promoted by
the Outrigger club are strictly Hawai-
ian and board and canoe surfing is
one of the chief attractions to lure
the tourists to the beach at Waikiki.
Being exclusively a Hawaiian sport
a.
particularly applying to regulate it and
the local branch would have complete
jurisdiction. According to Doctor
Hands views a distinction should be
made between boys owning canoes and
receiving cash remuneration at odd
times for taking tourists out through
the surf and boys following this pur-
suit as livelihood The use of club
canoes or any club property for in
dividual gain, Doctor Hand asserted,
should be forbidden and no exhibition
contests of any kind for purses or
financial reward should be allowed, but
if a. boy chooses to make a few dol
lars now and then to help keep up
his canoe it is matter outside of
athletics altogether.
"a canoe costs from sixty to ninety
dollars" Doctor Hand explained.
''Paddles cost three dollars and a half
and it is a very common occurrence to
break one. Then the canoes have to
be vanished once in a while. If you
owned boat, would you loan it to
greenhorns to use? 1t takes a good.
experienced man to steer canoe on
good or high surf and for this rea-
Z son the boys who own canoes do not
loan them unless they steer them them
selves. Surprising boy has a date
after school to play game of tennis
or something or other. He could not
be expected to break his engagement
TO treat visitors here to the thrill of
native sport unless they offer him some
indueement There is no one else to
entertain the malihinis in the surf if
these boys DON t do it. There are
two or three boys here, however. who
make regular business of teaching
swimming, surfboard riding and taking
parties out IN the outrigger canoes
Ihey are professionals. but there are
about twenty school boys who own
canoes and few working boys. There
should be line drawn between these
boys and the few who make the sport
a PROFESSION. Some time ago the Out
rigger club offered cash prizes in races,
out the new board of governors has
put a stop to that Members would
HOT De IN good amateur standing who
competed for cash prizes in any event
II Inc club or out of it and members
should not use the club property or
canoes for financial consideration. >
Another question came up Yesterday
winch Doctor Hand said ought to be
passed upon by the higher tribunal
81 the A. A. L. Henry Chillingworth
IS the umpire in chief of the Oahu
baseball League and receives a regu-
laf Zee for officiating at all the league
games kiddo is anxious to know
whether the A. \. e. would deny him
tals source Of revenue. As baseball is
NOT under the jurisdiction of the A.
=; ! as game and as the umpire
taxes no part IN the competing and
= not connected in any way with the
rE5Eolessonal teams playing Doctor
nahd was inclined to believe that it
would not affect ChiIlngworth's anna
,tuF standing, bat he said II was
n.se question to decide and should be
pa' up to the \. y L. direct.