The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-08-20
Celebration
at Puunene
Athletic Sports Better Than
Ever Before.

Nowhere else on the Hawaiian
Islands could such II celebration take
place, as was held at Puunene last
Saturday. Honolulu can make more
noise. and draw larger crowds, per-
haps, at their annual Floral parade,
but Honolulu could never give a
harvest festival such as was held on
Maui last Saturday 1t reminded
one somewhat of the grand old
county fairs back in New England,
where the cares and worry OF business
are shaken off, and the old become
young again for day.
The sports were carried on con-
tinuously from nine O'Clock in the
morning, when the tennis experts
of Oahu and Maui began struggling
for the mastery of the Pacific. Ten
mis- was followed by long list OF
aquatic sports in the new tank Just
completed.
The Puunene people have the
reputation of doing things well, and
they have certainly outshone them
selves In this latest addition, to
their athletic grounds. There Is
nothing to compare with 1T in the
islands, and it will not suffer by
comparison with anything to be seen
Z on the coast. The pool is IS feet
long by about 45 feet wide, with
ample room on all sides for specta-
tors. At one end is bowling alley
with the regulation length for the
alleys.
The tennis match was won by the
experts of Oahu, by 105 games to
rs. When they took to the water
however, the Mauiites overwhelmed
them; in fact they swan circles
around them. Some of the Honolulu
contigent be came bit suspicious
after the first race, when they found
themselves badly defeated, that the
Maui swimmers were web-footed
but there was nothing to it.
In the $50 yards relay the teams
were as follows:
Maui-Taylor, Short, Hanson
Westcoatt, Walker, Hughes lcapt.
Oahu-Low, Rosecrans, Turner
Glib, Castle, Waterhouse.
The Puunene bunch took the leat
from the start and Hughes got home
in the final squirt tank length IL
front of Waterhouse, who swan
strong relay.
The other events resulted as fol
lows:
Girls race, % yards Alice Walk
er, Myrtle Taylor.
Plunge for distance-W. Walker
J. Waterhouse.
Swimming under water-E. Gibb
A. Taylor, w. Walker.
Barrel race-W. Walker, "A. Tay
lor.
Egg and spoon race ]. n. Mar
tin, w. Walker.
Tub race-Sanford Walker, JAG
Walker.
Fifty yards dash-R. Walker, /
Glib.
1t will be seen that the Wake
family took the lions share of tn
ribbons, members of the family Sc
curing nine places between them
and being first or second or both !
every race on the program.
AS soon as the tennis match wa
overa corps of carpenters commence
the construction of a dancing hool
42xSO, on the courts where, a fe
minutes before, athletic figures ha
been juggling the elusive ball wit
their rackets. BY 4 p. m. the thin
was completed, and adj was read
for the dance. The pavilion W;
brilliantly lighted and a hapI
representative company danced b.
neath the moon.
Delightful refreshments were SER
ed during the evening and ever,
thing possible was done to secu
the comfort and enjoyment OF ever,
body. The music left nothing
be desired, indeed its excellen
was feature of the entire celebr
ton. A quintet club played and sal
throughout the tennis match al
again during the water spots.