The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-06
OR. HAND WILL LEAD
THE PUNS To A. A. j.
Accepts Invitation to Tell Stu
dents About the Queer Thing
at Today's Session.

College this morning and take the
Puns by the hand and lead them to
the A. A [. 50 as to show them that
there is nothing dangerous about it.
The Puns were about the only ones who
rot skittish when they saw the y, a. [.
coming. They SHE'D and backed into
the Hams who were coming along at
. good PAGE until the Puns put them
n fight and now the Rams don t know
where they stand or which way to turn.
Doctor Hand said yesterday that
President Grihiths of Oahu College had
asked him to come out there and tell
them all about the 4. \. L. He sent
word up yesterday morning that he
nould give them a spiel this morning
and they sent back word that the stud
ents would assemble at ten minutes
after nine clock to take on what the
doctor has to hand out about that
oueer thing which gave them the tan
trums at sight. Hand explained that
the reason he did not attend the last
meeting at which he was scheduled to
enlighten the representatives of the
various local clubs who appeared to
absorb all the information he had to
impart on the subject was that he was
under the impression that the meet
ing was to be held a week later and
as he did not read the morning papers
for a few days he did not know that
the meeting was on until 1t was too
late to get there before it broke up
"What the Puns or anybody else
who wants to see clean amateur sports
has against the "A. A. U. is more than
| can understand he said, "unless
they want to hire men to play base
ball for them or compete in other ath-
letic contests. The A. A. U. certainly
never did any one any harm and l
know Of cases where it did a great
deal of good. | know of a town that
didn t want the A. A. L. man who
was well to do happened to move to
that town. He had two sons who were
pretty good athletes, but there was
so much professionalism there that
they had no chance to participate IN
the sports so finally their father de-
cided he would spend enough money here
and there to trim the sports at their
own game and it wasn't long until he
had the town begging for the 4. A. L.
As for the statement of the Puns that
the colleges are not in the a. \. T.,
the Intercollegiate Athletic Association
is in 1t and the colleges are in that.
There is no particular restraint on
ANYBODY except so far as professional
ism is concerned The A. A Z. ism t
going to be bothered with all the little
scraps of a community. Practically
the entire control over athletics is left
TO the local governing body. That
body can sanction members of the a.
A. Z. playing with nonmembers if
there is no good reason why they
should not, only records don t count as
official in competitions with outsiders.
Andrews Ready to Explain.
elf there are any clubs seeking en-
hghtenment on the subject of the A.
A. T., said Lorrin Andrews yester,
day, 81 would be glad to attend their
meetings if they would only let me
know when and where they are going
10 occur and give them a talk. I have
been away from the States a good
while but when / was in the East [
was IN touch with the A. A. Z. and
! have been studying up the rules late
y so as to get better understanding
OF the workings of the organization. y
One Name Needed.
Nine of the necessary ten signatures
have been affixed to the application for
charter to establish the Hawaiian
association of the Amateur Athletic
Union and the tenth will probably be
secured today or tomorrow. OF the
cInos approached so far on the subject
only one has absolutely refused TO be,
come identified with the movement.
Bert Lightfoot, speaking for the He
alanl Yacht and Boat Club, stated that
MS clue would not go into it. He
advanced no reasons. 1t was Just a
case OF won I, The Hawaii Yacht Club
hash t given it a serious thought. The
yachtmen are too much absorbed in the
proposed consolidation with the auto,
mobile CLUB to talk about the \. \. I.
at all. The Honolulu Yacht Club IS one
OF the clubs applying for admission into
1he A. \. [. Max Bolte, the secretary
aAd treasurer of this young organiza
ITO, 1.on signed the application yesterday.
Ihe Honolulu Cricket Club was one of
Tile hfst to endorse the NOV ament and
gave assurance OF coming in, but Secre-
taFS Nihkley said when he was asked
10 sign the application that the Homo.
ia'd tHcket Club was a comparatively
small organization and they didn I want
20 pay the seven-dollar and half dues
d year when other clubs with much
larger membership only had to pay the
same , amount. The Hawaiian Football
rasSoeiauon signed up without a muir
-,'ut. he st, Louis College Athletic
ASSOCIATION. Brother Henry said yes
.e'Gaf' was not giving the matter any
ooi'SiuefatIon because they did not do
.nucA IN athletics and didn t encourages
90 r., : much n the school The Oahu
Noiege Athletic Association is waiting
~ see what the others are going to do.
lAe toiiege Of Hawaii said the other
Jay thar they we're organizing an asso-
"a to cover all activities of the in
S'itu'.on and this organization would
'0 a, der the proposition.
ne Diamond Head Athletic Associa-
t'oa has not considered the proposition
90" Lester Pr,rie said Yesterday that
~ one Lad been to sec them about II
W., W. 'Asy Thought they were not wanted.
~ men it was rr1l -A-+ ~. .,rgror;za+iory