The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-26
E[kS WOULD RACE
UNIVERSITY CREW
ComebaCks Challenge Hasbeens
for Go in Lap Streak
Shells.

was a Whul Of activity about the boat
house and the water all around was
agitated by the slash of oars and the
splash of swimmers. In addition to the
Healani aquarium, there We're a lot of
choice specimens Of young poIliwogs in
the mosquitoweight class. attired solely
in the garb of nature, frisking in the
brlny, and d few buxom wahines were
wallowing about in their hoIokus, look
ing like balloon fishes one while and
then like eeis, as the water ebbed and
flowed therein.
In the morning the Healanis had a
practise game OF water polo TO get in
trim for the proposed series of matches.
\. II. Tarlton, who is an expert diver
and water polo shark, assumed the posi-
ton of coach and put the schools of
fin artists through their first course of
training. Then Bert Hebron had his
shell crew out, working up a vigorous
stroke to beat Ned Crabbe's bunch of
Myrtles The Myrtles caught one good
crabbe when they landed Ned Crabbe
is stroke of his crew. and the other
three are Ralph Johnson. Gus Beckett
and Gus Schaefer. Hebron is going
to put l.. Cunha (stroke), Bill James.
Charlie Brown and Ginger Mayne up
against them. The Healanis took out
their Olympic shell Yesterday, and they
say it runs fine with a light crew.
They have had the Olympic a long time,
but have not used it in race for the
reason that it is too light for a heavy
crew. With hundred and sixty pound
ers in it the boat wabbles shiftv
course, but yesterday they tried it with
| a crew averaging one hundred and forty
pounds per man, and she scooted along
lively.
! After accomplishing good results with
/ the Olympic Hebron east his eve visit
fully toward the lap.streak shell which
/ the Healanis got from Australia some
! years ago and commenced to 1eminisce
He took a mental ramble back to 1906.
when the University Club crew beat the
Elks by a boatlength in a half-mile
race at Pearl Harbor. and there he
| dwelt in solil0quy. In those days, -
/ he mused when aquatics reigned su-
pfeme, the populace wrought themselves
into a frenzy over the struggles be
! tween the Drawn Of these two aggrega-
tons and the ayers that were stalk ed
on the results when they lined up for
the pull stacked like a days trans
actions on the world s bourses in the
clearance-and why not do it again ~
Here he touched his finger to his
noodle to see if he was awake. and
forthwith went out and ora gniZed a
crew of Elks. The Myrtles and Hea
flanis viii both be represented in the
crew Hebron mustered They are Ned
Crahbe. Ralph Johnson, Louis Under
wood and Bert Hebron as stroke. This
husky quadruplet hereby challenges the
University Club to put out a crew
against them for a 90 some Saturday
two or three weeks hence.
The winning University four in the
Pearl Harbor event four years ag0-were
Harold Dillingham;. Ollie Sorenson. Cap
tain Humphris and Leslie Scott. and
the vanquishett EIks were Ralph John
son. Bert Hebron, George Martin and
George Angus.
The oarsmen are planning 10 have a
triple series of races. and they want
to arrange il so as to have them all
come off on the same day. The shell
race between Ned Crabbe 5 and Bert
Hebron : crews viii be one of the
events on the card. the Healanls may
run something off between themselves.
Then there y this Elks VS. University
Club 90. and the crew of HeaIanl
Youngsters who lost out in their spin
with Myrtle seXtet week or 50 ago.
They have been at 1t ever since. train
ing for a real race, and they are going
10 make the prize a Thanksgiving din
rer. The Mvrtles seem to relish the
prospect, and this event viii probably
be a feature cf the day program.
The Myrtle crew for this event IS made
up OF Campbell Crozier, stroke; Luther
Hougn. number one; Charlie Littlcjohn.
number two: Columbus Sims, number
three; Max Bolte. number four; Kinney
smith. number FIVE, and Harry Bailey,
coxswain. The Healani fellows are
F1ed Evans. stroke: Frank Kruger,
number five: H. kIemme, number four;
Dick Benny. number three; e. Brod-,
erick. number two; \. RoWat number
one ana l.. Cunha. coach. This latter
1unrb cali themselves the Paniul crew,
and the course over which they VIII
race extends from the spar buoy IL 10
the Marine piles.
At the MYRTLE hoathouse yesterday
afternoon there was not STIR 10 mar
+le serenity of the scene. One lone
Nvrtleite Struggled mp IN corner Of
the boarhouse twlrllng his thumbs, bu'
other than this game Of SOLITAIRE there
was nothing doing.