The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-29

4 George Freeth. the champion life
4 saver of the United States, arrived nere
4 0a the steamer Lurline yesterday morn
ing and yesterday afternoon he had a
water polo team ready to challenge any
sextet on the island. The Healanis
4 have been talking a good deal about
water polo of late and have suggested
] water polo league.
A. IL. Tarlton, an old water polo
4 shark, has been training young school
OF Healanis of which Ginger Mayne
is captain and as Freeth used to be
q member of the Healani Yacht and
Boat Club it was thought that Freeth
and his water spaniels might splash
Gp against all the ginger of the raging
Mayne, but the captain of the Healani
water polo team is just now IN training
4 with his aquatIc colleagues on the sur
sface OF the brlny preparatory to pull
ing of a series of she'll and barge races
and ne said yesterday that if they let
j up on the stroke and got into the swim
it would be all off with the rowing.
4 If Freeth IS only here on a visit.
however, Mayne declared. and it would
in any way enhance the pleasure of his
j stay the Healani fin artists would &C.
eommodate him with a game of water
polo but they would rather wait untn
4 they got their races under way.
I Fteeth is accompanied by two other
life-savers from the Coast. one of
Z WHOM, Louis Hammel, was at Venice,
California, at the time Freeth rescued
the eleven Japanese fishermen from
Z drowning in "a storm off the California
coast which capsized their craft. 1t
! was this daring aud arduous feat which
won for the Honolulu lad the congress
4 sional medal as the champion life-saver
4 Of the United STATES. i. A. Quinn is
the third man of the party They had
rot been ashore from the Luriine long
d when they hetook themselves to Wal
Xxi beach for swim. There Freeth
4 met several Of his old friends who
j warmed up to him most heartily, for
] as one of his former companions said,
4 'Ile is the dandy kid.
II After a froFc in the surf and a race
In from the reefs in which he beat
q the bunch to the raft and then swan
4 ashore to greet some more of his old
u sequaintances who had heard that he
q vas back again to his old haunts, the
= sea lion picked his water polo team
q and told The Advertiser man he would
q play any bunch in the Islands one week
q from SATURDAY. The six men are George
d freeth. captain; Louis Hammel. Archie
4 robertson. Duke PaUa, Jack Waiting,
Il ton and L. 4. Quinn.
q Ford Says Hold Him.
j Now that we We got him back,
ehlrped Up Alexander Hume Ford as
a De welcomed his former surfriding in
sructor, I'VE want to keep him here.
The city or the Territory ought to emf
q Foy George as the official life-sayer
and surfboard riding instructor of Wal
# AK beach. He is known all over the
would now and 50 is surfr.ding known
me Hawaiian native sport and II
Work. -
Il was attelward suggested. however,
81 nat tho Moana Hotel engage Freerh
= 1t was the hotel that would benefit
ne most By his esrvices.
IS ffeeth Saf8 bee came home thinking
maj he might connect n a diver at
rear Harbor along with the govern
@ent drydock construction work, but
! ne could NOT -gr next for the deep
saek there ne vuHN probably blow
away again in Two or three weeks. H
.'VAs like an iron uau. who could pune !
!7 the ocean ra aay depth, and has .
FaF OF shoulders tuat might bear up
@uAeh ships. This mighty master of
" waves has been tncljng for anchors ,
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