The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-09
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The water sports on Saturday will
start at 2 D. m.
Seats and chairs will be arranged
along Bishops slip on Saturday for
the convenience of the public. A small
charge will be made for their use.
Local promoters seem to be a bit
shy of the boxing game.
John Camel, known here, may man.
age the Brooklyn nine next year.
Oahu Baseball Leagues second SER
ies starts next Sunday. The Portu-
guese and Hawaiis will open the bail
and the Stars and j. A. c. will furnish
the second game.
Is the Japanese boycott of the ath-
letic park still on? Sundays game
will show.
The Saturday afternoon baseball
proposition seems to be hanging fire
J The idea is a good one, provided some.
one can be found with energy enough
to put it through
Jim Hoao also challenges. He is
looking for a scrap with some aspir-
ing middleweight.
There is some talk of commercial
baseball league being started.
An All-Japanese baseball nine is be-
ing organized in Sampanfrisco.
The tennis players are looking for
ward to the tournaments for the Hall
and Wall cups.
1t is said that Johnny Williams has
received a $25 raise of salary. Won
der if it is day, week, month or year?
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member them all with varying emo
tions, also the riders who piloted
them: George Thomas, Sam Nc
Auliffe, Seth Nichols, Tullatt, Logue,
Willis, Drollette and Rawlins. We
saw them race on the defunct Kapio-
lani Park track, on the merry-go-
round at Hoolulu Park and on the
breezy half-mile circuit by Kahului
Bay. Some have been relegated to
of all horses, good or bad, and some
are with us yet, waiting the long year
through in lush pasturage for the an
nouncement of the program of the
next island meeting.
Naples and Everett we're brought
down from the Coast in the early COS
for Jack Wilson, then proprietor of
the Volcano Stables, Hilo, in charge
of Bob Burns, the trainer, and
George Thomas, the erstwhile jockey.
Naples was a fair Splinter and Ever
EFT a distance horse. Between them
they farmed the purses at one or two
of the Hilo meetings. Billy McClus-
key, the old Bay District champion,
was in the islands about that time
and won many races here.
Bob Burns was popular as well as
versatile individual. In Hilo he was
seen in the ring against, if l remem,
Der rightly Alec Hanson, and he also
competed in a walking race or two
He was a genius at preparing a cows
head, and many a festive feast has
he presided over, both at the old Ho
nolulu track and in the paddock at
Hoolulu Park. He bossed the stables
wherever he had a horse in training
and while, an easy-going man in some
respects, was a veritabIe martinez rs
far as the affairs of his own stable
were concerned. Discussions are APT
to be plentiful where men working II
the interests of various owners are
] gathered for a period Of weeks but
Burns influence among the swipe'
and stable lads was a rough bu
kindly one, and what he said went
= He has married and settled down
and until the tabu was put on racinl
at Emeryville this spring he trainet
. and raced a horse or two of his own
and took a edilght in OCCASIONAL!
putting a "hot one" over. Georg
Thomas met with an accident in Sal
Francisco which cost him a leg
Until recently he ran a saloon nea
the gates of the Emeryville track an
was ever ready to extend his hosp
), tally to visitor from Hawaii.