The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-18


are among the best forms Of exercise.
men engaged in office, factory, store
or other combining work may over
come the difficulty of making time
for their physical development by
travelling back and forth, part Of the
way at least, on foot, or taking a
tramp, a trot, or a ride Of evenings,
a few times a week / have often
seen boys and men jogging through
the city parks at night without Gre
ating comment, and, of course, with
a wheel there are wide opportunities
for both exercise and pastime
Probably the best illustration which
can be given Of the fact that even the
busiest men can find time, not only
to exercise, but also to train hard
and faithfully, when their hearts are
set on it is in the number of hard
workers who have in the past and
are at present gathering laurels en-
land and water in amateur athletic
contests
/ Time was, and not many years ago,
when employers hesitated at giving a
! position to man prominent in sport
and frowned upon any employee of
, theirs taking part in competition for
( they knew there would follow frequent
absences, with more or less clever ex-
cuses to Justify them, as soon as train
ing time came along.
Nowadays, things have changed con.
/ siderably, and the athletes who neg
lect their business either to train or
to compete, are the exception rather
! than the rule. You will find in the
championship ranks many ambitious
young men pursuing their chosen vo-
cations with energy and perseverance
and making of sports only a pastime
and recreation. For them. there is
no putting aside duties to be per
formed in order to attend to training
/ They have the strength of mind to
create their opportunities and with.
out neglectng work they will succeed
! in getting into the pink of condition
before the time comes for them to
meet their rivals.
! | have been amused more than once
by the assertion that the oarsmen and
= scullers of the New York Athletic
Club We're so prolific in victories be
cause they idled away all summer in
their pleasant quarters at Travers
Island, on Long Island Sound, with nc
other thought in mind than the races
before them. Far from this being the
case, most of the crew candidates are
. hard-working young men, anxious tC
! the world, and usually unwilling tc
devote to sport even the smallest part
of the time available for business
Take, for instance, the latest four
cared shell crew of this club, the one
that recently won such a brilliant vic
tory in the national regatta It was
made up of busy young lawyer, a
successful insurance agent, the repre-
sentative of a large mercantile house
and the owner of a we'll known ma
1 chine factory And so averse were al
/ four to leaving their respective occu
/ pations that they arranged with
| Coach Giannini to take them out OF
evenings Many time, when one OF
other was detained at work, it was
dark before their shell was launched
and darkness in summer does not fal
until nearly s o'clock Often before
they had finished practice and eater
dinner it was time to go to bed fol
the night.
The moral is easy to draw. What
these men have beer able to accom-
plish for the sake of pastime and
short-lived fame, assuredly is not be
You'd the individual who has in view
his physical improvement. If they
found the time he certainly can, too.
Champions and record-breakers sci
dom come from the leisure classes
Picking at random among the various
branches of sport, one may cite
Charles Durborow of the Philadelphia
Swimming Club, bank clerk who, il
spite of long hours, managed to de
velop such ability as a long-distancC
swimmer that he was able to perform
wonderful feats of endurance and tC
better the records of the greatest
professionals and amateurs this coun
try has ever produced; Tom Collins
the Irish-American Athletic Associa
ton runner, who worked an elevator
from early morning to late evening
yet found time to prepare for all his
races and placed to his credit the four
mile American mark; Robert Edgren
sporting editor of leading daily, who
Notwithstanding the arduous duties o
journalist, keeps up with the best o
weight tossers; Plat Adams Of the
New York Athletic Club, and the score