Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-02-05
RY.OUTS May
BE ON The
COAST
Chance That Kahanamoku and
Genoves May Go No Fur
ther than San Francisco.

,, tner man san Francisco.
Sitting on their trunks mot the
swimming variety. but the Kind you
travel with, Duke Kahanamoku. Vim
cent Genoves and W. r. Rawllns were
this morning waiting for a cable from
the A. 4. T., giving definitely the date
Of the olympic swimming try-outs. IL
the dates are those mentioned in IA
cable received Saturday by J, II Sopcr.
the two swimmers and their manager
will have to hustle aboard. the Sierra
tomorrow morning and make dash
across ocean and continent, ending with
a dive into a swimming tank at Pitts
burg, February 90, This IL pretty rough
on the locals, who, II they leave to-
morrow, will have to enter the cham
pionships without preliminary practise
and with hardly time to get itno u
tank before taking the water in the Of
fetal try-outs.
II Is hoped that some time during
this morning or afternoon more def
mite Information will be forthcoming.
and that the locals viii not have to
make quite such mad dash along
flames pathway.
However" said Mr.. Rawlins this
morning. Duke has enough confidence
In his ability to make try for honors
even without preliminary practise. II
we have to go tomorrow Wen go. but
II would be a great hardship all round.
II we're too late for the trials we'll
send Duke to stockholm independently.
Hopeless Mis-Up.
| The entire matter OF swimming dates
Is in hopeless mudde Local A. a.
l.. officials left the matter open too
long for Il letter setting forth the pos
slbility Of sending Kahanamoku and
Gcnoves East could have been dis
have been answered. II not by mail. at
least by an intelligent cable.
There Is even a possibility that the
= olympic swimming try-outs may be
held In San Francisco. When tenta-
u tive plans were drawn up for getting
together the American olympic team,
I II was decided TO hold the trials In the
fatst, Nlluoit NcStI Hu IdCUC 'odSt'
san Francisco being designated as the
point for the latter section. That tho
swimming trials Will come on there In
connection with track and field events,
seems highly probably, although at this
end Of the line no one knows definitely.
Following is the cable received from
the A. A. L. Saturday. to which a re-
quest for more definite Information
was sent:
Swimming dates. St Louis, Febru-
AIRY II, plunge for distance; Pittsburg.
February 22, 22O, 500 yards; Chicago.
February rs, so, 100 yards. and back
and breast strokes: New York. March
, ?, relay; New York. March .. diving"
ua q u ., :, :; u 8; u u 8, = u q u q =
, ming before he left the starting plank
These crack men are trained down to
the point OF anticipating the pistol Just
by IA fraction OF a second
Lastly there is the trouble of turn
, ing, This is All art In itself and one
that often means the result OF u race
; II II all very well to say that "a man
has to slow UP In order to make the
: turn. but unfortunately for this theory
the crack swimmers do not do So They
come up to the turn at full pace, swerve
just the necessary distance from the
splank and. still moving at their top
pace, swing round. catching the board
with their feet at the very second they
would have made h kick In their stroke.
and they are away again with added
! force to their start.
? Unless Duke learns this sort OF thing.
; and that from "A man who knows every
point of the game. then he is being
sent over under a big handicap which
; will be unfair To him as well rs to tho
! men who are sending him
II Is the tine points OF any sport
that make the champion and not thu
! ordinary strength and skill with which
> nature may have endowed man.
; oenovss Case Different.
with Genoves the matter Is differ
! ent. lie viii have to be trained to the
4 last minute also and learn to make
7 his turns fast,r than he made them
yesterday, but at the same time there
is not so much finish needed for him
$ as In the case OF Duke. Although he
l may not have been swimming against
, time yesterday, he should realize the
. enormous gap there is between the time
he registered and u worlds champion
/, ship.
with both boys, and especially Duke.
trained along some OF the lines men
, he IL. %