The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1912-09-28
From
Capital City.
Maui 0afsmen And Ball Players
Praised-Politis and Other
Matters Discussed.
Honolulu, Sept. 26.
Especial Core spondence. ]


Beyond unstinted praise for the
work of the Puunene Club, and
many honest expressions of regret
that it came out a loser, there is no.
thing to be said of the races. 1t is
rumored by one or two on the judges
boat, and they. have communicated
it to others that in the senior race
the Puunene boys came in third
thus beating the Myrtles. The news
papers dill not have it so but watch
ers of the race declare it to have
been the case. "Cocksureness"
was the cause of defeat of the Myr-
ties in the senior race the Alamedas
beat Healani by half length. 1t
is rumored that hackers of the crew
lost heavily in gold coin and the
Alameda boys will leave with pockets
lined with gold, the winnings of the
men in the barge. Even the women
members of the company, wives of
the oarsmen, were ready to back
their husbands to win. The Hea-
lani boys feel confidence in them
selves and are ready to bet they are
in condition to win back the tro-
ply when the rowing season opens
again. There are two ways OF look
ing at the failure of the Healani
crew to win; Lloyd, the coxswain of
the crew, carried sixty pounds more
weight than the coxswains Of the
other boats but, without him, there
would be no showing. He is the only
man in the club who can cuss
strength from the rowers.
The swimming race, which was a
sort of buttinsky affair, and against
the wishes of the oarsmen, turned
out to be more interesting to the
immense crowd than any but the
senior race, and thousands left
the end of the harbor and the Hea-
lani headquarters and iourneyed to
points of vantage in the neighbor
hood of the Myrtles where the race
was swan. The betting would have
been with odds on the California
girl, who came back to the town
she was raised in with a splendid
record as swimmer and with man
ners as pleasing as one could wish
for. The Honolulu girl is a novice,
and her friends feared she would be
gun shy when it came to start.
She was as cool as the proverbial
cucumber, however, when the shot
was fired and there was nothing do
ing by the California girl after the
first twenty yards, The second
race of fifty yards was called off at
the request Of Mrs. Desch, owing
to her not feeling well. To quote
her, the Stacker girl put one over
her, much to her surprise. /"
Politics are so very mixed here
that there is no telling whether the
Republican party is to continue to
exist or whether it is to be the bull
moosers or Bull Durham will lead
the way to the polls in November.
To the lay man the Democrats have
more than fighting chance. They
are to put up good men for superyi-
sors and legislature and with Hustace
running alone, Fern will be elected
without doubt over Parker.
The Democrats met this morning
as per schedule and the bloody shirt
waved, figuratively, for one of the
unwashed OF the fifth district howl
ed himself hoarse when Charlie
Mccarthy was booked for chairman
ship against the ex deputy chief
detective Kalakiela. Mccarthy won,
hands down and then took the OPP
portunity to tell the man who op-
posed him for chairman that it was
time the Democratic party dropped