Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-05
BY HOWARD CASE

Are the local aInIeJeS WHO nave
displayed such prowess in the several
very successful track and field meets
which have been held in Honolulu
this season, going to accept the chal
lenge which has been presented to
them by the track and field athletes
from Kauai?
1t is going to be difficult ques-
ton to answer. Taking into consid-
Grafton the fact that nearly all of the
athletes who have won honors in the
interscholsatic, A. A. U. and Cornell
Club contests this season are Kauai
men, naturally they would be in
cluded in the ranks of the Garden Is
ltand sportsmen in case this question
Is answered in the affirmative. and
just where Honolulu could get the
material for an Oahu Kauai track and
field contest is the question which is
now bothering the local upholders OF
clean sport who have become inter-
ested in the proposed meeting.
In order to find out what the opin-
ion of the local sportemen is regard
ing this proposed meet, it has bean
found necessary to personally inter-
view number of them. This has
has been done to some extent, and
the opinions are found to sadly diff
fer. There is one big, general fault
to find with the issuance Of this
challenge. Some say that 1t should
have been proposed before the track
season closed, Others say that Ho-
nolulu has not the athletes to coYl-
pete with the Kauai men, and still
there are those who say that the
whole affair, the track meet, would
be a pipe" for the Honolulu men.
The first of the aforementioned
statements seems to be the most
reasonable of the three At this sea-
son of the year the academic schools
are taking up baseball, and track
has practically been forgotten for
the time being. Could this proposition
have been presented earlier In the
year there is no doubt but what it
would have been snapped up in a
moment, and the meet would have
been over by now.
Favors HdsoIulu
In caseAsuch a meet could be ar
ranger" said the manager of one of
the acadamic school track teams this
morning, and if the athletes from
Kauai who are now going to school
in Honolulu were to join the forces
from their own island, Honolulu
would still stand first rate chance
to win such meet
The practical truth of this state
ment can be seen by taking a count
of the number of athletes, both active
and retired, either members of
schools or engaged in business, who
are in Honolulu at present. The let
ter from the Kauai man infers that
the athletes from all-Honolulu would
be eligible to take part In the pro-
posed meet, and not only the athletes
of the different schools.
In picking the local athletes who
would participate in the proposed
meet, not counting the Kauai men,
one could start in first with the
schools, taking Punahou as a begin
ner. Punahou has John Watt, perhaps
one OF the best long distance runners
in the islands; Hitchcock for the pole
vault; Gordon Brown for the relays;
Liu for the broad jump; the Baldwin
boys, Douglas and Ernest, for the
high and broad jump; Inman for the
shot; and Paris, King, Gay, Markham,
GLIB, Desha, O'Dowda and Taylor,
who have all shown up well in field
and track circles this season. The
Mckinley High School comes second
with Dwight for the dashes and re-
lays; Brownie" Rice for the relays;
&. Melin, H. Melin and Bent for the
broad jump; Brasil Silva and Dyson
for the weights; and Kahalewai, Ing,
Hicks and Wicke. ,Kamehameha will
have ID. Hfpa, Lindsey and Dover for
the pole vault; Kalanuhiua for the
dashes and relays; Jones, Mackinney,
Banjamin and Jones for the hurdles;
Amos, Eaton, Jones and Muller for
the long distances, and several other
athletes who have shown up well on
the track this year. .@
Many Unattached.
1t is possible that between st. Louis
and the retired athletes that a great
deal of material could be found to
pick from. The College of Hawaii has
q number of coming athletes as shown
0y the results of the recent track and
field meet between the Aggies and
the Engineers Meinecke, of the col
lege, and Nottage, formerly of Puma
hou, would figure in both first and
second places in the mile and half
mile runs. Nottage is probably the
best in the mile while Meinecke takes
the honors in the half mile. Other
fairly good athletes at the college are
Tracy, Cousens, Starret and Goo.
Among the old-tiEers is F. NJ Fries
ell, late of the Mckinley High school
track team, who entered the A. A. U.
contest for that aggregation. Elisha
Andrews, it is expected, could beat
Fassoth in the pole vault and thus de-
priye him of the record for that event
which he now holds. 'BilP' Patty is
still good with the shot, although he
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