Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-30
BROADER FIELD NOW FOR
SCHOOL TRACK ATHLETES
One Bio Meet viii Be Held Each
Year, in Which Schools from
Other Islands VIII Be Asked
to Compete Cornell Club
lakes Hold Of Proposition and
Regular |. A. A. Meet Is Put
lin the Discard
81 4. 3. CASE.

Interscholaitic track athletics are to
be revolutIonized in Honolulu
bioadef field is to be be covered, and
hereafter, for school to win the
championship, win mean even more
honor than 1t has In the past.
Following the close of the soscer
season, active training in preparation.
for the interscholastic track and field
meet will be begun by the hletes of
the different schools OF the city. For.
many years past 1t has been the Gus
tom among the local schools cpmpos
ing the Interscholastic Athletic Assoc.
citation, namely Punahou, Mckinley
High, Kamehameha, st. Louis and tbs
College of Hawaii, that they meet
once year and hold track meet
the winning team taking the cur
which has always been presented BY.
some local business firm or club. This
year, however, an entirely new prupos
sItion was put up to the schools BY
the Cornell Club, 1t being 10 hold 4
separate meet from the annual inter-
scholastic meet under new conditions.
ard this suggestion met with infant
APPROVAL
This meet, according to the plan.
proposed, is to be held under the aus.
pieces Of the club, which Is to have.
complete charge, and make all ar
rangemefts. In addition to this, the.
club offered to put up handsome cup,
suitably engraved with the name OF
the winning school, After some con.
s;deration the schools decided to
agree to this plan and enter teams In
the meet. It was later learned thas
the College of Hawaii would make no
entries whatever this year In the in
teIscholastic meet. and this matter
was taken before the College Club
with the suggestion that the Inter.
sc holastic meet and the College Gin5
meet be made one and the same.
Therefore, as result OF this PROPOSE
ton. there will be but one track and
field meet held among the schools this
year, when entries vii be made from.
the four schools, the winner taking
the Corner: Club cup.
To Win Cup Outright
AS to permanent posses sion of the
cup the question has been decided II
this way The school winning the
Cur four times keeps it, but this does
not mean that the cup shall be won in
tour consecutive years. It may take
ten years for one school to win the
cup four time, and from this regnla-
ton it is evident that the Cornell Club
Intends to keep up its plan of holding
these meets, and if this is the case,
there will be a general awakening in
track athletics among the different
schools of the city. The main reason
for the introduction of these meets,
It might be well to state here. is thu
of clean school athletics
It should be a great success. and an
that no school should
miss.
Besides the four iucal schools al
ready mentioned, other schools Of tht
territory will be invited to enter teams
the Hilo High School being one of the
outsiders which will probably partici-
pate. In this way. athletic competition
among the schools of the Islands.
which has been dormant for many
years. will be awakened, and keen riv-
airy will exist in the endeavor Of the
schools to keep the championship in