Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-31
BOAT CLUB SWIMMERS
TRAINING HARD FOR
COMING WATER MEET
RY 4. 3. CASE

With the beginning OF the new
year the Honolulu public has been
given the opportunity to witness pna----
clean athletic contests than ever be-
fore in the annals of local sporting
history. There seems to have been
sort of new awakening in every
branch of athletics, and, as a result,
one contest has followed another in
rapid succession and the fans are
constantly clamoring for more. -ss.s
Now that the intergcho Elastic, base.
ball season is fast coming to close.
and the summer holiday approach-
ing, the athletes have turned toward
swimming, and with the annual
Amateur Athletic Union swimming
meet but little more than two weeks
away, the placid waters of the hafbOr
are alive every afternoon with the
pick of the swimming material of the
city, each individual undergoing grill
ing practice and training in prepare
ton for the meet. Swimming is an
other branch of athletics which has
developed wide variety of talent
1t has been found that more than
twice as many men are turning out
this year than did in 1912.
HeaIanis Active
Among the organizations that are
turning out for the A. A. u. meet
this year. the Healani Yacht and
Boat Club is much in the spotlight.
Some of the best swimming material
of which the city boasts is connected
with the Healanis and the vim which
these swimmers are putting into their
training SHOWS that they have every
confidence of making good showing
at the coming meet
Every evening between $3.50 and
O'Clock, the Healani swimmers may
be seen practicing in front of the
boat house. A lot of green material
Is being tried out, and those who
have been watching the practice
closely say that these swimmers are
showing remarkable speed in the
water. The Healanis, of course,
boast a number of individual stars,
and have won fame in both inter-
scholastic and other aquatic events.
1t is upon these men that the club
VIII rely to score points in the meet,
and with the help of the new ma
terial, they stand an excellent chance
of running up fine score.
foremost amcng the Healani
swimmers stands Lawrence Cunha,
one of the three brothers who have
made good in every contest which
they have entered Cunha is captain
OF the Healani swimming team and
is touted in the A. A. U. meet to
take the honors in the 220-yard and
the 440-yard dashes. "Hanawaki''
Kruger, the Mckinley high schooi
swimmer who did such good work in
the recent intersctolastic swimming
meet, and who is also Healani en-
try, will figure in the long distance
races, having entered for the quarter
and half mile
Allan and Frank Cunha, brothers
OF Lawrence Cunha, and members of
the famous Cunha aquatic quartet,
are practising for the sprints, and
have both shown up we'll in the
trials pulled off at the boat house.
George Cunha is slated for the So
yard and 100-yard dashes. Woods
Low, another clever swimmer, will
hold forth in the 50-yard dash and
the relays. Other swimmers who are
expected to make good for the Hea-
lanfs are Walter Grace, sprints;
James Berry, mile; Charles Brown,
mile; Sherry Winsor, half mile;
Harold Kruger, 25-yard and 50-yard
dashes.
1t was stated at the Healani club |
the other afternoon that the Hui |
Nalus would limit Duke Kahanamoku |
to the distances in which he won the
worlds championship at Stockholm. !