The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-31

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media Rowing Club to the Sporting
Editor ct The Advertiser explains the
position Of the mainland club in refer
cnce to the challenge trophy Of the
Coast oarsmen:
San Francisco, March 5. 1914.
Sporting Editor, The Advertiser;
The attention Of the Alameda Boat
ing Club has been called to articles
which appeared in the columns Of your
paper, the first one on January 81 and
the second one on February 3.
In the first article You stated that
1.-THE Alameda Rowing Club on tae
mainland has backed out of the prOpo-
sitlon to defend the trophy won Sep
TENDER 81, 1912, from the Ilealani
Yacht and Boating Club, and moreover,
the trophy is to be returned to the To-
cal club at near date.
On behalf of, and as an official com.
munication from, the Alameda Boating
Club, we, committee appointed by
that club, desire 20 state that the
trophy will never be returned TO any
club In the Hawaiian Islands until it
has been won In a fair and strongly
contested race.
The Alameda Boating Club in all IFS
years Of existence has never fallen
down on any proposition. We are not
a wealthy club, but we have preserved
our reputation as champions ever since
we have been in the rowing game. Only
twice in late years have we lost the
championship of the Pacific Coast wa
ters. Once, when the Pioneers beat
US on the ninth Of September, 1900, and
again when we were beaten by the Dol
phins on Lake Merritt in 1904 The
victory Of the San DIEGO Rowing Club
ON the Fourth Of July, 1918, was not
regular victory, as the championship
event Of the year was held on the ninth
Of September. The regular champions
Of the Alameda Rowing Club, those who
defeated the Hawaiian Clubs, did not
row on the Fourth of July, as 1t was
not an event calling for the supreme
efforts Of the club, and the second
crew, which desired to win its spurs,
was allowed to take part in that con
test.
The regular championship race of
1913 was held in Oakland on the ninth
Of September, as the Native Sons
soeiation as the greatest event of the
year, and most At to have the cham,
pionship race. There is no arbitrary
rule of Pacific Association Of Amateur
Oarsmen as to when the championship
must be held, but il is stated in the
rules that il shall be mile and half
with a turn. IL may be held at any
time Of the year that the association
decides. a4 tN
In 1915 there will be contest in the
waters OF San Francisco under the pat.
ronage of the Panama Pacific Exposi.
tion, which viii rival any event that
has ever been held on the Coast We
are attaching to this letter an article
from the San Francisco Call of March
ninth, showing that Mr., Sullivan, who
will be the director of sports for the
Exposition, desires that the races bt
held under the auspices Of the p. A. A
0. The Honolulu crews will surely BIZ
invited to participate in these events
and then the Alameda crew as welt nj
the other clubs belonging TO the asso
citation will be there to defend theii
title. II is the intention of the Pana
ma Pacific Exposition TO bring as manY
crews from the Pacific Coast as pos
sible, and IL is not beyond the bound
of probability that the National Re
gatta viii be brought to the Coast OF
that year
In your edition Of February 3rd yol
give a very fine defence of our pos
ton by Mr. A. B. Kroll Mr.. Krol
was in direct communication and sym
pathy with the oarsmen of the Coas
while he was in San Francisco, havin
met the different clubs at their head
quarters aud discussed the ma &c
thoroughly besides attending meeting
OF the association. He was mistaken
however in the idea that the Sa
Diegos had taken the trophy from I'll
Alamedas, as the placqus contended IL
for the first time in 1918 shows tina
the oarsmen of the senior crew of tb
Alameda Boat Club, who went to HON.
lulu, are still the champions Of tn
Coast. Fa
A copy Of the deed Of gift of tn
II. A, 40, PLAGUE has been sent I
the Hawaiian Rowing Association, an
they have been requested TO make
deed Of gift on similar lines, differin
as they see fit, so that there may
no misunderstanding in the future yea
regarding the conditions of the III
waiian Rowing Association perpetu
trophy. The Alameda Boat Club co
siders that the Hawaiian Rowing Ass
citation perpetual trophy and the char
pionship PLAGUE viii range in impoI
ance in a few years with the deed
gift of the old America cup, for h
simple reason that rowing calls {
Drawn Of men, and II calls for the
best, physical, mental and spiritual Z
forts, while the contest for the Amer
cup is a matter of who can build b
fastest yacht. z"
The Alameda Boating Club, and
fact all the clubs Of the Pacific Goa
feel that the Honolulu Rowing AS
citation, in asking the club that W
the championship event in 1912 to me
them In their own waters, did a ma
nifcent thing 10 foster rowing on |
Pacific Ocean. We feel that in dol
this, while they spent good deal
money, they did something that "