The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-14
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HANDICAP SYSTEM
WILL HELP SPORT
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Prospects Bright For Bigger and
Better Swimming Meet Ka-
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Every effort win be put forth by the
Hawaiian Branch of the Amateur Ath
letic Union to make the coming swim
ming meet the biggest and best ever
pulled of in Honolulu. Besides carry
ing ont d foil A. A. L. program, there
Ilsih be- handicap and novices races,
plunginI for distance and diving
STINT the meet covering a period of
two days; June III and June ~.
+ In introducing the handicap system
into Hawaiian swimming events, the 10,
cal officials of the AsiA. u. are stepping
in the right direction toward making it
possible for any one and every one to
compete nj the meet. Championship
races will OF course be pulled of as
usual but the handicap events should
create no end Of competition. This sys.
tenn, as in vogue in Australia, allows
swimmers ranging from the age of
seven years to that Of fifty years com.
peting. Champions can also enter these
events, but OF course are under a heavy
handicap. asals.A ~ i ss.rl,.
The soldiers of the Island should pro
fit by the handicap system and there
are no reasons whatsoever. why dozens Of
Che army men should not enter the
handicap events, as well as many of the
other events. The system makes it pos
sible for a man who never won race
in his life competing with a world =
champion with q chance TO win.
When advised Of the adoption of the
handicap system by the A. A. l.. here,
several of the soldiers at Fort Shafter
Immediately began to show much inter
est in the coming meet and several of
them lost no time in getting in touch
with John i. Soper of the registration
committee of the A. A. U.
According to the program, tentatively
adopted by the Union, there will Oe at
least twenty events swum during the
two days. meet. Fifteen Of these at
least win be championship events and
FIVE will be handicap events. The cards
win be so divided that handicap events
and championship events will be swan
on each day, june IL and June l2.
v These events do not include the div
ing or the women g events. There will
in all probability be a 50-yard dash and
a 440-yard swim for the woman and pos
sibly handicap event. Handicap races
for women are all the rage in Australia
and at a recent meet of the New South
Wales Women 3 Amateur Swimming AS
ISOLATION over 200 swimmers took parl
in the various events. Honolulu is just
as well situated as Australia for the
sta ing of swimming meets and while
the entry list here may not be as large
there are no reasons why a great many
more Of our young girls and women
swimmers do not come forth and com.
pete in the meets.
Another thing which will greatly help
swimming here II the idea is adopted
is that Of having club meets, that il
having the Myrtles, Hui Nalus, Heal
mis- and other clubs pull of meets of
their own during the year. This sys-
TEN is followed successfully in Austria
liza and could be carried on here if the
swimmers would only put their shoul'
ders to the wheel and become a bit
more interested in aquatics.
A meeting of the local A. A. U. Off
Gals has been called for next Saturday
afternoon at one o clock at the office
William T. Rawlins, and from the in
terest being shown by these officials the
swimming game is DING to come back
into its own right away,