Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-30
GOOD SPORT AND GOOD spoRTsMEN.
yetThursday night.


The impressive spectacle last night of more than
100 men and boys at the Y. NJ. c. A. dinner in
honor of the visiting swimming champions was a
tribute not only to the remarkable hold which the
splendid water sport has upon Hawaii, but TO the
strides which organized amateur sport generally
has made in Hawaii in the past five years.
Because Honolulu no longer goes wild over
local baseball series; because there is not the bit
ter craftsmanship at Athletic park contests that
always famed up in the good old days" when
the Honolulu Athletic Club, Elks and Males used
to fight for diamond championships; because even
Regatta Day no longer divides the whole city
into opposing camps, there is the disposition
among some OF the elder generation to bemoan
the passing of amateur sport in Hawaii.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Honolulu has outgrown the stage of bitter
sporting partisanship involving majority of it's
population It's population is much more varied !:
It's Interests are much wider; its sporting activi
ties have Increased at least fiyefold. New forms
Of sport have come in; no longer does baseball or
rowing hold the stage each for itself months at
time. Baseball has become more and more of
commercial proposition, and until recently, when
fhesyoungsters began to organize leagues, baseball
II Honolulu threatened to become almost entire
y eehfprofessional
But meanwhile there has been steady growth
Of amateur athletics and at the dinner table last
night were gathered many of the men who for five
years past have fought hard to see that amateur
athletics were given a chance and a square deal
Such men as William T. Rawlns, John Soper
Lorrin Andrews, A. T. Longley, Glenn jackson,
A. E. Larimer and many others know that anna
teur athletics make for good citizenship as well
as good sport, and because of this, they are
eQuarely behind the Amateur Athletic Union.
Swimming has been and is the great foundation
for amateur athletics here because it is possible
70 make swimming meets pay and pay handsome
N. The proceeds not only cover the expenses of
these meets but help to finance track meets under
a. A. u. Auspices. The influence of the rowing
clubs ia fostering the ideas of craftsmanship and
hard:fought contests must not be forgotten for
these IDEAS at the basis of all amateur athletic
coupefition
Lorrin Andrews, for a long time president of
the a "a. U. branch here, well said last night that
The time has come for all Honolulu, and in partic-
UIor for Honolulu commercial and social organi-
<1ti0ns of businessmen, to recognize the value of
the A. A, U. in this city and to stand by the men
Who have pioneered the way.
As q personal tribute to the prowess of the three
mainland champions who reached Honolulu yes
ferdays last nights dinner is only comparable to
the welcome which has greeted "our Duke" when
he returned from mainland or foreign triumphs
He has been welcomed with deep local pride and
satisfaction, but scarcely less pride is felt here in
the achievements Of the three clean-living clear
eyed, modest and splendidly alert young Ameri-
can Boys who have come as Hawaii's guests for
the big tournament which begins Friday night.
Iudy LANCER is welcomed for the second time
Herbert Nollmer and Ted Cam for the first time.
They are young men of whom not only their own
clubs and their own communities may be proud
but Of whom the whole world of amateur sport
may be proud