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

The impressive spectacle last night of more than
100 men and boys at the Y. NJ G. 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 partisanship 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. Its population is much more varied !;
its interests are much wider; its sporting actiyi-
ties have increased at least five-fold New forms
ofIspprt havef in; no longer does baseball or
rowing hold the stage each for itself months at
time Baseball has become more and more of a
commercial proposition, and until recently, when
the Youngsters began to organize leagues, baseball
" semi professional
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 chance and square deal.
Such men as William T. Rawlins, John Soper
Lorrin Andrews, A. T. Longley Glenn jackson,
AZ Larfmer and many others know that anna
teur athletics make for good citizenship as we'll
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
to make swimming meets pay and pay handsome
II. The proceeds not only cover the expenses of
these meets but help to finance track meets under
A. A. T. Auspices The influence of the rowing
clubs in fostering the ideas of craftsmanship and
hardfought contests must not be forgotten. for
these ideas at the basis of all amateur athletic
competition.
Lorrin Andrews, for long time president of
the "A. A. Z. branch here well said last night that
the time has come for all Honolulu, and in partic
ular for Honolulu commercial and social organ
zations of businessmen, to recognize the value of
the A. A. q. in this city and to stand by the men
who have pioneered the way
As personal tribute to the prowess of the three
mainland champions who reached Honolulu yes
terday, last nights dinner is only comparable to
INC ~ ctCoiliC WuiSh HOS SiCCtCu Duhc WHtu
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-liying, clear
eyed, modest and splendidly alert young Aneri
can boys who have come as Hawaii's guests for
the big tournament which begins Friday night.
Lndy LANCER is welcomed for the second time;
Herbert Vollmer 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.