The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-23
KISTLER ROASTS
POOR MANAGEMENT.
Pennsylvania Trainer Says That
Duke Was Robbed Of Laurels .
-, BY Poor Handling

BY yesterdays mail the following
communication from George KistIer,
trainer Of the swimming squad at the
University Of Pennsylvania, to The Ad.
yertiser, came 30 hand; t y
I" Now that thingshay quoted down
some IL the swimming line, IL is about
time 10 say something with reference To-
the recent visit Of Dixie Kahanamokn
to the United States. In the Arst place,
what were the people OF Honolulu Or
the Hui Nam thinking upout when they
sent Duke over here TO swimf Did they
THINK that all that their champion had
20 do was to get aboard boat ride on
The water for q week, spend several
days On a train; then jump of the
train, enter race against the best
swimmers we can produce over here
aud wipe things up In general and
without any preparation, and, swim.
ming, mind you, with men who are near
ly his equalf fa
dukes Muddy Management .-.
''They must be crazy, and deserve
70 have a good iff kick where IL would
do the most good, for showing such
ignorance about an athlete. ~
Duke should have been over here
with me or even without me, for two
weeks TO a month, in order to get used
TO the fresh water, bath turns, climate
and l0l different things that are likely
to crop up.
al saw Duke here at the pool for
about 10 minutes and gave him a
piece OF my mind. He said that the
people over there would not let him 20
,.neatt and put in a month with me, as
he wished to do. -. l... q &. = (.
81 never saw such dumb trick as
to send . champion on q journey OF
nearly 20 days without any time to
Prepare after the Journey before en-,
tering a race. 1t is ridiculous, no. mat,
ter how you look ut it. Look at the
record. Doesn I it show for itself that
after q few swims over here Duke .
times got considerable better in the
different racesf "
Too Much Travelling
"Then, again, would not have let
him swim 10 all those races, travelling
all over the country, riding all night
and then swimming the same day he
got off the train. No wonder he got
beaten. Such treatment would likely
beat anyone. You did not read of Vol.
mer travelling al over this country.
swimming in different events. No, the
New York Athletic Club are a wise
bunch and kept him to beat Duke,
which he did, and i would like TO say
right now, without wishing to take one
iota of credit from VOllmer or the othei
American swimmers, that had Duk,
been with me, we could have had him
in good shape, and then, if he got
beaten, there would have been no Kick
coming. h -
vollmer Wonder 49,, ~,
"yollmer Is a wonderful swimmer
He is younger than Duke, lighter H.
weight; about the same height, and ca
60 like d streak of lightning. The Duk,
would have had to have been at his
best to beat this boy. =
10" As things were, Duke was simply
robbed of'the honors so deseryedly won
and bestowed on him, by those who
were the instignt0rs in sending him
over here to his defeat, aud whose lack
of knowledge in handling cases Of this
kind is simply appalling.
"If you look at the times in most
OF the races you viii readily see that
they are, longer times than Duke did
previously ut the same distance. Duke
was beaten so easily, in fact, that he
was a poor loser. That would have
been impossible had Duke been in any.
thing near tip-tOp shape.
Good Manager Needed "
81 am very sorry that such thing
has happened and j trust that, should
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