Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-20
ATHLETIC CARD
FOR BOYS WILL
Be GIVEN At Y
AI.Star Athletic Tourney May
rs Will Bring Out Indus
trial School Boys

On Friday night, May 26E. the
! people of Honolulu will be treated
to the finest all-star athletic enter
4 tainment ever given in the city. With
highly successful similar entertain.
ment given last year as background.
this years production will outclass
anything ever attempted here in the
/ line Of gymnastic exhibition.
One Of the strong features of last
years stunt was the pyramid number
which was built by a picked number
of Honolulu's crack athletes. This
!, year this number will be handled en-
tireIy by a specially trained team Of
athletes from the Waialee Boys In
dustrial School, sixteen in number,
who have been undergoing during the
past three months siege Of concen-
trated training under the direction of
S. w Robley, who has been ably as
sisted by Mr.. Benny and Mr.. Fag,
members of Supt. Anderson's faculty.
The Industrial Boys are now building
the most difficult pyramids ever at
tempted in the islands and will handle
their end of the entertainment like
Orpheum stars All of their twelve
| pyramids are Guilt without the use of
apparatus and one, called the high
tower, is over twenty feet.
TumbIers Featured. ..-.
The mat work and tumbling will
also furnish a surprise to all those
present, inasmuch as there are now
a dozen or more in the advanced class
who are turning the front somersault
in the air and the one-leg back somer-
sault. The rings and the horizontal
bar work will be an added feature
this year and both of these will be
of the high class order. The hori-
zontal bar drill has now three men
who do the giant swing and many other
difficult tricks on the polished hick-
ory ~.
The class drill on the parallel bars
viii be neat, fast and snAppy and
win be followed by a fiFe-minute ex.
hibition of individual stunts by Pease,
Alexander and Robley.
The distance diving from the spring
board is always welcome and In
teresting number for the reason OF the
necessary danger involved where the
performer with running start leaps
upon the spring board and Is hurled
head-foremost through the air a dis
lance of from twelve to twenty feet,
at the end of which by quick turn
and skip he turns a roll, landing on
his feet. ....... ..
Honolulu Crawl.
In the Honolulu crawl two members
of each of the clubs are permitted to
enter and a prize will be given to the
winner. The 5O-yard roll race is gov
erned by the same conditions, two
from each club to enter and prize
to the winner. H.
The dumb-beH drill, which will be
the opening number, will feature the
calisthenic training that the boys re-
ceive in the boys clubs in the differ.
ent parts of the city. The horse drill
will be accompanied by the orchestra.
The high dive and the obstacle race
will both furnish prizes to the winners
of these two events.
There will, in all, be ninety-five diff
ferent young men and boys taking
part in the athletic events, the same
to start promptly at 1880 and to close
at 9:45. :~~
The Y. NJ. C. A. orchestra will fur.
nish the music for the occasion.
Under the leadership of Edwin II.
Ideler, the orchestra will play three
numbers on the regular program and
incidental music for some OF the ath'
letic work. This will be one ofNhe
big features of the evenings enter
tainment.