The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-16
SWIMMERS ALL HERE
READY FOR CARNIVAL
Mainland Artists Anxious To Try
Conclusions With Hawaii's
~ Talent

with the arrival in the wilhelmina
from San Francisco yesterday after.
loon of Miss Aileen Allen, MISS Doro.
try Burns and Perry M. McGillivray,
all those who are to participate in the
coming Mid-Pacifc Carnival swimming
meet, including Norman Ross, who ar
rived a couple of weeks ago, are in the
city, ready and anxious for the open.
ing day. February 22-to arrive.
,WsI an gIaa We got into the harbor
with Daylight Miss Alien said as she
came down the gang plank. az was
afraid that we would lose the beauty of
the city and mountains in the dark"
Miss Burns was also greatly pleased
"My, but it's NICE and begins TO feel
like home already she said. "Can
60 in swimming at wai.k.ki--is that
the way you say itin
Happy As . Kohala Lark ..2.'
MeGilliyray was as happy as a Ko'
hala lark. @...
"Well, I'm here, and / wouldn I
mind staying a good long while,
although they want me home in Illinois
as soon as I can get back there. Guess
they'll have to wait some If my present
mood holds out. :"
{ 1t was announced semi ,offieially yes.
'"rdav. after McGillivray's arrival,
that Duke Kahanamoku has changed
his mind and will enter the coming
swimming meet ms an active contestant.
Never before, even while maintaining
that he was out of the game for the
Carnival stunts, has the Hawaiian
champion been training and exercising
as industriously as he has the past two
or three weeks. WI. ,..
When the entries close at FIVE clock
tomorrow afternoon with John +. Soper
secretary of the local A. A. u, the
question of whether or not Kahana
moku win swim next week will be set
tied. .- .
win Defend Title e-
McGillivray is here mainly to defend
the l00.yard title honor which he
wrested from Duke Kahanamoku on
April s, last year, at Pittsburgh. He
represents the Illinois Athletic Club OF
Chicago. When he defeated Duke,
McGilliyray made the century distance
in So 50 seconds, but il is claimed that
he had made it on a number of occa
sions since in ffty-fve fat. n
Miss, Allen Is the champion Pacif. b
Coast rdiVeT. The Los Angeles womas.
is said to be a star performer in tn,
air-to.water line. She is also q motor
picture actress, and in this line of art
endeavor is already quite famous.
Aileen Allen Star Diver
During the Carnival swimming meet
nest week she will perform in four com
pulsory events and six optional ones, a.
follows: ... 81 H.. p. O.. &c..
Compulsory. OFF teS!foot spring
board: Straight front dive, straigh'
back dive, front jackknife, back jack
knife. She has selected for her six
optional events the full gamer, back
gamer, front one and a half, back ouC
and O, half, cutaway, one ana a half
and the, back somersault. .
~ Miss Dorothy Burns vs. the speediest.
COAT woman sbrinter ofAthe day, She
is the champion backstroke woman,
swimmer in the century and O half dis
lance. On July 4, last, she won thirt
place in the 100-yard national cham ,
pionship for women in the San Fran
cisco meet. a.. #ta. -
Ross is a good swimmer, excelling in
the distances beyond the century. "
the 220.yard it is figured that he will,
give Ludy LANCER, who is making hi'
home in Hawaii, good rub for the
tape. ....
Home Boys All Look Well
George Cunha, Kruger, Kelii, Lane
and others are also in fine shape. The
Hawaiian boys are all expected to up
hold the honor of Hawaii, which is Ger
tainly at stake with the mainland swim
mers here determined to take every
thing in sight-in a natatorial way.
Among the local women swimmer
Miss Bereni"ia Lane, more so than
others, is out to show Miss Burns the
way to the tape.