Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-25
A. A. j. MEETING
TODAY TO FORM
SWIMMING Plan
Members Will Discuss Local
Meets: Also Y. NJ. Project:
Ruben Issues Statement

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A meeting of the local A. A. q. will
be held at the office Of w. T. Raw
Inns this afternoon at O'Clock. Mem
bers of the board will discuss the ad-
visibility of staging meets here in
June and September and will also dis
cuss the project to send a Y. NJ. c. A.
team to the mainland this year
Arrangements are being made TO
send a team OF five men which would
perhaps include Duke Kahanamoka,
George Cunha, John Kelii, Clarence
lane and Harold Kruger, Secretary
Frederick Ruben Of thea. A. U. has
forwarded the following statement
70 John Soper, regarding the mainland
tour and eligibility OF athietes:
II beg to advisers hatp4t would be
possible for team Of swimmers, reg
istered for different CLUBS toaconpete
as relay teams which might be called
the All-Honolulu team agsinst q SINH
lar team from another city. We have
allowed this for intercity races and
each year we have several races be-
tween All-Bostcn, AIlNew York and
All-Philadelphia relay teams. or
course these teams go on the pro-
gram under the heading, Adhesion
team" or whatever city the team rep.
resents and alongside the names OF
the members OF the team must appear
the club which the athlete is actually
registered for. For instance, i
"All-Honolulu team: II
Clarence X. Lane, Palama Swim
ming Club.
John Kelii, Healani Y. and B. Club.
Duke Kahanamoku, Hui Nalu Club.
George Cunha, H. Y. and B Club.
Can't Go After Tine IS /
II note what you say about such a
team going after a record against time
and in reply beg to call your attention
to rule VII of the General Rules, sec
ton S, which states that no record
shall be accepted unless made in open
and IN an event for which |
entries were regularly made upon the |
forms adopted by the A. A. u, and
where the event and entries appeared
on the program of the meeting. There |
fore. II a team such as you speak OF
should 60 out for a record against
time, same could not be counted as
record under our rules. There must
be other competitors in the race.
Must Compete fer Clubs 1
in reply to the second paragraph OF
your letter of the goth of March, II
he swimmers that they propose to
take are not registered for the Y. M.
9. A.. they cannot compete for them.
as IL would be considered open COM
petition and the men must compete
he way they are registered in all open |
l would warn the boys
q be very careful regarding the COM
petitions they take part in against
bthef YIN. C. AS and be sure that
they are all sanctioned by the A. A..
d. A competition between two 4.
N G. AS is. cor sidered open compe-
tition and all Of the mon compeung
must be registered and the meet must
De sanctioned. A few years ago We
rad an alliance with the Y. M. 6. As
md wa recognized their right to con-
I,ete among themselves without reg
stration or sanction, but this alliance
ras broken. aud since that time We
Ireat each branch Of ire \. M. q. A.
g an athletic club, and when two or
more of these clubs compete in
meet same must be sanctioned and
he competitors must be registere
With the a. A. u
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