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

A meeting of the local A. A. L. Will
be held at the office Of w. T. Raw
Inns this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mem
bers of the board will discuss the al
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 DuReaKahanamoku
George Cunha, Johm keEt, Clarence
Lane and Harold Krugetlti Secretary
Frederick Ruben of tie A. A. u. has
forwarded the following state. nents
10 John Soper, regai,ding the nfainland
tour and eligibility OF stl1letesailt
Il beg to advise that IL would be
possible for team or.swimmers' reg
istered for different clubs iuoacoupete
as relay team which might be Called
the AIl-HonoIulu team Rgainstsa SINH
lar team from another city We have
allowed this for intercity races and
each year we have several races be-
tween All-Bostcn, All-New York and
relay teams. OF
course these teams go on the pro-
gram under the heading, "All-Boston
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, ri
"AIl-Honolulu team:
Clarence K. Lane, Palama Swim
ming Club. .+.
John Kelii, Healani Y. and B. Club.
Duke Kahanamoku, Hui Nalp Club.
George Cunha. H. Y. and B Club.
Can't Go After Time ....
Il note what you say about such
team going after q record against time
and in reply beg to call your attention
Ia rule VII of the General Rules, sec
ton 5, which states tha 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. T., and
where the event and entries appeared
on the program of the meeting. There
lore. If a team such as you speak OF
should 60 out for a record against !
lime. same could not be counted as
record under our rules. There must |
be other competitors in the race.
Must Compete for Clubs Is. /
Elm reply to the second paragraph OF |
your letter of the both OF March, II
he swimmers that they propose to
AXE are net registered for the Y. M.
8. A.. they cannot compete for them,
Is il would be considered open com
petition and the men must compete
he way they are registered in all open /
would warn the boys
q be very careful regarding the COM
petitions they take part in agains!
,ther Y. M. c. AS and be sure that
hey are all sanctioned by the A. Al
II. Al competition between two 4.
n C, AS is considered open compe.
iticn and all of the men competing
must be registered and the meet must
10 sanctioned. A few years ago We
lad an alliance with the Y. M. G. AS
md we recognized their right to CON-
etc among themselves without reg
stration or sanction, but this alliance
vas broken, and since that time We
reat each branch of tire Y. Nj. Z. A.
Is an athletic club, and when two OF
more of these clubs compete Ia
meet same must be sanctioned ana
he competitors must be regisferea
With the A. A. U.