The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-04-25
WORLDS GREATEST SPORT
Surf Board Riding, As Practiced in Honolulu, Far
Ahead of All Other Sports
By Mar Carey, IN Baseball Magazine.

They play it the evening" circle Barrow,
They play far below the Australia The aps
than the Cubans and the PHILIPPINE
Islanders Baseball should become the of all the nations be-
undoubtedly the finest which be played
nothing the Esqumaux from batting
with whale bone while the natives the South Sea Islands
sticks the purpose for
baseball recognize peculiar possibilities But ask me
I'll have it's second best
And I'll try to explain why think
ago called join barn stoming
band players When arrived
decided that should visit the Sandwich
Islands natives enthusiastic ball fans them
Selves eagurs play their vorite And
enthusiasm than did from the fans of
many who gathered play There native
Chinese, Japs Maay and from Euro
and all OF them lovers OF
game there introduced another
which being by long odds the finest had
do will find place
part the United States Europe It's distinctly native
sport Hawaiian Islands, other nsu f
voaby Baseball will have fear the rivalry this
native pasme progress sport you'll
islanders thrilling,
haratng and absolutely Intoxicating in the whole of
athletics.
They riding there the mid Pacific 1t
difference you It's the thing,
watched the for a good while, riding
those big Pacific combers long slippery boards yelling and
haloong with delight being fascinating
and determined had always been interested all
forms of athletics In college competed fewer
than different track afternoon. So while
claim being than couldn't
until had surf board and joined the motley crowd who
riding the
My first experience distinct disappointment. couldn't
the hang of the thing ALL feed fumed and
the point giving undertaking bad job before finally
surprised myself by discovering the all knack
The swim with these boards for about
of mile. It's job padding with hands but
the journey worth all the trouble By the board
just the right angle the big which sweeping
will catch and drive toward shore speed of thirty
miles an hour
The board itself about long broad,
plank heavy. quite job manipulate
but needless the natives the craft Even the
children have little boards of their
The andsman who has visited the has
the surf breaking the beach But the Sandwich
entirely different form surf In mid the of
mendou regular hills of They in long ridges
distance The andsman who hasn't taken
age nothing But Islands,
they the mid Pacific the full gigantic
cmbers thirty feet high sweeping
Depths SPEED gradually
subside the shelving coral shore.
n company with attempted master this sport
I'll have his credit that he discovered knack
We toled and strained with these heavy boards for
time Finally Jack said, If could the hang of
would be satisfied felt the way about myself
The difficulty keeping your exactly
right elevation If it dips little will dig the
throw you off n a smother of
had been ducked time aud time again way
thoroughly disgused when whoop
Ing Miller his board racing for shore the of
and yelling like mad 1t enough. If
the shore acting doubt quite much like unatic
After that made such Eventually got
could stand and balance myself the
make of and couldn't respect
Some of them such that
heads In fact they do
full speed It's much like bare back riding circus
Duke Kohanamoku the amou swimmer who won 80 much
the Olympic Stockholm natives
He the champion of the good
deal for his uky of that sport He
also the leader of the watched him with
good deal of do everything He
wasn't satisfied with the OF the to-
ward the shore He would his
along the the In this
velocity much than that of the as
concerned emiuenty of riding
My first introduction the really
ALL while
from shore and going toward the land