The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-24
OUTR|GGER RACES
SAVE REGATTADAY
Canoe and Surfboard Events At
the Beach Yesterday Please
Holiday Crowd

Regatta Day, as observed yesterday
by the Outrigg.r Canoe Club sports
and general public on the beach at
Waikiki was an unqualified success.
There was a good crowd on hand, ev
erybody enjoying TO the full program,
which helped while away the whole
morning, being over by noon.
The canoe and surf board races were
exciting enough 10 please all and there
were some pretty and close finishes
during the morning. The course set
for some of the canoe races was from
Grcy's to the Moana Pier!
The mems padding canoe race was
won by the Outrigger Canoe Club crew
by four feet The crews were: Out.
rigger-H. Harvey, c. Lambert Jr.,
T. NOrgaard, C. Sims, F. Bowers and
Edric Cooke; Hui Nalu-" Steamboat
Bill" r. holstein, T. Hill, William
Hollnger, F. Wilhelm and Lukela Kau-
pike.
In the padding surf board race for
Miheville Jr., won by a walk. L. Hale
was second and J. Morse third. The
distance was from the Seaside to the
Moana Pier.
Helen Martin Wins
Miss Helen Martin won the padding
surf board race for ladies, also by a
walk, Miss Josephine Hopkins being
second. This victory gives Miss Helen
the title of club champion for the year.
In the padding Indian canoe race
for men in the service C. Lambert
Jr., and F. Bowers won easily over
Ross and Canario, the latter's canoe
capsizing during the race and the crew
completing the course by swimming il
fine shape.
Mr.. Chtterbrick was easily the win
ner in the padding surf board race
for malihini entries, defeating w. Dix
on, the surf board expert. Glitter.
| brick looks easily like q coming cham
pion, says dad" Center, who ought
to know as he is reckOned Hawaii 3
greatest authority on the subject.
! Wahine opio Race
/ 1t was u pretty race when three
wahine OpiO crews got of in the pad
| ding Indian canoe event for girls
Marion Dowsett and Frances Jones won
| eventually. Helen Martin and BernicP
| Dowsett were second. while Josephine
Hopkins and Daisy Ruttmann finished
third. The latter crew capsized thei'
canoe three times during the race. This
furnished great thriller for all, es
! peciallv for the life guards who wen
! to the rescue but were Outdistaneed
/ by the capsizcd mermaids in the race
for the shore.
The eighth event, padding Indian
canoe for boys under fourteen year,
of age was called off owing to the sea
being little too chOpPy for the
! youngsters.
Edric Cooke finished first in the pad
ding surf board race for men. 7.
Norgaard was second, and G. Sims
third. Others padded too, but were
not in at the finish. Cooke gave the
other two men fifteen yard handicap
and won even then.
Great CapsiZing Event
There was lot of fun in the pad
ding canoe race for boys under six
teen. 1t resulted in tie in the first
White Horse. Then the White Horse
|
ordered the race padded over again
when Canoe Aa capsized. Just how
the race finally resulted no one seems
to know yet. The crews were:
Canoe Aa-A Mnevillc Jr., Tookie
Chaplin, c. Gall, }. O'Dowda, J. Mann
and B Burbanh.
Canoe White Horse-Lewis Hale, A.
Gall, }. Hoogs, q. Young and c. A
Snyrcs.
In the voIl"yball match played at
three . 'clOck in the afternoon on the
OuirIggCr Canoe Club courts the o
G. {. won in three straight sets from
the Signal Corps team, l5-l4. l5-l0
Is Il. \ big crowd was on hand for
this event, when was part icularly close
in the first set, won 10y a pout and
victory for tn" Outrisger bunch in
the final set
The Volleyballers
The OutrlgGer PLAYERS were, in the
first srt-JOhnsOn. Ruttmann, Morse
W. Smith, Nottage and Smith; in the
second -" Dad - Center. Lindsay, Bal
ley, Dickson, Decker, and Harvey, and
in the third -BrIttOn w. Smith, Morse
Nottnge. H. Smith and johnson. The
Signal Corps players were-CanariO
Bowers, Lambert, Shepherd, Ross and
Grompr.
The day was brought to most At
ting close with the annual RegattS
Day dance of the Outrigger Canoe Club
III the Clubs pavilion. a monster crowd
being present dancing to the music
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