The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-12-30
Financing Sport
Is No Easy Task
Athletic Committee Works to
Make AL Branches Self
Sustaining; Two Successes
Scored In Year.

SCOTeO III ear.
Swimming, baseball and football
may be ranked in the order named as
the three self maintaining sports of
Maui. Football in it's initial year has
paid II running expenses and some.
thing more than a third OF the outlay
for uniforms, regarded as an excel
lent showing for the first year. Other
branches of sport conducted under
the auspices of the Athletic Commit.
tee of the Fair and Racing Associa-
ton all show losses, largely because
of adverse circumstances that they
met in the past year. At the meet
ing of the Athletic Committee, Tues
day evening the report of the foot
ball committee was received and the
committee agreed to furnish the cups
for the winners of the winners of the
All-Maui tennis tournaments of the
year that is just closing.
Baseball Leads Way
Taking into consideration the part
that baseball plays in the sports and
entertainment for Fair crowds the
National Game must be given leading
place in sports and without the assist
ance which it I'VE to the finances of
the Athletic Committee that body
would have been in considerable of
a hole for the season. The weekly
games, however, show a much small
er profit than would be expected.
largely because by no means all
those who see the games pay for the
privilege since the Waikiki and La
hama grounds are not fully enclosed.
1t is proposed that all East Maui
games in the league be played at Ka-
hului next season on the Fair grounds
diamond which will make possible the
collecting of admission fees from all
who attend.
Swimming to the Fore
Swimming, like football, is a new
sport activity this year. Two meets
and ar exhibition for the Press Con
gress visitors were held. The first
was a fine Il ancial success and the
second meet, the two nights of swim
ming that followed the Fair, was a
greater success in every way except
financially. 1t had about an even
break owing to the expense entailed
in bringing owe and entertaining
while here the leading swimmers of
the Islands who were the particular
attractions and made mostly for the
success of the meet and because at
tendance was cut down as a result of
the activities of the Fair and the
Press Congress visit which immedi-
ately proceeded it. Still swimming
shows an excellent profit from the
first meet at the Puunene tank but
such profits have gone into a special
fund which is to be used only for the
building and %equipping of a boat
house when it reaches the necessary
proportions and has not beer used to
defray Athletic Committee expenses
for other branches of sport.
Sports Show Losses
Basketball of last season would
have been self supporting but for the
bringing of a team from Hilo and the
sending of a team to Honolulu but
those expenses put that branch of
sport on the wrong side of the ledger.
Track and field sports had been ex-
pected to show a profit but the an
nual field meet had to be postponed
after having been well advertised,
then had to be readvertised and final
ly was held at a time when it did not
draw so well. A financial loss was
the result.
To the soccer games no admission
was charged in the effort to popular
ize that branch of sport and no in
come resulted from it though the cor
mittee contributed financially to it's
conduct.
Dances Bring Revenues
The entertainment committee help
ed to meet the losses of the attempt
ed New Year sports when rain prevent
ed any receipts aside from the New
Years eve fancy dress ball at the
opening of the present year. The
dance was a splendid success financi-
ally as well as socially. Again at
Fourth of July the entertainment
committee gave a profit making
dance but the net proceeds were
turned into the general association
treasury instead of being retained by
the Athletic Committee.
Tennis is an activity taken over by
the Athletic Committee this year for
the first time and has furnished no
revenue but has entailed no expense
to the committee aside from the rails
ing of funds for the championship
cups, Another year it can be made
either self sustaining or partially so
from entrance fees and from the hold
ing of all final and semi final matches
of the tournaments on the Fair
Ground courts which will then be in
use.
Football Comes Today
Preliminary expenses of football
are higher than any other sport in