The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-04-11
LET'S STICK TOGETHER

At Kahului there is a magnificent property conservatively esi-
mated to be worth 100000 held in trust for ALL the people of
Maui, the grounds and buildings of the Maui County Fair and Rae
ing Association. 1t was secured and built up by the United efforts
of Maui under the leadership of the most progressive of the citizens
of the Island and with generous assistance of the plantations in
days Of prosperity which cannot be counted upon at tins time. he
Gently the Indebtedness of the association, $4,000, was consolidated
and bonds in that amount bearing interest at six pereentum per an
mum were issued. The interest on those bonds must be paid or the
property can be sold under foreclosure and the splendid play place
be lost to the people.
From the receipts from the fair alone the trustees will not be
able to meet the interest ON the bonds, revenue must be had from
other sources and the Fair and Racing Association looks to the
people to use the grounds prepared for their enjoyment for the stag
ing of all athletic and sporting events, so far as possible, at the
equivalent of a very reasonable rental, not to take all the receipts
by any means, but to get something for its support.
There has been formed in Paa and Haiku a league which its
promoters say is designed to conduct baseball and football games
and other sports in those districts which played its first games Sun
day. 1t has, it is reported, prepared a schedule that runs through
the summer and for days and times that conflict with the athletic
evonts scheduled TO be held on the PEOPLES Fair Grounds at Kahu-
Hi. It is also reported that its regulations forbid any player on its
teams from participating in the games from which the Fair and
Racing Association will benefit. Members of the trustees of the
Association feel that such an organization will cut into the receipts
the Association needs and will also work against its prestige.
Formerly there was formed in the interest of clean and profitable
sports an athletic committee which was to have and has had super
vision of athletic and sporting events n this Island. When the
Maui County Fair and Racing Association was formed the Athletic
Committee entered the new organization and was continued as a com
mittee of the Association with one of the trustees as its chairman
It's purpose is to coordinate and encourage all sports in the inter-
ests of the all Maui community. That body the newly organized
league has not consulted and in its reported provision regarding
players on the leagues teams and in the arrangement of its schedule
appears to be opposing. The subject was considered by a meeting
OF the committee last Tuesday night and efforts were to be made
and a meeting to be held to adjust matters last Friday night.
Meantime, last thursday there a brought tO THIS paper an
article designed to promote the interests of the new league announce
ing plans for the opening of the leagues program last Sunday. Had
the efforts for adjustment been carried out the article would not
have been true in all particulars by the day after the last issue of
Maui News.
The editor feels that the Maui County Fair and Racing Asso-
citation is the greatest community asset the Valley Isle has. He
considers that the holding of games in opposition to or at least so as
to serve as counter attractions to the events scheduled under the
Fair and Racing Association is harmful and injurious to the best
interests of the Fair and Racing Association and of all Maui. He
therefore declined to give free publicity to an organization which in
his view and that of members of the trustees of the Fair and Racing
Association and the Athletic Committee would be working in Opposi-
ton to Mauis best community interests.
Following the plan to a logical conclusion, if Haiku and Paia
have a league to handle their own sports Wailuku, Kahului and Pun
meme might also form one and West Maui another. There would
be few if any games to be held at Kahului and the Fair and Racing
Association would have its fine grounds, no one to use them, and
they might as well go to weeds, they could not be kept up merely for
a series of annual games with some visitors.
1t is recognized that people need recreation close to home but
it is urged that the hours should be arranged so as not to disrupt
an all Maui organization. Let each plantation form minor teams
to play among themselves with probably a final interplantation
series.
The new league is being formed against the judgement of the
trustees of the Fair and Racing Association and the Athletic Commit
tee but adjustments may be possible still. The Fair and Racing
Association officials consider they are meeting with an uncaled for
opposition when they most of all need cooperation. They do not
want plantation sports to end nor do they want to see the property
built up for Maui at Kahuui neglected and lost to the people.