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Surfboard Exhibition
Avertisement, Manly. Surfboard Exhibition, Bondi. Surfboard Riding Dog, Bondi. Claude West Wins Surfboard Display, North Steyne. |
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HOLDS THE
DUKE'S HAIR
Dr. Schutz and Schoen were
somewhat in the lead of the others, according to
admissions she made."The duke was all right until I went surf riding with him at Waikiki beach, and then he let me fall off the outrigger. I grabbed his hair and held on till he yelled for mercy Snapshots of Miss May Josephine Bennett, winner of The Call's beauty contest, and some of the men who paid ardent court to her in Hawaii and on the trip to the islands. Three of the pictures were taken on the beach at Waikiki near Honolulu: 3— Miss Bennett and Duke Kahanamoku, the world's champion swimmer, seated on a canoe. |
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| The Sun New York, July 20, 1919, page 11. The
Summer Splash
... Swimming and bathing suits and Balsa-wood surf boards patterned and painted to represent fish, illustrated at top of column. Lighter than cork and sustaining the weight of three persons in the water. Abercrombie &
Fitch Co-
Ezra H. Fitch, President. Madison Avenue and 45th St. New York. |
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Natives and tourists riding surf boards at the beach of Waikiki. This is the favorite sport of the Hawaiian. |
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| The
World's News Sydney, 30 August 1919, page 1. A NOVEL WATER
SPORT.
Here is a new thriller for the sea-shore.In America, at any rate, amusement caterers are planning to lay out a course the use of which will call for rare skill. It is nothing else, practically, than an outgrowth of the water chute and the surfboard, a vehicle which gives a thrill of the one and demands the skill of the other. In this new summer sport the trick Page 2 is to descend a foot chute on specially constructed water skies, make a leap, and strike the water uprightly. and, still retaining one's balance, glide over the surface to the landing. Like winter skiing, it will require weeks of practice for the novice to keep standing both while on the slide and after landing on the water, following his leap from the end of the chute. Great speed would be attained as the water ski rider rushes down the smooth chute, which is to be kept slippery by running water. In descending the chute, the ski rider would crouch low. inclined slightly forward. to keep upright, and as he or she struck the end of the chute, the body would he straightened for the leap into space. This would prove to be the trying part of the experience, because upon how the "take-off" was made would depend the ability to stand as the water was hit. If the landing was not square and flat on the skis there would l»e an abrupt upsetting. |
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| Arizona Republican Phoenix, December 1, 1919, page 8. THERE ARE MORE FISH IN THE SEA
[Photograph right]
Four-year-old
youth ready to play the breakers with his new surf
board.
"Aw, gee!
What'd I give to have fish like that!
Lookit! Eyes n' everything!" It's safe to wager that if one "sea urchin' yearned after that fashion, at least a score of his comrades did same when they saw this 4-year-old with his new surf board, playing in the breakers. |
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| Sunday Times Sydney, 21 December 1919, page 23. Surfing
is the BEST of ALL HOLIDAY PASTIMES
AN EXPERT SURFER
RIDING ON HIS SURF
BOARD
HEAD DOWNWARDS
Trove 1919 'Surfing is the BEST of ALL HOLIDAY PASTIMES', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 21 December, p. 23. , viewed 18 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123220278 Reprinted in the Capricornian Rockhampton, Queensland, Saturday 3 January 1920, page 36. |
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| The Sun Sydney, Sunday 28 December 1919, page 11. ON
THE SURF BOARD
Among
the dozen or so Sydney girls who have become
expert in the use of the surf-board
one of the most skilful and graceful is Miss Helen Andrews, of Roscoe-street, Bondi, and her dexterity is all the more
remarkable from the
fact that, unlike the others, she had no opportunity of studying the methods of the Hawaiian' swimmer Kahanamoku, who was the first to introduce the board
seriously into
this country.
She is a
native of Adelaide, and came to Sydney only two years
ago.
The trip
was a holiday one, but her parents decided to make Sydney
their home,
taking up their residence in Bondi, Miss Andrews was always fond of the water.
She was
one of the best
swimmers in South Australia, and competed in tho women's
championships
In that State, though so far she has neglected speed work
for surfing
since her arrival in Sydney.
The surf appealed to her as soon as she went to Bondi, and she showed a remarkable aptitude for mastering its vagaries. While it
takes the average young athletic man two or
three seasons
to become a surf-shooter, Miss Andrews was able to match it
with the
best of the men before she had got well into her first summer.
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 Miss Helen Andrews,
of Bondi, on the surf board.
Inert appear a close up of Miss Andrews and a photograph of her carrying her board on the beach. |
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