"KAHANAMOKU'S CONTROL OF THE BOARD WAS NOTHING SHORT OF MAVOLOUS," DUKE RIDES CORONA DEL MAR (1914)

"Kahanamoku Rides Board at Bay's Entrance," no author credit given, ran in the Orange County Register on September 14, 1914

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In the presence of nearly 200 persons, who were gathered on the bluffs at Corona del Mar, in power launches and canoes on the bay and on the end of the sandspit ,Duke P Kananamoku, the famous Hawaiian swimmer who last year held the world’s 50-yard swimming record of 24 and 1/2 seconds, gave an exhibition of canoe and surf-board riding at the mouth of Newport Bay yesterday afternoon.

Kahanamoku, who was a weekend guest of the South Coast Yacht Club, began his afternoon’s feats by making two trips in a canoe, accompanied by Florence Dodson Schoneman of San Pedro, and Columbus Simms.

Both trips were entirely successful and proved again the daring Hawaiian waterman's skill.

After the canoe ride through the surf, Kahanamoku made seven trips on a surf-board. The breakers at the entrance of Newport Bay break at a great distance out, and it was for this reason that the Hawaiian was enabled to give a far better exhibition of surf-board riding than has been the case at any other point along the coast. Several of the seven rides were nearly a quarter of a mile in length.

Whether standing on his head or on his hands or diving off neatly in order to bring the speeding board to a quick, safe stop, the Duke was thoroughly at home at all times.

Kahanamoku’s control of the board proved nothing short of marvelous, and his work won the unqualified admiration of all who witnessed the exhibition.