This article ran in the August 14, 1909, issue of Collier’s magazine. Author Alexander Hume Ford is best known in the surfing world as the founder of the Outrigger Canoe Club, and for launching writer Jack London into the surf at Waikiki in 1907. * * * There are long rolling billows on both of our…
“RIDING THE SURF IN HAWAII,” by ALEXANDER HUME FORD
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- CHARMIAN LONDON, EXCERPT FROM “OUR HAWAII,” 1917: “THE SURFING EXPERT, ERECT WITH FEET IN CHURNING FOAM, MAKES STRAIGHT FOR THE BEACH”
- “RIDING THE SURF IN HAWAII,” by ALEXANDER HUME FORD
- “A ROYAL SPORT,” JACK LONDON’S OPERATIC ODE TO SURFING
- 1917: “THEY HAILED ME AS THE REVIVER OF THE LOST ART,” BY GEORGE FREETH
- “GEORGE FREETH: KING OF THE SURFERS AND CALIFORNIA’S FORGOTTEN HERO,” by ARTHUR C. VERGE
- “FREETH WILL RIDE THE ATLANTIC ROLLERS,” GEORGE FREETH’S MYSTERY SURF ADVENTURE TO NEW JERSEY
- SURF LESSONS FROM GEORGE FREETH, 1912: “IT REQUIRES UNLIMITED NERVE”
- “THE FATHER OF SURFING,” GEORGE FREETH PROFILE by IAN WHITCOMB
- 1917: “O, THE WILD JOY OF IT!” BY M. LEOLA CRAWFORD