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Posted on: Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Hawai'i Hall to induct four

Advertiser Staff

Two Hawai'i world champions, surfer Derek Ho and boxer Jesus Salud, headline the latest class voted into the Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame and Cybermuseum.

Joining Ho, the 1993 Association of Surfing Professionals champion, and Salud, a former World Boxing Association Super Bantamweight titleist, are world boxing official Bobby Lee and Dr. Jack Scaff, who has been called the "father of the Honolulu Marathon."

They will be formally inducted during a Feb. 4 banquet at the Honolulu Country Club.

Their addition will bring to 90 the number of athletes, pioneers and contributors inducted since the Hall was started in 1997 by then-Gov. Ben Cayetano.

Ho is a four-time Triple Crown of Surfing winner (1984, '86, '88 and '90). He had nine top 15 finishes.

Salud won the WBA Super Bantam title in 1989 and fought for five other world titles in a career that included a 63-11 record, with 40 knockouts. Salud was 35-1 in Hawai'i.

Lee served more than 30 years with the Territorial and, later, Hawai'i State Boxing Commission. He was its executive secretary from 1951 through 1977. Lee has also held several major world positions, including president of the World Boxing Association from 1972 through 1974. He is currently the WBA's vice president.

Scaff was the visionary who brought together the Mid-Pacific Road Runners Club, the American Medical Joggers Association and others for the first Honolulu Marathon in 1973 and directed it to become a race that has grown from 162 entrants to more than 30,000 in its 30 years.

The Hawai'i Hall of Fame and Cybermuseum may be visited at Aloha Stadium's hospitality room, Honolulu International Airport's main concourse and Bishop Museum's Paki Hall, and includes sports figures from the 1890s to the present.

Nominations for next year may be made by writing to: Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 30666, Honolulu, HI 96820-0666. Further information is available at www.alohafame.org.