In 1926, marble champ Francis Kau gave Hawaiian Delegate William Jarrett a lesson. Kau stopped in Washington, D.C., on the way from Honolulu to Atlantic City, where he would compete in the 1926 National Marbles Tournament. Even in the midst of bragging, Kau remembered that Hawaii was a territory, not a state: “I am the champion marble shooter of the Hawaiian Islands,” he said. “And I am going to be the champion marble shooter of America and all its possessions, I hope.”
