1941-03-18 — Page 31

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 18, 1941.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTS FLOURISH IN HAWAII

HAWAIIANS DEVOTE more time to sports than any other people, writes a correspondent from

Honolulu.

The result is stalwart men averaging six feet in height and keeping youthful vigor to an advanced age. You see 60-year-old Hawaiians with snow white hair and the smooth, supple skin of a man in his 30s. Get a load of Duke Kahanamoku. At 51, his speed in swimming 50 yards would surprise you.

Swank (Re% to Hawanan.

as naturally a walling They d veloped * drtative stroke ant adaptation of which is called the Australiamı Kahabumoku,

Sheriff of Tiondulu county, em- ploying the Hawatan six-beat stroke, brok» Olympic sprint re- cords in 1912

became the

world's greatest swimmer After him came the Kealoha, Harris, Pung and Kalili brothers, Buster Crabbe and Johnny Wood.

Big Athletic Programme

Honolulu

now

has

Booming tremendous athletic programmes. with 25,000 soldiers and 15,000 sailors carrying out schedules re- sembling those of major univer- sities.

Football has been played in the islands since the Punahou sebool

SALE OF

SIR ABE BAILEY'S

STABLE

took it up in the BOS The Un- The late Sir Abe Bailey's horses versity of Hawai team engages 83 in all realised 42,877 gun-

outhis from the States, as well asiens by auction at Newmarket re- two island club teams. Honolulu vently has the Hawan Senior League, an The sade ordinarily would have interscholastie Lengur, an uter-ranked with that of Sir Edward school aru? numerous Hulton's horses 15 years ago, when other circuits. Other islands have 288.380 guineas were obtained for their own loops

86 lots.

mediate

WHEN

Son -

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Peculiar to Hawar is barefoot Only horse retamed football, not cagged games played Sir Abe's old favourite. by urchins, but

A betler -than-; In-Law, founder of one of average game played without re

most famous lines of stayers In gulation forms.

The Stud Book. He is 29 years of

Amateur Boxing Flourishes

Agr

Top price was 5,200 guineas paid by Lord Glanely for the stallion Tiberius, who won the Ascot Gold Cup, the Goodwood Cup, New- market. St. Leger, and Liverpool St. Leger.

of

Alexander Joy Cartwright, the baseball pioneer, came to Honolulu in 1849, and lost no time in or Mr. A. E. Allnull paid 5.000 ganising teams. The Hawai guineas for the two-year-old coll! League is now tops m Honolulu, Sun Lore, by Hyperion out with teams representing national-Booklaw, and Mr. G. Hartigan ity groups. There are six leagues 4,000 guineas for the four-year- in the city composed of represen-old colt Fairstone, who finished tatives of business houses, and a third in the Two Thousand Guin- dozen other circuits. Sugar plan-oas, and tations encourage baseball.

There has been a championship Jersey Stakes.

soccer series in Honolulu

every

season since 1900 with the excep- tion of the first World War years. There is hardly any community

of more than 100 families that does not have a tennis court.

Won the Newmarket Stakes, Greenham Stakes. and

Lovely Rosa, who won the Oaks Blue 1936 and is in foul to Peter, last year's Derby winner, was purchased for 2,500 guineas by Mr. Vic Smyth, the Epsom

trainer.

t have bought her as a specu- The islands are one of the hot-lation," said Mr. Smyth, “because test beds of amateur boxing in I have every faith in the future." the world. Professional boxing Mr. Gerald Deane, a partner and and wrestling are doing well. senior auctioneer of Messrs. Tat- swimming and tersalis, said, "The sale has been baseball, is enjoyed by more play- an encouraging one, and beyond ers than any other sport. There all expectations. are 24 courses on the four largest though there has suddenly been a islands, one on Lanai Island.

tremendous amount of confidence in the British position."

Golf

next

to

Yachting. polo and deep-sea fishing all have bands of enthu- siasts. As for hunting, most of the birds have become rare. Deer, boars and goats defy extermina- tion.

Club At Waikiki To Be Reopened

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