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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 Rahanamoku. At 51, his speed in swimming 50 yards would surprise you.
Sw.natalig vie to Hawanans
aturally a walking They fe
Veloped .C
stmetive-troke an ardaulation of which i mallest the
Kahanamoku, An fabr
herd of Honolulu county, em- ploy.ng the Hawman six-beat stroke, broke Olympic print re cords in 1912
became the
world's greatest swimmer After Jam came the Kealoha. Harris. Pang and Kalili brothers, Buster Crabbe and Johnny Wood.
Big Athletic Programme
now has
Booming Honolulu fremendous athletic programines, with 25.000 soldiers and 15,000 tailors carrying out schedules re- sembling those of major univer- sitie
SALE OF
SIR ABE
BAILEY'S STABLE
The late Sir Abe Bailey's horses #3 in all realised 42.677 gum- eas by zmetten at Newmarket re- Veritiv
Football has been played in the sad since the Punahou seboo! Took it up in the 80, The Thu veraty of Hawan team engages outfit from the State, as well as Two Land chib team's Honolulu has the Buwan Semor Lrague, an The same ordinarily would have itatea holastic League, an inter - ranked with that of Sir Edwardi mediate hool and
numerous | Hulton's horses 15 years ago, when lands have 288,380 gunea other ensuit
were ublamed for then own loss
HD lots.
Othe
feculiar to Hawan is barefoot | Muly Towball, nel saggeri games, played Sir by mehn, but
better than average game played without qulation thaforms
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Amateur Boxing Flourishes
aetamed www
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the
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Abe D Law 10under of c*** set fabits lines of Tayers E the Stud Book. He is 29 years of
Ton pace was 5,200 gummens paud by Loud Glapely to re stallonį Tibera, who won the Avent Gold Cup, New- Cup. the Goodwood market. St. Leger, and Liverpool) St Leger
Ale under Joy Cartwright, the baseball pioneer, came to Honolulu an 1849, and lost ne tinte in ur
Mr A. E Allmutt pad 5.000 Ranking teamis
The Hawan quinens for the two-year-old cult now tops in Honolulu, Sun Lure, by Hyperion out League is with temais representing national-Booklaw. and Mr. G. Hartigan
D[
ity groups. There are six leagues 4,000 guineas for the four-years in the city composed of represen-|uid cult Fairstone, who finished tatives of business houses and a third in the Two Thousand Guin- dozen other circunts. Sugar plan-eas, and won the Newmarket tations encourage baseball
Stakes, Stakes. Greenham
not have a tennis court.
and
Blur
There has been a championship Jersey Stakes. soccer series in Honolulu every Lovely Rosa, who won the Oaks season since 1900 with the exeep- In 1936 and 7: foal 10 tion of the first World War years, Peter, last year's Derby winner. There is hardly any community was purchased for 2.500 guineas the Epsom of more than 100 families that does y Mr. Vic Smyth,
trainer.
"I 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." world. Professional boxing Mr. Gerald Deane, a partner and and wrestling are doing well. senior auctioneer of Messrs. Tal- Golf next 10 swimming and tersalts, said, "The sale has been baseball. is enjoyed by more play- an encouraging one, and beyond en than any other sport There all expectations, It seems as ane 24 courses on the four largest though there has suddenly been n ashoids, on un Lanai Island
tremendous amount of confidence m the British position."
the
Yachting, polo and deep-son fishing all have bands of enthu- A.. 1o. hunting, most of the birds have become rare
D'er, bars and goats dely extermina- tion
Club At Waikiki To Be
Reopened
Surfboard riding remains Ha- waii's most picturesque sport. is as distinctive to the islands as the hula, lels and poi finger, two-finger or one-finger.
three-
ON MAURICE FOSTER
Maurice Foster, of "Fostershire," cricket sixth of the greatest of brotherhoods of seven, is dead.
The seven brothers (H.K., W.L.. R.E., B.S., G.N., M.K, und N.J.T.) Yet the famous Outrigger Canoe had a sister who became the Club, on the beach at Waikiki, has mother of an accomplished left- been out of existence for two hander, J. W. Greenstock, who
years.
Now, thanks to Representative
bowled well for Oxford.
The brothers always declared
Walter James Macfarlane, a young their cister to be as good a bat as man who does things in the land
of liquid sunshine, the club will any of them.
"W. G." said
reopen at the same old stand, but came of the Graces' mother, in a delightful new clubhouse.
the
You only had to watch Maurice Foster off-driving to at once say didn't "Malvern”—even
if you
Macfarlane, nephew of Princess: Abigail Kawananakoa, serving his know the name was Foster. fourth term in the Hawaiian House The Foster name is kept splen- of Representatives, raised
didly alive in first-class cricket by bond issue more than $90,000, which has been invested in the PG., son of G. N. Maurice, who
died at Lichßeld, was 52. building and fixtures.
on Q
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