The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-23
Sports.

In view of the performance last Monday
night of the Amateur Dramatic Club in aid Of
the funds of the Honolulu Athletic Association,
we reproduce a short article on "Sports that
appeared in n brief statistical and descriptive
account of New South Wales for the yenr 1881
If the Honolulu Athletic Association were to
emulate the example set them by the Young
blood of Australia, there Is no reason 10 doubt,
that in q short time they could give a perform
ance of their own to raise funds. The follow
ing appears in the pamphlet referred to
Most of the outdoor sports that Englishmen
are proud to call their own, and for which this
climate is so well suited, are followed with great
zest. Australians have tried the strength Of
their youth with celebrities in the old country,
and on one occasion their representative sculler,
Edward Trickett. won the Championship of the
World on the Thames. Two cricket teams have
visited England. After achieving great success
in the provinces ON each occasion, the last team
contested a great match with the best All-Eng-
land eleven, displaying so much skill and de-
termination as to elicit the warm appreciation of
the Press and the people of England. Our late
Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson-an ardent
admirer and patron of all outdoor sports-in
speeches made by him on several occasions,
eloquently described the habits of the colonists
in this respect. At Tattersall's Annual Meet
ing, held on lst January, 1874, His Excellency
said
Nothing pleases me more in this splendid
new country than to find that the people of New
South Wales, in their attachment to all good old
English sports ana amuSementS, are thorough
chips of the old block. In proof Of this it is
only necessary to glance around at what is taxi
ing place in Sydney and its neighborhood on IL
great public holiday like the present. Your beau
tiful harbor is alive with yachts and yachtsmen,
and members of the boating clubs. The parks
and grounds are crowded with cricketers, all in
tent, no doubt, on the coming struggle with the
All England Eleven. The members of the Rife
Association are practising at the neighboring
butts, and striving by self-denial and applica-
tion to qualify themselves for future intercolon-
ial victories. On my way down here | paid a
visit to the Albert Ground, where a Highland
gathering was going ON and where Scotchmen
were proving that under the Southern Cross
they have lost none of their athletic skill and
power for which their race is so conspicuous in
Northern chimes. Whilst here on this pictures
que racecourse it is only necessary to look
round to see that a large proportion are warmly
attached to the good old sport of horse racing.''
And again, on the occasion of the English
Cricketers' visit to Sydney, on 9th January,
1874 -
LIT has been a very great pleasure to me per-
sonally to be present to witness the interesting
match which Is being played, and which, by u
curious coincidence of circumstances is taking
place on the anniversary of New South Wales
the mother of the Australian Colonies. Upon the
26th of January, eighty-six years ago, Captain
Phillip and his little band of companions landed |
upon the shores of port Jackson and first I'M
furled the British flag. How little could they
have dreamt that the miniature settlement that
they had that day established would, in little
more than three-quarters of a century grow into
six large and prosperous colonies, inhabited by
no less than two millions of the Anglo-Saxon
race, possessing amongst them nearly five mill
ions of oxen and over forty millions of sheep,
and carrying on, with over a fourth of the globe
a trade which amounts in tb~ aggregate to over
sixty millions sterling per anndm. How little
could the early settlers or pioneers have dreamt
of such astonishing progress. How little could
they have imagined that within eighty-six years