The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-16


ing their best to get up enthusiasm
in athletic sports, and especially in
football and tennis, should be given
a great deal of credit for what they
have done and encouragement for
what remains to be done.
1t is no easy matter, especially at
such time as this, to get people to
think of such things as football and
tennis, but SUCCESS seems about
to crown the efforts of the MEM
bers of the Honolulu Amateur and
Athletic Club and others.
Every day two sets of men, one
from the Philadelphia and the
other from among the town fellows,
don old clothes and practice for
an hour straight with the pigskin
on their respective grounds. The
practice is hard but the men are
sticking to it and will give the
pleasure-loving people of Honolulu
a good chance to watch display
of science and Drawn combined on
the 22d of this month.
The Philadelphia men are all
good-sized fellows with plenty OF
muscle and good wind. The town
boys average about twenty-five
pounds less In weight than the
philadelphia men, but it is very
certain that they will make up in
other points what they lack in
weight.
Following are the names and
weights of the men from which the
Philadelphia team will be chosen :
G. Hinchliffe, 100 pounds T.
Sharkey, 200 pounds; J. F. Tate,
$50 pounds; D. J. Gettis, lao
pounds; G. ]. Dietz, 14O pounds
r. Warrington, 145 pounds; W.
Wardell, 40 pounds; G. G. Reese,
$50 pounds; G. v. Thompson, 1876
pounds; T. Rooney, 165 pounds
81. A. Eilers, 150 pounds; +. D.
Bates, 1875 pounds; w. Hersbe,
145 pounds; p. w. Olmstead, 165
pounds; T. r. Hughes, 1875 pounds,
The town boys are all nearly OF
the same weight and average about
80 pounds. The names of the
men frOm whom the Honolulu
team will be chosen are as follows
c. J. Holt, James Spencer, Ed
Holt, George Ross, George Angus
Antoine Lawrence, Charles Long
j. A. Thompson, George De Ia
Vergne, Louis Singer, Henry Ha
pal, Charles Crane and Vida
Thrum. These men with Other
enthusiasts who wish to helI
the Honolulu boys along
practice on the new athletic
grounds every afternoon, and, &C
cording to those "who know" are
making splendid progress. A better
man than Charles Crane for cap.
tain could not have been chosen.
Manager and captain Olmstead,
of the Philadelphia team, brought
his men ashore yesterday afternoon
and gave them practice at inter
ference. Prominent among the
crew was the great big pugilist,
T. Sharkey, who weighs about two
hundred pounds, and has never
been defeated.
While one set Of fellows are hust-
ling for football, another set are
working just as hard for tennis.
It has been given out that there
are several men aboard the Phila-
delphi who have played against
crack tennis players in the East,
and the Honolulu ooys are anxious
to "buck up" against them. This
city has some very good players,
and when such men as Ernest
Wodehouse, B. Marks and Charles
Hyde are arrayed against the
strong men of the Philadelphia,
some sparks are bound to fly. A
tournament is assured for the near
future.
Now. that the boys have done
their part, it remains for the people
of this city TO do theirs by being
present at the new athletic grounds
on the 22d instant with their
friends, and whatever place may
be set for the tennis tournament
on the 14th of March.
A preliminary tournament will
take place this afternoon at 4
o'clock, on the athletic grounds,
between the following Honolulu
boys: w. J. Forbes, G. K. Hyde,
w. +. Thrum, B. F. Beadmore, G.
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