The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-21

next season.
WHAT CHRONICLE SAYS.
The Chronicle article follows:
Plunged into the deepest gloom is
the football section of the Olympic
Club, and Manager Muma's ears must
burn if he can hear all the warm
things said of him. For weeks the
gridiron gladiators have looked for
ward to a promised trip to Honolulu
They were given to believe that they
would sail away from San Francisco
next Saturday and meet the Oahu Col
lege team of Honolulu on the Punahou
grounds in that city on Christmas day.
Now the junket is off, and the air is
blue in the training quarters at the
club. Muma is keeping discreetly in
the distance until the storm blows
over.
Four weeks ago when the Thanks
giving game between Reliance and
Olympic was being made ready, Mana
ger Muma, of the latter team, buoyed
up his men in their arduous prepara-
tons with alluring tales of Hawaiian
houris, surf-riding at Waikiki. and the
generous hospitality of the Islanders.
He was in communication with the Ca
hu College athletic instructor and was
assured of a liberal guarantee to bring
the Olympic eleven to Honolulu for the
holidays. Muma obtained a rate of
800 man on the Oceanic Steamship
line, and it was arranged that fifteen
men should go-twelve players, Mana
ger James of the Olympic Club. and
Muma. This would men a total of ST.
500 for transportation. and Muma was
written to by Bailey that this amount
" as mere bagatelle. Bailey said they
would raise it by private subscription
among lovers of sport in the Hawaiian
capital-thirty citizens giving $50 each.
So the Olympic football players train
\ IT, To-,
Thanksgiving, swan through the mud
puddles of the field at Sixteenth and
Folsom streets, and defeated Reliance
by to o. There was not much to this.
they said, but each man was making
himself solid with Captain Cadwalla-
der and Manager Muma for the trip
to Hawaii.
Word was expected from Bailey last
Tuesday. Two steamers arrived, but
no message came for the Olympics.
Berths had been reserved on the Ala
media, which leaves Saturday, but no
IidingS of the guarantee of 81 500 came.
All yesterday the football men were
frantic. Hourly they sought Muma to
know what he had heard Many had
cast aside business and pleasure to
plan the voyage, and now they were
wild with hope and fear. Muma babe
them wait until yesterday, when all
mail from Hawaii would have been dis
tributed. Yesterday came, and with it
only blank despair. Then Muma cross
ed the bay to the quiet groves of Ber-
kelley. Last night the profane vocabu-
larry of the eleven was exhausted.
There will be no other steamer from
Hawaii until after the Alameda sails.
and the Christmas game is but
dream. as are the houris. the surf rides
and the fizzes of Hawaii's tropical
cline.
WHAT TOWN TALK SAYS.
Town Talk says:
There will be bitter disappointment
2 mong the Honolulu bellies when the
Alameda, which sails from
here today. reaches the Paradise of
the Pacific. For weeks the fair maidenS
Of Honolulu have been eXpectant of
the heroes of the Olympic football
cam. Newspapers of the Islands have
published columns about the glowing
records of the gridiron fighters. and
their pictures in the same journals
have added to the desire of the Homo
lulu girls to see chem in the flesh.
Many were the preparations to enter
tain the Olympic men outside of the
battle royal TO have been played on
Christmas day on the grounds at Pu-
Eahou. The first information of the
Dlympies not going to Hawaii Will ar
rive here on the very vessel which was
to bring them to that city.
There Will be great crowd OF foot
ball enthusiasts and society followers
1t the wharf in Honolulu when the
Alameda arrives However the disap-
continent of the Hawaiians viii not
De equal TO the bitter burning feelings
= the Olympic men. Babe" Cadwali-
lder. Paul Ford. Plunkett, and the
,ther lights of the Olympic eleven have
1een planning for many days the
Jiea sures they would ENJOY in the land
# the hula and the sin fiZz. They
lad declined many invitations for
Christmas dinners and holiday joys, and
low to have the trip to Hawaii cut out
lurts them deeply. Honolulu failed To
emit the necessary guarantee to bring ,
he san FranciscanS.