The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-22
GOSSIP OF
SPORT.
Live News Of Golf,
Boating and
Track.


Honolulu Golf Club. Two prizes win be
given for the two best cards returned.
Play will commence at 10 o'clock this
morning and will continue all day.
| The course is said to be in very fair
| conoltlun and over twenty members are
expected to participate in the play. All
the local cracks Will be a-clubbin' and
| the course record is in much danger OF
being demolished.
| The oahu Poo Club VIII practice to-
day at Moanalua at 2:30 p. m.
/ Local crlcketers ands footballers are
greatly interested in the app oaching
visit of H. Nj. s. Warspite. which left
Victoria, B. c., on the 18th inst. The
| Warspite possesses excellent cricket and
football teams, being the champ ns OF
the pacifc station at both games.
The Warspite footballers defeated the
team of H. M. s. Icarus at the Associa-
On game and the latter, it will be re-
membered carried too many guns for
the local teams. With the arrival Of the
gunboat both cricket and football will
: assul eddy flourish here for season. for
the chances offered Honolulu teams to
meet worthy opponents are, unfortunate
ly, few and far between, and the most
is always made of them.
Tomorrow afternoon the League Asso-
citation football champions will take the
held against an eleven of the employees
of Theo. Davies and Company. The
teams will be as follows:
, Scot.and-J. c. McGin, r. Anderson.
D. w. Anderson, j Craik. H. Birkmyre.
j. l.. Cookburn, h. g. Munro, n. Kay.
w. GoLdie, j. H. Fiddes and j. H. Cat
ton.
1heo. Dav es and Company-W. H.
Bard, j. Lennox, Donald Ross. P. L'sh-
man. H. B. Sinclair, w. G. 'Sing,ehurst.
b. Cla k, A. S. Guild, George Davies,
c.. osborne and j. I. Irvine
The game will be p-ayed at Makiki and
w II commence at 4:30 p. m. promptly,
whether the full teams are on the
ground or not.
While the Davies and Company firm
has always been to the fore in local
cricket, this is the first time 1t has ever
, put a football eleven III the field; 5udg.
ing from their lineup however, they
should render a good account OF them
selves.
w. II. Cornwell, owner of the Hawaii
an mare Gartaline. now at the Coast
received word from Tom Williams abou
his horse, on the Ventura. He says
9 that Gartaline was doing well until si1
8 weeks ago. when she went wrong. Sh'
will have made her debut ere this, how
ever, and news Of her running may b.
\ looked for in q week or So Gartalin
Y was allotted IS pounds in the $1,000
Burns handicap, to be run this mont
4 over a mile and a quarter. The to-
Z weight was 126 pounds.
! Colonel Cornwell says that when h
treturns from Australia he may bring
q race-horse or two with him. He think
4 that Australian horses are better adapt
= ed to race in Hawai- than American ami
y mails on account of the heavy import
- invariably packed on Australian tracks
Here the weights carried are much heay
Ter than is the case in the States.
The boat-racing season will open &c
day with a club race between two Hes
lani crews made up as follows:
No. Frank Woodbridge, WilliaI
Lyle, Fred. West and Tom Lloyd: coz
swain, Harry Steiner ("Little JIM.
No. 2-A,lan Walcott, Stokes, Lowell
y Tracy; coxswain, "Bil' Osborne.
D The race will start at 10 o'clock TIL
morning and will be over a cours
running from the railroad wharf to th
temigration wharf, distance of abo,
half a mile. The race will be rowed
K shells, and promises to be very excl
irg, as both crews have been in trail
ing some time for the event.
. TIE three-cornered race to have bee
IN rowed today has been postponed uni
90 tomorrow week on account of the r
cent bad weather which interfered S
riously with training.
Jack Atkinson has received an answ,
to his enq'ir;es relative to a new she
for the Fealani Boat Club and expec
to be autho' lied to order a new fou
Oh cared shell from the Coast by the ne:
NAL
- It Is reported that the Kahului Boz
- Club has sent order to Portland Or
) gon, for a foar-oared barge and intent
: to enter a crow in, the September rega
ia. Reid n Honolulu harbor. There
plerty of first-class rowing material
Maui and a visit from a crew of Man
/ ans would be much appreciated by oar
] non down here.
The MAIZE lima Quintet Club meets
the club house at 7:30 tomorrow evenin
:: and all members are requested TO atten