The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-21
HOWL OF INDIGNATION
GOES UP FROM COAST
Absence of Word From HonoIuIans
the Topic in San Francisco
Sporting Circles.
(special to the Advertiser.l

Especial to the AdvertiSer)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14-There is
a disposition on the part oS the 1850
members of the Olympic Club here and
their friends to criticise severely the
discourtesy of those in Honolulu in
charge of the plan to bring down the
Olympic football team to play Oahu
College on Christmas Day. AS 1 wrote
the Advertiser by the last steamer, it
had been confidently expected that the
Alameda would bring letter from Mr..
Mr.. Bailey of Oahu College, definitely
wall, and guaranteeing the $500 which
the transportation from here would
cost. The Alameda and the Peru both
arrived here last Tuesday, and We'd
nesday when the Nippon Maru sailed
nothing had been heard from Honolulu.
The absence from the columns of the
Honolulu papers of any reference to the
proposed game added to the astonish-
ment of the Olympic men. 1t was
thought that perhaps the letter from
pics had been delayed in the mail here,
but when Wednesday and Thursday
came and went and no word from Oahu,
the depression of the Olympic men was
severe.
Their feelings are best told in stories
published in the Examiner and Chron
icle. The Examiner yesterday had an
article accompanied by a series of car
ICONS illustrating the soreness of the
Olympics, and headed as follows:
TROPICAL TRIUMPHS IN OLYM-
PICS DREAMS.
Proposed Football Expedition to Homo
lulu Vanishes and Breaks Apart
Like a Disruption of a Revolving
Wedge.
No Letter Came from the Oahu Col
lege Team Manager. and Conse-
quently the Trip Had TO Be Aban-
doned.
NO. HULA FOR THEM.
The Examiners story was as follows:
1t is all off. The Olympic football
team will not go to Honolulu and there
by hangs a tale of woe.
Here are fifteen husky young men OF
the best families. graduates of illus
trious colleges, and ornaments of So
ciety who have scorned delights and
lived laborious days, refused invita-
tions to Christmas dinners and post
poned their social obligations in an
ticipation of athletic triumphs in the
tropics.
T. &C eli ,-~ovoa,J Tba,, WOULD &c
tonish the Islanders with their prowess
and incidentally leave a broad trail of
broken hearts among the fair behind
them.
Such. was the Olympian dream. Cad
wallader of Yale, Ford of Cornell, Ker-
foot, Young and New were preparing
TO train their social batteries on the
Honolulu lady Individual and collective.
Cannon was practicing on a Kanaka
phrase book for the sake of local col
or. Cadwallader and Ford spent their
spare moments telephoning to the
steamship company about berths.
Now they would like somebody to
explain whether it was all dream; a
misty vision of tropic seas. made md
steal by the softened strains of the
ukulele.
For choice they would like Manager
Muma to explain. BY him they were
beguiled into the uncomfortable ascot
icism of training. At his instance they
practiced and learned at the cost of
severe mental discipline an assortment
of football yells. brand new Hawaiian
yawps, to terrify and deafen. The
training is all wasted, but the yells
may be saved for future use by the
exercise of a little care.
Manager Muma expected TO receive
on the arrival of the Alameda either
the money for expenses or a guaranty
but nothing came, not even letter
NIUuna had an arran cement or thought
he had. with Bailey the manager Of
Oahu College. Perhaps he only dream
"a that 1880 was to be provided, being
4 comfortable 500 apiece for the mems
expenses.
Thirty sporting Hawaiians were to
contribute $50 each. The athletes were
10 be guests of the first families. They
we're to sail on the Alameda Of the 14th
instant and be received with Berger's
famous band and a procession.
But when the Alameda got in there
vas not a word, no invitation, no guar
lnty, no money. The men are Won
iering whether they nave been made
he victims of some fantastic Island
1umorist or have only been beguiled
NJ Muma's tropical imagination. Those
rick plays and buzz-saw formations
are gone for naught. but they have
saved their Wells, which, indeed, are
source of considerable legitimate pride
because of their close resemblance 10
he language of the Kanakas. As for
Instance:
Wela-ka-hao,
Wela-ka-haO.
Oily mpic, Oily mpic.
Bow, WOW, WOW,
Hi-ki, Pi-pi.
Sis boom all,
Oily mpic players,
Rah, rah, rah!