The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-06
THURSTON A
HUMOR|ST
E:ntertains Guests at
Officers Club
Smoker.

Long-stemmed clay pipes, lager-fllled
STEMS rollicking music, good cheer and
splendid address by ex-senator John
sion Of the presentation of the prizes
to the strenuous young athletes who
won out in the recent ping pong tourna-
ment, combined last night to make the
smoker at the Officers Club a success.
In the large assembly rooms filed
with flags festooned artistically over
archwaysJ windows and chandeliers
and interiningling with ropes of green's.
scores of guests gathered about small
tables ard applauded the varied and ex-
celent program. The smoker like most
gatherings of men on such occasions,
was an informal affair, and freedom
was given to the speakers to entertain
the crowd as they deemed best Senator
Thurston was in happy mood and
captured his audience by an address
which kept it in a constant bubble of
laughter. AS a story-teller. Senator
Thurston makes as good an impression
as when making speech on more seri-
Gus subjects than that given him last
evening.
Col. c. J. Mccarthy of the National
Guard of Hawaii in the uniform of the
regiment, sat in one of the old Kala-
kaua chairs at one end of the room, and
acted as program announcer. At a
table near him were seated Senator
Thurston, Senator Burton, Attorney
General E. P. Dole, Hon. w. o. Smith,
DR.. E. c. Golfer and DR.. c. 3. Cooper,
Major Surgeon of the National Guard.
In the room were also Federal and Ter
ritorial officials, a delegation of Eiks in
a jolly corner, officers of the National
Guard and a large number of towns
folk In a hallway a Hawaiian quin-
tette club played native airs and enliv-
ened the affair with melody.
| Captain Berger entertained at the
piano, Lovette Rockwell, accompanied
on the piano by Sonny Cunha, sang a
couple of operate selections; Gus Muir
ply gave a rare imitation of Frederick
Warde; Harry Cousins recited Casey, !"
and w. D. Adams and a young member
of the government band played a duet
or piano and mandolin.
The principal feature of the program
was Senator Thurston's presentation of
the ping pong prizes to the three win
ners. The distinguished guest told a
funny story to commence with, and
kept the audience in the best of humor.
He said he had played with ping pong
experts and ping pong greenhorns, and
the game always resulted in the same
inevitable result to him-defeat. Still
he loved the game. He had always
played baseball in his youth, and re-
membered the time when his home
team had beer beaten by green nine
from a neighboring village. the score
entation speech on that occasion. He
said he wished to live long enough to
win game especially under the pres
ent strenuous administration of the
country. 1t was a strenuous game. He
thought it was a positive honor to win
a game, especially WHERE Lie lair Sex
was concerned, and today there was no
one on earth who had such a chance
with the fair sex as the winner of a
ping pong tournament, and he was
glad that a bachelor had won the pres
ent contest. He trusted that in receiv-
ing the loving cup the champion would
never drink to excess. To Mr.. Derby,
the champion, he said it was an honor
to receive a trophy won in the fore
most game of American sports. The
second prize went to Mr. Blackman, ac-
companied by humorous remarks and
Dr. High received the third prize. The
Senator said the only reference he
found in the Bible to a doctor was that
ASA was diseased in the feet and he
hoped he was not hurting the doctors
feelings in referring to it. DR.. High
showed how we'll he knew the Bible by
enlightening the Senator as to the ex-
act paragraph in which the passage
might be found.
In concluding Senator Thurston sx-
pressed his delight in having come to
Honolulu and enjoyed it's beautiful eli
mate and scenery When he came
again, it was with the hope that he
might participate in ping pong tourn-
ament.