The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-22

ENTERTAINED
Famous New Zealand
FootbalIers Pass
Through.


have come and gone and if they did
not carry away pleasant recollections
| of Honolulu, the fault is not Honolu-
LUIS. Every man jack of the team said
he had a corking good time here, and
said it as if he meant it.
! The all-conquering athletes arrived
by the S. S. Sonoma from San Fran
cisco yesterday morning and were
greeted by Fred. Waldron Harry Ar
mitage L. de L. Ward and P. T. CIeg-
horn, acting on behalf of local New
| Zealanders and others who had sub
scribed for the teams entertainment.
At the wharf the men lined UP and
gave their famous yell.
| Owing to the lateness of the steam
| er's docking the visitors went at once
| to the Moana Hotel in a special car
where lunch was served, over forty
sitting down. Bergers band was in
attendance at the hotel and played
God save the King as they filed in
to the banquet hall.
After lunch the Colonfals gave their
yell again in honor of the band boys
and the musicians returned the COM
pliment by singing aloha De- In
the course of the dinner L. de L. Ward
their excellent record in the Old Coun-
try, welcomed them cordially to Ha-
wall and assured them that in future
the words .'kia ora" would always call
forth a Hawaiian aloha
Manager Dixon in reply said that he
was struck by the heartiness of the
reception accorded his team and re-
marked that the Hawaiian hospitality
habit would be a good one to adopt
in New Zealand. Hawaii, he stated,
was the first place he had met on the
tour which reminded him of home. The
team would carry back nothing but
the pleasantest recollections of beau
tiful Honolulu.
After lunch the visitors went to the
Aquarium, and proceeded thence by spe-
cial ear to the end of the Manoa val
ley ear line, returning to the corner of
King and Fort streets and there dis
persing.
The s. S. Sonoma resumed her voy
age to the Colonies at midnight
The members of the team arriving ;
yesterday were: J. Corbett, W. Gun |
ninohem, F. Newton, G. Nicholson. j. |
O'Sullivan, A. Mcdonald. D. McGregor,
j. Duncan, w. j. Stead (vice captain),
G. FL. Dixon (manager), D. Gallagher
(captain), J. Hunter, G. Gillett, F.
Glasgow, W. Mackrell, S. Casey, H. J.
Abbott, G. w. Smith, H. D. Thompson,
II. G. Mynott, z. E. Booth, g. Tyler,
R. G. Deans. Other members of the
team, who did not take the Sonoma
are w. Johnston, c. Steeling, E. Har-
per, w. J. Wallace, F. Roberts and W. /
Glenn.
All the young men looked more like |
the American type of athlete than the !
British. They all were born in New
Zealand except Captain Gallagher, who ,
was born in Ireland and stayed there
for brief two months. They are the
pick of seventy New Zealand players
the cream of the talent
of the islands, and were finally selected |
for their superior fitness. They come
from various walks of life, some be-
ing carpenters, clerks and solicitors.
Their average weight is 1872 pounds.
The team played thirty-two games
abroad, losing only one, the interna-
tional contest with the Welsh team In
all their contests only two men suffered
broken bones, one having his collar
bone fractured and another a splinter
ed shoulder-blade The team had Just
completed its home season before going
to England, so it has practically been
months straight
The team surprised the Britons by
is drawing power, and in Scotland,
where the visitors were assured the
5otal gate receipts, something like 81
800 was cleaned up.
Coach Duncan. who takes care of the {
men, had the following to say about :
lis team:
"Toward the end of our tour in
treat Britain, he said, eve were not 5
n the kind of condition that wins t
games and we We're fortunate that we 7
lid not lose more than one game :
gainst Wales. The strain of play1ng 9
wo or three games a week for three
months is great, and the effects We're
howing plainly before we completed :
ur schedule. 1t was fortunate that we ;
lad to play Wales at the end of our .
our. The people in the old country .
ad pinned their faith on the Welsh y
cam and We should have been in the !,
est possible shape going against such +
trong opponents, but several of our a
layers had gone stale Some of them t
ad injuries, and while I do not want
o take any of the credit away from b
he victors. | think that with our best t
cam in the field, free from sickness
nd other disabilities. we would have r
ION the game with Wales as we did
II the others in which we participant
Il. -
The second game in San Francisco
esulted in the New Zealanders defeat
lg the British Columbia team by the
uge score of 65 to g.