The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-21

Tenai TIE Tangata, Puhuru Huru
| Ne Ne Ne Waka. Whitu TIE Ra
| Hoo-oo-pane, Kan-an-pane
| Hoo-oo-pane, Kan-an-pane
! Hupane, Kanpane Wititira.
| With this yell, in days that are past,
the Maori warriors, up in their vol
| canic Businesses of New Zealand used
| to work themselves up to frenzied
| fighting pitch before rolling down, like
| seething lava, upon the British invad-
| ers of their lands. Centuries ago, per-
| haps, some gentle poet, who liked to
see others fight, composed this rhyth-
| mic collection of sy1lables that make
| men mad. He was of those who build
| better Cor worse) than they know. He
| meant merely, in all probability, to pro-
| cure himself series of spectacles
! which he could watch safely from be-
hind convenient rocks, immortalizing
| them later, at the same time immortaliz-
| ing himself AS matter of fact he was
doing nothing of the kind. He was
| merely deciding that in the year 1906
a country called the United States
would suddenly reverse it's sporting
policy, wipe out all of its pigskin lore
and bow to a new idol called Rugby
football.
OF this now famous yell the San
Francisco Chronicle has the following
to say:
For, before they started flashing
through fheir Vancouver opponents,
these Al-Black New Zealanders stood
in the center of the field. silent for
moment as with some tense, religious
A cyf f6niy tot,
they massed close, their fists rose to
| heaven and began to brandish imag-
mary war clubs, their feet began to
raw the ground with metrical beat,
their fifteen mouths opened and then
it came, raucously rhythmic:
Kamate Kamate, Kaura, Kaura
Tenai TIE Tangata, Puhuru Huru
Ne Ne Ne Waka. Whitu TIE Ra
Hupane, Kanpane
Hupane, Kanpane
Hupane, Kanpane. Wititira-
Through the men packing the bleach |
ers-the kind, you know, who yell !
owsky -wow-wow and weesky- wee-wee |
and ha-ha-ha and rah- rah-rah AMI |
give the-ax and whatsdematter |
MISUNDERSTANDING ran thrill of ten \
derness, then of delight, then of en- /
thusiastic admiration. Never had they
heard such yell. never seen such
brandshing of arms, such stamping Of
feet; never had the ingenuity of their
yell leaders risen to such ecstatic re-
suits. Immediately they were con- |
quered. Their eyes ran tears of maud
lin tenderness. They shouted. they
laughed. they wept, they Rugged each
nth hot
ming Blacks did was the thing to
do; whatever game they played was
the game 10 play. Next year Wen be
calling ''touchdowns" tries '.line"
will be serum; we'll weigh not
pounds but stones: we'll tackle by
ears and noses; our cavorting legs will
be indecently bare; quarterbacks viii
be further sliced into three quarter
backs and ''five-eighths-b backs" and
before starting to wade through the
red shirts" or the convict stripes
Wen shake our fists and stamp our |
feet and yell:
'Kamate. kamate. kaura, kaura,
etc.
That's what this old rascal of a
Maori poet has done for us.
The New Zealanders, who arrive
here today aboard the Sc S. Sonoma.
have won practically every game they
have played since they left home. The
Only match they lost was to the crack
team of Wales by score of to 0.
The other matches they have played
and won are: In England-Devon-
shire. SO to 4; Cornwall, Al to 0: Bris-
toi, II to e; Nortkamnton 80 to 0;
Leicester, % to o; Middlesex. "a to O;
Durham, IS to 8: Hartlepool, 63 10 0;
81 to 0; Gloucester,
AZ to 0: Somerset. % to 0: Devonport
Albion, p to 5; Midland Counties, q
to 5; Surrey. II to 0: Blackheath 80
TO o; Oxford University, AZ to o; Cam
bridge University, IA to 0: Richmond, |
Il to 0; Bedford. Il to 0: Scotland. 2
to Z; West Scotland, % to 0: Ireland |
Is to 0; Munster, Ireland. SO to O.: All
Is to 0; Yorkshire, 40 to Q; !
Wales. to 8; Glamorgah, 9 to o; New
port 6 to 3: Cardiff. 10 TO s; Swansea.
1 to 3: France, 80 to s, and the ones in
New York and San Francisco, which
they CAPTURED with ease.
The following is the personnel of TIT
cam: w. Wallace, E. Harper, Z. |
Booth. G. Smith. H Abbott, F. Rob
cts. r. Deans ]. Hunter. :. Nynott. I
w. Stead G. Gillet, H. D. Thompson,
r MacGresor. D. Gallagher. W. 5
Glenn. s Casey, A. Mcdonald. w.
tombstone. S. Seeing. G. Nicholson. G.
Tyler. S. Corbett. F. Newton, G.. Glas-
cow, J. O'Sullivan, w Mackrell, W. +
Cunningham.
When the 8. s. Sonoma arrives off :
port today she will be boarded by
'eceDtion committee consisting of +.
L. Waldron, representing the Promo
ton Committee, H. Cleghorn and l. de
L.. Ward
A special rapid transit car will be
boarded by the visitors at the Oceanic
wharf and will proceed up Manoa VAL
lev. The aquarium will next be visit
I'd and then an adjournment will be
taken TO the Moana Hotel. where