The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-29
SPORTsMEN
WANT RUGBY
ChilIingwOrth and Schnack Are
Pleased With Scheme for
Hawaii Team.

The suggestion of Mr. Mckenzie, of
the santa Clara team. that Honolulu
81. et,.u
'nou+u pu' . o'An 'eain -
the neld mas met Win the approval or
all the sportsmen in town. Mr. Charles
ChilIincworfh was particriarlv strncx
81 4L;a1. = -.
mighty good thlhe, ne saia. ana
you may depend on me TO do all that
7 can tn boost the game alopo we
90 oloan s,,or+s,,a, bara a,d .,oon
sport OF any KIM - What we want a
trip of the kind you suggest would GER
tainIy he a Grand advertisement for
~ ;a,a5. "a foo4 go 49, -,
y material mere 70 hiaAe cracfAlhg
good team. Call on me when you want
any assistance. -
la++ar was, received at tbis office
yeetefody -enas INN
an expert Mr.. Schnack mas certainly
PLAYED the game and his clear descrip-
tion of the method of pIayino Ruobv
). ol1 or.b raoaino His eo,,,n,,ni-
calIon is az 1olloMs'
Edltof AdVertlseT: Inc suggestion
made by MI. Mchehzle, manager OF
the santa Claras, IN yesterday al
Vertlser, that the hugpy game Oh hooG-
ball be taken up IN honolulu IS COCA
one ana one Wnlch snoulu IKE TO see
carried out. Rugby Is the Engtlsh
game from whlch the American styie
OF play was gradually .eVolNed, out TO
which the latter now bears only such
slght resemblance 1hat ~ taxes the
historian TO snow the relationship. On
the racine coast Wnere Two years ago
otanIord anu the ohiNefslty VI 0diI-
fornla introduced Rugby, playing III at
the annual intercollegiate match IN
place OF the ola game, tne English
game mas overcome an Inc Initial sent
ment against 10 ana mas peen pfoclain-
ed a good game, with the result that
1t LOOKS as II american lootnaI ~
doomed TO ultimate eStlnctlon IN TINS
region OF the United states.
AZ 'otanIord, LOT instance, "neTe Inc
ieeIhg against the apolitioh Oh Aihei
lcan Iootpali ana tne ahtagohlshi TO
the Introduction OF hugpy was no less
marked IMAM at Defheiey, coirplete a.
leglance TO Rugby resulted from tne
witnessing OF game or American foot-
were contestlng Tor the Hlgn ochool
championship OF CahIornla-tne mar
ward school team OF Los angeles ana
the Belmont school team from near san
francisco. Ihese, though youthIul
teams, yet Were good ones ana u l
STOOD the pay perIectiy, the belinonC
team having peen coached py MI. held
VINO was Tor numpef OF years the
coaeh at harvard oniVefslty;
Inc game was what was called me
e1nlDlIlon OF american lootpaiI, pretty |
forward passes ana othef OF the recent
oelng successfully WORK |
ed, put no more eheetiFe measure Aor
the sounuihs VI Ghe oea VI
america game at 9tahierd could nave
peen devised imam the mere witnessing
or the formerly enerlshed game, Tor
then ana there al hi!ockers OF mug
by became converts, ana the coliege |
daily IN the next issue Nolceo the stu
dent body sentiment IN declafing that
hugpy was uhqueStiohapiy Tue pettsf
game.
hngby IS oy no means a tame iaay
IKE game such as womb ran 10 ap- /
peal to the energetic young hghtlng I
olood OF youth, out II mas all tne chaf-
acterlsties OF the ola game with the !
minimizing OF the e1emeht OF rlsk ana
danger TO LIE ana 1lmh. ms is SO
because OF the tlfteen men on team
only seven or e1ght are IN the
: serum (Which may be considered
remotely analogous to the line IN /
the American game) White the rest OF /
the team are strung out at distance /
across the hefd IN the back, each ready
to eaten the ball when 1t is passed to
him and equally ready when he is i
about to be tackled to throw it to a
team mate who likewise endeavors in
this manner to carry it forward. Thus
the tackle which is bountiful source
of injury IN the old game is largely
for.a man would be foolish
to tackle an opponent who has just
passed the ball to another and roll on
the ground, keeping himself out of the
play while his team mates are follow
ing the ball and trying to get it away.
Right here, also, comes in the spec
tacular element: the ball is seldom