The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-21

require any great effort TO induce New
Zealand 10 send a Maori canoe and
crew to contest for honors, and doubt
less Samoa and Tahiti would follow
suit, for they are one race, one Ian
guage and one people. widely separated
it is true. but then there was a time
when communication was regularly
maintained and on the beach at Apia
lies TO this day the hulk of a Samoan
war canoe-a catama~,;L- -.ha1 can
carry a company Of 800 warriors and
sailors. Repaired, this boat might be
sent by Germany to represent Samoa
in a gathering of the Polynesian race
al the crossroads OF the Pacific. The
Samoans, Fijians. Tongans and even
the Australian aborigina's. are inveter-
lite cricketers II might be interesting
to see. after they had contested with
each other. how a Hawaiian team
might stand before them. The Fijians
are expert at surface spear-throwing
along the smooth grass, as are the
Samoans. and doubtless the Hawai-
ians might be able to show them a
trick or two The South Sea Islanders
still go fishing with bows, arrows and
spears In the latter sport our Hawai-
ian fishermen might go them one bet
ter. There are a hundred kindred
sports in which the Polynesians might
contest for honors, and why should
they not meet here in Hawaii and the
world be invited to come and witness
the Polynesian equivalent of the old
Olympian games the like of which
have not been dreamed of since the
palmiest days of ancient Greece?
Polynesian sports would be but a
part of a Hawaiian Olympia. We
have the Japanese; they would exert
every effort TO show the world that the
sports Of Japan are worthy of respect.
Their famous jiu-jitsu men would
doubtless enter for contests in Hawaii,
as well as their wrestlers. We are to
have a japanese park where visitors
TO Honolulu may at last have an even
ing pleasure resort. Here could be
seen both day and night fireworks.
Oriental sports and games Of all
kinds: I'm the river below, japanese
sampans, picnics and beautiful night
decorations upon the water such as
only the artistic japanese know how
to. accomplish SO that a fairyland
blossoms forth
We have a Kiting Club, that pro-
poses to hold an annual festival on
Punchbow hill, why not have it in
wife not only contes e.'f:s from the
Orient but from the Occident, not bar
ring man bearing kIras. Certainly
there is nothing more entertaining
anywhere in the universe than the kite
festivals near Nagasah when 10000
kite flyers gather upon a single noun
tain side with kites of a hundred
varied coiors and designs. We have
the material for such a festival and
contest with us-so why not utilize ii
for the delecta ton OF the stranger TO
draw him to our islands.
There are sports on Kauai, surely
excursions around that island-at pop
ular rates-would attract many Of our
visitors who wished to see the Hawa~
ian fireworks spreading out from the
famous fire cliffs Of Kauai Then for
the skying clubs and mountaineering
PARTIES there is ever suow-clad Mauna
IOa and Mauna Kea on the Island or
Hawaii. There too is a sport that has
no counterpart eIsew here in the world
.. Flurning." What more thrilling than
the sight Of the japanese returning
from their work down these fumes
that cross valleys upon cooweb treilis-
work five hundred feet in air-and
sometimes even now small boys Of
many races delight TO glide for miles
in these fumes against time. There is
possibility there for the development
Of a wonderful sport that could not
but thrill the stranger-and the tour
lst likes 70 be thrilled
The Australian prides himself on
hodv surfing-that IS shooting before
the breakers. So does the South Afri-
can. They would send contestants to
Hawaii TO take away the worlds cham
1ionship for this. They would leave u
behind them
The Rajahs and rich Princes Of In
JIa pride themselves on their ability
10 plav polo-what better meeting place
for the worlds championship Occident
against Orient. than here where me
occident and Orient meet2
fT0 be CgntinUed)
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