Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-05-30

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pla to he held in. Hawaii has started
some talk of resuscitating the prac-
tically defunct cricket team of Ho-
nolulu, that once held an honorable
record and eagerly met teams from
every part of the world. The crick-
cters here say all that Is needed to
bring the home team into active life
once mere is the prospect of contest
Sanc3, AMI this tho rCiy"csian Olyn.
pi2 would b.lGg "iU-t
In Fiji the Prince Rbliu Kandavu
maintains a native team that not
only knocks the spots out Of the
white crickcte;s In Fit, but covers
itself with glory IN England. cuts II
swath in Australia, all around the
coGtircut island, and makes even the
SamOsas take back scat, and the
rrircc wants to bring his team To
Hawaii to meet white. brown or yell
low c?icEctcrs In open contest.
Would Samoa send competing
team. could she afford It? Could
she? Samoa Is the one land in the
world where cricket Is forbidden by
law, and Is played on the sly. Until
recently everyone played. even the
women were expert bowlers. The
fields were deserted for the cricket
games. Villages pledged more bar
rels of corned beef on game than
their copra would pay for In year.
The Income of the ISLANDS was going
tn the winners Of cricket matches, to
be spent in luaus. The German Gov
crnmcnt stepped in, put tabu on
cricket. and row the crack teams 90
over to Fiji, 700 miles distant, to
win glory on the cricket field, or
drop down to the Tonga Islands to
defeat the subjects of King George.
Yes; the Samoans can afford to send
cricket team to Hawaii, and they
have a big ocean-going canoe on the
beach that would bring a couple of
hundred Samoans across the sea II
they wanted to come-and they
would, to play cricket. So let's in
wife them
or course the Australians play
cricket, every mothers son of them;
even the small black abOrigines be-
come experts and turn from the
boomerang to the cricket bat. BY
the way. why not invite the Austria
liam cricketers? They would come
with rush and roar. And ask
them to bring a few of their boomer
ang singers along? Perhaps some
of our Hawaiian boys could get onto
that game and give them n contest.
New Zealand would surely send u
cricket team, and II the Tourist Blu
reau (Which spends S250,000 an
nually advertising New zealand had
to foot the bill And the Maoris are
good players-none better.
Singapore, India, and even Japan
would find means to send both white
and dark contestants, while England
and Scotland would never remain
out of world cricket match any
! ii'i' NuHu't, anu
are teams in America that consider
their work as good as any in the
world, who would wish to prove IL
in Hawaii
Nearly every Australian boat car
ries men who play cricket. Let the
! Hawaiian cricketers get together, re-
organize, and challenge through-go-
Ing teams; II will be good practise
Then, too, the Scotch and English
players here should show each other
of what stuff they are made. Cricket
appeals to every man the world over
who has British blood in his veins;
1t Is the Keystone to British sports
Let cur cricketers here start the bal
rolling and it will grow in size unit
all the ether sports are gathered
about II, II our men OF Honolulu
who play, or who have once played
cricket will get together, their part
in a Polynesian Olympia will quickly
outline itself. Then each of the 9th
err sports will take its proper posi-
ton, take charge of it's particular
part In the protection of Hawaii.
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