The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-20

There are many who believe that
Hawaii is the place for a worlds car
nival of sports in 1904 Polynesian
Olympia that will attract a myriad of
visitors and set the pace in sports of
every kind for all time to come
No place in the whole world has
ever become the home of so many and
varied sports as has Hawaii. Once
in every five years a revival of the
Olympian games is heralded as the
great event in Europe that is to at
tract eager visitors from every quar-
ter of the globe, yet in Hawaii, where
the Orient and Oceident meet, all the
athletic games of Olympia and a score
of others that Europe can not repro
duce might be given, at a months no.
tice, at any season of the year. Ha-
wall, if she willed, could present a
Cosmopolitan and Polynesian Olympia
that would set a pace for all time and
turn the attention of the world for a
season, at least, not to Europe, but to
Hawaii.
The world takes it's holiday in sum-
mer-the season of sports. Summer,
so far, has been the neglected season
in Hawaii. The great surf rolls in at
Waikiki in August; then the waves
are crested with white and brown boys
standing like young Mercurys upon
their boards and the Hawaiian canoes
race before the pillows at express
speed-and this is the chief sport of
Hawaii the tourist is not invited to
that the Paradise of the Pacific is a
winter resort. Every sport in Hawaii
is at its best in summer. In summer
time reduced rates may be secured be-
tween Honolulu and the Coast. In
summer time the whole world is swell
tering with heat, save ever-wind-
swept Hawaii. In summer time our
trade winds make Hawaii more than
ever the Paradise of the Pacific. We
can have the world gather here in the
summer time if we WILL and a great
world carnival of sports would turn
the tide of travel from every quarter
toward the crossroads of the Pacific
What have we to offer? Such an
aggregate of games as has not been
held in one place at one time before
or since the Olympiads of Greece that
set the mark for all events in sports
that have been held for the last three
thousand years. Japan, China, Europe,
America and Hawaii compete, each in
their national games, almost daily in
Hawaii. We have but to challenge the
world. We are up in all the sports
of other lands and have a few of our
own not yet dead and others that are
even now being revived with a view
TO inviting all Polynesia to come and
compete with Hawaii for hOnors in
those games and sports brought to us
from Samoa more than a thousand
years ago-when the simple games of
Greece were not altogether unknown
among the islanders of the Pacific.
From Canada a worId-famous sports
man returns to organize in Honolulu
a team of lacrossemen to contest for
the worlds championship with the
Indians of North America and the
whites of other lands who have learn
ed the game from the red man. Japan
sends her baseball teams to compete
with the Japanese. Europeans. Chinese
and Hawaiians here. India will send
her polo players. Once the auto road
around Oahu is completed this island
becomes the paradise of the auto fiend.
A straight-away macadam track by
and through 10 miles of superb noun