The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-04
MANILA CARNIVAL TO HAVE
GREAT ATHLETIC FEATURES
Celebration Will Open on Chinese New Year
and Expects to Have Representation
From All Nations


annual meet in Manila has become an
event of unusual Importance in mill
tary circles. 1t not only has the fea.
lures of an athletic competition. but
also presents a military tournament of
such proportions that Great Britain has
found it advisable to send her officers
to Manila TO take notes.
Three thousand troops. representing
all branches of the service, are sent to
Manila to compete for prizes%for all
sorts of military work as well as in ath-
letIc games. The prize winners. in
Guiding troop of cavalry, a company
of infantry, a field battery and a noun
tain battery, together with athletic
teams, native troops, etc, are held in
Manila to give exhibitions and to com
pete in athletic events during the car
nlvaI. The hippodrome of the Manila
carnival is one of the most astonishing
things of the show 1t combines the
features of circus and Wild West show
with tirst-elass theatrical performance,
and enlists the services of the crack
hofsemen of the army This year the
hlppodrOme viii have an added feature
in the form of series of pyrotechnie
displays which Paine, the fireworks ex-
pert who designed them, says are the
handsomest he has ever turned out of
his factory.
And then the athletic features this
year are to assume an Importance that
was not dreamed of a few years ago.
With their characteristic energy the
gentlemen in control of the carnival
have organized an Oriental Olympia.
and from this year on will hold annually
in Manila a set of Olympian games for
magnificent prizes, open to the entire
world. Hongkong, Shanghai, Toxic,
Singapore, Colombo and all the cities of
the Orient have been invited to par
ticipate, and it is expected that several
of these will come into the affair this
year. Hongkong and Shanghai are
anxious to go, and have accepted invi-
tations.
The Waseda University at Toxic
wants to send a baseball team to par
ticipate in a series of baseball games.
1t is possible that the series will be
arranged, as the Filipinos as well as the
Americans, are baseball mad They sup
port several leagues in the islands, and
the game is taken in the most serious
manner.
Through Mr.. Noting an invitation
has been extended to the athletes and
baseball experts of Hawaii to enter
the lists. Mr.. Noting says the Carni-
val Association viii look after the ac-
commodation and entertainment of the
team and viii pay their expenses while
they are in Manila He says the prizes
to be given will be valuable and the
athletes viii have good time. The
carnival balls, etc, to which they will
receive invitations, promise to be won
derfu1 affairs. They were last year and
the plans for this year, backed by the
large capital at the disposal of the as
ISOLATION, assure as complete a success
this year.
Mr.. Noting says the Carnival Asso-
citation includes the most important
men in the islands. While the Govern
or General is honorary president with
General Weston. Z. S. A.. as first vice
president and Admiral HARDER, u. s. N,
as second vice president, the active
work of the organization is done by
a few men on the board of directors
who include Vice Governor W. Cameron
Forbes; Honorable Manuel Quezon,
leader of the Nacionalista party in the
assembly; Alcalde Felix Roxas of the
city of Manila; Honorable John Mehan,
one of the heads of the municipal gov
eminent; Judge Herbert D. Gale, a dis
tinguished member of the bar; Mr.. NJ.
A. Clarke, the biggest business man and
merchant in the city; Mr.. Walter E.
Olsen, president of one of the island 8
steam railroads; Mr. G. A. O'ReiIly,
of schools in the city of
Manila, and Mr. Noting himself.
Vice Governor Forbes is president of
he association and the active chief
# the executive forces of the organiza |
ion. Mr.. Noting is secretary and Mr.. |
Reilly the director general These |
hree, with Messrs. Mehan, Clarke and |
Olsen. together with Mr. Hartford I
Beaumont, legal adviser of the Philip |
Zines customs service, and Judge Gale, |
onstitute the active workers who have |
made the carnival famous throughout |
he East. MI O'ReiHy has entire |
barge of the organization of the show
tself and is the man with whom cor
should be opened should
ny Hawaiians wish to participate in
he affair. Mr. Noting says that the
um of twelve thousand pesos has been
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