Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-01-17
COLUMBIA BOYS
net GOOD sum
WILL GREATLY IMPROVE :
THEIR CLUB PREMISES
Baseball Games Have Been Played
With Colonials = Fifty Clubs
Have Been Started n Form a
Young Australia League

I Inc members or the columbia
Park Boys Club. forty-fve in num-
Der, who left San Francisco last
April, in charge of Sidney S. Peix-
otto. on a tour OF Australia and New
Zealand, left for home on January
rs and are expected to arrive In San
Francisco ON or about February
next. Plans are being formulated
whereby these boys will have an OPP
lportunity OF seeing Honolulu on their
way north.
The party, In addition to being q
talented aggregation IN lines of en-
tertalnment. Is h,eiic in its make
up, and the achievements reported
to the credit OF these youngsters en-
titles them to the highest praise.
Since landing In Sydney. the boys
have Travelled over 6OOo miles. and
been subjected to many 'hardships in
their undertakings. Their athletic
career across the Pacific is a wonder
full testimonial to the ability OF this
versatile representation of San Fran
cisco's younger generation.
When the large field covered by
the Columbia Park boys Is consider
ed. the results are truly amazing. A
total Of seventy-four evening enter
tainments participated In by the en-
tire party. have been given: eleven
band concerts, thlrty-fiyc games of
Australian football played. of which
seven have been won by. tho visitors;
thirty-two exhibition baseball games
played between the two teams from
the club, and nineteen exhibition
games of basketball. a
| Much of the routine work has been
done during. the very hot weather OF
an Australian summer, with "a daily
routine as follows: Exhibition game
of baseball at $3.50. O'Clock: football
contest with an Australian team at
3:l5 o'clock, usually n hard grind
ing game at best, which was never
finished before $3.50 o'clock: dinner
at O'Clock, and dress parade at 1890
O'Clock.
The boys have continued their
military tactics at all times. The
evening entertainments generally
/ commenced ut s o'clock. and was
never ever before, 1890 o'clock.
There has been very little. time for
training or learning the science of
he Victorian game. which combines
passing. kicking and running with
the ball by dribbling. 4
Snina nf tho fnpthaII ...,,ae t,.ya
been played with boys. but most Of
them. particularly In Western Ans
tralin. have been against men; and
to have beaten the players In the
Antipodes ut their own unique ana
difhcult football Is record worthy
of any athletic organization.
The members OF this club have
been guests OF the Premier OF the
and prominent mem
bers Of Parliament In Melbourne.
They have been received by the
Crown Governors of three of the
States, by the Premiers OF four
States. BY the Mayors of sixty-three
cities. Cardinal Maniey OF Sydney
and by the archbishop OF every do
cese. ~. y
The Columbia Park boys. who won
many San Francisco championship,
have done much to make baseball
popular In Australia. In Western
Australia this American game prom
ises to become lasting sport. The
Young Australia League. which is
composed OF some fifty clubs and
schools. has decided to adopt base
ball as u summer sport. James Cav
eney, one OF the Columbia boys, re-
manned with the league up to last
month, coaching the schoolboys In
this typical American game. The
boys In five OF the Christian Broth
ers colleges have all been taught the
rudiments OF baseball by the visitors.
Up to the time the Columbia Park
boys arrived In Australia. baseball
was only played by the crickcters.
This pastline keeps them In form
during the winter season. but Is sub
ject- to sloppy grounds and indiffer-
Ient Influences. AS cricket Is only
played earnestly by men. Mr.. Peix-
OTTO predicts that baseball Will be-
come a popular summer sport with
the younger element
Financially, tho trip Of the boys
In now an assured success, although
many discouragcmeuis were expert
enced. In the beginning. Large au-
diences were attracted by the enter
tainment features OF the delegation,
and after the hardest kind of work
como $4,000 lla- been taken IN. DC