The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-09


:, under the jurisdiction of the A.
was TO make the Hawaiian ath
:. eligible to compete at the big
Il ~ in the States,' said Doctor Hand,
,vM. C. A. physical director, who
mad from his tour of the United
,,.ss IN the steamer Wilhelmina Tues
=. attended the annual A. A. L. ma
,,.l field and track meet which was
4, in Chicago on August the thir
s,tb and he said yesterday that he
nd pick a team right here in Homo
= that could have carried off most
.ba bonors there. Most of the men
~. he thought, made a very poor
wing and outside of two events the
s,,olnIu bows would have stood fine
s.nea of capturing the championship.
1.-THE proposition of r. A. Jordan
Eava the Hawaii Promotion Commit
!. eooperate with the local branch of
4, A. e.. when it is organized, Is
4 the thing Doctor Hand con
E,red. "The sports in the Islands
rnpsre very favorably with the stand
4. maintained in the States and if
n athletes here We're organized and
r,ie eligible to compete they could do
A best kind Of promotion work. You
!, sav that I am in favor of the move
cent
noetor Hand wanted few days to
.. settled down again and then he said
i. would be ready to get busy on the
r,position. GAS far as just regulat-
\, sports here he said, eve could
Il m local organization of our own
AT would answer the purpose very
NH but we would be outlaws just the
ane as we are now and would not be
sagnized in other parts of the world. -
Talks About Hawaii.
Wherever he went, Doctor Hand said,
10 Deople didn seem to know just
sbsrs the Hawaiian Islands were. Some
asgght thew were up in the Arctic Cir
is, others thought they were down near
Singapore and almost everyone was IN
Il, ,As impression that the natives were
rnnns around naked. The only whites
sse, they supposed, were few seltsac.
,teng Missionaries who had abandoned
4 @r friends and all the comforts OF
Inc TO bury themselves IN the Jungles
dharbarism and that these few whlled
nsv their time toiling up and over
% volcanic precipices of heathendom
oil wrestling with the black demons
# dolatrv and superstition on the
yry brink of the eternal lava PIT.
Did Missionary Work Himself.
Eie doctor did a lot of missionary
nk IN the States, putting bunch OF
nse guys wiser to the game down here
athe Paradise Of the Pacific. tie tooA
b the National Fairgrounds convention
b Rochester. New York. which was or
hon June seventh to the eleventh
Fsre were OVER two thousand dele
plss present from all parts OF tht
snatry and a good many of them were
aEbers Of the chambers Of commerce
i heir respective cities. while other'
we're park commissioners. Two banquet:
Nfa held one on the ninth and th'
ahtr on the tenth of June. The
Aehester Park Commission entertalneC
as visiting commissioners on the nInti
W the chamber of commerce held IL
hiqaet on the tenth.
lNetor Hand was the principal speak
fon both occasions. After he had tolt
y amazed guests all about the bar
aians Of Honolulu. the affair, eacl
Ae resolved itself into a question:
VI answers game, and Doctor Han'
hded out the answers He spoke
@ Convention of the American Play
aeuads Association as the long-dls
aite member, having come from
lsater distance than any of the othe
ssgates.
Talks to New York Y. M. G. A.
h June the seventeenth he delivered
a0on-day talk on the Hawaiian Is
aus before four hundred people at tn,
asrnational Y. VI. G. 4. in New Yorl
Ay de spent week and a half II
metropolis looking over gymnasium
Mafatus and tried TO get in toucI
~ Secretary Sullivan Of the A. a. L
" missed him on every call. He neVe
sssed ball game while he was Il
wv York. He saw the Chicago Ma
9aals beat the Giants three stralgh
aaes ana then the New York team
l~a together and trounced the WHIT
y y, IN the fourth. He went up tn
ssas'n River next and saw the WIS
aaa' Cornell Pennsylvania and SYRIA
crews race The Cornell ere"
Nor Hand said, won the first tw
AUS easily hui the Penns ran ava,
u The other crews in the third race
''n here he went to Lake Mohon
visit friends
y, ol the Sunday following the boa
Il the doctor took an automobiI
81 Tom Poughkcepsie to Boston an
/. u the Yale Harvard boat race
MAJ ..s,afned to Poughkeepsie on Jul
;,'a and on the sixteenth he wen
an 70 Wilmington. Delaware.
~ - " ilmingtou he gave a talk on H.
es. q banquet given by the par
ktilssjon. Then ne went to Phil'
IN IA and Atlantic City. He Gale
a. Wood and sized mp the sur
A. i9r riding. He said that surtin
boards there could never amour
uyh because there was such
IN pack tow. Fbc surf is very higi
"a 'Sa this back action, he explained
aar ol on the surfb0ard wouldn
whether he was going or comin9
Only Jealous.
hhof Hand said there was nothin
eolier that the people at Atlanti