Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-28
ALL.CHINESE
KEEPING Up
THE BOOSTING
Papers of the Country Giving
Travelling Ball Team Lots OF
Free Advertising Space

w nv tiSI'IS SHNSS
Tho all-ChiEnsr bah team Is keeping
UP the good publicity work. AMI al
though this is the third trlp 70 tn"
mainland, the novelty hasn't worn eff,
and the local boys get all sorts Of
space in the papers wherever they
go. They arc blazing a new trail this
year. and to Judge by the examples,
the Islands are getting a lot OF favor
able advertising cut Of III" team.
Here's "A sample from the Waco,
Texas, Morning News
4 reporter for the Morning News,
found the athletes from Hawaii. mem
bers Of the Chinese University team
Of Honolulu, gathered around a piano
at their hotel yesterday afternoon.
No game, rain was the terse re-
port that had gone over the wires
from Waco To the newspapers Of the
country. This meant an afternoon To
kill in a foreign land to the visitors
from the middle Of the Pacific.
They are a typical crowd-not Of
China or other Oriental lands. but
typical of any American college town
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and
in this case beyond.
Their backs were turned when the
seeker for a STORY" was ushered into
the room. It might have been a crowd
OF students from any college that was
running the gamut Of songs from the
semi-classical to the latest popular
rag. Their faces, of course, show their
race, but in dress they run largely to
the newest fads in tight fitting clothes
Of English cut and Norfolks-about
such clothes as one will see on the
campus at Yale or at any institution
where young Americans gather to de-
Velop their minds and bodies. Do they
speak English? Better than the aver,
age-American. How do they act? AS
would a bunch of wealthy welIbred
young men from any Of our colleges.
In fact. the most interesting thing
about these young fellows is that they
are reguiar-not different, not I'M
usual
Difference 10 for Better.
And then a quartet drifted into a
dreamy, little love song in the Hawai-
ian language-yes they are different
They are mopolities-each of these
youngsters who have toured our land.
: They are able to fit anywhere. They
have absorbed the atmosphere of diff
ferent countries, but with IT all they
are just bunch Of clean young fell
lows with askeen love for fun. When
they found they had an audience one
Of their number. in mock seriousness
began introducing the different sing
ers and naming the piece he would
sing Another took isue with him as
&c the name of ditty, and vote was
taken, @on the matter and left unset
tied. ~ -
They made themselves popular at
the New Katy hotel, where they were
stopping, and the proprietor, ]. E.
Smith, his wife and daughter, Miss
Gladys, invited them TO their apart
ments for an informal hour. 1t was
here the reporter found them
The quartet that rendered a little
song, Sweet Lei Lehua," is composed
of singers who could make a living
at that alone. They are Ayau, lead;
Ako, tenor: Foster, baritone; Alvin.
bass and pianist, and by the way. Mr.
Alvin is some pianist, not fair, but an
excellent performer He rags" like
a vaudeville star as well as more than
gets away" with classical. Foster is
not of full Chinese descent, as his
name indicates.
Spokesman Great Pitcher.
Apau Kau introduced himself to the
newspaper man and constituted him
self spokesman. Afterward the re-
nnrfnF rnoltznd hA In hnnn Roly fn
tow by one Of the cleverest college
pitchers in the world. He lost beau.
tiful game to State University at Aus.
tin l to O.
They are a keen bunch Of fellows
Their minds work like lightning. AS
an illustration: The reported made a
few notes. In order to take the names
right he underlined his "us" and over.
lined his ms" to distinguish-a trick
known TO few but copy readers or
printers. When Kau wrote out the
university song, Song to Hawaii, "
each Il and n was carefully under
and overruled.
Are you printer, Mr. kau?" he
was asked. He was not
Where did you learn this?"
Il just saw you do it"
Two-foId Educational Tour.
Uncle Sam is pulling another Of his
wise old tricks in sending these boys
around the country. 1t is a two-fOld
educational tour. First, the Chinese
Americans are getting an excellent
finish to as good an education as fed
eral backing can give. Second. they
are teaching mainland Americans that
we haven't an unCivilized people un.
der our control out in the Pacific. but
people of mixed nationalities, if you
will. but of a class in intelligence and
training that takes their 2places in ev-