The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-30
YUAN
DOING PUBLICITY !.
E. FOR THE ISLANDS
Chinese Statesman Contributes
: TotFund Financing Tour Of :
- AII4Chinese Team :.
WILL RECEIVE BOX D.,
a'1S, OF OUR PiNEAPPLES
4, h.
King Tong Ho, Young Financier
and Diplomat, Delights Pro-
motion Committee ''''''

President Yum Shihk Of the Chi.
nese Republic may not know it, but
nevertheless he has lccn put to work
for the Hawaii promotion committee.
King Tong Ho of Bishop & Co. at.
tended To- that detail, along with n
number Of other little things. In fact,
Jas he laid down his program yesterday
for the Instruction aud entertainments
Of the promotion committee, they were
able TO discover very little that had
escaped the attention of the diliqent
young manager of the All Chinese base
hail team which shortly win tour the
IOrient ZIP
Didn't Miss q Trick y
Before he had got through with the
| committeeman, he had obtained their
official endorsement of the team and
the tour. their promise to attend the
next two benefit games, before the
team sails, set of stereOpticon slides
with which to make Illustrated lectures
on the beauties Of the Islands, and the
promise Of fifty boxes of canned pine.
apples. And he did it all so smoothly.
so suayely, so logically, so tactfully and
so modestiy that the committee was
4 quivering with mingled laughter and
pleasure as it saw itself led on. =
To revert to Ynan Shin ,kai, be has
sent his check to the Far Eastern Ath-
letic Association for $500. In return,
he viii receive one box Of Hawaiian
pineapples az will also Governor Har-
risoh of the Philippines, Wu Ting Fang,
chairman Of the association: Sun Pao
chi, the Chinese PREMIER; Suing Shi
Ling, former premier; the ministers of
edueation, finance, war, the navy, the
interior, and o long list of other dig
rit"ries who are patrons of Che asso.
citation. g. 3. )2f
All American Citizens ~
Ii is under their auspices that the
\ team will tour China Iahf the Orient
q ahlhnfherever 1t gnes 1t will plug for
fourteen Chinese boys, all of them
fbafR4ih Hawaii, all of them American
j siti7cns,ywip make the trip, They sail
I from Honolulu on he Mongolia week
f'ff6m yesterday for HoHskong, via
a Yokohama. :- I'd
Thence the itinerary leadsSto Manila
where the Manchuria does not happen
to touch on her next outbound trip;
thence back to Hongkong, TO Shanghai
to Picking, to Tien,tsin, to Hanhow, the
great industrial center of China.
| Their stay in the Philippines will
last three weeks, in which they will
play eiVht games. In Shanghai the
series will be part Of the Olympic
championships of the Far East. Y. NJ
G. A., japanese, Filipino, and Army
and Navy teams will compete Twen.
ty thousand dollars has been appro
priated.
i King Tor& 10 is cohfdent thGi raac
= ball will be sure to win foothold for
itso.f in China where it never has Eeen
seen, once the nations has been shown
how proficient is the younger ceu9ra-
| ton. Tennis and soccer football are
| already popular. tI.".t e.,
At Peking, the team viii be received
| by the American minister and many
prominent educators.
May Play oalifornia
The playing schedule has not been
worked ont In detail as yet, but it is
probable that the All-Chinese also will
meet visiting team from the Univers
ity Of California, somewhere in their
travels. Possibly the California boys
and almost certainly the Filipino team
will journey to Picking for three
corneTe series.
Yuan Shin kai will learn lot when
he first hears the umpire shout "Play
ball!'
~ don t know any more civilizing
influence than baseball" said Chair
man Berndt, summing up the whole sit
uation.