POLO AND BASEBALL
SPORT IN HONOLULU WANGANUI VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. [ Special “ Chronicle ” Service. ] AUCKLAND, Aug. 15. “I have not seen a racehorse since 1 .left New Zealand,” said Mr W. McA. Duncan, the well-known Wanganui sportsman who returned by the liner Aorangi from Honolulu. “But,” he added, “I did see some fine polo games and polo ponies. The?e horses are much larger than ours and put one in mind of our hacks. The horses, which are imported from America and cost up to £lOO each, don’t last long, and only spells of eight minutes’ each are played over there. The weather conditions are all against them. They like a tip-top class horse in exceptionally good condition, and well looked after The players play a good game, which is one of the chief attractions on Sunday afternoons.’ ’ Mr Duncan said baseball appeared to be the national game, and the players made it particularly strenuous. In the afternoons on which he and Mrs Duncan attended polo and baseball matches, there were tens of hundreds of motor-ears round the encJosurc. In fact, every person in Honolulu appeared to own a motor-car.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19920, 16 August 1927, Page 8
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