Outing . ere buf-feting which left us all rathergroggy and winded for theboxing contests, we wereoverwhelmingly defeated. By scoring a point to thevictor in each event — theonly way which would havebeen practicable under thecircumstances — we had alead of four wins at thisjuncture. This would havegiven us the racial cham-pionship, even were all threeof the boxing contests to belost by us. The Fijians, how-ever, contending that thewinning of the Marathon 708 OUTING was the equal of several ordinary events,insisted that they were at least on eventerms with us. Again our complaisantcaptain, pulli
Outing . ere buf-feting which left us all rathergroggy and winded for theboxing contests, we wereoverwhelmingly defeated. By scoring a point to thevictor in each event — theonly way which would havebeen practicable under thecircumstances — we had alead of four wins at thisjuncture. This would havegiven us the racial cham-pionship, even were all threeof the boxing contests to belost by us. The Fijians, how-ever, contending that thewinning of the Marathon 708 OUTING was the equal of several ordinary events,insisted that they were at least on eventerms with us. Again our complaisantcaptain, pulling on his gloves for thefirst bout—the lightweight—waived thepoint and agreed to let the three boxingcontests decide the dav. Five seconds the Honorable Bertie in the high-jump—?from the beat of the war-drum whichwas doing service as a gong, and hadhim so groggy at the end of a coupleof minutes that the bewildered fellowstarted to slug one of his own fuzzy-headed seconds. He was led off to es-. THE FIJIAN WICKET KEEPER WAITING FOR A THROWN BALL IN THE CRICKET GAME later, guarding carelessly in backingaway from a clinch, Bertie left a wideopening, driving into which with a well-timed short-arm jolt, his stocky oppo-nent landed on the point of the ladschin and stretched him limp—a cleanknock-out—on the turf of the villagegreen. Tom, who boxed almost as well as heswam, rushed his man—the shifty Auck-land-educated youth who had defeated cape further useless punishment, leavingthe issue of the racial championshipup to the heavyweight bout, with me asthe White Hope. The ponderous-limbed Goliath, whomthe Fijians led out like a blue-ribbonbull at a stock-show at this juncture,had been kept out of sight all day, evi-dently through fear of awakening a pro-test on our parts. He was one mass ofhair and rolling muscles from head to - ?•^9stesi B^?aKit>^ifi3 ?g^zm a . \ - THE FIJIANS ASSEMBLING FOR THE BOXING BOUTS heel, and needed only a knotted war-clubto complete the
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