Sport Grows In Tahiti
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, July 20.
A HEALTHY interest in out-of-door sports has been growing in Tahiti during the past years.
Tennis, bicycle racing, football, field sports, basket-ball and horse racing are becoming increasingly popular. Various athletic organisations—Marines dans ies E.P.0., Tefaiva, Vaiete, Fe’i Pi. Jeunes Tahietiens —are now playing qualification games to contest the football champion ship for 1939 with the 1938 champions Detachement dTnfanterie Coloniale.
The Parc des Sports, on the eastern border of Papeete, is amply provided with facilities for the various branches of athletics —race track, tennis courts, foot ball field, basket-ball court, a new grand stand and other necessary buildings.
Mr. Robert Harper, 18, who had been engaged in mining on the Moody claim at Atob River, New Guinea, died in July from blackwater fever.