CALIFORNIA BOYS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9475, 18 June 1909, Page 5

CALIFORNIA BOYS.

Major Peixotto, of the . National Guard of California, has arrived in the Dominion with his 40 American boys. These boys are members of the Colombia Park Club, situated in the working men’s district of San Francisco. For 15 years the Majot has devoted bis life to the education and np-bringing of the city boy who, without his influence, would not have had an opportunity of making good. The boys under the Major’s direction are taught to play a musical instrument, military discipline, gymnastic and some technical trade. ' During r the 15 years the Club has been started over 4000 boys have passed through its ranks. Major Peixotto stands as the most forward authority on boys work in America. In addition to his remarkable success with his club, he has also made a name for himself in his great fight'for amateurism in California. As' President of the Pacific Amateur Athletic Association he has had great difficulties to overcome, hut during his two years of office he has succeeded in placing the word “amateur” as far as his own association is concerned, above reproach, The effect of the Major’s work in this respect is doubly useful when it is supported by an active club of 400 boys, like the California Boys, The California Boys appear at.Marton on Tuesday next.