The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-04-27
G0-AS-yOU-pLEASE.
An Excellent Race from start to
Finish,

The Honolulu Athletic Association
scored another success Saturday
evening, in the pedestrian contest
held under their auspices. There
was large and respectable gather
ing, including many ladies, at the
gymnasium to witness the sport.
Prior TO the goas-you-please race
Prof. Max Loheide, instructor TO
the Association, with Messrs. g. w.
MacfarIane, w. Herrick, g. Cron
and Gumpfer, gave an exhibition of
eight minutes on the horizontal bar.
They won hearty applause by their
feats of muscularity and agility, the
class showing surprising proficiency
for the short time in which they had
been in training.
The go-as-you-please started at
80, those entering being the
locally famous sprinters, j. L, Tor
bert, Anton Kaoo and G. Rosa. An
excellent sawdust track had been
prepared in time to give all who en-
tered some two or three weeks in
which to practise. Klemme, who
had entered, hurt his ankle Satur-
day afternoon and did not appear.
There were % laps, or circuits of
the track, to the mile. Hon. c. j.
Mccarthy acted as marker and an
nounced each mile one lap ahead.
AT the sound of a bell the three
contestants struck out at short dis
lance pace. Torbert took the lead
in the first lap, with Kaoo just be-
hind his right shoulder. Rosa was
close in the rear and, although oc-
casionally falling back, never failed
to hold his antagonists. within at the
most sixteenth of lap, but most
of the time keeping close at their
heels. Kaoo spurted and got slight
ly ahead at the first mile, which was
made in 6:l5.
Torbert, however, quickly forged
to the lead again. Kaoo spurted
again and led in the 18th lap of the
second mile, but Torbert passed him
again on the next lap, finishing the
second mile in 600, or 1910 for
the two miles. Rosa once gained
the lead in this mile, in the lap fol-
lowing Torbert's recovery of it from
Kaoo, but Torbert pulled him down
also in one circuit
Torbert then kept the lead, with
Kaoo second, till the last minute was
announced, Rosa pressing both hard
in the rear. In this order the third
mile was made in Z minutes (20:l0
from the first. There was a struggle
for the lead in the fourth, which
brought its time down to 3 :55 (26:5
total time.
This hard work seems to have been
too much for Torbert's pursuers, as
they let him finish the fifth mile
ahead of them in $40 (34:l5 from
the start), and the sixth in 7:15
(41:3O from the start). All were in
bunch at the beginning of the
seventh mile, which was done in 4:
(totaI 1880, and the eighth, in
which squirting for a finishing lead
began, was covered in 6:55 (total
80 :30).
-Four minutes and half more !"
Mr.. Mccarthy shouted to the run
ners, and they all responded with
faster flying shanks. Rosa made a
brilliant dash in the seventh lap and
got the lead. Torbert was digging
after him when he fell just beyond
the stand. The race had been lost
to the late leader if Rosa himself had
not fallen few strides farther on.
Both recovered their feet as quickly
as flash, and shed the sawdust
from their heels like hail. Torbert
had the lead again next lap and
held it, completing s I'll miles
when the bell rang the end of the
hour. Rosa was second, about
quarter of lap. kaoo dropped out
when RQsa's grand squirt had put
him in third place.
Rosa's friends urged him to enter
a protest against Torbert's receiving
first prize, on the ground that Mr..
Thos. Wright, coacher to Torbert,
had Intruded on the track repeated
ly. This Rosa declined 70 do, but
declared he was done with races
under similar conditions. Such
matter surely ought to be covered
by some standing rule, as, if it is
irregular for cOachers to go on the
track, certainly race where such is
allowed cannot be called fair race.
The Hawaiian Quintet Club Junior
gave inspiring string music during
the evening. Nothing but the little
unpleasantness over the intruding
coacher marred the enjoyment Of
this rare sporting event.