The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-18

Between 500 and 600 people gather
ed at the park track yesterday to
witness the races. The afternoon was
sweltering hot, but no rain fell,
though quite q number of showers
were in evidence in town. The track
was in splendid condition, except at
the quarter and back stretch. The
day was greatly enjoyed by all, the
events interesting, q marked feature
being no long waits between the con-
tests.
Promptly 1T 1 p. M. the program
was begun with a mile handicap
bicycle race, in which there were thir-
teen starters. The race was tame
until near the finish, being between
George Angus and Ruby Dexter.
Angus won in 2:29, with Dexter
only q few inches behind. The
winner spurted near the wire
and took the race. Dexter was
not at his best, only recently
recovered from a severe illness and
had only q weeks practice. I. V.
King fell coming into the stretch.
Inc 6cCOuu cNChO1 ho.A hAAAO hchNA
cap for icveniles, was won easily by
Fred Iaukea in 1:2l2.
The five mile bicycle race was dis
tinctly between Henry Giles, George
Angus and d. @. Sylvester, though
there were seven starters. After the
first lap two fell out, leaving Giles,
Angus, Sylvester, Dexter and John
son. Giles led in every lap and VOL
easily in 14:242, with Angus, Sylves-
ter, Dexter and Johnson in like order.
T. Y. King entered q protest, claim
ing that Giles fouled him by cutting
across the course. The protest was
not allowed.
While the bicycle races were quite
interesting, the big crowd waited
patiently for the beginning of the
horse races.
In the running half-mile and repeat
Billy G. was An easy winner. 1t was
generally conceded he had the race
before the start. Time, first heat, 534.
Rainbow second. Billy G. took the
second heat without much difficulty.
The three-minute class, trott1ng
and pacing, was the race of the meet
ing. There were four starters-Judah
and Salvador having previously met
In q matched contest. In this event
Judah showed her superiority over
Salvador and the other entries sc
decidedly as to give her the race
without exhibiting the least distress.
When driven in the match race Judah
could not be controlled, and broke
several times. Since that time the
mare. has been worked with hobbies
She paced the mile without skII
and won the first heat very easily
i'm 2:413, shutting out Unknown anC
breaking the Hawaiian record of 2 Il:
made by Macfarlane's Fred Mac two
wears ago last 18th of June. In the
second and final heat Judah lowered
her own record to 2 :402. She worked
beautifully and paced the mile with
out q single skip or break. SalVatQi
was clearly outmatched and could no
have won the race under any circum
stances Up to a few weeks ago Judah
was used as q hack horse by he
owner George Patterson. she nov
holds the record for Hawaiian ore'
horses.
AS predicted by many Jim Quinn
fI2eO''had a walk over in the sixth race
He won the first heat in 2:413 an'
the third in $40. In the second hea
Quinn's suiky strap parted and hi
horse lost q boot, or he would hsv
won two successive heats. Lotti
L. won the second heat in 2:473
TWENTY Cent was ruled of the tracl
for fOuliDg ''29O' at the BACK sCreCcn
Mr.. Quinn has q genuine race horse ii
1890 and fast, sure-footed trotteI
Interest in the one mile noveit,
running race conferred In Billy =. an
Confederate. Both horses had man.
admirers and hackers. Billy c. wo
in / 80, Confederate a very clos
second.
The meeting was good one an
thoroughly enjoyed by the. larg
crowd present. The absence OF must
was noted and unfavorsbly comment
ed upon. Manager David tried t
secure the Portuguese band, but coui
not do so Financially the afternoo
was not a success for Mr.. David, Wh
scent much time and money to get u
good races. He can have the salts
faction of knowing that his enor'
were appreciated.