The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-29
AUTOMOBILES
IN COMPETITION
MANY INTERESTING CONTES S
YESTERDAY MORNING IN KA-
PIOLANI PARK

The events held yesterday morning
at Kapiolani Park under the auspices
of the Honolulu Automobile Club
were run before a large enthusiastic
crowd of people. Long before the time
set for the first event people began ar
irving in automobiles, carriages, on
! horse back and in the cars. A few
/ minutes after nine the first event OF
the day, the one mile race, the closest
to four minutes wins, was announced
| by George Cooke who acted as an
nouncer over fifteen cars entered
/ this event, and the noisiest, smallest
and cheapest car in town won in the
/ close time of 3 minutes and So sec
onds c. H. Mcbride, the Governors
secretary. was the lucky man. Nc
( Bride did not want to enter the event
at all, as he did not think that he had
chance, but finally decided that he
would take a hand i'm the event. Gus
| Schaefer followed by Allan Lowrey
and Mcbride i'm the order named start
ed Mcbride as well as the other con-
4 testants were obliged to have speedo-
/ meters and watches covered and to de-
pend entirely on their judgment to
win. Schaefer and Lowrey have been
out trying for the time for the past
week, gauging by counting the dis
lance apart between the posts to get
he time down pat, but they must
have forgotten to count once or twice
yesterday. as they were unable to
come as close as Mcbride.
The most amusing part Of Mcbride s
victory was the joke that he tells on
himself: 81 thought the track was a
half-mile instead of a mile and when
Willard Brown told me after the nrst
lap that | had done well | thought l
had done the first half in two minutes
fiat, but when | was informed that
had done the mile in 35S, nearly fell
out of my machine | did mile for
nothing" Schaefer finished second in
1856, while Lowrey was third in 3.54
Mcbride won the Gabriel Horn offered
by the Associated Garage which cost
$35.
The seventy-hve yard dash with en-
in Is IL seconds. Fred Damon was
second and George Dennison third.
fitting the rings proved the Longest
and the most interesting event of the
day. The conditions of the race was
that an eight of mile must be made
in one minute and each contestant was
to have three tries at the rings. IhC
fitting posts were some distance apart
and it was very amusing to watch thu
way some of the drivers managed
their machines. Each entrant wa
furnished with a siX-foOt pole will
which to take the suspended rings off
viii Young in three trials got sever
rings, Bruce Kennedy got six, Will,
Albert Along, Fred Damon and W
Patten tied for five each. On the tos
up for third place Along won.
The 5O-yard slow race on high gea
,, was very close and was won finally b,
Clarence Cooke, with Miss Tenne
second. In the first try Miss Tenne
: and Jimmy McCandless tied, but in tn
run off Miss Tenney won easily.
The see-saw race was won by Bruc
: Kennedy who managed to balance hi
= machine in twenty seconds. J.
Warren was second and Schaefer wa
third.
The last race, the Cupid race, did nc
, prove as interesting as was expected
= Small boys were used by a number {
= the entrants Sidney Jordan finishe
first, Stanley Kennedy second, and
w. Dutton third