The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-17

proved how accurately young Hayes
had estimated his own ability and the
strength of his competitors. Longboat,
the Indian, gave up before the twenty
mile mark, and except for the Italian
and the South African, 1t was the
Americans who gave Hayes the stiff
est trial. He ran as he said he would,
up with the pacemakers until he got
ready to let them see his heels. ana
then he sprinted on and won as ne
told his friends he could. Hayes went
to work at the Bloomingdale store
when he was II years old as a messen-
ger and odd job boy. He wasn't all
muscles and legs, so he worked his
way up to the job of assistant in the
superintendent Office at a salary OF
800 a week. When he gets back to
the store Samuel Bloomingdale will Of
fer him the chance of making $4,000
or $4,000 a year as head of the sport
ing goods department. More than that,
they are going to give him a big re-
ception.
Last spring Hayes trained on a
quarter mile track on top of the
Bloomingdale store. Most of his train
ing had to be done at night, since his
position kept him busy every day but
Sunday. In a letter Hayes wrote to
one of his friends in the store and re-
ceived the other day he said There
won't be any excuse if we don't win.
AS for myself can still eat, sleep and
run just as good as | did on the other
side" Hayes is unmarried and lives
at 246 East Fifty-fifth street
Hayes is the first American to figure
prominently in a Marathon event.
The event at the first Olympic revival
in Athens was won by a Greek, Loues,
who covered the original course from
the village OF Marathon to the Stadium
at Athens in hours 55 minutes 70
seconds. At the Paris Olympiad OF
1900 the Marathon was won by Teato,
Frenchman, with A. L. Newton, OF
the New York A. c. a good second.
Teato's time was hours SO minutes.
In the st. Louis Olypiad of 1904 all
the places we're won by Americans,
there being no foreign opposition
worth while. The winner, T. j. Hicks,
of the Boston, won over wretch
ed course in the unavoidably slow time
of hours 20 minutes SO seconds. Once
again the event was held on the ORR
i Cripo of Athang N lone or
though the Americans made a good
fight first place went to Sherring oil
Canada. w. G. Frank of the Irish
American A. G. was third in. Sher-
rings time was 2 hours 81 minutes
20 3-5 seconds. Outside of some min
or Variations, such as at Boston, St
Louis and other places, this brings the
history of the race to the present.
AS distance man anywhere from
two to ten miles Hayes was slow ano
never figured in the front brigade. But
he had plenty of stamina, and when
ever he did run any long distance II
was noticed that he finished fresh anC
in good shape. This led to the belief
that he was cut out for a Marathon
runner, and his friends advised MIN
to go for the Boston race two years
ago. He was duly entered by the st
Bartholomew Club of which he was
a member from the beginning of his
athletic career. 1t vii be remember
ed that in this particular Boston Ma
rathon Tom Longboat, the Canadian
Indian, appeared. The redslIin knock
ed all former records silly by covering
the course in hours "a minutes 20 4-5
seconds. Fowler Of Boston as second
in hours q minutes 81 seconds, and
this was 1 minute 20 3-5 seconds in
side the record. Hayes ran plucky
third, his figures being hours 80 min
utes SO seconds so that thus early in
his career he gave promise.
In the early part of last winter
those locally interested in Marathon
racing, particularly the Mercury A. Z
of Yonkers, organized Marathon anC
it brought cracks from the West AM
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