The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-27
RUNNERS ARE
BIC FEAsTERS
Indian Longb0at Holds Appetite
Record-ProWess Excites
Attention.

Attention.
frequently stories are printed tell
ing Of the tremendous eating ability
OF great Enthusiastically the big
weight throwers, who seem possessed
of an unceasing fire in their midst, the
only quenching for which is food in
heavy consignments. Heretofore we
have been told how Martin Sheridan.
the hero of the OIympiad at Athens
last year. consumed a dozen or so OF
lamb chops at a sitting. with yege-
tables in like proportion. and how Dem
mis- Horgan, the big N. Y. A. c. shot
putter, gets away with thirty raw eggs
for his breakfast now and then.
Now the runners are beginning to
! feed up" strongly. an example being
furnished in the relating of some of
the experiences of Tom Longboat. the
great Indian runner, and Fred Vokes,
the veteran handler Of athletes en-
ployed by the 74th Regiment of Buff
falo. Longboat and his Indian trainer
hit Buffalo one snowy morning last
February. The Indian was to run
George Bonhag a three-rnile race at
the faiths armory the same week.
When it came lunch time the Indians
looked up vokes. who always looks
after the needs Of athletes who are
guests of the 74th in handsome fash
ion. After vokes had greeted Long
boat and received the Indians salu-
tation Ia grunt) in return. vokes said:
"Come on, boys. and have some
lunch Another grunt from the red
skins signffed their assent
INDIAN GETS BUSY.
vokes led the way to a pretty swell
chopnouse where lunch was served
for the goodly sum Of IS cents. He
left word with the proprietor to serve
the Indians, and the 74th would foot
the bill. To make the story short.
vokes returned a day or SO later to
settle up with the innkeeper, and was
greeted with this:
SAY. Vokes, the next Indian you
| bring here. I win pay you IS cents If
YOU viii take him away before lunch .
What's the natter" inquired the
| trainer. What happened ?"
why" said the proprietor. "that
Longboat fellow only ate two beef
steaks and sixteen boiled eggs with
trimmings
Sure enough the redskin had asked
the waiter for heap big steak" and
after finishing that and being asked
Anything else?'' he said: Sure,
eggs
How many. sir9'' asked the waiter,
bit ruffled. "oh- about eight" said
Longboat. The eggs went by the
board In jig time. and once more the
waiter asked: Anything else, sir?'
Sure, steak" came from the stoHd
son OF the forest.
BY this time the waiter was COM
pIetely overcome and in deadly fear Of
losing his Job. but the appetite Of
Longboat waxed strong. Seeing the
waiter was a bit tinid Longboat sum-
u1oned him and asked: ANY more
eggs?" In a few minutes the Indians
knife had split the shells Of eight
more. and the feast was over. Is
il little wonder that the Indian has
such wonderful staying power when
he can get away with such meals and
live TO tell the tale?
Longboat's appetite once caused
great commotion al one Of the swell
hotels in Buffalo. where he was stay
ing prior 10 one Of his big races The
clerk at the desk began TO receive re-
quests from the guests TO change their
seats in the dining-room. First one
then four; finally by the dozen It
got 10 be such a nuisance this chang
ing Of seats that the manager Of the
hotel. started a personal investigation
and found out that everybody wanted
seats around one spot-Longooat'
table.
what is 50 interesting about that
part Of the aIning-room?" asked the
manager Of the head waiter.
WHY. sir" was the reply. they
all want TO see that there Indian eat"
Had Longboat stayed At the hotel
few days longer the management