The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-15


Dick Sullivan wins Open class, 1908,
II. M. Ayres, second, 1910.
The heavyweights were waiting round,
All eager for the start;
Each had number pinned above
His large and manly heart.
But only three of them were there
The latest of the fat
And someone asked in accents loud
"Where is that big bluff Matt7''
They waited for another car
But Matthew never came.
"Come on, - cried Charlie, ''let us start
And don It delay the game
Jack fred the gun and off they went
Adown the wide long street;
But Matthew Heffern was not there,
He must have had cold feet.
The great walking contest was pro-
nounced by the hundreds, almost thou
sands, of spectators who congregated
to watch it, as one of the greatest and
most successful sporting events ever
pulled off on the island. From the
starting point to the finishing tape the
road was thronged with spectators and,
| during the omen class race, the com
| petitors were hemmed in and hidden by
the dense crowd of watchers who fol-
lowed them ON foot, on horseback, in
buggies and in automobiles.
AT the finishing post the crowd was
so dense that it was all the police could
do to clear lane for the walkers. The
I finish between Sullivan and Ayres was
so close and exciting, that people were
pressing forward and craning their
necks to see which one of the mighty
athletes would force himself onto the
tape the first. Sullivan, by pure con-
dition and wind, gained on Ayres in the
last few hundred yards and passed the
post winner by several yards and ex-
actly seven seconds in time.
From start to finish the pace was
heartbreaking. So terrific was it that
the field was very soon spread out like
the tail of comet, with the shining
bald pate of the Methuselah Britisher
flashing in the lead and the bright
green running pants of the winner, be.
low and slightly behind, to add variety
to the coloring of the scene.
Sam Hop Leads Start.
Sam Hop dashed to the front when
4 the gun was fred, setting a fearful pace
that he was unable to keep up for more
than few hundred yards. Then came
Cheathem and Fahy with Ayres and
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a rush, and threatened, only to be re,
pulsed and sent back home. Three min
utes after the game started, Bob Chill.
lingworth had his first hard work and
he was kept pretty well busy for the
rest of the game. Elisha Andrews and
} H. Bailey got away and looked like
scoring, but Sherwood cleared and the
, ball went as far as the middle of the
field before it was sent back to
threaten the sparklers' goal.
i Then the Diamond Heads got away
and Carl 0ss made fine shoot, but
the ball was caught by the wind and
went two inches too high. From there
Z the ball took a sudden flight to the
other end of the field, and Bob had tc
| do some more lively work to keep the
Males from scoring.
, Again Eddie Fernandez and Car
Oss- got away, the former delivering {
fine pass to Carl, who was in a boz
] and could not make a good shot
S Thence the ball went to midfeld ani
a Elisha Andrews took possession. H,
: saw a chance TO get away, and he did
!. His blue-clad legs went rushing dow
the field like a whirlwind and Their,
was no chance TO step him. He die
h as Mon Yin had in the previous gam
a waited till he was sure before h
!, shot. Then he placed the ball in tn
= only part of the goal where there wa
q not piece of Bob Chillingworth an,
n the Males had scored the first goal.
q The Diamond Heads bucked up con
:, siderably after this, but their shootin
Z was poor and both Kea and Carl Os
seemed to lack speed. although tn
a clearing and getting the ball ava
n from opponents of both were fine.
a The Second Half.
e The second half was very much i
e favor of the Males so far as goa
e threatening was concerned. They ha
Il the ball in front of the sparklers goa
It most of the time and kept Bob JUMP
ing round like a midnight flea. But h
e was there with the grand defense an
a. let never single shoot go by him.
it About the middle of the half a. FIRE
lie kick was given against the damon
d Heads for foul charge, H. Bale
fl being the victim. The ball was squaI
VI INV Eooi oii WV p"S'
rs yard line and it sailed clear throug
ID the goal, Bob standing to one sid
u when he saw that it had touched I
ID PLAYER. He was wrong in this, hov
he ever, as glance at the rules wi
show.
is For the balance of the game it We
ut case of shoot Males. catch Bob, unit
~ it was almost monotonous When IL
y whistle blew for no side, the damon
as Heads had made one grand spurtj b,
IS it was a fash in the pan, and I'll
I. Males were worrying them very ba
ne ly when the whistle put an end to Il
II. struggle.
The lineup was:
u. D. Head. Position. Mail
ey Bob Chillingworth. G. .......... Bells
ia Sherwood LIZ. Center (capt
lie Hickman ..R.F. ......... MEG
&c Ziegler ......L.H... ........ Day
er Chiffon -. ~. .C.HaH. Chillingwor
on Hughes .........R.H... II. AndreN
ID Kea ...O.L..... Marcallii
on Norton .........IL.... Sing Chol