The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-21
SPOR S
FIVE FINISH
WITHOUT STOP

Five of the seven cars which COM
I peted yesterday in the second round
! the-island endurance race. for the Won
Hamm-Young cup finished with per-
feet scores and only one had to put
back because of early pilikia These
five each get a leg on the trophy.
These are E. H. Lewis, T. King, Frank
Dillon, Jas. Quinn and s. R. Jordan,
the other two contestants having been
]. Mcleod and F. D. Lowrey. Nc
Leod had a stop at Kaneohe to locate
fault in the timer, which failed to
yield to his treatment, it being found
necessary to call in the breakdown
car, the fact putting the racer out
of the running for the silverware. The
Lowrey car had trouble with it's car
bureters on the Pail road and put
back in distress
The day was an almost perfect one
for the contest, the weather being all
that could be desired and the roads
good. The arrangements for receiving
the contestants at Kahuku and at Ha-
leiwa were first class, Judge Mahaulu
timing the arrivals and departures at
Haleiwa and looking after the for
malities of the occasion, while Man
ager Bidgood welcomed the various
parties and sent them on their way
rejoicing after a taste of his hospi-
tally.
The start was made from Honolulu
promptly at ten o'clock, DR.. Brinck-
erhoff getting the first call to the line.
All went well with him until near
Waialua, when he was forced to stop
his engines to change, his gear, thus
putting him ID the bad on the score
card. The Dillon car had one little
streak of bad luck, tire blowing out
when near Kahana. The rubber was
jerked off and replaced in the almost
record time of twelve minutes, how |
ever, while the engines throbbed away
steadily, keeping the car still with a
perfect score.
The most unique experience, and
probably an experience never before
met with by an automobolist in any
part of the world, was that of S. R.
Jordan, who ran down a twenty-pound
fish on the course. This was during |
that portion of the run that takes the
cars down to the waters edge before
Hauula is reached. Just as his car
was spurning the sands, Jordan spied
a big fish being washed in on the
crest of a wave. He logged his steer
ing wheel. and made for the kicking
fish, striking it fairly with his front
wheel and killing it. The rules of the
run prevented him from stopping and
picking up his game, but before the
car was out of sight a joyful crowd
of native boys had sTetted it.
Jordan, by making a perfect score
yesterday, gets two out of the tlGee
needed for the cup, he being the only
one having more than one leg on the
trophy.
There were no accidents to any of
the cars in the run, nor to any of the
or their passengers, but an
other automobilist, j. A. Kennedy,
bound for Haleiwa from town, did not
escape so luckily, his broken-down car
being passed by the endurance racers
on, their way in at Waikekalau gulch.
The machine had the front axle broken
in two places, due altogether to some
flaw in the steel. While running the
over a perfectly level road
the axle broke, dropping the car free
Of the wheel, the jar swapping the
axle off on the other side and leaving
the machine tilted up and useless.