The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-23
GETTING READY
FOR H|LO JULY 4
Four Runners Went on Mauna
kea Yesterday---Ayres Is
After Scotchman.

All the sports are beginning to think
about getting away to Hilo for the
Glorious Fourth. There will be all
kinds of big doings there, beginning on
Saturday and ending only on Monday
night. There is a special excursion ar
ranged by the Inter-Island people and
lulu S sporting fraternity will make the
trip.
The Mauna Kea carried four fast
ones yesterday. There is some class
here and this little consignment of run
ming stock may be the means Of bring
ing back trife in the shape of prize
money.
Bonnie Judd shipped Captain For
see and Roulon while Manuel Rodriguez
will take his Lizzie Moore and Glare
c. Each one OF these four runners can
go more than some and great things
are expected of them.
The athletic events that will take
place on Sunday, July 4, are attract
ing plenty of attention here. 1t will
be noticed that this is the first time
that the Hilo people have voluntarily
put up one mile walking race. The
reason is soon found. A new draft of
Scotchmen has recently been sent out
| from the Old Country and this con-
tanned many sprightly athletes. Most
of the new arrivals are quartered on
plantations near Hilo and there is said
to be a famous mile walker in the
draft
This is the little ace in the hole that
the Hilo people are chortling over But
they are up against hard game if they
think they are going to put it on the
one and only Ayres.
Ayres is training vigorously to pro-
tect his own reputation and that of the
| Island of Oahu. Few people seem to
| appreciate the. remarkable record he
made at Kapiolani Park on June IL.
| While he walked the first of the two
miles in slow time he did the second in
| better than Island record time, Sis.
| The second mile time of a twb-mile
walk does not go for a record so this
| does not stand, but Ayres did it all
right, and it just goes to show what
he can do if he is put to it at HiIo.
Sullivan walked the mile at the Boys
Field at the Chinese sports in SAC and
Ayres was beaten. But then he was
not in really good trim and there is
not the least doubt in the world that
| he can slip several notches into that
time at Hilo and make the Scotch lad
| die HE him back to the heather.
The local Marathon runners are tax
ing the Hilo event very seriously. Nigel
Jackson and Hayes are both training
relgiOusly for the race and, as the
| Marathon race is not a Marathon race
but a short long-distance affair, we may
expect to see one of our Oahu cham
pions take the prize.
| Yesterday afternoon Jackson and
Hayes ran a tryout on Kapioiani track
and made the very excellent time of
1870 for nine miles. This is very fast
time indeed and, as the Hilo course is
not much longer than nine miles, there
will be something doing for the rainy
runners when the gun cracks.
They don t make 'em any better than
the sports offer in the Crescent City,
and there is a large welcome being ar
ranged for the Honolulu sportsmen.
Those who leave here to compete in any
of the events, whether horse racing or
athletic. will do their utmost to pack
back bunch of laurels and dough, but,
even should Oahu lose everything, it
will be worth it for the good time the
| Hilo people always give Won and for
the chance to ''Watch Hilo Crow