The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-06
RALE|WA CUP
APPROPRIATE
Solid but Plain Is the Trophy
Selected by St. Clair
Bidgood.

st. Clair Bidgood was in town yes
terday and he had big package under
his arm. It turned out to be nothing
less than the Haleiwa cup to be given
for the first prize in the Marathon
race. After much persuasion he was
induced to uncover it and show it to
the admiring gaze of two members of
the committee.
The cup is plain one and, in a case
of this kind, appropriately plain. It
is of solid silver and has two handles
of almost severe design Mr.. Bidgood
did his best to get cup with figure
of Mercury chasing after the postal de-
partment on it, but there was not time
to have the engraving done and SO he
decided on a solid cup with suitable
engraying@on it.
It must be remembered that the an
cient Greeks, who at that time led the
world in athletics, took crown of bay
leaves for their prize after they had
won an athletic event. Following the
custom of the prize givers in all the
Marathon races on the mainland, the
prize for this event will be severely
plain. But it win have an inscription
that is worth whole lot more than
many Fart Nouveau' impossibilities.
The inscription will state that the cup
was given to the winner of the Haleiwa
Marathon on March IA, 1909, and the
name of the winner will be engraved
below.
Much Work to Be Done.
The committee has a large bunch of
work in front of it, before every
thing is properly fixed SO that the race
viii come off smoothly; but the local
merchants are helping out all they can
and everybody who can assist in any
way is coming through with the big
" Command me. -
Tomorrow A. K. Vierra and another
member of the committee will cover
the course in a machine kindly lent by
Mr.. Paul Isenberg. With them they
will take a number of stakes carrying
a pointer to show the road to be taken.
These will be driven in at points where
the course is at all uncertain and viii
point out the right way for the runners
to follow.
There was some trouble in getting
stakes until some wise youth suggested
| seeing Mr.. Gere, the County Engineer.
When Mr.. Gere heard what was want
ed he said that he would do all he
could to help out and Immediately sent
an assistant to hustle up a bunch of
stakes. This is a very important part
of the arrangements and Mr.. Gere s
courtesy, while being only what every
body is showing, is something to re-
| member.
Two other people have come to the
rescue in a timely way. Ehlers dry
goods store very kindly provided the
cloth on which to have the numbers
for each contestant printed and one
Bill Langton, who runs the Paradise
of the Pacific, offered to have the cloth
cut up and the numbers printed on the
pieces.
Invitations Please.
The invitations to the members of
the Legislature to attend the start of
the race. were read yesterday morning
and accepted Courteous replies have
been received by the secretary of the
race committee thanking him for the
invitations. When Mayor Fern stands
up to fire the gun, that will start the
racers on their long journey, there Will
be very DISTINGUISHED aggregation Ii
the bandstand Senators, Representa-
tives and Supervisors will decorate the
reserved seats and add greatly to the
kudos of the occasion by their presence.
Those who intend going to Halelwa
are again warned to buy their tickets
early. This rate of $3.50 for place
in the committee train is the lowest
that was ever made for this trip. 1t
has been made possible only because
the committee has hired a special. 1t
the train is filed up the committee will
come out even, if not there will be
loss that has to be sustained by the
COMMITTEES and one good sportsman who
stepped in to help out, purely and sim
ply for the sake of sport.