The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-24


well received round town yesterday,
and interest in the coming event
evineed itself by many repetittons of
the word Marathon on streer-cor-
ners and on street cars.
Nigel Jackson was not a bit taken
aback when he read of the many ehal.
lenges that are out against him. Tie
stated most emphatieally that he would
defend his title to the championship
of the Islands and had already started
training for the big event on April IS.
With regard to wagers, Mr. Jack
son states that he has made arrange
ments to have them all covered and
that all amounts placed as a side BET
by runners, with the sporting writer on
the Advertiser, will be promptly paral-
leled.
Kapiolani Park has become a ia
vorite place for training. Every af-
ternoon and also in the evening the
mile track is decorated with the fit
ting figures of aspiring contestants,
and the old place has been found an
excellent place to train on.
Good Lessons Learned.
Some good lessons were learned by
the contestants in last Sundays race.
One was that, as stated in these col
umns, rubber shoes of the cheapest va
rietv were the best things to wear.
Another was that going downhill is al
most as hard as walking up if you
don t know how to do at.
Most of the runners state that the
race did them good and that they feel
just ready to start in training for the
next event. Running round a track
will be very different from pounding
over the hard roads and, of course,
much better time will be made.
II. NJ. Ayres has definitely decided
to enter the race and states that he ex-
poets to surprise his friends by the
showing he will make. In the last race
he actually walked twenty-one miles
at a hard pace and has it figured out
that man who will walk a lap and
then run lap, in the next race, will
come mighty near coping off the big
thing.
By this means a man should be able
to make every mile in trife less than
nine minutes, and if he can keep it up
for the entire distance he might easily
beat many runners who try and run all
the way. Just how good Mr.. Ayres
idea is it is hard to say, but there is
no denying that he will be a danger
Gus antagonist to go up against, what
ever gait he uses.
Fahy's Clever Scheme.
Dal Fahy told yesterday of scheme
he had on the last race that was a
very good one He wore golddust
belt such as is used by miners, and in
each compartment of the belt he car
ried a small phial of brandy. At each
kokua station he washed out his mouth
with water and then took drink of
four parts of water to one of brandy.
He states most emphatically that this
stimulant enabled him to finish as well
as he did.
Schemes of this kind will, of course,
be unnecessary in the next race as ev-
cry runner will have his station with
trainers and helpers to render him as
sistance whenever he needs it. The
very best and most up-to-date arrange
ments will be made in this respect and
contestants will have the use of the ex-
perience of the promoters of all the
recent Marathon races that have been
run all over the States.
Today the league trustees will state
definitely as to the use of the league
dc no IN w
wills allow them to be rented. Until
definite arrangements are made 1t Is
impossible to make any announcement
as to where and when entries will be
taken in.
The management of the event will
be the best possible. A responsible par
" has promised to provide the neces-
sarv money with which to run the affair
and to provide the very latest and best
of everything to make the race sue
cess. Gate money will be charged for
admission to the grounds and the party
in question will take his chance of com
ING ont even on the proposition.
The minute that the league trustees
come to decision and arrangements
for the use of the grounds are made,
the place where entries will be reeelv.
ed viii be announced and work Will
be begun on roping off the track.
It is expected that there will be a
larger entry list than there was fol
the last race and the event promises
to be the most largely attended and
exciting affair ever seen on these Is
lands
Origin of the Marathon.
Many people round town have been