The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-09-14
By Jack Densham.

By Jack Densham.
Awards given by the judges in the
ten-mile race yesterday: Antoine Kaoo,
the Waialua horse, first; Tsukamoto, the
Hilo Japanese runner, second; G. X.
Charlie, the Kaimuki Pake, third; Nigel
Jackson, fourth.
More pilikia than was ever aroused
over race in this town was the result
of the ten-mile race at the Athletic
Park yesterday afternoon.
In justice to the park management
it must be stated that the park was
rented from the management for the
event, and that the people who have
made a name for pulling off attractive
events had nothing to do with the
management of the race. They have
learned lesson, and / have received
the personal assurance of all the direc-
tors in the park company that they will
never again rent their grounds for any
such event, but anything of the kind
will be pulled off by the management
itself, and they will see that things are
up to snuff.
Before telling about the pilikia l
must be allowed to say something about
the last lap of the race. 1t was one
of the most dramatic finishes that could
be dreamed by Phillips Oppenheim or
any of the other pupule magazine ex.
aggeratiOnists. For more than fifty
laps Antoine Kaoo, the Waialua horse,
had made the pace, and Tsukamoto was
clinging to his heels. When the score
showed that there was just one more
lap to be run, both the Jap and the
Horse started to sprint. They ran that
sixth of mile in time that you and
| could not begin to make if Harry L.
Mills and the Devil himself were after
us.
First Tsukamoto was ahead, then An
tone took the lead, round the second
base curve against the wind the Horse
was ahead; the Jap took short lead
until third-base was reached, and then
the Hawaiian veteran began to really
speed.
Down the Stretch.
He came down the stretch like a shot
out of cannon and the Jap could not
touch him. AT the finish of the stretch
the Hawaiian curved round the finish
and tripped. He fell with his hands
outstretched and not more than foot
from the finishing line. Like lightning
he squirmed up to the line and placed
his right hand over it some two seconds
before the Jap romped over the chalk.
Then pandemonium with a large
issimus" was let loose. The crowd
surged from the bleachers all over the
track and the three policemen present
were unable to cope with the mass of
humanity. The two judges, Eben Low
and John Wise, decided in favor of An
| tone Kaoo, and Referee Ayres upheld
| the decision.
Then the Japs made a demonstration.
They surged round the scorers table
and made threatening gestures. On the
outskirts of the crowd were bunch
of boys from the fleet. They did not
sabe the pilikia, but they were aching
for scrap. There were representa-
tives of many other branches of the
service, and they were all just waiting
for one single Japanese fan to make a
break. Luckily enough no break was
made.
Intensely Dramatic Finish
1t is impossible to describe the dra-
matte effect of that last lap. The thou
sands who had assembled to watch the
race, many of them, in fact most of
| them, japanese, rose to their feet and
yelled themselves hoarse. AT the finish
| the crowd surged over the track and
| blocked the other runners so that no
body seems to know whether Herbert
Cordeiro or Charlie finished third
Protests galore have been sent in.
| The Jap protests, Cordeiro protests, Me
| Candless protests, and others do the
| same. But pilikia at the finish, pro.
tests and everything else notwithstand-
+, ing, it was grand race.
Kaoo Led All the Way.
The grand old athlete who was
awarded the race deserved it by every
foot of the way. Forty-six years old,
running against a well.trained Jap,
against youngsters who should have
been able to put it all over him, Antoine
Kaoo made every Hawaiian proud to
watch HIM. Also he gained the sym
pathy and admiration of the whole
crowd.
Kaoo took the lead during the fourth