The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-04
TSUkAMOTO QUITS IN THE
Fifteenth MILE OF RACE
Jackson Runs Ills Opponent to Standsti---
Jap Gives Sore Feet as Excuse for
Dropping Out.

The Marathon match race between
Tsukamoto, the japanese winner of
two ten-mile races, and Nigel Jackson,
the old wardog of long distance was
one of the greatest races ever seen up
to the fifteenth mile. Then the Jap
quit. He quit cold. If he had tumbled
all over the track and had had to be
carried off, even though it were a bluff,
we would all have been satisfied. But
he did not. He stopped to have his
feet attended to and allowed Jackson
10 gain one mile and one lap.
Then Tsukamoto started again with
bare feet. He ran one lap magnificent
". spurted out ahead of Jackson but
stopped at his kokua station while
Nigel went ambling on. Then began
much piIikia. Tsukamoto' 8 managers
and trainers talked to him in his own
language The haoles could not I'M
derstand, but some of the judges who
handle the banzai lingo pretty well,
put their fingers to their ears. They
did not like to hear such talk on a
Sunday.
But Tsukamoto would not go on
again. He pointed to his bleeding toes
and the gaping blisters on his feet and
said, rather plaintively, ''Me pau. -
The hordes of japanese spectators
ranged along the track, out by left
field where Tsukamoto s kokua station
was. made hardly a murmur. One of
them had megaphone and he used it
to good effect. but the others merely
Tor fla-
BILE things about their countryman who
quit.
jackson Drops to Walk.
Jackson kept up fairly good pace
until he was sure that the Jap had
quit, then he began to walk and take
1t easy. This was not very much worth
while for the spectators, so the judges
had conference with the management
of the park. The latter agreed to
waive the article in the agreement to
the effect that the entire distance must
be run and agreed to pay over the
stated percentage of the gate receipts
to the two runners. The race was
then declared won by Jackson and
everybody left, the japanese sore at
their representative and the others
with a comfortable knowledge that
Jackson would have won any way.
A Record Crowd.
The crowd was far and away the
largest ever seen at the Athletic Park.
There are no statistics but it looked
IS though four thousand people were
Shere. Every seat in the grandstand and
bleachers was taken half an hour be-
fore the race started and then the
crowd began to overflow along the
track lines.
The bandstand FILLED up first, then
the boxing ring, 81 anding beyond third
base, was iammed9 tight with a thick
crowd on either side of it and, finally,
the spectators wandered round to the
outfeld where they squatted on the
grass or stood up By the time the
race was half over the entire track
was ringed with a four deep crowd,
save only where the track runs eloss
to the fence and there was no room
for spectators on account of the score
board
The free gallery was filled early in
the game. In fact it was so well filled
that the police had to order them off
as the fence was beginning to groan
under the weight of the live load on
top of it. Automobiles began to roll
in by the mauka gate and it was hard
for them to find place where they
could poke in behind part of the
crowd thin enough to be seen through.
Perfect Management.
The management of the thing was
excellent in every way. The crowd was
handled to perfection, nobody who had
no absolute right there, was allowed in
side the ropes and the spectators were
distributed without any undue crowd
ing at any point
The scoring arrangements were per-
feet. \ large board against the fence,
where everybody on the grounds could
see it, had on il the names of the two
runners printed in large letters. Below
this were spaces for laps and miles.
the captions painted in letters large
enough for all to see. As soon as the
runners had covered lap the figures
were changed and everybody could see
exactly what distance the runners had
covered.
Judges Entirely o. <.
The iudging was also well done in
every way Before the race the judges
and runners had a conference and all
the rules were explained and agreed
on, The main points were that each
runner might have two rubbers. Each
competitor. if he left the track for aid,
must do so entirely unassisted. Neither
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