The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-12
MARATHON WON
BY GORMAN
Old Man Ayres Wins Walking
Race at kapioIani
Park.

hours, % minutes and 81 As seconds,
he finishing at 5:30:37 As. Second,
exactly one mile behind Cor
man, and finishing in a walk for posi-.
ton.
2. Eleven-mile bicycle race. Won
by Beerman in 36:19. Padeken, Sec
ond
8. Five-mi1e 1-2 h. p. motorcycle
race. Won by Herrick in 8:15 81. Sec
ond, Straus, in min, As see.
4. Twomile walking race. Won by
II. M. Ayres in 1915. Second, William
McTighe, twelve feet behind.
5. Two-mile motorcycle, 2 3-4 h. p.
Won by Herrick in 2:55. Second, Ber-
ger, in 1882 IA.
6. Ten-mile motorcycle, twin cylin-
der. Berger finished alone in 1882.
The above results of the great ath-
letic meet at Kapiolani Park yesterday
afternoon were witnessed by thousands
of spectators who lined both sides of
the race track in the vicinity of the
finishing line. The events were we'll
handled and there were no disputes.
The crowd was satisfied. The events
attracted cosmopolitan crowd and
rich and poor mingled on the common
ground of clean sports.
In despite of rather warm after.
noon and commencing just after the
noon hour was over, the crowd surged
about the track and swarmed over the
lawns, eager to see the start and equal
~ anxious to be in at the finish. Mount
ed and foot police officers were busy
but the crowd was good-natured, as all
crowds are on Kamehameha Day.
Interest eentered largely in the Mara
thon race and in the motorcycle races
with their spectacular finishes, but it
was good to see Old Man Ayres walk
ing in the best approved style OF
straight heel and toe, the art which
he learned in England and has been
improving ever since in Hawaii mel.
Although there are walkers and walk
ers, Ayres style la Hoyle takes the
eye and the admiration of those who
follow sport events for sports sake.
Ayres' walk in the two-mile race was
great. He never deviated from his
style. Whether the man in front of
him seemed to be almost on the point
of breaking into a trot, Ayres kept
to heel and toe. During his second
and last mile he was followed and sur
rounded by small army of boys.
The motorcycle races had a virtue
among many. They kept the crowds
back from the track. The sight of a
motor bike whizzing and cracking
along the route at express speed, throw
ing up clouds of dust and giving the
riders the appearance of demons owing
to their peculiar headgear, caused con-
siderable apprehension. 1t was fine
demonstration of the speed attained by
a motor bike, and showed how general
they are coming into use here. Herrick
won in the two events of less than
ten miles, but the ten-mile race was
won by Berger.
In the last race, ten-mile race for
motor bikes, Berger was just getting
ready when his machine caught fire. 1t
was doused under water tap, and the
start was made. Later his machine
caught fire again, and had to be stop
ped and the flames again extinguished.
ne Nuu III Soou tliiiS; ING OtAOlS uot
finishing.
The Marathon race was over o.
mile course, which involved run once
around the mile track at the park, and
then a run through the city, out past
Fort Shafter and Moanalua, past the
little road leading up to the polo field,
and ON out toward the town edge of
Honolulu plantation, just beyond the
site of last years National Guard
Camp. The return through town and
five times around the track made the
twenty-six miles. German, the lad who
made a game walk in the first Mara
thon to Waialua, came in abreast OF
Lebrescu, the doughty little lad from
the Marine Corps detachment of Camp
Very. But when German crossed the
tape, he had wop, for Lebrescu was just
one mile, or one tour around the track
behind German He had, therefore, to
keep on. Toward the finish he turned
handsprings, stood on his head, and did
several other aerobatie stunts to show
how fresh he was. German made fine
run of it, and finished fresh. There
were nine entries. Two dropped out
after twelve miles and one dropped out
before that The entries were Harry
German, NJ. Lebreseu, j. c. Ewing, J.