The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-07

They have all come back from Hilo,
that is, all those who did not miss the
boat or who waited to see how they
would come out on the pools, and very
few of them have anything very good
to say about the way in which the races
were run there.
The amateur affairs were all good.
The soccer game was won easily enough
by the Hilo bunch with score of 2
to Q, and the Hilo team also won the
baseball game by TO to s. But the
other events, on which there was any
chance to make money, seem to have
been about as crooked as a corkscrew.
The less said about the horse-racing
end of it, the better. There were so many
evidences of crooked work that, in spite
of the unimpeachable fairness of the
judges, Moir, Prince Cupid and Frank
Woods, nothing could be done to stop
it and the simple minded people from
Honolulu got theirs as usual
Au5 WHOlC tuIHS Cu1nlAdbtu III Luo
big event of the meeting on Monday.
In the Merchants Stakes for which
there is a purse of $500, o 'Rourke' IS
Banonica was blatantly pulled and
Weber allowed to win.
For the protection of the public the
judges called the event no race and
ordered it rerun. Then o 'Rourke made
howl and said that they could not
do this according to the rules of the
California Jockey Club with which the
Hilo race-track is affiliated and there
was a deadlock. Now people are won
dering whether they viii get their
money back from the pools or not.
The Tip Goes Round.
Well before the race. the night be-
fore in fact, the tip flew round that
O'Rourke had something commissioned
on Weber. Whether this is true or
not, it is hard to say, but the fact re-
mains that o 'Rourke's horse was pulled
and Weber won easily.
The most satisfactory races of all
were those for Hawaiian breds. In
these events the owners had more than
their money on their entries, they had
keen feeling that the honor of their
establishments must be upheld. Most
of the horses were owned by Japanese
huis from the various plantations and
not one of them would sell out.
Jackson Makes Hints.
Nigel Jackson limited, and not so
very vaguely either, that it was worth
more to him to come in second in the
Marathon race than first. He said that
the first prize was only $50 and that
there was considerably more in it for
him than that when he landed only Sec
ond
1t seems to have been a case of grab
ali the time. Those who did not go
with the intention of making a stake
by betting on the races, all had a good
time and have little to say about any
crooked work. 1t may be assumed that
the crooked cry is more or less due
to disgrruntled losers but there comes
sufficient information from people who
are above suspicion of such a thing, to
make it certain that the races were
pretty well framed up.
Way Up Prices.
There have been MANY complaints
made, too, of the prices in Hilo. One
man said, sit seemed as though every
body on Hawaii had joined a vast hui
for the purpose of taking the nimble
dollar away from the Honolulu people. |
SLAVES were forty cents, shines two
bits, two sandwiches one dollar and |
everything else in proportion.
Those who innocently went up to the |
Volcano House had very sad expert |
ence Although the management of the |
hotel knew perfectly well that hun /
dred and fifty people would come up |
from the Mauna Kea, there was no |
extra accommodation and. after the /
ladies had been looked after, the few |
beds that were left were given to the
older male members of the party while |
the others did the best they could.
which consisted in "fopping' on the
hoor wherever there was room.
Not Even Blankets.
There were blankets somewhere bHt
the management did not give these out.
one fortunate man got blanket from
japanese employee by tipping him %
cents. He was offered dollar for the
use OF it but stated that he would not
give 1t up for five dollars.