The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-05
JOE FORREST BEATS
THE OREGON WONDER
BaptIsta Makes Faster Time ir
Relay Race Than Champion
Does to Defeat Wilkinson.

Joe Forrest retained his title at the
rink last night IN a close finish with
George Wilkinson, the Oregon wonder
Forrest covered the mile in three min.
uteS and sixteen seconds with the Port
land lad right on his heels all the way.
Wilkinson had the inside of the track
to start and pulled out in the lead at
the crack Of the gun. Forrest was on
his trail and passed him when they
were halfway around on the third lap
of the seventeen and a quarter lap
course. Wilkinson lost some ground for
the next couple of rounds, but then
regained it. He Rugged up to Joe from
then on. On the twelfth round the fly
ing OregonIan gave the local cham
pion's supporters something of shock,
coming up abreast at the twelve and
a half mark, but Joe took a squirt and
shut him out of the lead to the finish.
The gun missedfre when the winner
crossed the finish line and the skaters
kept right on going. VIII Prestidge
worked his trigger pull for all he was
worth and finally had to resort to the
megaphone to let them know 1t was
over.
Beats Trio One Lap.
Forrest beat the trio in the three
mile relay race by a little over one
lap. His tune for the ffty-one and three
quarters times around was ten minutes,
thirteen and one-half seconds. He did
the first miles in three minutes and
twenty seconds; the second mile IN
three minutes and five seconds, and the
third in three minutes and forty light
and a half seconds.
Joe gave the first man, Marcus, a
handicap the width of the course and
beat him the first mile over lap. Mar
Gus started at the upper end of the
ring right in front of the lemonade
stand, while Forrest struck out from
the entrance side. He passed Marcus
in the first lap and passed him again IN
the fifteenth. Marcus dropped out over
lap behind and Baptista took up the
pace. Baptista fell down at the lower
end on the first time around, but lost
ONLY about two seconds on this spill
Joe hung on his heels until the fifth
when he passed him. The two hung
close together that the excitement was
second mile which was covered III
eleven seconds faster time than Forrest
did in his race with George Wilkinson
so that Wilkinson would have to make
better time than he did last night to
beat daddy-longlegs Baptista. WITT
two men down Manuel Freitas butted
in for his merry-go-round. He struck
out over the trail and the two kept sc
close together than the excitement wa;
intense and the crowd thought they
were breaking worlds records, but
Forrest Just worked it to maintain th'
lead and his time on the third mile wa:
only three forty-eight and half, the
slowest of the three.
Wilkinson Has Speed.
/ Young Wilkinson showed up pretty
/ strong as a skater He is an inch o.
two taller than Forrest and not quit
so slim as the champion. He has
good spring to his stride but seeme'
hampered by close quarters.
! w. p. Bolster was the tlmekeepe
and George Gall kept tabs on the skat
ers. Y. L. Stevenson, H. W. cav an,
A. Peterson were the judges, }
! Springer was the official starter ant
/ VIII prastidpa the announcer.