The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-05
At FINISHING LINE;
THE BICYCLE RACES

At the Waialua end there was enough
to declare the race no
race even without any other reason.
Primed carefully as to their duties, the
finishing judges were supposed to keep
track of every finisher and his time.
They not only never got the time but
got only the names of three winners.
The finishing judges were supposed
to be Judge Mahaulu, Oscar Cox, John
ny Anderson and V. l.. Stevenson. Stew
enson came down in the press car and
was too late for the bicycle races but
as he was assigned only to the mara.
thon, it made no difference. Mahaulu
sauntered around the finishing line gay
ly decorated with committee badges
and new Panama hat. Oscar Cox
came down just in time to shake hands
with Mayor Fern upon the latter s ar
rival and then disappeared for three
hours. Johnny Anderson was lost in.
the shuttle.
Two policemen, one mounted and one
on foot, in brand new uniforms, waited
at the finishing line for three hours,
hoping that somebody would come in
and give them chance to distinguish
themselves in the eyes of the young
ladies but when Comes finally crossed
the line they were nowhere in sight
and the cavalrymen had to break way
for him through the crowd.
Cohen Is special excursion train came
in just about the same time as the
last racer in the junior bicycle race.
Here again more blunders were made.
In the rubbing down house were all
the racers in the bicycle events,
stripped and waiting for their clothes
that they might return and receive the
plaudits they had earned. While they
waited, the suit cases containing the
same were reclining snugly in the o.
R. s. l.. depot some thirty miles away.
Most Of them had to return to town
in their racing clothes, which were a
mass of mud from head to foot. Not
all of the racers had rubbers, and some
were badly in need of one upon finish
ing; but in this case no blame can be
attached to anyone except themselves,
for they were to supply their own as
sistants to rub them down.
Cohen claims that he had nothing to
do with the suit cases, although Scully
last year took care to have them
brought down. Some of the boys who
came down on the special excursion
happened to see them on the depot
platform and being acquainted with
the details managed to put some OF
board before the train started. In con
sequence some of the boys managed tt
get changes of clothes and the friend!
of the others contributed from theil
own clothes which they were wearing
to fit out the others.
The Bicycle Winners.
The information SO painstakingl
gathered by the judges is that Lincol
! Achieu won the senior race and eth
.kzHapanese" won the Junior race. 4
fgreat deal Of difficulty was experience,
Fin getting the time, but it was foun,
that Mahaulu had taken the time o
the two winners, the time of two other
without getting their names and tn
names of three others without gettin
l their time.
/ By comparison of watches Achieu
time was two hours and eight minutes
"Sylvester was reported to have com
In second, but as there is no such nam
on the list, it must have been Sylveste
Gardia.
The Japanese" was discovered t
he Iramura Karulki, and his time wat
as near as can be ascertained, two hour
and nineteen minutes. Magoon wa
second. The time in both cases ca
hardly be called official. Nothing wa
official. Should the race be declare
good there is nothing to determine th
men who made third and fourth place
in each race, for whom there are prize
Judge Mahaulu says that he stoppe
taking the times and names, as he sa
Ben Hollinger doing SO, but the latte
was not an official, apd although he a
tempted the job his attempt was ;
big failure as that of the judges.
And there you arel
More Pililkia.
And again the strains of discord brea
out. just before Chillingworth r
turned to town a number of the race
! came to him and complained that ii
japanese was twenty-five years old al
J should have been disbarred, Chillin
worth at once agreed to make an i
!, vestigation, and no prizes will be awar
, ed until everything is settled. That
one more race gone.
During the day the throng increase
i at the finishing line as the day a
vanced, and as everybody talked pc
! ties, few people noticed the non-arriv
, of the runners.
Nobody did anything The cour
! judges rode in occasionally, but had Il
tie information except that Kaoo W
, lending in the Marathon. Then rum
came in that Kaoo had broken dow
: but nobody took any steps to 90 o
after him. Finally two newspapegm
: hunted around for a machine, aud
: private owner volunteered. They pass
= Reynolds machine bringing the q
: man mp, but did not see him in II a
continued 10 the place where he h
fallen. Seeing that he had been pick
up, they shot back to the hotel, to q
J, Kaoo safe In the rubbing house.
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