The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-12
KING WINNER or MARATHON
WITH FITZGERALD SECOND


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20 noidlef Klnr. me army shamfloh,
went ne hohafs n yesterdays full
marathon held AZ Athletic PARK. oct
Of q htid ~ nine uiartcn King en-.
ithea first, making lhe distance In three
hourk, fourteen minutes and Zen sec.
onds three ispa ahead Of Jimmie Pits.
gerald, who was The only other starter
% 20 TIE prescribed number Of lhps.
fitttofaid'e time was three hourn,
twenty-five minutes and atty seconds.
King ran consistent race, keeping
almost q uniform gait throughout, and
1niihiag strong. Fitzgerald showed
fine form, but his strength was not
sufficient for making a winning finish.
AZ II was he barely got across the
whitowash mark 70 mnko good his title
to second money Antoine Knoo, the
Island champion, did not show up quite
80 well as expected, going only q little
over twenty.three miles during the
winning period. He did not finish. The
old champion, whose age is reputed to
be anywhere from forty to sixty,
showed his oldtime form Mt first, but
suffered from cramps and could not
keep up the pace set by the younger
men. His record Of last February,
however, when he ran the full marathon
against Soldier King in three hours and
twelve minutes, was not beaten.
waves Flags at Finish.
Tho race was not fast marathon,
being about three-quarters of an hour
slower than the worlds record. It was
nearly dark when King sprinted across
the line, carrying in one hand an
American flag, and in the other a Ha-
waiian banner which he had snatched
from the rope stakes as he started on
his last lap.
There was a fairly good crowd, but
not as large as was expected. The gate
money that went to the winners was
not heavy, neither first nor second win
ner getting even q small fortune. Kaoo
ran under guarantee of 5000. Forty
per cent of the gross went to the man
agement, the remainder being split 60
40 between frat and second places.
1 There were nine runners in line when
Lorrin., andrews discharged the start
er's gun King, Fitzgerald, Kaoo,
Scharseh;; Charlie, woodward, Bara.
boza,i jackson, and Hakuole. Wood
ward, who ig tOuted as the champion
runper,l Of. the, Pacific feet, took the
lead Ia the first two miles, the others
trailing along at slower gait. wooo-
ward Q stride, was too fast and the
pace sopn put him out Of the running,
although he stuck to the. race until the
finish, Of the. winners. He has a good
strides and, plenty of. staying quality,
but VAS plainly lacking in training.
When Woodward "a squirt was over
Fitzgerald erept into the lead, and re.
manned, there until the twenty.third
mile when King passed him after max
ing mp two laps, and gradually in.
creased his, lead until the end Of the
race, Kings last mile was run in seven
minutes and ffty.six seconds.
Time Was Not Fast ia.
The first six laps, plus the ss5 odd
yards tackled onto the official, 26-mile
marathon, were Eeeled of. in seven min
utes and forty,fve seconds. The slow
est mile WIS the twenty-seeond, DUR
| ing which King, overlook Fitzgerald.
The time was nine minutes and seven
/ seconds. The twelfth mile was run in
six minutes and thirty-eight seconds,
due to sprinting on the part of Fitz-
/ gerald to keep King from ovettaking
/ him. Fitzgerald gave King an oppor.
| tunity to do this in the previous mile
when he stopped to change shoes.
At the fifteen-mile station seven Of
the starters were still in the race. Barn.
boz6, The. Filipino, who showed an en-
tire lack of training, quit after he had
run three miles, and Seharsch dropped
out when ne had completed the twelfth
mile. /, Up to this point the latter had
run a steady race, keeping close up to
Fitzgerald for many miles. and being
only three laps behind Jimmie when he
dropped out with his feet covered with
blisters that had begun TO be painful.
/ He looked like fnisher, with his
strong, even stride.
Seven Good Suckers.
| All seven were still in the race when
the1twenty-mile post was passed by
Fitzgerald, but some of them were
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