The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-23

completed before King had another
lap to his credit over Kaoo King
was running in very easy fashion. his
strides being easy and long while
Kaoo plodded rather than strobe. Still
both the leading competitors were
moving well, and looked capable of
keeping the pace up for any distance,
but Charlie and Hau labored at times,
Hau getting into difficulties first, and
quitting after running eight miles.
HaIf-a-miIe Ahead.
At the end of the eighth mile King
was two and quarter laps ahead of
Kaoo. In the next mile he only gain
ed about half a lap, but in the first
lap of the tenth mile King shot out
and, crowding on the pace, he again
caught Kaoo, and led by three laps
He was thus half a mile ahead and
still gaining. Even allowing for the
staying power which the Waialua
| Horse was known to possess, at this
stage of the race it looked odds on"
King, and as mile after mile was run
and yard after yard was gained by
King, it looked more and more as
though King were to make good In
the first lap of the eleventh mile King
was three and a half laps ahead. and
in the final lap of the 18th mile he
was again at Kaoo's shoulder, four
laps to the good. The thirteenth AMI
fourteenth miles were run with King
and Kaoo within few feet of each
other, King endeavoring in the latter
half of the fourteenth mile to get away
from Kaoo without success KaoO'5
running at this stage, though he was
four laps behind, was pleasing to his
supporters, and the cheering which
followed the quickening of the pace in
the first lap of the fifteenth mile
showed that the spectators were look
| ing forward to Kaoo making a move
towards cutting down some of the lead
established by King. The latter re-
sponded to the effort made by Kaoo,
and the pair raced round the track for
about two hundred yards, but then
Kaoo dropped slightly back and King
kept going, gaining thirty yards in the
third lap of the fifteenth. This mile
was run in six minutes AZ seconds, and
at its completion King was four and a
half laps to the good. During the
next half mile King gained half a lap
and was then five laps ahead of the
Hawaiian, who still plodded along
King ran his fifteen miles in l: 4O:SO'
but it was five minutes and fifty-siX
seconds later that Kaoo passed the
same mark.
= Kaoo Distressed.
There was little change in the six
teenth mile, but when two-thirds OF
the seventeenth had been run, KaNo
being then still five laps behind King,
the Hawaiian dropped into a walk, and
before he had resumed running King
had added another quarter of lap to
his advantage. This move on the part
of the Hawaiian was greeted with
cheers by Kings supporters. Kaoo
lost further ground before completing
the sixteenth mile, and just as he
crossed the finishing line he again
stopped and walked for a spell. King
was a mile, all but half a lap, ahead OF
Kaoo when he passed the seventeen
mile mark, which he had run in
l1:55:3O, but this half lap was soon
picked up by King, who was at Kaoo's
heels at seventeen and half miles.
King Leads BY over a Mile.
At the commencement of the fifth
Hap of the eighteenth mile Kaoo again
stopped, and tapping his right side in
dictated that he had a stitch He walk
ed few yards and then trotted a few
PAGES before getting into his stride
again, while King forged further and
further ahead being one mile and two
fifths of lap ahead when he had run
eighteen miles Kaoo seemed to have
regained his wind again in the couple
of laps following his spell and ht
, frightened up considerably, bringinl
hope to the hearts of his supporters
as he closed up on King again.
Kaoo Commences to Gain.
4 In the second lap of the nineteenth
= mile he gained considerably and il
= the following lap he caught King ant
a., was just a mile behind. King quick
ened up, but Kaoo stayed right wit
= him. and at the completion of the nine
Il teenth mile they were together, Kim
!, having run the distance in 2:1l;5'
q King Quits.
x Half-a-mile further on, King quit
p and the huge crowd assembled brok
into loud cheers for the Hawaiian
who continued to run round the trac
g at about the same speed he had mail