The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-02
Runner Fitzgerald
Tells Of His Work
Runner

Fitzgerald finished up his trainingI
for Mondays ten-mile race yesterday
and is fit and well.
The relay team ran at the athleticI
park yesterday afternoon, Soldier King
and Frank Scharsch going in good
style, The former runs as if he loves
the game and his heart is in every
stride that he takes
Scharsch runs as he did when heI
held the Hawaiian mile championship
just the same long swinging stridesI
and the same tireless action. He has
kept his form admirably which ISL
more than can be said of most SCHOOL,
or college runners who drop the gameT
for several years and then take it uDO
again.
Jackson did not make such a goodU
impression. That he is the weak mani
of the team there can be no doubt.
Yesterday he was running duly andU
seemed to have no speed He gaveN
the imI ression of a man who has rum
himself out. When running With
King making the pace, an occasional
/ sprint would cost him such effort that
he actually lost ground when he re-
turned to his ordinary pace,
He may show better form than this
on Monday, but win hardly do so with
out artificial aid, provided he was all
right yesterday afternoon.
Fitzgerald thinks that the race will
be won in IS minutes and expects that
he will be announced as the victor,
though he is prepared for a gruelingI
contest.
If he is anything like the Fitzgerald
of old, and if the climate has not
taken the edge off his speed, he should
not experience much difficulty in pull
ing down the big end of the purse.
In an interview this morning the lit
tie Canadian athlete said:
81 started my career as a runner in
1904, my first race being a challenge
event for the championship of the Sur
rey Athletic Club, which l won over
cross-country. This race was run near
London, England
after that l ran with considerable
success in England, winning the Sur
rey Athletic Clubs challenge cup and
race for the second time in 1906.
Among the runners whom l met and
| defeated in these races were F. A.
Knott and H. D. Montague, two of
England's foremost cross-country run
| ners.
After this won my first open race
on a cinder track at Stamford Bridge.
1t was at the Civil Service sports and
the distance was a mile. 1t is consid-
cred one Of the principal events of the
year, and l only squeezed home by a
| yard, after one of the hardest races
of my career, the time being APO.
The Duke of Connaught, think it was,
presented me with my prize.
In 1907 l went over to western
Canada to Edmonton, Alberta, where
started up in business. I did not do
any running that year, that is, from
July, 1907, to May, 1908, then on May
"a, Victoria Day, | ran my first race
on Canadian soil, ten-mile road race
| from Edmonton to Fort Saskatchewan,
| the military barracks. l won this race
by over a mile and was dressed when
the last man came in My time in this
race was 55:25.
"The outcome of this race was that
I was sent to Toronto for the Olympic
games try-outs, and after a five-day
trip through Canada and America | ar
rived in Toronto at p. m. of the day
before my race. ran in me five-mile
race and broke the then standing
OlymI ic record of 26;27 by one sec
ond, made by Athens in 1904. I also
ran second in a two-mile steeplechase
the same afternoon.
Greatly to my delight was chosen
to represent Canada in the fve-mile
event at the Olympic games at the
Stadium.
In the Olympic games I won my