Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-03

the previous record for the half-mile,
held by John Carey, who once covered
the distance in PIP 2-5. Nottage' ran
beautiful race, coming In strong at
| the finish with game sprint
Even the Hawaiian. warriors of old
had nothing on Leslie Wishard, of
Punahou, when It comes to heaying
the steel-pointed javelin Wishard
picked up the spear and hurled it 125
| feet and / inch, breaking the local
A. A. u. record of 118 feet, held by
William Coney.
Fassoth, of Punahou, saw his own
record for the high jump shattered to
bits when w. f. JANSEN, of McKin-
ley, cleared the bar az 8 feet 10 IA
inches. Fassoth's mark was feet,
5 IL inches.
The Mckinley men had another
chance to see one of their colleagues
smash previous record for the six
teen-pound shotput, when s. Sousa
picked up the iron sphere and heayed
1t 36 feet. 8 inches, breaking the
former record Of SO feet, s "a inches
which was held by William Inman.
Mile Was Fast
The best event of the afternoon,
perhaps, when it came to breaking
previous records, was the mile run,
which was won by William Meinecke,
OF the Mckinley Track Team. in 4
minutes, 81 s-5 seconds, breaking his
own former record Of minutes and
8 seconds. Percy Nottage took the
lead at the start. and at the second lap.
was more than fifty yards ahead Of
Meinecke. The strain proved to be
too grilling, however. and Nottage
was forced to drop back. into second
place. Meinecke passing him when
about three hundred yards from the
finish.
In looking over the list of records
made. it win be seen that the greater
number fell to the lot of the members
Of the Mckinley High School Track
Team. although this aggregation did
not succeed in taking the meet. It
was long training that allowed the
sturdy upholders of the blue and gold
to rOmp around the field and end up
at the top OF the list 1nman,, Coney,
Gay, Fassoth. Watt, Hitchcock, the
Baldwin boys, Wishard and others,
might be mentioned as doing the.
brunt Of the work for Punahou, while
for Kamehameha, Opunui, Hipa, Ka-
nae. Manoha and Waialeale played an
important part
The Results
Following are the results of the
vaious events. in the A. A. u. meet:
40 Yard Hurdles-Won by w.
Opunui (K); Daniel Hipa (K), second,
and Elisha Andrews (M), third. Time:
Is 4-5 seconds F. NJ Friesell, of the
M T. T., made good start in this
race but fell at the second hurdle and
was forced to retire.
50 Yard pash--Won by George
Manoha (K); Earl Kaufman fM), sec
ond, and Alex Kalianihuia (K), third.
Time: 5 As seconds. Manoha won
first place in the first heat of this
race and ca1ne in strong in the final.
It is interesting to note that the time
made in the heats was the same as
that of the final.
One Mile Run-Won by William
Meinecke fM): Percy Nottage fP),5
second, and John Watt (P), third.
Time: 4:51 3-5. Nottage led off strong
In this event. but was passed by Mem
ecke when about three hundred yards
from the finish. Watt ran fine race
for third place.
100 Yard pash--Won by George Ma
noha (K); E. Baldwin (P), second.
and Alex Kalanihui (K), third. Time:
10 3-5 seconds. Manoha again, took
the race by good margin, also
taking first place in the first heat,
making the same time as he did in
the final.
40 Yard Dash-Won by Brownie"
Rice (M1; Elisha Andrews (M), sec
ond. and w. Opunun lKl. third. Rice
won this race by about five feet,
beating the previous record which
was held by his brother William Rice.
Time: 81 So seconds.
22o Yard Hurdles-Won by William
Coney (P); Ernest Gay (P), second.
and F. NJ Friesell (M), third. Time:
Is 2-5. Friesell lead off with a squirt
in this race, but was overtaken by
Coney at the center of the course and
also passed by Gay. Coney and Gay
nearly tied for first place.
Half-MiIe Run-won by Percy Not
tage (P); Browne" Rice (M), sec
ond, and William Meinecke (M), third.
Times, 2:11 40 Meinecke took the
lead at the start but dropped back to-
third place near the quarter,mile post,
claiming afterwards to have been
fouled by Nottage. Rice ran plucky
race. coming in second only a few
feet behind Nottage
22o Yard Dash-Won by George Ma.
noha (K); Ernest Baldwin (P), sec
ond, and William .'aris (P), third.
Time: "a 2-5 seconds. For the third
time Manoha, of Kamehameha came
in strong winner with Baldwin, of
Punahou, running a good second.
Manoha also took first place in the
second heat
HaIf-Mile Reiay-Won by Ernest
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