The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 42

D-2 Monday, December 17, 1973 HONOLULU ADVERTISER 0 tt -r Al rlj.ur 1 The race is on! Some 167 runners cross the starting line at the Aloha Tower before sunrise yesterday. EmoMm Maraihomg 1S1 of 167 mm Advertiser Photos by David Yamada Mac don aid wins 26-mile grind i i 1 Til By BEN KALB Advertiser Sports Writer Duncan Macdonald was sitting on the grass at Kapiola-ni Park with a thermometer in his mouth when someone tried to hand him a can of beer. "What a bum thing," said Macdonald, the former Kailua High and Stanford University distance runner. "I can't take a drink of anything until I take a urine test. I'm part of a medical experiment." Macdonald, who is in his second year of medical school at the University of Hawaii and has a physiology final exam at 9:30 a.m.

today, took time out from studying to win the first Honolulu Marathon yesterday and become a guinea pig of sorts for fellow med students. MACDONALD WAS ONE of 167 runners ranging from 8 to 58 years of age who got up before dawn to compete in the grueling 26 mile, 385-yard race that will become an annual event with the hopes of someday rivaling the famed Boston Marathon. And sooner or later, 151 of them finished it. Macdonald and three others were tied for second for the first few miles of the race behind Donald Gregory of Fresno Pacific College, a former winner of the Bur-lingame, Marathon. "I wish these hot dogs would run with me," said Gregory during the early going.

He wasn't being brash. He just wanted some company to keep a fast pace. Gregory soon got his wish, but his fellow runners still didn't stay with him. They passed him. Gregory lost the lead about the six-mile mark to University of Hawaii's Royden Koito, but Macdonald and Winfield Stanforth of the Army were close behind.

Koito had a one-minute lead over Macdonald going into the Hawaii Kai residential section the halfway point but Macdonald had about a 90-second advantage as the two runners came out. "I ASKED HIM to keep running. He looked kinda tired," said Macdonald when asked if he said anything to Koito as he passed him. From there, Duncan extended his lead and crossed the tape 2 hours, 27 minutes, 34.8 seconds. Stanforth was second in 2:34:26.

Gordon Haller of the Navy was third in 2:35:24.2. Koito was fourth in 2:35:48.5 and Mid-Pacific Institute track coach Johnny Faerber was fifth in 2:39.21. "At 22 miles I started feeling bad," said Macdonald, who finally got his beer after finishing the medical v. mr in- mi i ii-'MKtiii i iiiiirFiviiiiiiar-itr i i Three of the seven Chuns who finished the race: Jerold Geft), Daven (middle, Ilingson (right). Sixth-place finisher Johnny Notch gets medical attention.

race. He felt it probably was his diet. "Everybody went way too slow at the start," said Gregory. "I would have finished higher but I stopped at rest rooms twice for six minutes. One time I couldn't find a rest room, but I found some trees." All the runners interviewed had nothing but praise for the organization of the race.

Police escorts were around to prevent cars from hitting the runners and dogs from biting anybody. Water and sponges were available at every one of the nine comfort stations. Of the 151 runners who finished the race, only two can claim making any money on the run: Myles Sauli-bio, a student at the University of Hawaii, who had over $300 pledged to him for donation to The Advertiser Christmas Fund; Johnny Notch, a student at Hilo College, who finished sixth and proudly displayed a dollar bill he had found on the road in Hawaii Kai. tests. "That's when I started counting the miles.

When you start counting you know you're feeling it. "I didn't want to go out too fast. I wasn't confident, because I laid off training the last two days to study for finals. I really didn't start moving well until about 11 miles." Macdonald, who had a pre-race breakfast of Kix cereal and poi, broke the State marathon record of 2:27:47.7 set in 1963 by Harold Cole. He and Stanforth felt that Gregory had gone out too fast or he would have been right up there among the first few instead of seventh.

"YOU CAN'T FLY in here and run," said Stanforth, referring to Gregory. "The climate is different. It takes a month to get used to it." Gregory didn't think the climate had anything to do with his poor performance in the latter part of the wig 1 A world age group record was set for 9-year-olds when Daven Chun finished the race in 3:19.1, breaking the old mark by nine minutes. DAVEN IS ONE OF seven Chun members (they call themselves the Hunky Bunch) to start and finish the race and all under four hours. June Chun, 14, was the first to cross the line in the women's division (47th overall at "I think we're all going to compete in the Boston Marathon next year," said one of the Chun clan after all stood together for a group picture.

The only minor casualty of the day came at the Niu Valley comfort station (about 11 miles from the start) when Harry Brawn, a 21-year-old U.S. Marine, collapsed. The fire department was called to administer oxygen and an ambulance arrived shortly to take him to Queens Medical Center. Brawn was treated for hyperventilation and released late yesterday afternoon. Macdonald won the trophy for first place, but the real winners in the race to a lot of people were the five cardiovascular patients who were running.

One of the runners, Jack Thiele, had been fired from his job as a pilot because of a heart attack last year and was running to prove he's in better shape than most other pilots in case he wants to take it to court. He completed 24 miles and then dropped out. That's still an accomplishment, considering he was only given the doctor's approval for 13 miles. The first heart patient to finish was 32-year-old Herman Roberts of Toronto, who wanted to run so badly he took a taxi 100 miles to catch a plane in Buffalo after the Toronto airport was snowed in. AS EACH RUNNER CROSSED the finish line the crowd responded with a round of applause.

There was no discrimination as far as that was concerned. Everybody was cheered equally from winner Macdonald to 8-year-old Kris Hilbe to 58-year-old Dr. James Bennet to the last finisher, Val Nolasco, one of the former heart-disease patients. A long distance runner may be lonely while he's running, but at the end, to run 26 miles, 385 yards, everybody's with him. Top Twenty-five: I.

Duncan Macdonald, 2:27:34.1. 2. Winfield Stanforth, 2:34:24. Gordon Haller, 2:35:24.2. 4.

Royden Koito, 2:35:48 5. S. Johnny Faerber, 2:39.21. 6. John Notch, 2:41.17.

7. Donald Gregory, 2:47.27. 8. David Cadiz. 2:49.01.

9. Gerald McGath. 10. Puna Semour, 2.55.1S. II.

Carlos Mora. 2:55.34. 12. David Turban, 2:56.35. 13.

James Brooks, 2:57.18. 14. Sam Boserh. 2:59.05. IS.

Vernon Matsukawa. 2:59.30. 14. John Rose, 2:59.30. 17.

Robert Opliger, 3:05.58. II. Leonard Ruther, 3:05.58. 19. Harold Cole, 3:04.01.

20. Jerold Chun, 3:09.20. 21. John Bohnet, 3:09.39. 22.

Michael Hiauchi, 3:10.20. 23. Horace Itoku, 3:12. 24. Thomas Siaains, 3:12.23.

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