Arizona republican., 1903-02-25
YESTERDAYS RACES
The Real Cause Of the Automobile
 Failures.

Yesterdays automobile races par tialIy redeemed the fiasco of the day bafore. and though the attendance was not so large there was an ample num- Der present to testify before the world that the motor men were doing their best A better explanation Of the fail ure oi the first day can now be given, and the trouble was not entirely re- moved yesterday. The explanation. too is due to the Tucson visitors. who felt greatly humiiiated, though they were in no way responsible for the situation
 The announcement in yesterdays is sue that they required a special kind of gasoline was not correct: all they need is any good brand of stove gaso- line. They generally use the Crown brand that comes in sealed cans from the Standard oil Co. What they got on Monday. through a apprehension on the part of the dealer. was bulk gasoline, which would have been good enough had it been clean. But as it was not, and as it was brought to the track in Crown cans that had been emptiad and filled again, though with no intention to defraud, they did not discover the mistake til the gasoline was poured in the automobile tanks, when it refused to work Yesterday morning it vas discovered that the town was full of Crown gasoline which could have been furnished had t been known that the article purchased was rot Grown. But even yesterdays races were not what they should have been owing to the fact that when the deli cate machinery of the auto is once filled with sand. grit or anything in the nature of dirt. it takes weeks to clean it out again. The slightest dirt in the 1 tubes O; the machine interferes with the proper explosion of the gas. hence 20 power. After Mondays work when at attempt to clean the machines was made, it was discovered that there was hah an inch of sediment in the bottom Of the tanks. There was necessarily some of it left when the clean gasoline was put in, and will he til the ma ! rhinery is thoroughly overhauled
 However. there were two very good
 races yesterday. The first ore was be- | tween AIr. Close and Dr. Purcell with O!dsmCbiles and Irving Andrews with the locomobile. It was for three miles
 and was wen by Close in S:20. Andrews second in S:33 and Dr. Purcell third in S:45- Messrs. Close and Purcell had
 had time to give their machines but little cleaning. save to change fuel. ! The second race was between An 1 drews locomobiie and Mr Seager's 1 olcsTnobile, for three miles, MT. Sea ger felt very much Srieved over Mon day s work and spent ali yesterday forenoon cleaning his machine, not even stepping for luncheon. He wca the race | in CPS, msking enc Of the miles in ] tic-
 making over 10,C00 miles in Arizona over all kinds of roads. and he feels sure that had the machines not been dirty all three of the OlGSmo5ile:; would have made the three miles in the neigh ! borhood of five minutes. even though 1 they are not built for racing mac hines.
 The Oldsmobile hclds the world s
 record fer two, three, four and five ! miles. the latter being 7:50, two of the
 live miles having been made in 1:30
 each. The one-mile record is held by a
 French machine, and is only one-ffth
 of q second less
 MT. Seager says his machine is two
 wears old and is known as "Cld
 lrusty. It never went back 3n him before in town or on the desert and
 was bianeless fer it's utter failure on
 Monday. Even yesterday. after all it's 1 cleaning, the motor went dead for a While during the race, and the vehicle Eept going cniy by reason of it's accu- inuiated velocity till tkc gasoline began
 "ol king again. Altogether it was an iuntorturat2 afrair but one which seems t2 have been purely accidental, ana the visitors, while regretting it.
 are not disposed to blame anybody.
 bearing bravely the comments of the
 disappointed public. though they were
 more disappointed than anybody.
 Too late tn c.1ro n .a1l e..u aa.