The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
FOR THE METROPOLITAN HANDI-
Auto Rnces.

The auto races given at the Bran ford Driving park by the newly organ ized Yale Automobile club Saturday afternoon were a great success, and were quite largely attended There was a number of ladies present.
 c. Bragg, 1908, drove an exhibition mile in his Stanley steamer He took a flying start and made mile in l;24
 The first event was motorcycle re- lay race between two three men teams. The teams were as follows: Team A, J. Cox, Indian cyclei A c. Staley, OS, h. dian; T. M, Walker, 'OS. c. Metz. Team B, N. B. Forbes, 'OS, Marsh Metz; G Smith, '07, Indian, and P. Cox, Indian. Team A won. The best mile was made by P. Cox in 144 while the next best time was made by his brother J. Cox, whosetime was 1;44 1-5. On q dead start J. Cox made his first lap in 56 1-2 seconds.
 Second Motorcycle college race. First heat three laps: p. l., Johnson, 1907 S, 2:56 3-5; T. M, Walk CT, 1908 S., 9:05 1-5; A. c. Staley, 'OS s. Second heat, Burke, 3:O1 2-5; Coe, S:04 l-5; Wickwire, 3:06 3-5, George Smith Final Johnson, 2:46 l-5; Burke,
 Third event--Cox brothers in three mile race (six laps) P Cox, 1 cylin- der Indian, 6;05 2-5; J. Cox, ? cylinder Indian, 6;07 1-5
 tuuI LII tNEIlI llli tt llllLt0--N il Al e- dale, 0S, driving "Mortaledes," 30 h. D. against L. C. Phipps, 1907 &, Stoddard . Dayton, S5 h, D. Won by Phipps. Time, 4;0J 25. Van ArSdale, time, 4:25 1-5 Phipps won by about half lap, pass ing Van Arsdale on the fourth lap.
 Fifth event three miles-Johnson SO-35 h. p. Continental ageinst Will liam Folberth of Boston, a driver from the companys factory, with Oldsmobile 40 h. D.. won by the olds, time 4 min. 51 2-5 seconds. ContinentaIs time } min, Is 3-5 seconds. The Continental had very high body, and had to slow down on the turns.
 Sixth event, motorcycle race, three es-Matterson, 0S. riding d Marsh Metz. against P, Cox, riding 1 cylinder in the time of min. 20 S-5 seconds.
 Seventh event three mile automo.. bile race-George Townsend, 1908, of this city, son of Judge William K. Townsend, of this city, driving a Thomas 50 h. D. against l.. c. Phipps 1907 S., driving a Stoddard 35 D.. Phipps won in the time Of minutes, 53 3-5 seconds. Townsend's time was minutes. 10 1-5 seconds.
 Crew Raco-Run in two heats of two crews each, and laps for mile and half, four men in each crew This was a very humorous race, as after each lap the cars stopped, while every individual member of each crew had to drink a stein of beer, making the event in reality a beer obstacle race The winning crew of the first heat rode in a PopeToledo, which was driven by Kemethphafer, 1907 S. with three classmates Betcher, Hardy, and Rock well, abroad.
 Their opponents were in a Morta- ledes driven by Whittemore, 1908, with
 Tn the secnd heat the winning crew consisted of C. w. Bettcher 1907 s. who was accompanied by his class mates, Baxter, Dever and Brown, in the Franklin car
 drews, Umberger and Loveland, who were in a 35 h. ID. Wayne.
 Eighth race-F'inals of the automQ bile races between Phipps, driving his Stoddard, and Folberth driving his Olds Robert won in the time of 1 minutes 43 3-5 seconds. The time of the Stoddard was minutes 54 4-5 sec onds.
 Ninth event-This was a race be- tween the Olds driven by Folbert, and steamer On the second lap the pilot l light of the steamer went out, necessi- l tating a stop. The time of the Olds, which won, was minutes, 40 l-5 sec onds.
 the funniest events ever seen on a track at the members of the crews in hurry | ing up the drinking, poured a good part of their steins on the front of their coats.
 l on either side of the track, and as the cars reached them they came to a dead stop all the men jumped off, drank l the contents of the steins as fast as possible In consecutive order then ! jumped back into the machines and | continued the race. The drinking was done on the first two laps while the l third lap was straight racing